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The first of a two-volume set on the Austrian army of the 19th century. The book protrays the changes which took place over this turbulent period for the Empire, including wars against France, Prussia and Italy.

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This second volume in the history of the Austrian Army during the 19th century focuses on the cavalry, including the famous Hungarian Hussars. It details the armies which fought the French at Magenta and Solferion and the Prussians at Koniggratz.

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This volume is a detailed study of the army of Germany's most important ally in World War I during the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph I. It is illustrated woth rare photographs and uniform details.

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When they were not yet twenty years old three young Jews left their families in Western Poland and came to the Lithuanian ghetto of Vilna. In 1943 they escaped the ghetto and led their band of resistance fighters deep into the forests of Poland, where they lived for the remainder of the war.

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This comprehensive volume tells the rarely recounted stories of the numerous foreign air forces that supported the German Luftwaffe as part of the Axis' quest to dominate the European and Pacific theaters-a highly compelling and often overlooked chapter of World War II history.

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Introduces readers to an Iran that few people see, meeting opium-smoking clerics, women cab drivers and sartorially challenged presidential officials, among others. This work reveals a country where both t-shirt wearing teenagers and religious martyrs express pride in their Persian origins, that is deeply religious yet highly cosmopolitan.

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How did a bedraggled band of nomads manage to evolve into a Mesoamerican superpower in such a brief time This volume looks at the essential elements in the Aztecs' rise, fall, and enduring influence.

The most common murder victim in 19th century Australia was a baby, and the most common perpetrator was a woman. Annie Cossins pieces together the fascinating story of the most infamous legal trial in Australia to reveal an underworld of struggling mothers, unwanted babies, and a society that preferred to turn a blind eye.

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James Charles Roy leads a group of jaded American tourists on a historical tour of the Emerald Isle they only thought they knew

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This book describes how Italy elaborated a master narrative of the Second World War that evades the faults of Mussolini's fascist war by attributing all responsibility on the shoulders of the German ally

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For the best part of three centuries the 'corsairs' or pirates from the 'Barbary' coasts of North Africa dominated the Western and Central Mediterranean. This book examines their development and their style of fighting, chronicles their achievements and failures, illustrates their ships, and explains why they were so feared and effective.

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The story of one middle-class family, the Rezas, shopkeepers in Lahore's ancient Anarkali Bazaar, caught in the great struggles that have rippled through Pakistan " compellingly narrated by a young Pakistani-American scholar and diplomat who has observed the traumas of the region at first hand.

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The titanic clash of wills between Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs in the 1960s and how their dueling perspectives helped to define contemporary urban life

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In the skies above south-east England in 1940, battle was waged between men and machines of the Royal Air Force and Hitler's Luftwaffe. This title looks at the origins and events of the battle, but focuses especially on the men and women of the RAF and on the ordinary people of the nation, above whose heads the great battle for freedom was waged.

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From 1939 until 1942, Hitler's U-boats - his 'grey wolves' - threatened to accomplish what his air force had hitherto been unable to achieve: to starve Britain into submission.

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In this valuable resource, over 1,000 annotated sources from Great Britain, France, and Germany offer a historiographical reference for study of the British army at the beginning and in the first battles of World War I.

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The bazooka combined a revolutionary new anti-tank rifle-grenade warhead, a much-modified British anti-aircraft rocket motor, and a cobbled-together launcher tube and electrical firing system; its first test-firing astounded observers, and it was immediately adopted by the US armed forces. This study tells the story of the bazooka.