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Provides a basic reference on the military history of contemporary China through an examination of China's 19th century military clashes with the West and Japan, and the evolution of the Red Army.

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Each section includes basic information about the country, a map, and a chronology followed by entries, arranged alphabetically, on people, places, political parties, and the events that have shaped the country's history since 1945.

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This work will be useful--perhaps even essential--to undergraduates writing papers in the area of knighthood and chivalry, as well as to historians wishing to confirm what they should already know. Although the focus of this reference work is on chivalry and knighthood, the social and political panorama of the period is well covered.

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Nordstrom's work fills a serious gap in English-language reference sources on the Scandinavian countries. The dictionary spans the period from the Viking Age to the present. Choice

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A research resource on the Holocaust which provides a comprehensive compilation of the people and terms that are essential for an understanding of the event. In almost 2,000 entries, it covers major heroes, war criminals, terms, concentration and death camps, cities and countries, and events.

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Five appendixes complete this carefully constructed study, each focusing on a topic of major relevance in understanding the subject, such as a description of the population of South Vietnam, the minority groups of South Vietnam, a glossary of slang expressions and acronyms, a selected bibliography of the Vietnam War, and a chronology.

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The raid on Dieppe in August 1942 was one of the most controversial episodes of World War II. This study of the event explores the many lessons learned by all concerned, and how this led to a change of tactics and contributed to the success of the D-Day landings.

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An entertaining and revealing history that charts the hopes, dreams, fears, and frustrations of Americans as they pursued the good life in an age of affluence.

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This study measures the Anzac legend against the actual experiences of one battalion that fought at Gallipoli and on the Western Front in World War I. It considers the diaries and letters written by soldiers of the First Battalion to both qualify and contradict the Anzac legend.

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This book investigates the influence of foreign policy on nation-building in West Africa in the context of both the Cold War and European integration. This work should be essential reading for students of African studies, International Relations and the post-colonial world.

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Presents a story of diplomacy seen through the careers of five career diplomatists. This book presents a picture of practical diplomacy and its effect during periods of international crisis which shaped the twentieth century.

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Arab messengers played a vital role in the medieval Islamic world and its diplomatic relations with foreign powers. This title presents an account of the diplomacy of the period. It provides an understanding of the early Islamic world and the field of International Relations and Diplomatic History.

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This volume examines the diplomatic and economic factors that led to South Korea becoming the international influential actor it is today with an emphasis on the diplomatic successes of this countrys leaders earlier in the post-armistice period.

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This volume examines the diplomatic and economic factors that led to South Korea becoming the international influential actor it is today with an emphasis on the diplomatic successes of this countrys leaders earlier in the post-armistice period.

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This work presents the first five hundred of the over 2,000 documents that Robert I. Burns will make available from the registers of Jaume the Conqueror at the Crown Archives in Barcelona--the most impressive archives of this kind outside the papal series, and the first extensive use of paper by a European government. Volume II begins the four plan

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