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This book explains how the Battle of Antietam-a conflict that changed nothing militarily-still played a pivotal role in the Civil War by affording Abraham Lincoln an opportunity to announce the emancipation of slaves in states in rebellion.

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The former Secretary of Defense, and leading scholars from the U.S. and Vietnam, offer a groundbreaking new study of exactly how the Vietnam War happened-- and why it could not be stopped before three million people died.

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Hitler, furious at the loss of the German fleet's flagship, demanded that the Ark Royal be destroyed at whatever cost.

HMS Ark Royal is one of the Royal Navy's most iconic ships.

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A traveller's guide to the Australian battlefields and cemeteries in Vietnam written for people actually holidaying in Vietnam as well as the wannabes who think they might go to Vietnam.

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Includes an excerpt from The liberator by Alex Kershaw.

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The dramatic story of the men who fought a new and terrifying kind of war amidst the carnage of the trenches in World War I: the British pioneer volunteers who were the first tank-men into battle.

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In Battle at Sea, Sir John Keegan applies to maritime warfare the technique that he put to such brilliant effect in his classic of war on land, The Face of Battle. He takes us into the very heart of the fighting while providing a remarkable panoramic view of naval warfare through the centuries.

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Countering the powerful myth that the civil war in Russia was largely between the "Whites" and the "Reds," Vladimir Brovkin views the struggle as a multifaceted social and political process. Brovkin focuses not so much on armies and governments as on the interaction of state institutions, political parties, and social movements on both Red and Whit

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Presents the story of West Belfast's involvement fighting on the Western Front in the WW II. This book tells the story of the volunteers of the 36th and 16th divisions who fought on the Somme and side-by-side at Messines. It brings in Belfast men from throughout the armed forces, from the retreat at Mons to the defeat of Germany and life post-war.

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This book studies Crimean War nursing from a transnational perspective setting nursing in the five combatant armies into the wider context of European statecraft. -- .

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Noted historians Bercuson and Herwig have uncovered much new information on the Bismarck, including a close examination of classified British and United States diplomatic files, only recently opened, revealing secret diplomatic manoeuvrings between Churchill and Roosevelt.

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Promoted as a means for rectifying the problems of a region in extreme need, the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission (AACC) only exposed and exacerbated the underlying antagonisms between Britain and the United States over the economic and political structure of the post-war world.

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* A major new work on the notorious First World War battle, the first to argue in significant detail for a complete overhaul of the way we think about the Somme

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'Afghanistan is just like Iraq hot, dusty and full of people who want to kill you', SSgt Simon Fuller, Royal Engineer Search Advisor

Bomb Hunters tells the story of the British army's elite bomb disposal experts, men who face death every day in the most dangerous region of the most lethal country on earth Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

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Aims to treat bombing during WWII as a European phenomenon and not just the 'Blitz' on Britain and Germany. This book provides the basis for a comparison of the experience of western states under the impact of bombing. It considers the political, cultural, and social responses to bombing rather than the military, strategic, and social dimensions.

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