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Offers the secrets of the Spetsnaz, their missions and personalities. This book is also packed with details such as orders-of-battle, equipment and operational doctrine.

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The never-before-told story of American spies in Africa in the Second World War reveals one of the most tightly-guarded secrets of the war " America's efforts to secure enough uranium to build atomic bombs and to keep it out of the hands of Germany and Japan.

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Available now in paperback, this is the thrilling story of the brains behind those who helped Britain win WW2. A sister story to Bletchley Park and Enigma.

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The story of Netley in Southampton its hospital, its people and the secret history of the 20th-century. Now with a new afterword uncovering astonishing evidence of Netley's links with Porton Down & experiments with LSD in the 1950s.

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Starting in Roman times and continuing right up to the present day, this book explains how Spitalfields' streets evolved, what people have lived there, and what lives they have led.

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Packed full of unique material and first-hand accounts from the archives of the Imperial War Museum, it tells of the men and women who won the Battle of Britain in that fateful summer, at home and in the air.

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The little-known yet fascinating story of when two of the most iconic aircraft of World War II dueled in the skies above Australia.

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Downing is obsessed with Daylight Saving, the loopy idea that became the most persistent political controversy in American history. "Spring Forward" is his portrait of public policy in the 20th century, a perennially boiling cauldron of unsubstantiated science, profiteering masked as piety, and mysteriously shifting time-zone boundaries.

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A new, beautifully illustrated, official history of St Catharines College, Cambridge the first since 1997, and published in celebration of the Colleges 550th anniversary.

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The first in a three-book series examining the Stalingrad campaign, one of the most decisive military operations in World War II that set the stage for the ultimate defeat of the Third Reich.

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The second in a three-part series examining the Stalingrad campaign, one of the most decisive military operations in World War II, that set the stage for the ultimate defeat of the Third Reich.

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The final part in a three-book series on the Battle of Stalingrad, examining the Soviet encirclement, German relief efforts, and the final surrender of Paulus' 6.Armee.

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"A ... wholly original account of the epic human tragedy that was the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-1898"--

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From a prominent young historian, the untold story of the rich variety of gay life in America in the 1970s

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Recent discoveries by independent researchers have challenged our understanding of ancient Egypt and raised questions about our past. However, independent researchers have been forbidden by the Egyptians to do further work. The Egyptian Government is working closely with various American corporations. Are there sinister reasons for this

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Masterly. CHARLES VYVYAN, STANDPOINT

Fascinating stuff. SPECTATOR

Possibly the finest, most comprehensive analysis of the home front in the Great War ever produced. LITERARY REVIEW

Every bit as good as its two predecessors.

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The early 1970s were the age of gloom and glam. Under Edward Heath, the optimism of the Sixties had become a distant memory. Now the headlines were dominated by social unrest, fuel shortages, unemployment and inflation. This book tells the history of the gaudy, schizophrenic atmosphere of the early Seventies.

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The railways mobilised troops, transported munitions, evacuated children from cities and kept vital food supplies moving where other forms of transport failed.

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While the world looked the other way, Sri Lanka's Tamils, civilians and rebels alike, were systematically and pitilessly attacked by their own government for five relentless months. Survivors of the devastation tell their stories of sacrifice, cruelty and bravery.