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This title looks at the ways people interact because of the sea, navigate their course across it, and live on and around it. The book also considers the characteristics of different seas and oceans and investigates how the sea is conceptualized in cultures around the world.

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An examination of the latest discoveries in the archaeology of Ancient China, including: the early Neolithic painted pottery; the Shang bronzes; the bronze bells of the Marquis Yi of Zeng; the terracotta army of Qin Shi Huangdi; and the lavish tomb of the Marquis of Dai from the Han dynasty.

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This is a study of domestic life during the war, of what people on the home front did to support men at the front, and of how soldiers in trenches organised the routines of feeding, rest, warmth, washing, that ensured their survival. -- .

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There are also the individuals who shaped the history of the Australian Army in the 20th century, as intellectuals, strategists and administrators, who are largely invisible in popular memory. The Shadow Men brings together some of Australia's best military historians to shed light on ten of these men and to bring their achievements and influence into the foreground.

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The Dirlewanger Brigade was an anti-partisan unit of the Nazi army, reporting directly to Heinrich Himmler. Based on the archives from Germany, Poland, and Russia, this book offers a look at one of the darkest chapters of World War II.

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The years of 1895 to 1914 changed Britain's political landscape for ever. In this wide-ranging and sometimes controversial survey, one of our pre-eminent political historians dispels the popular myths that have grown up about this critical period in Britain's story and argues that it set the scene for much that is laudable about our nation today.

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The loss, discovery and reinvention of the worlds earliest civilization, the Sumerians.

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This guide provides the amateur genealogist or family historian with the skills to research the distribution and history of a surname.

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Before Hitler seized power in 1933, Germany had been famous for its sophistication and complexity. So how was it possible for a group of ideological obsessives to re-mould it into a one-party state directed at war and race hate This title explores how Hitler turned Germany from a vibrant democracy into a one-party state.

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Reveals the origins, significance, and consequences of the Thirty Years War (1618-1648), the first great, and catastrophic, pan-European conflict. This book also provides a brief history of the War and a discussion of its causes. It includes maps and a chronology, an index, a select bibliography, and several examples of 17th-century artwork.

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Shows the importance of overland contacts between East and West in the Early Middle Ages and elucidates Tibet's role in the conflict over Central Asia.

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This is the most accessible edition of Art of War ever produced, with the text broken down into digestible individual lessons, unique teaching illustrations to clarify the text, and step-by-step commentary that draws on the full range of recent translations and ancient commentators.

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Exposes the horrifying criminality of United States policy in Indochina during the Vietnam war.

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Includes 'The Vagabond in Virginia' by Robert G. Flippen and 'The Vagabond in New Caledonia' by Willa McDonald.

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An important and stimulating volume surveying changing attitudes towards the Victorians in academia and popular culture in the twentieth century. Essential reading for students of Victorian Studies, Modern History and Cultural Studies. -- .

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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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The Bruces of fourteenth-century Scotland were formidable and enthusiastic warriors. Packed with detail and written with a strong and involving narrative thread, this is the first book to link up the various theatres of war and discuss the effect of the wars of the Bruces outside Scotland.