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The history of Guinness, one of the worlds most famous brands, reveals the noble heights and generosity of a great family and an innovative business.

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* Popular history of 200 years of international diplomacy by distinguished former Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd.

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Parsons uses vivid detail to show how Africans, Asians, Arabs, and West Indians brought about the demise of the seemingly invincible British Empire by refusing to be treated as inferior imperial subjects. He traces the empires legacies the new cultures and norms that arose from its global networks of commerce, migration, and cultural exchange.

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A fully illustrated account, replete with detailed maps, of one of Robert E. Lee's greatest Civil War successes.

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Despite minor setbacks, Christian Europe had enjoyed success on previous Crusader campaigns. This book shows how pursuing an ambitious but politically flawed strategy against an Islamic state friendly to their Crusader neighbours, the knights of the Second Crusade suffered a crushing defeat at Damascus in 1148.

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This wide-ranging collection offers a series of original interpretations of partially explored evidence for all three theatres of war during the Second Crusade (1145-49). It also considers the planning, execution and consequences of the crusade for western Europe, the Crusader States of the Holy Land and the Muslim Near East. -- .

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An examination of the evidence surrounding the Turin Shroud which suggests that the shroud was used to wrap the body of Jacques de Molay, a Templar Grand Master, who was born in 1244 shortly after the date it has been prophesied that the Messiah would return.

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In the name of protecting Americans from Soviet espionage, the post-1945 Red Scare curtailed the reform agenda of the New Deal. The crisis of the Great Depression had brought into government a group of policy experts who argued that saving democracy required attacking economic and social inequalities. The influence of these men and women within the

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The culmination of decades of nationalist aspiration and cynical Realpolitik, the Second War of Italian Unification saw Italy transformed from a patchwork of minor states dominated by the Habsburg Austrians into a unified kingdom under the Piedmontese House of Savoy. This book aims to examine the conflict as a critical event in Italian history.

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A. W. Purdue provides one of the most concise yet comprehensive assessments of the entire course of World War II, covering both the European and the Asian Pacific conflicts. The second edition of this established text has been thoroughly revised and updated in the light of recent research and current debates.

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From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima, this book explores the events of World War II that took place in the Pacific theatre, events that would reshape Asia forever. Written by an expert in military strategy and defence, it details many facets of this complicated conflict and retells incredible stories.

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One of six volumes on World War II, this work explores events in Europe between 1939 and 1943. It provides background to the opening of the war, presents an account of Germany's blitzkrieg attacks and initial successes, and tells how the Allies began to fight back on land, sea, and in the air.

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The third in a set of six volumes on World War II, this work explores the war at sea. It offers comprehensive coverage of the war in the Mediterranean, Atlantic and Indian Oceans, including air strikes, sea engagements and convoy operations.

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This work explores the idea that the Mediterranean theatre of World War II was the first truly modern war. It was a highly mobile conflict, in which logistics were a critical factor, and from the beginning the close relationship between the land, sea, and air elements was vital.

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One of six volumes on World War II, this work addresses the offensives and counter-offensives waged on the Eastern Front. German successes and failures are examined, along with Hitler's decision to invade the Soviet Union, and the Soviet victories at Stalingrad and Kursk are explored.

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The fifth in a series of titles on World War II, this work explores events in northwest Europe in 1944-45. It covers the major operations, and examines the strategy, tactics and operational arts used by each side, setting the nature and political causes of the opposing armies in context.

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"Fuller's biographer, Bryan Holden Reid, has described The Second World War as "an analysis of the breakdown, as Fuller saw it, of the vital relationship between grand strategy and grand tactics--the e"

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Originally published: New York: Crown Publishers, 2010.

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Most interesting are the reports from the thousands of spies at the local level, the analysis at the local and district levels, and the integration of nationwide reports in Berlin.

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From the controversial conservative reporter--and author of the bestselling "The Real Anita Hill"--comes a daring, finely detailed, and surprisingly sensitive portrait of the most controversial First Lady in American history, and of the unprecedented political partnership that brought her to prominence. photo insert.