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'Long before the friends of African freedom began to agitate for black freedom, the enslaved themselves had created their own strategies of resistance. In time, their defiance was to prove the crucial final factor in bringing down slavery itself.' James Walvin, in Freedom

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The story of how the French pioneered the use of tanks in colonial warfare, and the role they played in France's effort to keep control of its Indochinese empire.

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An absorbing study that pits French Foreign Lgionnaires against Viet Minh fighters in three bloody battles of the French Indochina War, the forerunner to the US-led Vietnam War.

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Bissinger spent a season in Odessa discovering just what makes a town pin its hopes on eleven boys on a football field. He returned with a compassionate but hard-eyed story of a town riven by money, race and class, where a high school can spend more on medical supplies for its athletic program than on its English department.

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In this groundbreaking new book, Mark Garnett charts the changes in British politics, society and culture since 1975.

Britain in the early years of the twenty-first century seems a very different and much quieter place, but is it as 'apathetic' as the political commentators argue

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A collection of essays on past and current history by a prominent western Islamic scholar.

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Now in paperback, one of the master historians of the century explains why he views the present as a time of decadence while celebrating the achievements of the great cultural creators of the past five centuries.

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John O'Regan's career in the British Colonial Service saw him serve in Ceylon, Jamaica, Uganda and, finally, Iran. In this book he gives an account of the concerns of the Overseas Civil Service during the period spanning the end of the empire and the emergence of independent nation-states.

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Network revolutions of the past have shaped the present and set the stage for the revolution we are experiencing today. In this fascinating book, Tom Wheeler brings to life the two great network revolutions of the past and uses them to help put in perspective the confusion, uncertainty, and even excitement most people face today.

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This book boldly challenges conventional wisdom about the value of preventive war, beginning with the rise of Hitlers Germany through the disastrous invasion of Iraq. Silverstone argues that the Rhineland crisis leading up to WWII presents a critical case for studying power shifts among statesand the preventive war temptation that results.

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A fascinating history of Canada's role in the American Civil War. Thousands fled north to escape the bloody battles: draft dodgers, deserters, recruiters, plotters and spies, and those escaping slavery through the Underground Railroad. Martin illuminates how the traffic between countries shaped both.

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A supplement devoted to playing solo and co-operative games of Frostgrave.

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These were the shadows that hung over a country paralysed by frozen heating oil, burst pipes and power cuts.

And yet underneath the frozen surface, new life was beginning to stir, with JF Kennedy, the pill, Bob Dylan, Mary Quant and the Beatles symbols of an exuberant youthquake.

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A gripping true story of survival, bravery, and honor in the vast Arctic wilderness during World War II, from the author of "New York Times"-bestseller "Lost in Shangri-La."

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A gripping, revisionist account of an epic tragedy, the battle of Gallipoli.

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A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year the rise and fall of the women who ruled sixteenth-century Europe

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Mohandas Gandhi and Winston Churchill: India's moral leader and Great Britain's greatest Prime Minister.

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A highly respected voice reveals the truth behind the myths in the Middle Easts crucible of conflict

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Fully illustrated with specially commissioned full-color artwork, this work examines the origins, combat roles, and battlefield performance of the German Gebirgsjger and Soviet naval ground forces who fought one another in the harsh conditions of the Arctic Circle.

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The poignant, deeply moving diary of a British officer who served in the trenches right through the First World War