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Presents a comprehensive analysis of the changes and continuities in the US political system from 1900 to 2000, a period of unprecedented growth and power in US history, though one that was also punctuated by crises and division.

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Beginning with the fundamental question ""What is Europe,"" this exceptionally lucid new history opens up a whole range of fresh perspectives. It sets out to examine the proposition that the idea of European unity make sense when there is more that unites Europe than divides it, and to ask when that has been true during the past hundred years.

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Originally published as 'Dreyfus to de Gaulle', this authoritative account has been revised and extended, its greater chronological range reflected in the new title.

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This book is a clear and accessible guide to the controversial course of modern German history. A series of intellectually innovative and stimulating essays address key issues and debates, providing both chronological coverage and a thematic approach to modern German politics, economy, society, and culture.

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Comparing the British and Dutch experience of mass society in the twentieth century, this book considers five major areas: politics, welfare, media, leisure, and youth culture. Drawing on history, cultural studies and sociology, it offers insights into the development of modern European society.

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Drez ("Voices of D-Day"), a research associate at the Eisenhower Center at the University of New Orleans, compiles interviews with 10 World War II veterans' 25 yards--the length and breadth of the war for him at any given moment.

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A new primary source on the history of travel to Egypt and the 'Golden Age' of Archaeology and Egyptology.

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Predating the wheel, the ski has played an important role in our history. This book features a history that begins 20,000 years ago in the last ice age on the icy tundra of an unformed earth.

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The twin demands of internal adaptation and external enlargement have vexed both the EU and NATO. The book considers four issues attending enlargement that could conceivably defer or even derail the first enlargement of the EU and a second enlargement of NATO.

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The early modern execution was far more than a spectator sport. The period between the Restoration and the American Revolution witnessed the rise and fall of execution literature: last speeches and confessions; criminal trials and biographies, featuring the criminal as an Everyman (or Everywoman) holding up a mirror to the sins of his readers.

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"Tycoon's War" tells the story of an epic imperialist duel--a violent battle of capitalist versus idealist, money versus ambition--and a monumental clash of egos that resulted in the deaths of thousands of Americans.

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The Typhoon was the RAF's heavyweight fighter-bomber of choice to support the British and Canadian armies during the invasion of northwest Europe. This book extols the importance of the Typhoon wings in the ultimate Allied victory in Europe. It describes their destruction of German radar in the lead-up to D-Day.

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This work takes a look at the formidable U-boat bases and bunkers built on the French coast in Norway and Germany, and also focuses on the huge "Valentin" factory complex at Bremen, which manufactured the new type XXI electro-boats.

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