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The life and crimes of the last, great Imperialist

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A collection of source material on women in the ancient Greek world including literary, rhetorical, philosophical and legal sources, and papyri and inscriptions. Beginning in the eighth century BCE, it covers archaic and Classical Athens, Etruscan Italy and the Roman Republic, concluding with the late Roman Empire and the advent of Christianity.

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Simon Fowler reveals what life was really like in Britain's workhouses. He argues that life for paupers was not as grim as we may believe, and that the workhouse provided a vital safety net, without which many would have starved. Includes dozens of personal stories.

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Contains dozens of specially commissioned maps and specially photographed items of ephemera.

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2017

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A new illustrated history of the German and Italian air campaigns in the invasions of Greece and Yugoslavia, the last full-scale Axis air offensives before Operation Barbarossa.

I Dont Believe in Murder is an alternative history of the years before, during and after New Zealands involvement in World War I. It depicts the strong response made by Canterburys labour, socialist and women's movements to pre-war compulsory military training and wartime conscription.

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Superb example of the ever popular Japanese POW memoir genre.

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Superb example of the ever popular Japanese POW memoir genre.

This new illustrated history of the division includes hundreds of photos from the most extensive private collections in Europe.

The only publicly available translation into English of Mikhailovsky-Danilevskys official history of the Russian involvement in the fighting against Napoleons France in 1805, during the War of the Third Coalition.

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It was the decade of daring Expressionist canvases, the Bauhaus total work of art, drag balls, Metropolis, and Marlene Dietrich. From cutting-edge kino to crowded jazz bars, come and roam the daring, freewheeling spirit of 1920s Berlin with this vivid cultural portrait of the age through painting, design, fashion, film, and more.

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This title presents a visual record of a turbulent decade, with over 1000 images in colour.

The majority of narratives about the October 1973 Arab-Israeli War stress that air power did not play a dominant role. The deployment of strong, well-integrated air defences by Egypt and Syria, that caused heavy losses to the Israeli air force early during that conflict, not only spoiled Israels pre-war planning, but prevented it from providing su

As part of the "AHT" series, which deals with airfields, this book concentrates on Norfolk and Suffolk. It looks at the history and personalities associated with each base, and what remains. It also explores the favourite local wartime haunts where aircrew and ground crew would go.

The maturation of what was once the Israel Defense Force/Air Force (IDF/AF), and since 2005 is the Israeli Air-Space Force (IASF), is a fascinating study of a military force working to meet shifting obligations under multiple impediments while being repeatedly tested in combat.

The 4th volume in this series commences with the attacks on the Italian island fortress of Pantellaria which led to its surrender and occupation achieved almost by air attack alone. This is the story of the tactical air forces up to the point when Rome was occupied, just at the same time as the Normandy landings were occurring in north-west France.

Part-biography, part-travel journal, part-literary commentary, 'A Communist in the Family: Searching for Rewi Alley' is a beautifully written multi-layered narrative centred on New Zealander Rewi Alley and his part in the momentous political events of mid-twentieth-century China.