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Describes the fierce campaign, codenamed INFATUATE, mounted in November 1944 to clear the way through to the port of Antwerp. The book describes the extraordinary courage of the Germans who fought to the bitter end.

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This new edition of Paul Reeds classic book Walking the Somme is an essential traveling companion for anyone visiting the Somme battlefields of 1916. His book, first published over ten years ago, is the result of a lifetimes research into the battle and the landscape over which it was fought.

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Provides a social history of women in the liquor trade and the controls, social and legal, written and unwritten, with which they had to contend. It begins in the 1830s when control over the sale of alcohol was first mooted and ends in 1976, when the last of the regulations that applied specifically to females was removed.

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On January 1, 1942, Prime Minister John Curtin wrote in his diary: 'We begin the New Year with great anxiety for the future of Australia.'. Contained here are first-hand accounts by the men and women caught up in the war, capturing the strange mix of panic and hope they felt.

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From bestselling author Jeff Guinn, the dramatic story of how U.S.-Mexico border tensions erupted into open warfare in 1916, as a U.S. military expedition crossed the border to try to capture Mexican guerrilla Pancho Villa -- a military incursion whose effects still haunt the border region to this day.

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How the human history of conflict has transformed the world we live in - for good and evil.

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A journey through history of the women who built the world, but whom the world forgot. From No. 1 bestselling author, Kate Mosse.

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From the highly acclaimed Sunday Times bestselling author Ian Knight, Warriors in Scarlet is an authoritative new history of Queen Victorias army.

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Shows how the key cultural innovations from Central Asia revolutionized medieval Europe and gave rise to the culture of science in the West. This title traces how the recursive argument method was first developed by Buddhist scholars and was spread by them throughout ancient Central Asia.

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Examines the Anunnaki gods evolving relationships with humanity, their power struggles, and the details of their nuclear war on Earth

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As Antony Beevor cast new light on the Battle of Stalingrad, Alexandra Richie here unearths the traumatic story of one of the last major battles of World War II, in which the Poles fought off German troops, street by street, for sixty-three days.

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With ship profiles and original artwork, this study explores the warships that fought World War II's last pure surface battle, the battle itself, and why the outnumbered US Navy prevailed.

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"A groundbreaking investigation into what Nixon was really after and why he risked the presidency to get it"--Cover.

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An exciting retelling of one of the moments that shook the world Waterloo, one of the truly decisive battles of history.

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Based on a detailed analysis of the battlefield, this book outlines how the victory at Wau was achieved and demonstrates how determined leadership can turn the tide of battle. Throughout most of 1942, the Australian Army fought a series of commando actions to keep the Japanese at bay in the Wau - Salamaua area of New Guinea. The Australian ...

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Revolution in a minor key: how young black women invented freedom.

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From Samuel Johnson Prize shortlisted author David Crane, this book is about the Britain that fought the battle of Waterloo from pauper to painter, poet to prince, soldier to civilian.

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"This abridgement ... is taken from the 1951 edition by the Travel Book Club, London"--P. xi.