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Hope Is Not a Plan takes the reader inside the war in Iraq courtesy of participant-observers brought there to diagnose the insurgency and develop a get-well plan.

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The most famous admiral in history, Horatio Nelson's string of naval victories helped secure Britain's place as the world's dominant maritime power, a position she held for more than a century after Nelson's death. Today Nelson is revered as an almost mythical figure - a naval genius and a national hero. This book reveals the real Nelson.

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Shows how, in pre-industrial England, horses were bred and trained, what they ate, how much they were worth, how long they lived, and what their owners thought of them. While they were named individually, and sometimes became favourites, many were worked hard and poorly treated, leading to their early deaths.

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This is the first book in English to provide a comprehensive examination of the hospital movement that arose and prospered in northern Italy between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries. -- .

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The regions of Asia and Oceania, with their many diverse peoples, massive size, and vast cultural history, have been the location of some of the most critical conflicts of the modern era. This book explores the most explosive conflicts in the regions surrounding Asia and Oceania.

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Contains chapters exploring drug wars, immigration issues, terrorism, youth gangs, government corruption, controversy over oil and political instability. This book analyses over 30 security-based hot spots within the geographical regions including: the Zapatista Rebellion; the Darien Gap controversy; Evo Morales; Shining Path; and, the Falklands.

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This book provides an extensive examination of the major conflicts in the extremely volatile region of sub-Saharan Africa and their ramifications throughout the continent and beyond.

Conflict has been a critical factor in the making of contemporary Africa, and its study is key to understanding the continent's tortuous history.

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Using a wide variety of sources this lively socio-cultural history examines household service, one of the largest, most multi-layered, most mobile and most indispensable sectors of employment in early modern England -- .

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What is unique about this volume is that is explores the history of historical studies through the prism of 'scholarly personae' (models of virtue, embodying how to be a historian). It offers a stimulating new perspective on the unity, or disunity, of historical scholarship as it existed in nineteenth- and twentieth-century. -- .

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Panama was created by a group of Wall Street investors in Room 1162 of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. This meeting brought down the French Republic, the Columbian government and shook the almost invincible Teddy Roosevelt and gave birth to American imperialism in Latin America.

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Provides a close-up look at pivotal battles--ranging from Agincourt and Waterloo to Gettysburg and Austerlitz--and profiles great military commanders as it examines thirteen key rules of battle that have determined victory or defeat from ancient times to the present day.

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The Bell Huey Cobra was the first purpose-designed helicopter gunship to become operational and to see combat. This book discusses the origins of the Huey Cobra, the innovations to its design throughout the years and its major combat uses in numerous theatres, including Vietnam, the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, and more.

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This book offers fresh perspectives on the history of humanitarianism and its impact on domestic and international politics in the era of the Great War.

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This book offers fresh perspectives on the history of humanitarianism and its impact on domestic and international politics in the era of the Great War.

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Leading experts in Anglophone humanitarianism across some three hundred examine the relationship between humanitarianism, empire, postcolonialism, transnational and global human rights in and beyond the British World.

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Leading experts in Anglophone humanitarianism across some three hundred examine the relationship between humanitarianism, empire, postcolonialism, transnational and global human rights in and beyond the British World.