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Most works on the Seven Years War concentrate on major battles or a single theatre. Light Troops examines the small unit actions of the conflict in Europe and North America and in doing so adds a new dimension to our understanding of this conflict.

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Between 8 and 12 December of 1962, world attention focused on a surprise rebel uprising that sprang up in northern Borneo, where hostages were taken and threatened with execution. The small river town of Limbang, administrative centre of the Fifth Division of the British Crown colony of Sarawak.

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Introduces the memorial built to honor the 16th president of the United States.

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This book gives an overview of the French conquest of Morocco between 1900 and 1926. Whilst providing a general outline of the conquest of Morocco the book concentrates on the use of forts and other fortifications built by the French Foreign Legion to secure the territory gained and pacify the areas of operation.

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As Europe prepared for war, the Stoatley Rough School began to shelter hundreds of traumatized Jewish children fleeing (usually alone) from Nazi persecution. Based on dozens of original interviews, this title tells their stories and the stories of the teachers and benefactors who created this refuge in a country house on al hillside in Surrey.

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An overview of what life was like in London when Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale and Charles Dickens were young.

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Living on Shaky Ground investigates our turbulent tectonics. It tells us how earthquakes are measured and described, and how scientists predict future shakes. Now fully updated and revised, including the 2016 magnitude 7.8 Kaikoura quake and a new coda from the author.

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Summarises the conduct of the three distinct phases of the Vietnam war over thirty years.

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Highlights the importance of logistics in determining the outcome of the campaigns of WW2

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An account of life below the margins in the greatest Metropolis in the world and a portrait of the habits, tastes, amusements, appearance, speech, humour, earnings and opinions of the labouring poor at the time of the Great Exhibition.

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Between 1945 and 1970, America replaced Britain as the dominant power in the Middle East in an extraordinary role reversal. Lords of the Deserttells this story.

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The Making of Contemporary Africa provides a reinterpretation of the events in sub-Saharan Africa since the eighteenth century. It also serves as an introduction to the history of modern Africa, incorporating in the text a critical appraisal of the best scholarship in recent years.

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"First published in Great Britain in 1991 by Routledge"--Title page verso.

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Follow the conflict of the Second World War from 1939 to 1945 in this unique volume, published in association with Imperial War Museums, London, featuring historical maps and photographs from their archives, and fascinating commentary from an expert historian.

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Maps that Made History takes you on a 1000 year long journey around the world. Every one of the 100 carefully selected maps has influenced the course of history.

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MARCUS AGRIPPA is lucidly written by the author of the acclaimed biographies Eager for Glory and Germanicus. Illustrated with colour plates, figures and high quality maps, Lindsay Powell presents a penetrating new assessment of the life and achievements of the multifaceted man who put service to friend and country before himself.

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The only modern biography of Marcus Furius Camillus available in English.

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This volume in the Greenwood Guides to Biomes of the World: covers the saltwater biomes that exist along coastline, on the continental shelf, and the open sea, examining all aspects that define these biomes:

; Challenges posed by the environment

; Adaptation of the plants and animals to the environment

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The story of Masada has gone down in Israeli and Jewish folklore. It is little known elsewhere and it is time to redress the balance.