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By: Neil Grant
ISBN: 9781472809629
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
UK Publication Date: 20th November 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The 1st Battalion, The Rhodesian Light Infantry, was one of the most innovative and successful counter-insurgency units in history. This study explores the unit's dramatic history, revealing the Rhodesian Light Infantry's airborne and combat capacity, which gave the unit, at times, near total tactical superiority against its opponents.
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By: Mark Urban
ISBN: 9780571216819
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2004
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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In a breathtaking work of narrative history, Mark Urban traces the story of the 95th Rifles, the toughest and deadliest sharpshooters in Wellington's army.
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By: Douglas Brinkley
ISBN: 9780062441553
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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By: Alexander Watson
ISBN: 9780141042039
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2015
UK Publication Date: 4th June 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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For the empires of Germany and Austria-Hungary the Great War - which had begun with such high hopes for a fast, dramatic outcome - rapidly degenerated as invasions of both France and Serbia ended in catastrophe. This book shows the history of the Great War and the major events from the perspective of Berlin and Vienna.
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By: William L Shirer
ISBN: 9780099421764
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2001
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 1991
Publisher: Cornerstone
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By: Paul Strathern
ISBN: 9781473698635
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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A dazzling new history of the world through ten major empires.
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By: Conrad Black
ISBN: 9780771012938
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Inc.
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Masterful, ambitious and groundbreaking, this is a major new history of Canada by one of the country's most respected thinkers and historians.
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By: Conrad Black
ISBN: 9780771013560
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2016
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Inc.
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By: Conrad Black
ISBN: 9780771024986
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Inc.
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Colourful, comprehensive, and masterfully written, this is the third and final volume in a major history of Canada by one of the country's most respected thinkers and historians
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By: Norman Davies
ISBN: 9781509868308
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
UK Publication Date: 26th July 2018
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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The story of the Warsaw Rising from the the leading British authority on the history of Poland.
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By: Richard Connaughton
ISBN: 9780304366576
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2004
UK Publication Date: 10th June 2004
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The definitive history of the Russo-Japanese war
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By: Jeffrey Cox
ISBN: 9781472810601
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2015
UK Publication Date: 20th November 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Few events have ever shaken a country in the way that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor affected the United States. The Japanese forces then continued to overwhelm the Allies, attacking Malaya with its fortress of Singapore. This book tells about the campaign carried by the Japanese forces in the Pacific region.
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By: Judith Flanders
ISBN: 9781509816972
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 29th February 2024
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A forensic history of dying, death, and mourning in Victorian Britain by the acclaimed historian Judith Flanders, bestselling author of The Victorian House.
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By: Adam Zamoyski
ISBN: 9780007203062
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
UK Publication Date: 4th February 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Following on from his epic 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow, bestselling author Adam Zamoyski has written the dramatic story of the Congress of Vienna.
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By: Thomas Christensen
ISBN: 9781619028333
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2016
Publisher: Counterpoint
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By: Hugh Thomas
ISBN: 9780141034485
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
UK Publication Date: 25th November 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Tells the story of the hundreds of conquistadors who set sail on the precarious journey across the Atlantic - taking with them wheat, the horse, the guitar and the wheel as well as guns, malaria and slaves - to create an empire that made Spain the envy of the world.
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By: Tom Fort
ISBN: 9781472291950
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 9th May 2024
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets is The Repair Shop meets The Diary of a Bookseller all conveyed in Tom Fort's signature easy-going writing style.
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By: Maureen Emerson
ISBN: 9781838606374
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: David Ellery
ISBN: 9781472993113
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 11th November 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Using an engaging question and answer format, Queen Mary expert David Ellery tells you everything you need to know about one of the most famous ships in the world: from her design and construction, to her naming and wartime service, through to the haunting myths in her wake over her glorious 85 years.
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By: Fergal Keane
ISBN: 9780007132416
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
UK Publication Date: 28th April 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Winner of the British Army Military Book of the Year 2011
The story of one of the most brutal battles in modern history fought at a major turning point of the Second World War.
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By: Laura Watkinson
ISBN: 9781848662919
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2013
UK Publication Date: 26th September 2013
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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The fall of the Wall to the present day - Berlin's turbulent history and path to reunification as witnessed by one of Europe's most distinguished authors.
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By: Ty Seidule
ISBN: 9781250239266
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: St Martin's Press
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Soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy - and explores why some of this country's oldest wounds have never healed.
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By: Kevin Maurer
ISBN: 9781524744762
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2021
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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A thrilling World War II story of the American airborne soldiers who captured a Japanese-held island fortress.
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By: Ronald Brownstein
ISBN: 9780062899224
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
UK Publication Date: 28th April 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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"An electric story filled with gripping personalities, compelling backstage histories, and a clear message for the divided America of today: the forces that fear change can win for a time, but in America the future always gets the last word.
