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Oman became one of the success stories of the developing world, instituting a modern educational system, creating a modern infrastructure, becoming an oil exporter, and constucting an elaborate social welfare system.

Today the country faces a host of challenges.

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General Omar Bradley was the premier US Army tactical commander in the European Theatre of Operations in 1944-45. Beyond the performance of the US Army in the ETO, Bradley was also intimately wrapped up in other controversies, especially the internecine squabbles with his British counterpart, Bernard Montgomery. This book tells his story.

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At risk of death, prisoner of war Ray Parkin secretly kept a journal of the months in 1943-44 he spent working on the Thai-Burma Railway. His account, first published as ""Into the Smother"", received international acclaim for its realistic depiction of POWs living, working and dying in a Japanese camp deep in the Thai jungle.

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Britain's military involvement in Afghanistan is a contentious subject. In this book, the author explores the potential danger of replaying Britain's military catastrophes and considers what can be learnt from revisiting the story of earlier Afghan wars.

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This is the third edition of a book that has become a classic in the public history field. First published in 1986, revised in 2003, On Doing Local History offers not only discussion of practical matters, but also a deeper reflection on local, public history, what it means, an...

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This volume is based on interviews the author has conducted with the same core group of Holocaust survivors for more than two decades. Through these interviews, one can directly follow the ways recounting emerges and evolves, the way a story is made from a "non-story".

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In 1942 Australia faced the threat of invasion by the Japanese. This is what happened.

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For much of the postwar era, French society had a contradictory view of passenger trains, scorning them as quaint anachronisms on the one hand, yet also fearing their economic and social impact.

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Asserting that Mussolini's expansionist, social-Darwinist mentality drove him to align Italy with Nazi Germany to challenge Britain and France for supremacy in the Mediterranean, this title challenges the prevailing notion that he sought to steer a middle course between Germany and Britain.

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The Cold War, which started in 1947, resulted from the United States' gradual discovery that the Soviets, allies during World War II, were enemies, hostile to non-Communist nations and determined to spread Communism wherever they could.

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During WWII, the people of Melbourne experienced years of social dislocation and increased government interference in all aspects of daily life. As women left their homes to replace men in factories and offices, the traditional roles of women were challenged, and the presence of US soldiers raised questions about Australian identity.

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By lucidly revealing the common threads that connect the ancient confrontations between Athens and Sparta and between Rome and Carthage with the two calamitous world wars of the 20th century and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kagan reveals new insights into the nature of war--and peace--that are vitally important and often surprising.

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This book contains highly original essays on the sweep of Western civilization from the middle ages to the present, including such topics as conscience and usury, "probabilism" in science and theology, systems of spiritual direction, as well as economic development.

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Looking at the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century people who wrote about the Andean region that became Peru, this work shows how the lens of Rome had a profound influence on Spanish understanding of the Incan empire. It focuses on issues such as the role of language in conquest, the interpretation of civil war, and the founding of cities.

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Janet McCalman writes about people and the environments, events and forces that shape them. This extract from her award-winning book Journeyings: The Biography of a Middle-Class Generation 1920-1990 is a vivid account of the school years of Australians who were young in the 1930s, and are grandparents and great-grandparents now.

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Once Upon a Time (Bomb) is a charming memoir of a young boy growing up in El Salvador. It tells the story of Alfonso Duque the Thirteenth, a youngster from a poverty-stricken family and a budding poet. Surrounded by hovering women-his mother, aunts, grandmothers, and sisters-l...

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'One Country, Two Systems' in Crisis elucidates how China's intervention in Hong Kong after the British handover in 1984 has curtailed Hong Kong's civil liberties; how freedom of speech is at the mercy of the government; and how deception has turned the 'Pearl of the Orient' into the rubber stamp of the Chinese Communist Party.