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Focusing on the rivalries among the Great Powers in the search for markets during the world depression of the 1930s, the author surveys the five Major Powers and all the Eastern European countries from the Baltic to Turkey. But he primarily canvases the economic situations in locations like Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia.

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Midway through his reign, in the critical decade of the 1680s, the lusty image of Louis XIV paled and was replaced by that of a straitlaced monarch committed to locking up blasphemers, debtors, gamblers, and prostitutes in wretched, foul-smelling prisons that dispensed ample doses of Catholic-Reformation virtue.

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"Powerful . . . Wawro offers a picture of an Austro-Hungarian leadership that was reckless in the extreme.'"-Wall Street Journal

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This chronicle of Raoul Wallenberg's sojourn to Budapest documents his activities at the Swedish Legation and his rescue efforts on behalf of the Jews of Budapest.

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A memoir of a young man's coming of age in wartime. This work presents an account of his childhood growing up in Sydney through his years serving in the Royal Australian Navy from 1942 to 1947. It details his rise from a callow sublieutenant to a lieutenant in command of his own ship, as he patrolled the shores of Japanese-held territory.

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Tells the extraordinary story - lost for two centuries - of how a failed British attempt to establish a penal colony in West Africa led to their eventual decision to abandon their African plans and establish a new colony in the recently discovered colony known as New South Wales

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In 1957, Walls and eight other black students--known as the Little Rock Nine--only want to make it to class. But their journey would lead the nation on a much more turbulent path. Walls shines a light on this watershed moment in Civil Rights history in this inspiring memoir.

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Given the importance of South Asia to global conflicts, this book provides an overview of the military history of the region, covering the areas that later evolved into the states of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh.

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This comprehensive volume traces the evolution of Japanese military history-from 300 AD to present day foreign relations-and reveals how the country's cultural views of power, violence, and politics helped shape Japan's long and turbulent history of war.

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War and the military have played central roles in shaping modern Chinese history. Warfare and the military have figured decisively in the rise and fall of imperial dynasties, the suppression of internal revolts, the emergence of revolutionary movements, and the conduct of China's foreign relations, all of which have shaped China's modern history.

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Tells the story of the Egyptian military experience. This work looks at the lives of Egyptian soldiers fighting at home and abroad and shows the role those soldiers and their leaders played in Middle Eastern and world history for 500 years. It also explores Ottoman military rule; Napoleon's failed Egyptian campaign in 1798; and more.

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Traces the course of Spanish military history, primarily during the 20th century. This book takes a look at the foundation of the Spanish Army in the nineteenth century, beginning with the War of Independence against Napoleon. It covers the period following the Spanish-American War as the Army. It presents the two armies of the Spanish Civil War.

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This work offers the first one-volume comprehensive military history of modern South Africa.

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This timely study synthesizes past history with the major military events and dynamics of the 20th- and 21st-century Middle East, helping readers understand the region's presentand look into its future.

The Middle East has beenand will continue to bea major influence on policy around the globe.

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As Uyar and Erickson demonstrate, the old army of the Sultan had become the army of the Republic, symbolizing the transformation of a dying empire to the new Turkish state make clear that throughout much of its existence, the Ottoman Army was an effective fighting force with professional military institutions and organizational structures.

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This is the only general history of Britain's travelling communities in the twentieth century and covers state and legal developments affecting Travellers as well as their experiences of missions, education, warand welfare. -- .

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