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Told for the first time in English, Paul Prestons new book tells the story of a preventable tragedy that cost many thousands of lives and ruined tens of thousands more at the end of the Spanish Civil War.

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An examination of the triumph of African nationalism in Zimbabwe and South Africa despite attempts by Ian D. Smith and F. W. de Klerk to maintain the status quo.

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The truth about the decades-long struggle to return the Swiss bank-held assets of Holocaust victims to their rightful heirs, told by the journalist who uncovered the story in 1995.

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This book tells the story of French interaction with Vietnam and the neighboring region, which began with the French seizure of Cochin-China and Tonking in the 19th century under Emperor Tu Duc and ended with their humiliating defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954.

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Uses personal accounts of the veterans who achieved victory in the biggest and last great naval battle, largely fought with aging ships, untested reserve crews, and teenaged combat aircraft pilots.

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Often overshadowed by other Pacific War engagements such as Midway or Guadalcanal, the Battle of Leyte Gulf was characterized by some of the most gallant hours in seagoing history: the U.S. Navy's defeat of the combined Japanese fleet during the invasion of the Philippines in October 1944.

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Since the collapse of the French Army in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, military strategists and officials have recognized the critical importance of mobilization and concentration to the outcome of armed conflicts.

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In The Last Great Safari, Reigel explores the fascinating and misunderstood theater of African operations in the history of the First World War. He brings together traditional military studies and African history to explore the myths, fables, and stereotypes that have long characterized examinations of this topic.

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An important new primary source for Holocaust studies, this unusual memoir contains the recollections of a Holocaust survivor who lived in a small Polish town 55 miles from Warsaw.

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On the 14th August 1945, as Emperor Hirohito recorded a message of surrender for the Japanese people, rebel troops burst into the Imperial palace to destroy the recording and stage a coup. This is an account of how B-29B "Superfortresses" and a black out ended the war.

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When Kiwi airman John Sanderson was shot down over Laines-aux-Bois in May 1944, an ordinary French family chose to help. Tragically, a local doctor called in to treat his wounds betrayed them to the Gestapo. This absorbing, illustrated account presents a poignant and compelling view of our humanity, and our history.

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It was the beginning of the end for the James gang. Frank and Jesse James had gone from unknown ex-Confederate guerrillas to the most famous outlaws in the world. In 1876 they planned their most daring raid to rob the First National Bank at Northfield, Minnesota. This book tells the story of one of the most daring bank jobs in American history.

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Drawing on a wealth of Departmental archives and othe unpublished material, Clem Lloyd and Jacqui Rees have provided a frank account of an institution that, from soldier settlement schemes to Agent Orange, has responded to the needs of returned service people in a generous and open-hearted way.

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The incredible true story of the last ship to carry enslaved people to America, the remarkable town its survivors founded after emancipation, and the complicated legacy their descendants carry with them to this day by the journalist who discovered the remains of the ship.

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John Crawford joined the Florida National Guard to pay for his college tuition. But in 2002, one term shy of graduation and on his honeymoon, Crawford was shipped off to the front lines in Iraq. Once there, he was determined to get it all down, to chronicle the daily life of a soldier. This book offers an account of life as a soldier in Iraq.

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The second part of the work develops some themes from the first and takes the official histories of the Second World War as case studies.

Drawing on programs in Australia, Britain, and the United States, these essays examine the relationship between the histories, the historians, and their sponsoring institutions.