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Offers a full explanation of the wider situation to set each VC action within the bigger picture. Comprehensive accounts of the VC actions and the recipients life stories. Detailed touring information. Richly illustrated with pictures and maps.

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This interdisciplinary collection explores Victorian literature and its connection to various fields such as environmental history, ecology, and evolutionary biology. Further, the edition features seminal nineteenth-century figures advancing the cause of early environmental justice linked to place.

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This is a masterly description and analysis of this victorious campaign.

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This extraordinary, sweeping account draws on hundreds of unpublished sources and interviews with soldiers, politicians, medical practitioners, aid providers, entertainers and the Vietnamese people to reconstruct the epic history of a campaign that disfigured a country and divided the world, nations, families and friends.

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A history of Norwegian skippers hired by the CIA to command fast patrol boats on secret missions into North Vietnam

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In this book, Daniel Taylor provides a minutely detailed examination of the course of the fighting, exploring both sides of the debate, allowing the reader to evaluate the strength of the argument. Dozens of first-hand accounts are brought together and placed into a comprehensible and accurate time-line.

This title looks at the formidable Wellington Bomber, featuring a host of first-hand accounts and reports from the individuals who played a part in its history. Entertaining, hair-raising and sometimes incredibly poignant, these stories fuse to give an authentic sense of the times in which this aircraft flew.

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The history of Clevedon-Te Wairoa in a 2-volume boxed set.

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Courage and betrayal in Occupied France, involving SOE, British Intelligence, the Gestapo and the French Resistance

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This study is a broad cultural history of Russian war monuments in the twentieth century. It provides a unique analysis of the importance of war in Russian and Soviet cultural history and contributes to scholarship on the historical context of contemporary Russian politics and culture.

From the earliest days of the Second World War, Hitler's U-Boats were unleashed with the mission of sinking as much Allied merchant tonnage as possible. This book covers accounts of U-Boat actions against British merchant shipping in WW2 and includes tales of courageous and determined resistance against overwhelming odds.

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Warfare, Raiding and Defence in Early Medieval Britain is an examination of warfare in the period AD400-850, often called the Dark Ages, which is roughly the period between the end of Roman rule and the arrival of large Viking armies.

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After the Peace of Westphalia, several German states developed a disciplined 'Military' that produced outstanding armies. Germany supplied mercenary troops to major and minor powers in Europe, and the military-state, usually exemplified by Prussia, became a crucial part of German history.

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A comprehensive account of every major war and battle fought in the Americas, this revised edition of the award-winning Wars of the Americas offers up-to-date scholarship on the conflicts that have shaped a hemisphere.

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While Richard Nixon's culpability for Watergate has long been established, it is remarkable that - after almost 40 years - conventional accounts of the scandal still don't address Nixon's motive.

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This is the third volume in Paul Dawson's ground-breaking Waterloo trilogy, following Marshal Ney at Quatre Bras, and Napoleon and Grouchy, Waterloo, the Truth at Last concludes this sensational story.

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WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE FOR GLOBAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN-HESSEL TILTMAN PRIZE 2021 LONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2021

While most famous for its U-2 penetration flights over the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Peoples Republic of China, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operated a large number of other types of intelligence-gathering aircraft, or specially modified aircraft for operations beyond the Iron Curtain from the mid-1940s.