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Explores a neglected epoch of world history, one that saw Polynesians expand their territory across the world's largest ocean.

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The first authoritative account of the Paulista War published in the English language, providing a detailed account of both aerial and ground combat operations.

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From Richard Pike, best-selling author of Hunter Boys and The Lightning Boys volumes, comes another addition to our popular Boys series; Phantom Boys. Originally developed for the US Navy, this twin-engined supersonic long-range fighter-bomber first flew in the spring of 1958. It entered service for the US Navy in 1961, and in 1969 with the RAF.

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This book examines Prince Philip's family background and his relatively little known Greek family as well as his early life as a Greek prince, much of the time in exile.

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Phoney Wars looks at the lives of New Zealanders during the greatest armed struggle the world has ever seen: the Second World War. It is not a political, economic or military history; rather it explores what life was like during the war years for ordinary people living under the New Zealand flag.

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A comprehensive, in-depth, and richly-illustrated study of the US-Cuban relations during the first half of the 1950s.

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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 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').