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Addressing a neglected but essential subject, this book focuses on the diaspora of tens of thousands of people between about 700 and 325 BCE, demonstrating the degree to which Greeks were liable to be forced to leave their homes due to political upheaval, oppression, poverty, warfare, or simply a desire to better themselves.

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War and an Irish Town is Eamonn McCann's classic account of growing up Catholic in a Northern Irish ghetto.

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Nigel Hamilton's celebrated trilogy culminates with a story of triumph and tragedy. Just as FDR was proven right by the D-Day landings he had championed, so was he found to be mortally ill in the spring of 1944. He was the architect of a victorious peace that he would not live to witness.

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Neugass, an American ambulance driver in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled his service as a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. This newly discovered journal of his experience on the front lines is being published for the very first time.

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See the American Civil War through the eyes of the Union and Confederate...

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Originally published by Avon Books in 1997.

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An account of the rise and fall of the Dutch Republic, drawn from original-source material and rich in theoretical insights

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Through a series of thematic chapters, this book focuses on the nature of injured and disabled bodies in relation to rehabilitative practices established in Britain during and immediately following the Second World War. -- .

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Learn the unbelievable true history of the great warrior tribes of Mexico. More than thirteen centuries of incredible spellbinding history are detailed in this intriguing study of the rulers and warriors of Mexico.

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This study of the Plains Indians who fought against Custer's 7th Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Big Horn describes and illustrates some of the individual Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors who fought there.

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Reveals the various propaganda campaigns sent out by the US during the Cold War. This title shows all the shady ways in which our government spent billions of dollars dedicated to an exaggerated version of the truth and how President Reagan used this to deceive and lie to the Soviets.

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Defeated and occupied in 1939, Poland had suffered under the Nazi heel for nearly five years. Undaunted, however, the Poles formed an underground army, the Armia Krajowa (Home Army), and waited for a moment of German weakness. That moment seemed to have arrived in July 1944 as the Soviet armies began to advance into eastern Poland.

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World War II affected every aspect of life on the British home front. From food rationing to air-raid shelters to war work, those left at home had to make huge changes in their day-to-day lives as Britain mobilised, economised, and saved in the name of Victory. This title looks at what these changes actually meant for families.

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Before she died in 2015, Colleen McCullough finished her last book - not a novel, but this short, thought-provoking book on water resources and how we use them, along with an affectionate and enlightening portrait of her friend Michael Crouch, the pioneering businessman who built Zip water heaters into a hugely successful Australian company.

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Provides a comprehensive resource for every aspect of the battle. This book details the battle of Quatre Bras where an initial 8,000 Allied troops faced 48,000 men of the French Armee du Nord under Marshal Ney.

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Represents the second instalment of the captivating study of the Waterloo campaign, one of the defining events in European history. This title focuses on the desperate struggle for Ligny, which saw the Prussians pushed back by the French Army after heavy fighting in what was to be Napoleon's battlefield victory.

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Water power has been used for over 2000 years. This book explains the history and development of watermills as working buildings and the importance of the wider appreciation of the built environment and the use of natural sources of power.

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Dower looks at the key moments in the relationship between two national powers focusing on Japanese perceptions of the United States: how the Japanese saw Hiroshima, the American occupation, and the changes in their own lives. The book is a fascinating and probing look at the ways in which the tangled history between the United States and Japan is remembered.