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The English Civil War is a subject of perennial interest. This book presents the 'essentials' of the conflict in the form of a readable chronological narrative, beginning with the causes of the war and ending with the execution of King Charles I....

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Helps to discover the history of one of the most colourful and dramatic episodes of the Civil War.

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Russia today has challenged Saudi Arabia for the lead in oil production and exportation. This book explains how Stalin at the end of World War II demanded his petro-geologists "dig deeper" when petro-scientists in the United States had determined that the Soviet Union, like Germany, lacked national oil reserves.

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Russia today has challenged Saudi Arabia for the lead in oil production and exportation. This book explains how Stalin at the end of World War II demanded his petro-geologists "dig deeper" when petro-scientists in the United States had determined that the Soviet Union, like Germany, lacked national oil reserves.

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Brimming full of riveting characters, The King of Nazi Paris is a compelling true story.

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They wore the best clothes, ate at the best restaurants and did whatever they pleased. They lived on the exclusive Rue Lauriston, where they mixed with celebrities and Nazi officers, while down in the cellar of their building, the rest of the gang tortured resistance prisoners.

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On 13 October 1939, HMS Royal Oak, one of the British navy's top battleships, was destroyed at the Royal Navy's main anchorage at Scapa Flow, Orkney. The audacious attack, by a German U-boat, was the first major blow against Britain of the Second World War. Over 800 lives were lost, including sailors as young as 14.

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The first part of a major trilogy exploring the life Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose towering importance to the war is overlooked because of his early death.

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Fascinating. . . . The Tusas book is one of the best accounts I have read. The New York...

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Cumming, who had a wooden leg and tested the character of his young recruits by plunging a paper knife into it, sent Landau to Rotterdam, from where all the British spy networks in Belgium, France and Germany itself were run. Landau's main task was to run La Dame Blanche

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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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Food is fundamental to soldiers morale and performance and yet to date it has received little attention from historians, who have reiterated army statistics without an investigation of their veracity. . Extensively researched with a wide range of sources so that theoretical concepts are illuminated with the mens own accounts of lived experience.

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The Unkown Courier tells the true story of the events that inspired Ben MacIntyre's bestselling Operation Mincemeat. When British Intelligence mislead German High Command by planting a corpse with false top secret plans, it achieved one of the greatest wartime deceptions in history and changed the course of World War Two.

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The classic Old West narrative of the chase, trial, capture, and execution of outlaw Henry Plummer and his road agent band. In the gold rush-era of Virginia City, Montana, crime was afoot and justice shaky.

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The Korean War of 1950-1953 ended in a frustrating stalemate, the echoes of which reverberate to this day. It was the only conflict of the Cold War in which forces of major nations of the two opposing systems - capitalism and communism - confronted each other on the battlefield. And yet, in the sixty years since it was fought it has...

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A rare collection of posters from the World War I era created in 1916 and 1917

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Drawing on many moving first-hand accounts including those of celebrated poets Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves These Englishmen Who Died for France dives into a detailed, exhilarating, harrowing account of the experiences of British soldiers as they unfolded on the front that day in July.

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