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Shortly after the Allied landings in France the Germans unleashed the first of their so-called 'revenge weapons', the V1 flying bomb. The main element, however, were standing patrols by the fastest piston-engined fighters available to the RAF - the new Tempest V and Griffon-powered Spitfire XIV. This book deals with this aircraft.

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The Valentine was the most produced and most widely used British tank of the Second World War. This book describes the evolution of the Valentine design and weighs up its impact on the battlefield.

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A surprising account of the messy middle years of the American Revolution, and the tragic relationship of George Washington and Benedict Arnold.

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The RAF's first Cold War strategic bomber, the Vickers Valiant, was procured as an insurance measure in case either the Vulcan or Victor was found to have a serious flaw. The Valiant was the equivalent of the US B-47 Stratojet.

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When on July 20, 1944 a bomb - placed inside the Wolf's Lair by the German Anti-Nazi Resistance - exploded without killing the Fuhrer, the coup d'etat against the Third Reich collapsed. The conspirators were shot or condemned in show trials and hanged. This work traces its history, from the 1933 Reichstag fire to Germany's defeat in 1945.

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Examines what is perhaps "the most underappreciated chapter in American history [in an] ... account of Valley Forge, the Continental Army winter camp where George Washington turned the tide of the American Revolution"--

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Youth gangs in postwar New York

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An interesting collection of stories of the history, folklore, and mythology of Hungary. This includes the mythological origins of Hungary and legends of nomad warriors and ancestors of Atilla the Hun following the Turul to the Carpathian basin to form a new country under the covenant of blood.

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Although the wartime atomic scientists believed such tasks lay beyond the ken of military personnel, the Sandia Pioneers soon maintained even the bombs' fissionable cores and assisted the Atomic Energy Commission scientists and technicians in their pursuit of improved bomb designs.

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Investigates the boycott of the 1911 census by Suffragettes -- .

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The essays are grouped around three major research areas: history and the social sciences, history and biography, and the new labor history.

This is a unique collection of essays by some of the world's leading historians of the South, together with work by younger scholars.

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Presents a social and economic study of the origins, apogee, and decline of coffee in the Parahyba Valley of South Central Brazil. This book shows how abolition, erosion, and bankruptcy transformed virgin forest into a wasteland of eroded hillsides and abandoned towns, of disillusioned planters and poverty-stricken black freedmen.

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Due to the spate of anniversaries of such events as the Holocaust, the topic of memory has shot to prominence in the 1990s. This text uses the concept of "vectors" of memory to designate the conduits of that memorial activity, and examines a range of vectors that have focused public attention.

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Due to the spate of anniversaries of such events as the Holocaust, the topic of memory has shot to prominence in the 1990s. This text uses the concept of "vectors" of memory to designate the conduits of that memorial activity, and examines a range of vectors that have focused public attention.

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In comprehensive detail Margaret King analyzes the activities of the patricians who were predominant in the ranks of the humanists and who made humanist thought a powerful tool in the service of their class and of the city itself. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make a

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This comprehensive overview of Venezuelan history, culture, and politics is designed to ground the high school student's knowledge of the crucial role of the nation on the international scene.