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Considered a classic work of Australian military history ever since its first publication in 1963, this book includes George Cross winners. Together with descriptions of the battles they fought in, it contains biographies of Australians who have won the VC.

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"The 29 April 1864 Battle of Pukehinahina-Gate P resulted in the astonishing defeat of a force of 1700 Imperial British soldiers, sailors and a few militia, who were supported by the largest artillery battery assembled at any time during the New Zealand Wars."

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A pictorial record of the Vietnam War. This work describes the social history of the time, highlighting prominent people, media coverage - it was the first televised war, and much more. It conveys the horrors and hardships experienced by soldiers, and also the dignity, bravery and humanity many came to embody.

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Saigon,1967. Hugh Lunn arrives in Vietnam at the height of the war to cover it for Reuters. Before long the author experiences the full horror and tragedy of war, and finds himself questioning not only the US/Australian role in Vietnam, but his own role in a war where images and words could be as powerful as bullets.

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This extraordinary, sweeping account draws on hundreds of unpublished sources and interviews with soldiers, politicians, medical practitioners, aid providers, entertainers and the Vietnamese people to reconstruct the epic history of a campaign that disfigured a country and divided the world, nations, families and friends.

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Meets the requirements of school parties, visitor groups and others at a time of unprecedented interest (Centenary). The book is concise and informative. Offers easy-to-follow tour programme with all necessary historical background and advice.

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Describes the fierce campaign, codenamed INFATUATE, mounted in November 1944 to clear the way through to the port of Antwerp. The book describes the extraordinary courage of the Germans who fought to the bitter end.

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This new edition of Paul Reeds classic book Walking the Somme is an essential traveling companion for anyone visiting the Somme battlefields of 1916. His book, first published over ten years ago, is the result of a lifetimes research into the battle and the landscape over which it was fought.

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In a colourful narrative of invasions, empires, kings, and khans, David Frye presents a bold new theory of civilization: walls haven't just influenced the course of history; they have profoundly shaped the human psyche.

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Provides a social history of women in the liquor trade and the controls, social and legal, written and unwritten, with which they had to contend. It begins in the 1830s when control over the sale of alcohol was first mooted and ends in 1976, when the last of the regulations that applied specifically to females was removed.

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On January 1, 1942, Prime Minister John Curtin wrote in his diary: 'We begin the New Year with great anxiety for the future of Australia.'. Contained here are first-hand accounts by the men and women caught up in the war, capturing the strange mix of panic and hope they felt.

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From bestselling author Jeff Guinn, the dramatic story of how U.S.-Mexico border tensions erupted into open warfare in 1916, as a U.S. military expedition crossed the border to try to capture Mexican guerrilla Pancho Villa -- a military incursion whose effects still haunt the border region to this day.

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A journey through history of the women who built the world, but whom the world forgot.

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From the highly acclaimed Sunday Times bestselling author Ian Knight, Warriors in Scarlet is an authoritative new history of Queen Victorias army.

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Shows how the key cultural innovations from Central Asia revolutionized medieval Europe and gave rise to the culture of science in the West. This title traces how the recursive argument method was first developed by Buddhist scholars and was spread by them throughout ancient Central Asia.

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As Antony Beevor cast new light on the Battle of Stalingrad, Alexandra Richie here unearths the traumatic story of one of the last major battles of World War II, in which the Poles fought off German troops, street by street, for sixty-three days.

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With ship profiles and original artwork, this study explores the warships that fought World War II's last pure surface battle, the battle itself, and why the outnumbered US Navy prevailed.

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"A groundbreaking investigation into what Nixon was really after and why he risked the presidency to get it"--Cover.