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An enthralling popular history of how the threatened Christian kingdoms of Europe converted, conquered, and slaughtered their way to dominance at the turn of the last millennium. of photos.

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"The Last Boarding Party: The USMC and the SS Mayaguez 1975".

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The day World War II was declared in Britain.

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Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest.

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Conspiracies, treason and heresy at the court of the dying tyrant

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A leading Renaissance scholar examines what brought one of history's most fascinating eras to its end and how it gave rise to the modern era

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Told for the first time in English, Paul Prestons new book tells the story of a preventable tragedy that cost many thousands of lives and ruined tens of thousands more at the end of the Spanish Civil War.

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An examination of the triumph of African nationalism in Zimbabwe and South Africa despite attempts by Ian D. Smith and F. W. de Klerk to maintain the status quo.

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The truth about the decades-long struggle to return the Swiss bank-held assets of Holocaust victims to their rightful heirs, told by the journalist who uncovered the story in 1995.

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This book tells the story of French interaction with Vietnam and the neighboring region, which began with the French seizure of Cochin-China and Tonking in the 19th century under Emperor Tu Duc and ended with their humiliating defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954.

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Uses personal accounts of the veterans who achieved victory in the biggest and last great naval battle, largely fought with aging ships, untested reserve crews, and teenaged combat aircraft pilots.

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Often overshadowed by other Pacific War engagements such as Midway or Guadalcanal, the Battle of Leyte Gulf was characterized by some of the most gallant hours in seagoing history: the U.S. Navy's defeat of the combined Japanese fleet during the invasion of the Philippines in October 1944.

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Since the collapse of the French Army in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, military strategists and officials have recognized the critical importance of mobilization and concentration to the outcome of armed conflicts.

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An important new primary source for Holocaust studies, this unusual memoir contains the recollections of a Holocaust survivor who lived in a small Polish town 55 miles from Warsaw.

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On the 14th August 1945, as Emperor Hirohito recorded a message of surrender for the Japanese people, rebel troops burst into the Imperial palace to destroy the recording and stage a coup. This is an account of how B-29B "Superfortresses" and a black out ended the war.

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When Kiwi airman John Sanderson was shot down over Laines-aux-Bois in May 1944, an ordinary French family chose to help. Tragically, a local doctor called in to treat his wounds betrayed them to the Gestapo. This absorbing, illustrated account presents a poignant and compelling view of our humanity, and our history.

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It was the beginning of the end for the James gang. Frank and Jesse James had gone from unknown ex-Confederate guerrillas to the most famous outlaws in the world. In 1876 they planned their most daring raid to rob the First National Bank at Northfield, Minnesota. This book tells the story of one of the most daring bank jobs in American history.

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Drawing on a wealth of Departmental archives and othe unpublished material, Clem Lloyd and Jacqui Rees have provided a frank account of an institution that, from soldier settlement schemes to Agent Orange, has responded to the needs of returned service people in a generous and open-hearted way.