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With extensive first-hand accounts providing an eyewitness perspective of the fighting on the ground and including information on the British SAS, the US Delta Force, Australian and Canadian special forces as well as MI6 and CIA operational units, this book provides a study of their skills and successes amidst the Afghan mountains.

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Offers an analysis to the Special Operations Forces (SOF) of the US and Coalition allies serving in Iraq since 2003. This book offers a look at the largest mobilisation of Special Forces in history. It examines the US Delta Force, the British SAS, Australian and Canadian Special Forces as well as CIA and MI6 operational units.

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This study examines early modern Japanese society through the lens of food and foodways. The author demonstrates how food empowered peasants, fisherfolks, and ordinary merchants to repeatedly challenge the established regulations for food trade and distribution.

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This book explores how the Victorians standardised vision and transformed spectacle use. It offers new insights into how technology and its adoption in medical and non-medical contexts shaped, and continues to shape, our understanding of sensory perception and the assimilation of assistive devices.

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Why did Queen Elizabeth I compare herself with her disastrous ancestor Richard II Why would Ben Jonson transform Queen Anne and her ladies into Amazons as entertainment for the pacifist King James This title includes essays that deal with Shakespeare, Jonson and Milton, with Renaissance magic and Renaissance costume.

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This book examines the visualization of personified death. It analyzes all preserved examples of macabre iconography in late medieval Bohemian paintings in the context of period culture and devotion.

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Presents the English translation of a critical portrait of the Ottoman capital of Istanbul during the days of the Sultan Abd al-Hamid.

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Offers an introduction to the Lebanon's fractious politics and a portrait of a people that continue to rise again and again from the ashes.

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Essential coverage of the key part played by the iconic Spitfire in the desert campaign during 1942-43, and in the destruction of the Luftwaffe in Sicily, Italy and the Balkans from mid-1943 through to VE Day.

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Traces the achievements of the pilots flying the iconic Spitfire in Northwest Europe, and examines how the steady technological improvements that were made throughout the Spitfire's service life improved its capabilities in the air.

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Reveals how first using the Spitfire I and II, and then following the introduction of the Bf 109 the cannon-armed Spitfire V, RAF squadrons embarked on a range of missions which included one of the most important air battles of the war, over Dieppe on 19 August 1942.

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The inability of the Italians and Germans to invade Malta proved decisive for Allied victory in the Mediterranean during World War II, as the islands provided the Allies with a base from which to project air power. This title deals with this topic.

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Explains what it felt like to be a fighter pilot during those crucial moments of the Battle of Britain flying some of the iconic planes to have ever graced the skies. This volume details the pilots' training, British and German tactics, and the development of the models that were in use at the time - the Spitfire Mk I/II and the Bf 109E.

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The plane and the men that saved Britain in 1940 in their own words

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Michael W. Fitzgerald's new interpretation of Reconstruction shows how the internal dynamics of this first freedom movement played into the hands of white racist reactionaries in the South. Splendid Failure recounts how postwar financial missteps and other governance problems ...

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Spokes 6: The Fruits of Civilization covers the consequences of human endeavors, including technology (with emphases on computers, energy and food production), economics (the dismal pseudoscience), and the impact that man has had on the planet (a tale of lament). Go to IshiNobu.com for more information.

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Sport and British Jewry provides the first wide-ranging examination of the importance of sport in the history of the British-Jewish community. Covering the period from 1890 through to 1970, it examines the peak era of Jewish involvement and interest in sport and physical recreation in Britain in recent times. -- .

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Sport and physical culture in Occupied France is a scholarly and readable account of French sport during the Vichy regime. It explores two competing phenomena: the states promotion of physical culture to rehabilitate French people during the Occupation and athletes and sporting associations use of the states efforts to serve their own agendas.