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In 1841, the Royal Institution of South Wales founded the first museum in Wales. Specialist authors describe its formation as a learned society, and its survival into the twenty-first century. Lavishly illustrated throughout, the book reveals the varied and comprehensive collections within Swansea museum.

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In June 1410 an army of Poles, Lithuanians, Russians, Tartars and Cossacks invaded the territory of the Teutonic Knights. When the armies clashed at the Battle of Tannenberg it resulted in a defeat for the order from which it would never recover.

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This work shows that Tewkesbury led to the execution of many of the key Lancastrian leaders, the capture of Queen Margaret and the death of Henry VI in the Tower of London. King Edward IV's decisive Yorkist victory virtually extinguished the Lancastrian cause.

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The history of the British home in the 1940s is dominated by the Second World War. In the first five years of the decade homes were adapted to better survive the affects of bombing. The 1930s home became the wartime home with the addition of anti-blast tape to the windows, sandbags round the door, and a Morrison shelter in the kitchen.

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Argues that the American, French, and Polish revolutions - and the movements for political change in Britain, Ireland, Holland, and elsewhere - were manifestations of similar political ideas, needs, and conflicts.

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The Anglo-Irish War has often been referred to as the war 'the English have struggled to forget and the Irish cannot help but remember'. Examining such historic events as the Easter Rising and the infamous Bloody Sunday, this title explores the conflict and the years that preceded it.

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Deals solely with the Germany's Atlantic Wall on the French coast, starting with the Pas-de-Calais and extending down to Spain. This book also features detailed illustrations and diagrams of the various sections of the Wall and the role that they played, giving a thoughtful analysis of some of the most accessible fortifications of World War II.

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The definitive work on Eastern Europe's revolutionary period and the unique working-class experiment of Red Vienna

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This volume is a detailed study of the army of Germany's most important ally in World War I during the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph I. It is illustrated woth rare photographs and uniform details.

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The Austro-Hungarian forces were of central importance in World War I - it was Austria's crisis in the Balkans that began the war. This work is a study of Germany's important ally in World War I during the period of the Emperor Karl I.

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The history of an exclusive and knowledgeable Gaelic medical family who served several centuries of Scottish noble families.

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Originally published by Harcourt in 1973, this book argues that the escape and survival of Nazi war criminals was the result of a plan by Martin Bormann to create a brotherhood that would survive the war and evade justice through a complex series of safe houses spread throughout the world.

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A fascinating reappraisal of Britains `oldest ally, the House of Braganza.

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An illustrated history of Palestine from 1850 to 1948, drawing heavily on vivid oral accounts and using photographs of the period never previously published.

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A study of the men who fought in the Burma Campaign against the Japanese, and saw some of the hardest battles of World War II - the Chindit campaign, Imphal and Kohima. It shows how, by 1945, experience was giving rise to some of the most modern tropical uniforms and equipment in the world.

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This volume covers the years of the "big pushes": the costly mistakes of the Somme in 1916, and Third Ypres - the infamous Passchendaele battle - in 1917. The author goes on to describe the successful defensive fighting against the great German offensive of spring 1918.