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Analyses the ADF's train, advise, assist missions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea, Bougainville, the Solomon Islands, South Vietnam and Uganda. With contributions from media commentators, politicians, academics, aid workers and military personnel, The Long Road evaluates the successes and failures of Australia's efforts to help its neighbours and partners avoid armed conflict.

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Looks at the myriad ways that the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome have fundamentally influenced and shaped our modern world. This title explores a selection of the innovations of ancient Greek and Roman civilization to trace how these have developed through history and still affect the world of the twenty-first century.

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Here, Eicher provides an authoritative modern battle history that spans the entire Civil War, covering major battles such as Gettysburg and Chancellorsville, as well as lesser-known actions. Drawing on hundreds of sources, he discusses leading figures in the war and militarily significant topics.

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This book examines the preaching and printing of sermons by royalists during the English Revolution. It shows how and why preaching became an indispensable tool for those who sought to resist the seismic changes in Church and state that England experienced between 1640 and 1662.

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This thorough examination of the feudal powers of English kings in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries is the only study to analyze the actual pattern of royal grants and the grantees' use of their rights, and to place them in the social context of marriage, kinship, and landholding within the English elite. The royal rights, known as feu

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On the southwest shore of Laguna de Bay in the Philippines stood the Los Banos Internment Camp. Held within were 2,147 starving POWs, surrounded by thousands of Japanese troops. As the desperate battle for Manila raged, only 130 Paratroopers could be spared for the rescue operation.

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A moving story of how a legendary football team was lost to tragedy and how this disaster irrevocably altered the lives of the survivors and the bereaved families, and ultimately brought shame on the biggest football club in the world.

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Anticipating the centenary of World War I, a brilliant new history of the year it began- 'a year forever memorable' (Woodrow Wilson)- that examines the war and its causes through new eyes.

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A study of the rich and engrossing life of Stephen Gwynn, an important political, cultural and literary figure from the lost world of late-nineteeth and early-twentieth-century Ireland. -- .

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Controversial and groundbreaking, this is the most authoritative book ever written on the battle of Fromelles - the worst day in Australia's entire military history.

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The Lost Legions offers a discussion of the interaction between Australian Aborigines and the first European pastoralists, with comparisons to similar interactions elsewhere around the world.

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In The Lost Opportunity, Lazarski explores these facets of the anti-Bolshevik struggle, which have been almost entirely ignored by historical scholarship. Christopher Lazarski is Professor of History and Politics at Lazarski School of Commerce and Law in Warsaw, Poland.

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Tells the story of contemporary Ireland, from the clash between Catholic nationalist and socialist republicanism in the 1960s and '70s through the Workers' Party's eventual rejection of irredentism.

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Across Britain there are more than 3,000 lost villages once-thriving communities that time and fortune have reduced to ivy-clad remnants and weather-worn ruins. Combining photographs and the memories of those who knew the villages, the author provides an account of communities.

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Not simply a diplomatic maneuver but rather a formative event in the nation's history, the acquisition of this uncharted wilderness would come to define America as a continental power and lead the new republic to historic events with consequences that have resonated throughout our national history.

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In July 1815, six Iranian students arrived in London under the escort of their chaperone, Captain Joseph D'Arcy. Their mission was to master the modern sciences behind the rapid rise of Europe. Over the next four years, they lived both the low life and high life of Regency London, from being down and out after their abandonment by D'Arcy to charmin

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A powerful chronicle of wartime London as experienced by five writers--driving ambulances, fighting fires and falling passionately in love.

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Courage, perseverance, and dedication were hallmarks of the Civil War soldier. These qualities, along with their disarming humanness, have lent an enduring attraction to their story.