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Five thousand years of military history. The best elite unites that have fought across the globe. Their story told by acclaimed adventurer and ex-SAS officer,Ranulph Fiennes.

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Five thousand years of military history. The best elite unites that have fought across the globe. Their story told by acclaimed adventurer and ex-SAS officer,Ranulph Fiennes.

This encyclopedia provides a broad, in-depth, and multidisciplinary look at the causes and effects of warfare between whites and Native Americans, encompassing nearly three centuries of history.

This definitive scholarly reference on the American Revolution-written by acclaimed researchers and military experts from around the world-covers the causes, course, and consequences of the war and the political, social, and military origins of the nation.

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Now in its second edition, this comprehensive study of the Vietnam War sheds more light on the longest and one of the most controversial conflicts in U.S. history.

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This book details CIA-supported paramilitary operations in Laos during the height of the conflict in that kingdom, from late 1969 through the conclusion of agency participation in 1974.

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What lessons can we learn from the defeat of the seventeenth century English revolution

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This book details the natural and cultural history of the apple, using DNA evidence, from its origins in China, along the Silk Road to Europe and onto the Americas and Australia. From Adam and Eve, to the ancient Egyptians, Romans, the Battle of Hastings and Newtons Law of Gravity, the apple has played a key role in human culture.

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On April 2, 1982, Argentine armed forces invaded and captured the Falkland Islands, a British dependency in the South Atlantic long claimed by Argentina. In this comprehensive account, renowned naval historian Dr Edward Hampshire takes advantage of new sources to examine the Naval campaign that saw Britain eventually retake the islands.

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A popular history of the fall of Constantinople from Japan's Grande Dame of letters. The Fall Of Constantinople chronicles the factual history of the event and pinpoints the beginning of the end of good relations between Christianity and Islam.

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Delve into German history with beautiful historical maps and useful, comprehensive timelines. This book will help you untangle the complicated mess that is German history, tracing how state boundaries have changed throughout the centuries.

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An investigation of the obscure centuries that followed the departure of the Romans from Britain.

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A sweeping tour of French history from the 17th century to the present day from the highly acclaimed author of The German Genius

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The author examines the economic, social and political processes taking places from the mid-nineteenth century and argues that this major confrontation between labour and capital was probably inevitable.

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The Fallschirmtruppe of the Wehrmacht won recognition for their valor & endurance not only from their fellow German soldiers, but from their former enemies as well. On the basis of careful & comprehensive research, including utilizing extensive unpublished documentary & personal materials, the author covers the history of the Fallschirmtruppe.

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Drawing on a superb collection of rare and unpublished photographs with detailed captions and explanatory text, this dramatic book vividly portrays every aspect of the siege which has the dubious claim of being arguably the most costly in human and material terms of any in recent military history.

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The author throws new light on the Raid. Written from the Nazi perspective, an original angle. Answers many questions and raises more.

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The Gilded Age is the name coined by Mark Twain to refer to the era of rapid economic growth in the United States between the 1870s and about 1900. This book looks at how this period presaged our own time. Photographs, political cartoons, engravings and other ephemera help bring this fascinating period into focus.