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Al Murray's (AKA The Pub Landlord) musing on his childhood where his fascination with history and all things war began.

Have you ever watched a film with someone who, at the most dramatic scene, argues that the plane on screen hasn't been invented yet

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Tells the story of New York's evolution as a great city by examining its struggle for that vital and basic element - clean water. This book demonstrates how quickly the shallow wells of Dutch New Amsterdam were overwhelmed, leaving the English and American city beleaguered by filth, epidemics, and fires.

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The era of the American Revolution was one of violent and unpredictable social, economic, and political change, and the dislocations of the period were most severely felt in the South. This title contends that the military struggle there involved a triangle - two sets of white belligerents and approximately 400,000 slaves.

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Provides a comprehensive resource for every aspect of the battle. This book details the battle of Quatre Bras where an initial 8,000 Allied troops faced 48,000 men of the French Armee du Nord under Marshal Ney.

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Represents the second instalment of the captivating study of the Waterloo campaign, one of the defining events in European history. This title focuses on the desperate struggle for Ligny, which saw the Prussians pushed back by the French Army after heavy fighting in what was to be Napoleon's battlefield victory.

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After midnight, 19 June 1815...

On the battlefield more than 50,000 men and 7,000 horses lie dead and wounded; Drawing on a multiplicity of contemporary voices and viewpoints, Paul OKeeffe brings into focus as never before the sights, sounds and smells of the battlefield, of conquest and defeat, of celebration and riot.

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Water power has been used for over 2000 years. This book explains the history and development of watermills as working buildings and the importance of the wider appreciation of the built environment and the use of natural sources of power.

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This classic MUP text discusses the historical development of science, technology and medicine in Western Europe and North America from the Renaissance to the present. Combining theoretical discussion and empirical illustration, it redefines the geography of science, technology and medicine. -- .

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Drawing on recently declassified documents and extensive interviews with Soviet and American policy-makers, this title casts new light on the effect of nuclear threats in two of the tensest moments of the Cold War: the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and the confrontations arising out of the Arab-Israeli war of 1973.

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Recovers the lost history of colonial Algeria's communist movement -- .

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Recovers the lost history of colonial Algeria's communist movement -- .

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Fearing an imminent Nazi invasion, the British government interned 28,000 men and women of enemy nationality living in Britain in the spring of 1940. Most were Jewish refugees who, having fled Nazi persecution, were appalled to find themselves imprisoned as potential Nazi spies.

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I lay there rather dazed for a while, expecting to be hit again at any moment.' John Hunter, Parachute Regiment, Northants.

Seventy years ago, on 6 June 1944, a great Allied Armada landed on the coast of Normandy.

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As soon as I did, of course, I looked up and saw a man putting in the glass windows that had been blown out the night before.' Joan Adams, Lichfield

On the night of 7 September 1940, bombs rained down on the defenceless and unprepared population of London for nine long hours.

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First published in 1949 and now brought up-to-date, We Survived offers a dramatic and historical documentation of personal survival under the terror and persecution of the Third Reich

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During the Second World War, Germany captured nearly 94,000 soldiers, while the Allies shipped almost 380,000 Germans to the United States. This is the first book to compare stories of POWs from both sides of the conflict.

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From the co-author of "Call of Duty" comes a new collection of untold stories from the legendary Easy Company, the military unit immortalized in "Band of Brothers."

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Wealth in the Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Balkans demonstrates the economic and social transformations wrought by wars, state centralization, European expansion and the gradual Ottoman withdrawal from the Balkans.