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The author of "Fingerprints: The Origins of Crime Detection and the Murder Case That Launched Forensic Science" pens the thrilling, inside story of the secret "special operations" mission that paved the way for D-Day and changed the way America waged war.

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On a clear moonlit night in November of 1940, the Luftwaffe used hundreds of bombers, thousands of high explosives and tens of thousands of incendiary bombs to attack the industrial might of England by bombing Coventry.

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Tells the story of Operation Neptune was, of course, more than just a tale of planning, building and logistics.

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Operation Nordwind is one of the lesser known campaigns of World War II. Largely overshadowed by the Battle of the Bulge further north, Nordwind was the last operation by the Waffen-SS Panzer divisions in the west. This title highlights the difficulties of inter-Allied cooperation between the Americans and the French.

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This study challenges conventional wisdom about the Anglo-Soviet alliance against Hitler and proposes instead that, had Germany not successfully invaded France in May 1940, the Allies might well have launched their own offensive against the Soviet Union.

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Operation Pointblank was the code name for the United States Army Air Force's attempt to destroy German fighter capability through the use of daylight strategic bombing in advance of the D-Day landings. This book examines the entire operation from both the Allied and the German perspectives.

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Coming up to Christmas, and reporter Stephen Grey is embedded with B Company, 2 Yorks, in southern Afghanistan during Operation Snakebite. Their mission: to take the Taliban stronghold of Musa Qala. For some this battle will be their last.

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Featuring artwork, archival photographs and detailed maps, this book offers an analysis of the most innovative Allied offensive of the Normandy campaign which, had it been successful would have prevented the Germans from extracting themselves from the Falaise pocket - effectively crippling their forces in Western Europe - and more.

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"First written as a doctoral dissertation for the University of California at Berkeley"--Page xi.

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Examining the effects of an oppressive and economically incompetent system, Sperlich presents a systematic review of post-war German history, with an emphasis on the founding of a communist state on German soil: the German Democratic Republic.

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In 1650 the Dutch Orange stadholder William II died unexpectedly and his opponents used the opportunity to suspend the stadholderate. This book describes the language and imagery deployed by the Orangists in the critical years 1650 to 1675 in their attempt to restore the stadholderate William III, his posthumous son.

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Orde Wingate rose to fame by creating the Chindits in Burma in 1943. This book covers Wingate's experiences in pre-war Palestine, in Ethiopia in 1941 (where he formed an irregular guerrilla unit to harrass the Italian garrisons) and in World War II Burma, where the two Chindit campaigns would be his apotheosis.

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The Middle Ages were for many years generally viewed as a period when faith and order supported a rigid society. By painstaking archival research, historians such as Joseph R. Strayer and the contributors to this volume have gradually replaced this view with a regard for the period as a time of great intellectual diversity. These essays, divided i

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The first general history in English of the Ottoman Army in the First World War, Ordered to Die is based on newly available Turkish archival and official sources.

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provides the first comparative overview of the role of anthropology in colonial Africa. With essays exploring metropolitan research institutes, Africans as ethnographers and the transnational features of knowledge production, this volume both consolidates and extends a range of new research questions focusing on the politics of imperial knowledge.

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Exploring the critical influences shaping the decisions made by Jews in Nazi-occupied eastern Europe, Finkel sheds new light on the dynamics of collective violence and genocide.

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