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Joyce Marlow presents a collection of women's writing on the Great War drawn from diaries, newspapers, letters and memoirs from across Europe and the States. Starting with material from 1914, she outlines the pre-war campaigns for suffrage and then the demand from women eager to be counted amongst those in action.

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This is the astounding story of HMS Wager, driven ashore in foul weather onto the inhospitable coast of Patagonian Chile in 1741

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Was the tragedy of the Second World War determined by Nazi Germany's terrifying power, or by its fatal weakness This title provides an account of how Hitler established himself in power, mobilized for war - and led his country to annihilation.

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A thrilling narrative history of the oft-overlooked yet hugely influential figures of the Tudor court: the ladies-in-waiting

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An intimate look at Iraq and Afghanistan. The book tells real stories from real people. Nivat reveals the personal experiences of those most closely affected by the wars abroad. Her focus ranges from the top to the bottomfrom war lords to peasants to militant rebels.

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An anthology of personal experience selected and edited by John Winton.

The Second World War produced hundreds of actions and incidents at sea which were packed with drama and suspense, and which evoked the greatest heroism.

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This follow up to Igniting the American Revolution: 1773-1775 is destined to become a vital work of great importance to the collective American conscience.

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The last untold story of the First World War: the fortunes and fates of 170,000 British soldiers captured by the enemy.

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Examines the momentous turning points of 1941-1943: Hitler's invasion of Russia; America's entry into the conflict; the devastating Thousand Bomber Raids over Germany; the long struggle in the deserts of North Africa; and the defeat of the U-boats in the crucial Battle of the Atlantic.

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This is a book about post-conflict irresolution, about the lives of those who survived the gulag of concentration camps in north-western Bosnia and about seeking justice for Bosnia today.

But justice is not Reckoning.

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The incredible true story of the greatest illusionist of modern times and the man who altered the course of the second world war.
Soon to be a major film starring Benedict Cumberbatch

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'The story of the first all-out struggle in Asia between Communism and the West, vividly told in an exciting and engrossing book' Sunday Express

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Drawing together the politics, personalities, battles and diplomacy of this tumultuous era, Robert Harvey brilliantly recreates the story of the greatest conflict that stretches from the first blaze of revolution in Paris in 1789 to final victory on the muddy fields of Waterloo.

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A passionate history of the war on heresy which dominated medieval Europe.

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Hentoff details the most serious rights rollbacks in American history, and heralds the gathering of a new, nationwide resistance.

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The magnificent, bestselling companion volume to the 2007 PBS series: the American experience of World War II told through a brilliant weave of story and picture.

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The riveting story of the Shawnee brothers who led the last great pan-Indian confederacy against the United States, by the award-winning author of The Earth is Weeping.

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This San Francisco Chronicle and Washington Post Best Book of the Year is "the most authoritative account yet of Afghanistan's wars over the past 30 years and should be essential reading for those wishing to forge a way forward without repeating the mistakes of the past." -Washington Post

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* The first major single history of the Wars of the Roses for decades, written by renowned popular and military historian, Trevor Royle, out now in paperback

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In 1879, armed only with their spears, their rawhide shields, and their incredible courage, the Zulus challenged the might of Victorian England and, initially, inflicted on the British the worst defeat a modern army has ever suffered at the hands of men without guns.