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Never before has the world come as close to destruction as it did in October 1962. Barely 18 months after the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the US, Cuba and the Soviet Union once again came toe to toe in a show of intimidation.

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Engagingly written, brimming with information and enriched with black and white photographs and stunning colour plates, this substantial volume is an important addition to Gordon Ogilvie's popular and acclaimed histories of Banks Peninsula and the Port Hills.

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This is a book about failure, about lessons unlearned. The destruction of Montecassino was one of the most controversial, and pointless acts of the Second World War. Why was this most important cultural building in Europe destroyed in February of 1944 This book attempts to provide an answer.

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Polly Plum is a biography of one of New Zealand's earliest feminists, Mary Ann Colclough, whose publicly voiced opinions saw her described in the nineteenth century as 'our own little stray strap of a modern female fanatic'.

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A concise introduction to the history of South Polynesia during the period typically defined as the 'Middle Ages' by western historians, focusing on Aotearoa, Rekohu, and Rapa Nui. Written in response to a wider global approach to medieval history, it offers a fresh perspective on the history of the region during that period.

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By examining myth, star charts and contemporary Polynesian seafaring, Jeff Evans traces the methods by which Polynesian explorers made their epic voyages, and retraces the historic sailing of the traditional canoe Hawaiki-nui with no modern aids from Tahiti down to New Zealand.

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Poutini is a landmark publication, bringing together a lifetime of knowledge and research by kaumatua and 'Coaster' Paul Madgwick (Kati Mahaki, Kai Tahu). Beginning with mythology associated with Te Tai Poutini (the West Coast), this richly illustrated work follows the story of human settlement from early migration until today.

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In 1863 Henry Whitcombe, a young civil engineer and Canterbury's Provincial Road Surveyor, led an expedition to find a route across the Southern Alps in advance of the West Coast gold rushes. Jakob Lauper, a hardy Swiss goldminer, was hired to accompany him. The journey turned to tragedy. A new translation and commentary by Hilary Low.

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Cleopatra was born of an ancient Greek Dynasty that stretched back to the time of Alexander the Great, and as the last Pharoah of Egypt she was the last ruler before the once mighty kingdom became a vassal state under of the Roman Empire of the first century BCE. She was an astute leader and sometime lover of Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony.

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The greatest of all Pharaohs, Ramses reigned at the height of Ancient Egypt's power. He led military campaigns with his father from a young age, married at 15, amassed over 200 wives, 150 children and lived to the age of 95. Through many battles each victory brought wealth which fuelled the vast building of monuments which are still admired today.

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The end of the First World War saw the fields of Flanders contaminated by incalculable amounts of unexploded munitions and thousands of rotting corpses still exposed on the old battlefields. This is the story of how the battlefields of Belgium were, and still are, being cleared of the legacy of the Great War.

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In 2005-2006, widespread public anger with Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra resulted in a crisis that formed the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD, so-called 'Yellow Shirts').

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Volume 1 of the Red Star versus Rising Sun mini-series examines the origins of the rapidly modernizing Imperial Japanese Army and its expansion, largely unfettered by civilian political constraints, into mainland Asia from the late 19th century up until 1938.

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Explores New Zealand's most important and extensive relationship - with Australia - on a variety of levels over the past century. The authors present a combined narrative about a 'Tasman world', a working region defined by a history of traffic in ideas, policies, objects and people.

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Remembering and Becoming investigates how oral history enriches our understanding of Aotearoa New Zealand's past. The book provides clear explanations of oral history methodologies and insightful analyses of personal narratives while exploring themes such as ethnicity, culture, class, religion, gender, place, sexuality, and family.

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A set of Army Lists for use with the Renatio et Gloriam tabletop miniature rules.

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This book covers the intense preparations for the coup of September 1955 and the conflict itself, described day by day in detail, along with the subsequent exile and return of President Peron.

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On 11 November 1965, Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith unilaterally declared his country independent of Britain. International sanctions were immediately instituted against the minority white regime as Robert Mugabe's ZANLA and Joshua Nkomo's ZIPRA armies commenced their armed struggle, the Chimurenga, the war of liberation.

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This is the first of two volumes examining the so-called Congo Crisis of the 1960s on the basis of documentation from the CIAs archives. It throws entirely new light upon developments in a country which many US citizens of the time believed would become the next major battlefield.