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By: Bill Fawcett
ISBN: 9780062069092
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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With more than 35 chapters of military disasters, both famous (infamous) and obscure, this title is chock of trivia, history, and looks at the world's greatest seafaring military defeats.
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By: Bill Fawcett
ISBN: 9780061807312
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Introduces the catastrophic missteps in World War II, including: Poland's lack of preparation for the Nazi invasion; Germany's failure to take Britain out of the war at Dunkirk; Russia playing Goliath to Finland's David; allied forces getting trapped for four months on the beaches of Anzio; and, Germany wasting its costly development of jet power.
(Paperback)
By: Christopher Tyerman
ISBN: 9780241954652
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 29th September 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Jonathan Beckman
ISBN: 9781848549975
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
UK Publication Date: 23rd April 2015
Publisher: John Murray Press
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A tale of greed, lust, deceit, theft on an extraordinary scale, charlatanry, kidnapping, assassination and escape from prison.
(Hardback, Main)
By: Peter Pomerantsev
ISBN: 9780571366347
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 7th March 2024
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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From one of our leading experts on disinformation, the incredible true story of the complex and largely forgotten WWII propagandist Sefton Delmer - and what we can learn from him today.
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By: Virginia Nicholson
ISBN: 9780241975183
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 5th March 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Norman Longmate
ISBN: 9780712668323
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2002
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2002
Publisher: Vintage
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Although nearly 90% of the population of Great Britain remained civilians throughout the war, or for a large part of it, their story has so far largely gone untold.
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By: Howard Zinn
ISBN: 9781609801328
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2011
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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"Some of the material in this book appears in The Zinn Reader, 2nd ed., Seven Stories Press, 2009"--T.p. verso.
(Paperback)
By: Howard Zinn
ISBN: 9781609801342
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2011
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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(Paperback)
By: Howard Zinn
ISBN: 9781609801335
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2011
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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By: Sir Alistair Horne
ISBN: 9781780222219
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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Six battles that changed the course of the twentieth century, and the one trait that links them all: hubris.
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By: Ian Mortimer
ISBN: 9780099593386
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2015
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Sweeping through the last thousand years of human development, this book is a treasure chest of the lunar leaps and lightbulb moments that, for better or worse, have sent humanity swerving down a path that no one could ever have predicted.
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By: Renay Richardson
ISBN: 9781800816220
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
UK Publication Date: 5th June 2025
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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This is the history you're not taught in school: discover how the slave trade made modern Britain
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By: Nick Lloyd
ISBN: 9780241953815
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2015
UK Publication Date: 6th November 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Explores the brutal, heroic and extraordinary final days of the First World War. In this study, the author examines the last days of the war and asks the question: how did it end Beginning at the heralded turning-point on the Marne in July 1918, it traces the story of the next four months, which included some of the bloodiest battles of the war.
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By: Jonathan Sumption
ISBN: 9780571207374
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2005
UK Publication Date: 22nd October 2001
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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In the second volume of his celebrated history of the Hundred Years War, Jonathan Sumption examines the middle years of the fourteenth century and the succession of crises that threatened French affairs of state, including defeat at Poitiers and the capture of the king.
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By: Jonathan Sumption
ISBN: 9780571240128
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
UK Publication Date: 4th October 2012
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The epic and acclaimed history series reaches its third volume in paperback.
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By: Pter Mujzer
ISBN: 9781472845658
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 22nd July 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This fully illustrated study assesses the Hungarian and Soviet forces that clashed repeatedly in 1941 during the Barbarossa campaign of World War II.
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By: Dr Murray Dahm
ISBN: 9781472852083
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 15th September 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Roman and Hunnic fighting men are assessed and compared in this fully illustrated study of Attila's bid to conquer Europe in the 5th century AD.
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By: Iain Ballantyne
ISBN: 9781409139010
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
UK Publication Date: 21st August 2014
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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HUNTER KILLER: a submarine designed to pursue and attack enemy submarines and surface ships using torpedoes.
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By: Guy Walters
ISBN: 9780553819397
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
UK Publication Date: 27th May 2010
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice.
Guy Walters has travelled the world in pursuit of the real account of how the Nazis escaped at the end of the war, the attempts, sometimes successful, to bring them to justice, and what really happened to those that got away.
(Hardback)
By: Lis Wiehl
ISBN: 9780718092122
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2020
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers
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The spellbinding account of the most complex and captivating manhunt in American history.
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By: Martin Pugh
ISBN: 9781844130870
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2006
UK Publication Date: 30th March 2006
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Britain is celebrated for having avoided the extremism, political violence and instability that blighted many European countries between the two world wars.
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By: Tony Williams
ISBN: 9781402221231
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2009
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc
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By: Jacky Hyams
ISBN: 9781789296846
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2024
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
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The history of the remarkable fighter aircraft, the workhorse of the RAF, which valiantly defended the skies above Britain. With documents, letters and first-hand accounts from those who designed, built and flew it.
