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Confrontations between Libya, and the USA and France reached their highest point in the period between April 1986 and early 1989.

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The most eloquent of American presidents, Lincoln offered sagacious and frequently humorous comments on everything that mattered. This volume features his thoughts and opinions concerning politics, human nature, and many other topics.

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This book gives an overview of the French conquest of Morocco between 1900 and 1926. Whilst providing a general outline of the conquest of Morocco the book concentrates on the use of forts and other fortifications built by the French Foreign Legion to secure the territory gained and pacify the areas of operation.

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Jeevan Vasagar is a superb and evocative writer, and Lion City is a compelling, illuminating and personal history that will be regarded as the definitive book on Singapore - and one of the great city chronicles.

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The extraordinary story of Singapore told by the expert correspondent for the Financial Times

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The epic history of Liverpool since the Second World War, from its promising rise to its disastrous decline.

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The author and photographer John Feder were among the few unembedded journalists during the 2002 Iraq War. They roamed around southern Iraq, but were then subjected to house arrest in Baghdad, where they continued to file reports in secret, and later arranged the evacuation of the horribly wounded little boy, Ali Abbas.

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This sensational 1941 memoir of life on wartime Europe's frontline by a trailblazing female reporter is an 'unforgettable' (The Times) rediscovered classic, introduced by Christina Lamb (who calls her 'the Forrest Gump of journalism').

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On a calm, tropical afternoon in the South Atlantic Ocean in Aril 1942, a British tramp steamer, the SS Willesden, was shelled, torpedoed and sunk by a German raider, the KMS Thor. The Willesden was carrying 47 officers and crew, and a cargo of vital war supplies destined for Britain's 8th Army in North Africa.

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A unique visual guide to America's war between the states, told through those sites swept aside by development or decay Take a journey through lost civil war battlefields in this photographic guide to the many historic sites that have been destroyed or become overgrown over the centuries.

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More than 100 large-format photographs depict extraordinary sites in South and Central American Mexico and the Caribbean

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Using letters between soldiers and their loved ones, parents, sweethearts, wives or children, this book traces the emotional and psychological ways by which New Zealanders made sense of the upheavals of war.

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'The best 'bird's eye view' of the helicopter war in Vietnam in print today ... Mills has captured the realities of a select group of aviators who shot craps with death on every mission' R.S. Maxham, Director, US Army Aviation Museum

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A feminist pop history that looks beyond the Ton and Jane Austen to highlight iconoclastic women of the Regency period who succeeded on their own terms and have largely been lost to history.

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After spending 25 years shepherding and managing sheep stations in the South Island, Robert Peden completed a PhD thesis, which was recorded as "Exceptional" at the University of Otago in 2007 and is the basis of Making Sheep Country. Dr Peden won a 2009 Claude McCarthy scholarship to complete this book.

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Australias favourite newsreader presents an anthology of stories, people and products that are uniquely Australian.

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Malta in the summer of 1942, a Malta wide open to air attack from the Germans and Italians and defended by a handful of Spitfires and a few anti-aircraft guns.

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The first in "MUP Masterworks" series, this work is a carefully selected extract from Manning Clark's seminal work, "History of Australia". Its focus is the Gallipoli campaign and the terrible weeks in 1915 that saw the forging of the Anzac legend.

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This book reveals the significant role Aboriginal men, and some women, played in Australia's early maritime history. Theirs was a canoe culture and they called foreign ships 'mari nawi', meaning 'large canoes'. They sailed the Australian coast, to sealing and whaling grounds in Bass Strait, the icy sub-Antarctic and to international destinations.