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Jeevan Vasagar is a superb and evocative writer, and Lion City is a compelling, illuminating and personal history that will be regarded as the definitive book on Singapore - and one of the great city chronicles.

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The author and photographer John Feder were among the few unembedded journalists during the 2002 Iraq War. They roamed around southern Iraq, but were then subjected to house arrest in Baghdad, where they continued to file reports in secret, and later arranged the evacuation of the horribly wounded little boy, Ali Abbas.

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This sensational 1941 memoir of life on wartime Europe's frontline by a trailblazing female reporter is an 'unforgettable' (The Times) rediscovered classic, introduced by Christina Lamb (who calls her 'the Forrest Gump of journalism').

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On a calm, tropical afternoon in the South Atlantic Ocean in Aril 1942, a British tramp steamer, the SS Willesden, was shelled, torpedoed and sunk by a German raider, the KMS Thor. The Willesden was carrying 47 officers and crew, and a cargo of vital war supplies destined for Britain's 8th Army in North Africa.

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A unique visual guide to America's war between the states, told through those sites swept aside by development or decay Take a journey through lost civil war battlefields in this photographic guide to the many historic sites that have been destroyed or become overgrown over the centuries.

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Using letters between soldiers and their loved ones, parents, sweethearts, wives or children, this book traces the emotional and psychological ways by which New Zealanders made sense of the upheavals of war.

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'The best 'bird's eye view' of the helicopter war in Vietnam in print today ... Mills has captured the realities of a select group of aviators who shot craps with death on every mission' R.S. Maxham, Director, US Army Aviation Museum

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After spending 25 years shepherding and managing sheep stations in the South Island, Robert Peden completed a PhD thesis, which was recorded as "Exceptional" at the University of Otago in 2007 and is the basis of Making Sheep Country. Dr Peden won a 2009 Claude McCarthy scholarship to complete this book.

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Australias favourite newsreader presents an anthology of stories, people and products that are uniquely Australian.

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Malta in the summer of 1942, a Malta wide open to air attack from the Germans and Italians and defended by a handful of Spitfires and a few anti-aircraft guns.

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The first in "MUP Masterworks" series, this work is a carefully selected extract from Manning Clark's seminal work, "History of Australia". Its focus is the Gallipoli campaign and the terrible weeks in 1915 that saw the forging of the Anzac legend.

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This book reveals the significant role Aboriginal men, and some women, played in Australia's early maritime history. Theirs was a canoe culture and they called foreign ships 'mari nawi', meaning 'large canoes'. They sailed the Australian coast, to sealing and whaling grounds in Bass Strait, the icy sub-Antarctic and to international destinations.

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A New York Times bestseller, the incredible true story of a couple that escaped slavery in the South and eventually made their way to the UK, Africa and beyond.

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The volume is dedicated to the Olmec and the Maya, the two main Mesoamerican civilizations that developed in the tropical regions, the "green heart" of the southeast.

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Lifeboats occupy a particular place in peoples hearts as unpaid volunteers regularly take to their boats often in extremely adverse conditions to rescue others from the sea.

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An engrossing history of the desperate battles for the Rzhev Salient, a forgotten story brought to life by the harrowing memoirs of German and Russian soldiers.

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A major new talent unveils a glittering and gruesome history of the body in the Middle Ages, from saints' relics to lovesick troubadours.

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Explores why mercenaries were employed to defend or expand territory before massed national armies existed.

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The never-before-told story of the epic battle of wills between Andrew Mellon and Winston Churchill, as they debated the repayment of the enormous sums loaned by America to Great Britain during World War I.