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The Unkown Courier tells the true story of the events that inspired Ben MacIntyre's bestselling Operation Mincemeat. When British Intelligence mislead German High Command by planting a corpse with false top secret plans, it achieved one of the greatest wartime deceptions in history and changed the course of World War Two.

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The classic Old West narrative of the chase, trial, capture, and execution of outlaw Henry Plummer and his road agent band. In the gold rush-era of Virginia City, Montana, crime was afoot and justice shaky.

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This book challenges traditional assumptions about the nature of Viking settlement in the Inner Hebrides and will be of interest to researchers, students and amateur historians of Place-Name Studies, Viking Studies, Scottish Medieval History, Scottish Studies and Scandinavian Cultural History.

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This text explains and assesses the achievements of the Wales TUC: the rundown of the coal and steel industries, the decline in manufacturing jobs, the growth of white-collar employment and unions, the Thatcher and Major years of high unemployment and industrial law reform, and the increasing numbers of low-paid part-time workers.

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The War of the Revolution is a solid chunk of scholarship, likely toendure as a classical work on its subject. Time...

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The Korean War of 1950-1953 ended in a frustrating stalemate, the echoes of which reverberate to this day. It was the only conflict of the Cold War in which forces of major nations of the two opposing systems - capitalism and communism - confronted each other on the battlefield. And yet, in the sixty years since it was fought it has...

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A fully-outfitted edition of Prokopios' late Antique masterpiece of military history and ethnography - for the last 21st century reader.

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A history of the island of Gigha

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The Weimar Century reveals the origins of two dramatic events: Germany's post-World War II transformation from a racist dictatorship to a liberal democracy, and the ideological genesis of the Cold War. Blending intellectual, political, and international histories, Udi Greenberg shows that the foundations of Germany's reconstruction lay in the count

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Presents the history of the little known Welsh immigrant communities in the American Midwestern state of Iowa. This book identifies what made the Welsh unique as immigrants to North America, and as migrants and settlers in a land built on such groups.

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The Welsh language is the oldest living European language. This volume surveys the social history of the language in modern times. Its political status is considered, together with the use of Welsh in the courts, and in religion, education and scholarship. The promotion of Welsh is also discussed.

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Methodism has been highly influential in Wales and in the wider world. This volume helps explain its appeal and influence by exploring the background and experiences of early members in south-west Wales, and what drew them to the movement.

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This comprehensive book-and-CD set brings together presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Reagan in one collection. Complete transcripts and enhanced audio of secretly taped Oval Office conversations offer the chance to listen and read along to the most pivotal events in modern US history.

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A rare collection of posters from the World War I era created in 1916 and 1917

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Defeated politically and running out of money after a ranch deal gone bad, Theodore Roosevelt began writing his epic history of the conquest of the American West in 1888.