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The Pulitzer Prize-winning co-author of Gotham tells the forgotten story of New York's British prison camps--and the nearly 20,000 patriots who lost their lives there.

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Forgotten Struggles: African Americans Confront Racism During the Korean War Era is a thought provoking account on how the African American community leveraged its political and social capital to secure justice and equality for African Americans.

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Everyones face was one mass of sand The guns were so hot, all the paint had gone Bombardier Ray Ellis

Had the Allies lost in North Africa, Rommels Afrika Korps would have swept through the Middle East, cutting the vital supply line through the Suez Canal to Australia and India, and taking the oilfields of the Persian Gulf.

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Drawing material from the Imperial War Museum's extensive aural archive, Joshua Levine brings together voices from both sides of the Blitz and the Battle of Britain to give us a unique, complete and compelling picture of this turbulent time.

In June 1940, British citizens prepared for an imminent German onslaught.

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Provides an account of the creation of an Asia after the Second World War - an unstoppable wave of nationalism that swept the British Empire aside. This book tells the story of how India, Pakistan, Burma and Malaysia came into existence and how British interference in Vietnam and Indonesia fatally shaped those countries' futures.

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Wilmington, North Carolina was home to many Southern blockade-runners and a Confederate lifeline for foreign supplies. Fort Anderson was one of several Civil War battles fought for control of the city this large-format book is heavily illustrated.

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Most often remembered for its role in the air war against Germany, no book has ever before been devoted to the B-17's Pacific operations. The author combines technical and operational detail with eyewitness accounts by crews and commanders to present a fascinating account of a famous aircraft at war.

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They blame a failed French military doctrine for taking the initiative away from subordinates, laying the groundwork for the disastrous events of 1940 that left the French High Command paralyzed while German forces broke through the weakly held Ardennes.

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A comprehensive survey of German World War II fortifications

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During the 1840s, the rarely visited Great American Desert of the Southern Plains and Southwest became part of the inexorable westward expansion, as European traders and settlers headed overland from the eastern seaboard. This title explores the design and development of the sites, the life of the garrisons that manned them, and more.

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Written by a renowned expert on the American Founding period, this book examines selections of key documents from 1215 through 1791 that were instrumental to the development of the U.S. Constitution and the American political tradition.

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Based on an major recent discovery-the Civil War as seen from the front ranks of a legendary fighting unit

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This chronicle of the Byzantine Empire, beginning in 1025, shows a profound understanding of the power politics that characterized the empire and led to its decline.

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Includes "Cumulative index for the Foxfire book, Foxfire 2, and Foxfire 3."

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Includes "Cumulative index for Foxfire 4, Foxfire 5 and Foxfire 6."

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A study of the two premier survivals of pre-Viking Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture. This book shows the reader how to understand the monuments as social products in relation to a history of which our knowledge is so fragmentary, and concludes with a discussion of their underlying premises.

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Brings together an internationally distinguished group of contributors and offers an authoritative overview of criticism on war and occupation narratives in French, a redefinition of the canon of texts and films to be studied, and a vibrant demonstration of the richness of the work in this area. -- .

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Professor Tout has published in an enlarged form four lectures which he gave before the University of Rennes. His main purpose is to lay stress on the common civilization and close affinities of the two nations through the ages, despite the antagonism between them that repeatedly found expression.