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A first-person narrative account of revolution, terrorism, and war during history's violent return to Lebanon after fifteen years of quiet. Michael J. Totten's version of events in one of the most volatile countries in the world's most volatile region is one part war correspondence, one part memoir, and one part road movie.

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In war and peace, from Empire to Europe, through the rise and fall of industry, the cause of self-government has been endlessly reinvented and remodelled, sometimes surviving more as a poetic fashion rather than as a political campaign.

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A timely analysis of the United States' intimate and pivotal relationship with the Arab world's largest nation over the course of six decades that asks how Egypt's leadership fell from power and what the future is for Egypt.

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The Imperial Army established by Augustus drew on the nomenclature and traditions of the late Roman Republic, but was revolutionary in its design. He decided to meet the military needs of the Empire from a standing, professional army. Military service became a career: enlistment was for 25 years, and men were sometimes retained even longer.

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The image of the Roman legionary is as familiar today as it was to the citizens - and enemies - of the vast Roman Empire. This book examines the Roman Army from the first armed citizens of the early Republic through the glorious heights of the Imperial legions to the shameful defeats inflicted upon the late Roman Army by the Goths and Huns.

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Suitable for historians and students, this title traces the story of Rome from Romulus and the foundations of Rome to the reign of the Emperor Tiberius. It includes an introduction to Velleius' life and times as well as notes on the text, a bibliography, map, glossary of unfamiliar terms, and an index.

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Addresses what the author terms "the Roman dilemma" - the paradoxical notion that while global society depends on a system of rules for building peace and prosperity, this system inevitably leads to domestic clashes, international rivalry, and even wars. This book argues that a rule-based world order eventually subverts and destroys itself.

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Based on the future President's diary from the Spanish-American War, this 1899 memoir abounds in scenes of patriotic valor and pointed observations on McKinley's War Department. It presents a spirited chronicle of the First United States Volunteer Cavalry's bloody battles in Cuba against deeply entrenched Spanish forces.

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This new abridgment of both volumes of Livermore's classic translation presents those selections that comprise Garcilaso's historical narrative. Karen Spalding's new Introduction and notes set Garcilaso in his intellectual, historical, and cultural contexts.

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This new abridgment of both volumes of Livermore's classic translation presents those selections that comprise Garcilaso's historical narrative. Karen Spalding's new Introduction and notes set Garcilaso in his intellectual, historical, and cultural contexts.

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The history, uniforms, weaponry and military practices of the Royal Marines during World War II are described and analyzed in this book. It focuses on their Commando raids against occupied Europe, and their roles in Palestine, Northern Ireland, the Falklands and the Gulf.

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This work takes a look at the Royal Navy during World War II. It covers the organization of the fleet, the duties and conditions of shipboard life, and the uniforms and gear worn in all theatres of war. It also traces the development of the Royal Navy from 1939 to the end of the war.

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This is whimsical, historical tale describing the origins if football, which led to the first football game between Rutgers and Princeton in 1869.
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On its way to selling 10000 copies in Canada, it is essential to understanding Prohibition in the US.

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Offers an account of how race and gender reveal the fissures of capitalist society. This work examines two key social formations - women of color feminism and racialized immigrant women's culture - in order to argue that race and gender are contradictions within the history of US capital that should be understood as marked by its crises.

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This is a study of the lower orders within Welsh rural communities and pays attention to those people who worked and lived off the land of eighteenth century Wales, often amidst poverty and insecurity.

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The Swing Riots were the most dramatic and widespread rising of the English rural poor. Protestors destroyed machines, demanding higher wages and better poor relief. Swing represented a genuine challenge to the existing ruling order, provoking a bitter and bloody repression. This is a vivid account of a defining moment in British history.

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Imperial Russia's massive, if finally fatal contribution to the Allied war effort of 1914-17 involved huge numbers of men and some of the greatest battles of the war. This volume provides illustrated detail on the range of uniforms worn by the troops who played central roles in these events.

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The Russian Civil War is the most important civil war of the 20th century, changing the lives of over half a billion people and dramatically shaping the geography of Europe, the Far East and Asia.