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Features the lives of people - from German children fathered by black Occupation soldiers to communist activists, from surviving Jews to Turkish 'guest' workers, from young hoodlums to middle-class mothers. This book shows how they experienced and represented the institutions and social forces that shaped their lives and defined the wider culture.

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A volume of essays that examine more than 2,000 years of Italian Jewish history, from ancient Rome to contemporary developments concerning assimilation, literature, and the recent trial of a former SS captain implicated in crimes against humanity.

The essays make clear that the Italian Jews have a unique history in Europe.

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Ali Pasha of Ioannina (1750-1822), the Ottoman-appointed governor of the northern mainland of Greece, was a towering figure in Ottoman, Greek, and European history. Based on an array of literatures, paintings, and musical scores, this is the first English-language critical biography about him in recent decades. K. E. Fleming shows that the British

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This history of Britain since 1945 confronts two themes that have dominated British consciousness during the post-war era: the myth of decline and the pervasiveness of American influence.

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Offers an analysis, which contrasts the myths with the actual history of Europe's transformation between the fourth and ninth centuries - the period of grand migrations that nationalists hold dear.

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For four years, the people of Crete suffered savage punitive reprisals for their heroic resistance to the barbaric Nazi invaders.

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Analyzes the chaos within the Third Reich, Nazi technical prowess versus anti-modernism, German military theory and the chaos of war, "Nazi Commissars," and various aspects of the Holocaust.

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This text introduces readers to the perspectives opened up by the adoption of a truly British approach - one that encompasses on equal terms the histories of Wales, Ireland, Scotland and England - to the history of the "Atlantic Archipelago" from the time of Thomas Cromwell, to the Act of Union.

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This unique compilation on the Eurasian states of the former Soviet Union introduces the little-known, yet strategic heartland of the world.

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Andre Hue was a daredevil. By the age of twenty the Anglo-Frenchman had survived shipwreck and years undercover in France, sabotaging German supply lines. Returning to Britain, he was recruited by SOE to parachute behind enemy lines on 5 June 1944, to unite resistance forces in Brittany and paralyze local German troops during the Allied invasion.

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The Normandy campaign in the summer of 1944 decided the fate of Nazi Germany. This historiographical narrative critically assesses the important literature on the campaign and offers possibly the most comprehensive bibliography on the subject to date.

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This book provides a selection from the abundant source material generated by the Normans and the peoples they conquered. Van Houts takes a wide European perspective on the Normans, assessing and explaining their origin, the Norman expansion and their political and social organisation in the period between c. 900 to c. 1150. -- .

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Examines the development of lordship, peasant status and estate structures in the Northern Danelaw (now Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire), placing the region in its European context and addressing issues concerning the nature of early medieval society.

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A re-evaluation of the Northern Ireland peace process, which offers the fullest account available of the quest to bring an end to Europes longest running modern conflict.

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A re-evaluation of the Northern Ireland peace process, which offers the fullest account available of the quest to bring an end to Europes longest running modern conflict.

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This book investigates the history of responses to, engagements with and memories of the Northern Irish conflict in Britain, exploring the lessons to be learned from post-conflict efforts to 'deal with the past' in Northern Ireland and providing a starting point for wider academic and public debate in Britain on the significance of this history.

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This book investigates the history of responses to, engagements with and memories of the Northern Irish conflict in Britain, exploring the lessons to be learned from post-conflict efforts to 'deal with the past' in Northern Ireland and providing a starting point for wider academic and public debate in Britain on the significance of this history.

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The Oak and Serpent is a comprehensive social, genealogical, philosophical, and theological history of the Silleabhin Clan of Munster.

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Talks about notions of what it is - or perhaps was - to be "English". Such notions are highly relevant as Britain's involvement in the so-called war against terrorism promotes questions about what it means to be "British" in a multi-cultural, multi-faith society.