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  • The Lighthouse Of Alexandria

    by John Ray ...
    John Ray tells the story of the building of Alexandria dominated by the towering Pharos and explores the technology which underlay its workings. It was only one of the achievements of that city, the New York of the ancient Mediterranean, with its museum and greatlibrary; its slot machines and the health service for Greeks only; the mathematician Eratosthenes calculating the circumference of the ... Read more

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  • Escorial

    The Habsburgs and the Golden Age of Spain

    by John Adamson ...
    A portrait of the rhythms and rituals of the magnificent court of the Spanish Habsburgs during Spain's sixteenth- and seventeenth-century 'Golden Age'.Of all the European courts between the Renaissance and the French Revolution, none exercised a greater influence than the court of the Spanish Habsburgs in the Castilian fastness of El Escorial, northwest of Madrid. Their rule in the Iberian ... Read more

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  • Flashpoint

    A Wargame

    Series series Osprey Wargames

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  • A History of the Irish Guards in the Afghan and Iraq Campaigns 2001–2014

    by Marcus Cowper ...
    The official history of the Irish Guards in the wake of 9/11, including their combat record in the battle for Basra, Iraq in 2003 and counter insurgency operations in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.Irish Guardsmen have been involved in all aspects of the campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq – from in Kabul in 2001, through the invasion of Iraq in 2003 to the eventual withdrawal in 2009, and the ... Read more

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  • The British Home Front Pocket-Book

    by Brian Lavery ...
    In June 1940, following the BEF's scrambled evacuation from Dunkirk, the Second World War was brought home to Britain. As the Luftwaffe initiated their bombing campaigns and the threat of invasion grew daily, civilians were urged to play their part in the war effort, and take responsibility for their own survival. Many pamphlets and leaflets were issued with information and advice on a diverse ... Read more

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  • Operation Steinbock 1944

    The Luftwaffe's disastrous last Blitz over England

    by Mr Chris Goss ...
    Series Book 52 - Air Campaign
    The story of Germany's disastrous last cross-Channel Blitz in early 1944, which left the Luftwaffe devastated and barely able to oppose the D-Day landings.Operation Steinbock was the Luftwaffe's last sustained bomber offensive against the United Kingdom. In this book, renowned World War II historian Simon Trew explains how and why the Luftwaffe's last cross-Channel campaign was such a contrast to ... Read more

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  • The Shortest History of France: From Roman Gaul to Revolution and Cultural Radiance - A Global Story for Our Times (Shortest History)

    by Colin Jones ...
    Series Book 0 - Shortest History
    A richly compact, eye-opening history of the world’s most visited country. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read.France attracts more travelers from around the globe than any other destination, thanks to its unsurpassed cultural and historical riches. Gothic architecture, Louis XIV opulence, revolutionary spirit, café society, haute ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Seven Social Movements That Changed America

    by Linda Gordon ...
    A brilliantly conceived and provocative work from an award-winning historian that examines how seven twentieth-century social movements transformed America.How do social movements arise, wield power, and decline? Renowned scholar Linda Gordon investigates these questions in a groundbreaking work, narrating the stories of many of America’s most influential twentieth-century social movements. ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • Oliver Cromwell

    The brave, bad man of British history

    Oliver Cromwell is one of the most significant figures in British history – and one of the most misinterpreted.In this major new biography, John Morrill argues that Cromwell has been seriously misinterpreted by historians, not least by left-wing thinkers such as Tony Benn, who claim Cromwell as their own and thus misunderstand the nature of Cromwell's political thought, which was in fact a product ... Read more

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  • Oceans of Fate

    Peace and Peril Aboard the Steamship Empress of Asia

    by Dan Black ...
    The remarkable story of how one ship — doomed by war — intersected lives and crossed into history.Completed in 1913 for Canadian Pacific, the Empress of Asia plied the oceans for nearly thirty years. Built for peacetime deep-sea travel, she saw wartime service as an armed merchant cruiser and troopship before Japanese dive bombers destroyed her off Singapore in 1942.Through the Roaring Twenties ... Read more

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  • Sunken Lands

    A Journey Through Flooded Kingdoms and Lost Worlds

    by Gareth E Rees ...
    From Stone Age lands that slipped beneath the English Channel to the rapid inundation of New Orleans, Gareth E. Rees explores stories of flooded places from the past – and those disappearing before our eyes.The places lost to the eternally shifting boundaries between water and land continue to have a powerful emotional resonance today. Their uncertain features emerge to haunt us, briefly, when the ... Read more

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  • The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die: A Graphic Memoir

    by Peter Lantos ...
    Deeply moving - BooktrustA gripping story of love, courage and triumph over evil - The BooksellerCan, and should, be read by an audience of any age. - Jewish NewsSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKSELLER CHILDREN'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024A story of survival, of love between mother and son and of enduring hope in the face of unspeakable hardship. An importan... ... Read more

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  • Soviet Tanks at Kursk 1943

    Series Book 335 - New Vanguard
    Illustrated throughout, this book explains the composition and qualities of the Soviet tank force that fought Germany's mighty Panzers at the biggest tank battle in history.In the summer of 1943, Hitler's army had rebuilt its Panzer forces after defeat at Stalingrad and retreat from the Caucasus. New types, including the Panther, Tiger, and Elefant, at last added technical superiority to the ... Read more

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  • Me 262 Units in Combat

    Series Book 155 - Combat Aircraft
    An illustrated account of the first jet-powered combat aircraft, the Messerschmitt Me 262, and its short but action-packed career during World War 2.Powered by the Jumo 004 jet engine, the Me 262 outclassed anything the Allies had in terms of speed and firepower, offering, as an interceptor, a formidable punch with four 30 mm MK 108 nose-mounted cannon. Such a blend of armament and speed allowed ... Read more

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  • D-Day Fleet 1944, American Sector

    The US Navy's Western Task Force

    Series Book 9 - Fleet
    A fully illustrated study of how the US-led half of the Normandy invasion fleet was composed, commanded, and how it fought, from D-Day until the fall of Cherbourg.The D-Day landings and their aftermath were among the most complex and important naval operations in history. With the target beaches divided into two areas of responsibility – one US-commanded, one British – this armada launched a month ... Read more

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  • Hamburger Hill 1969

    Operation Apache Snow in the A Shau Valley

    Series Book 409 - Campaign
    A highly illustrated, authoritative exploration of Operation Apache Snow, including the infamous Battle of Hamburger Hill (Ap Bia Mountain), one of the most significant and well-known actions in the Vietnam War.Operation Apache Snow was the result of a renewed Free World effort in early 1969 to neutralize the North Vietnamese forces in the A Shau, a 45km-long valley located in the southwestern ... Read more

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  • Spitfire I

    Phoney War and Battle of France

    by Tony Holmes ...
    Series Book 13 - Dogfight
    An illustrated study of the legendary Spitfire and the evolving tactics behind its early defence of Britain's shores.The Spitfire endures as one of the most iconic aircraft of World War II. Nevertheless, its initial skirmishes and battles yielded as many challenges as successes, with German forces soon outpacing pre-war RAF tactics and exploiting the Spitfire's modest endurance to their advantage. ... Read more

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  • World War II Close Air Support Tactics

    Series Book 254 - Elite
    In this illustrated study, an acknowledged expert charts the development of close air support and battlefield air interdiction in theory and practice during World War II.In World War I the use of aircraft to support ground operations was in its infancy, and it was only after the start of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 and the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 that close air support (CAS) and ... Read more

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  • Battle of the Atlantic (1)

    The U-Boat Campaign against Britain 1939–41

    by Mark Stille ...
    Series Book 408 - Campaign
    The first in a series of illustrated books exploring the longest and best-known naval campaign of World War II, focusing on the struggle between Allied naval and air forces and Hitler's U-boats.When fighting broke out in September 1939, neither the British Royal Navy nor the German Kriegsmarine were prepared for another war in the North Atlantic. Having defeated the U-boats in World War I, the ... Read more

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  • The Rest Is Memory: A Novel

    by Lily Tuck ...
    The heartbreaking story of a young Catholic girl transported to Auschwitz becomes a Rashomon-like rondo in the hands of one of our greatest novelists.First glimpsed riding on the back of a boy’s motorcycle, fourteen-year-old Czeslawa comes to life in this mesmerizing novel by Lily Tuck, who imagines her upbringing in a village in southeastern Poland before her world imploded in late 1942. Stripped ... Read more

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  • Der Peloponnesische Krieg

    Das Standardwerk der Kriegsführung und das erste Geschichtswerk der Weltliteratur

    Krieg ist eine Tatsache und ihn zu dokumentieren eine wichtige Aufgabe. Der antike griechische Historiker Thukydides schilderte den Peloponnesischen Krieg, der im 4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. das klassische Zeitalter Athens beendete. Damit überlieferte er das erste Geschichtswerk überhaupt und prägte bis heute die Art und Weise, wie über Kriege nachgedacht wird. Das ist heute leider noch immer geboten, ... Read more

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  • The Other Side of the Iran Contra Affair. If the Jamaicans have Uzi’s. Then they got them from Iran. Who gave the Jamaican Posse’s Uzi’s and Crack-Cocaine to Sell? A Dallas, Texas Story

    The Other Side of the Iran Contra Affair. If the Jamaicans have Uzi's. Then they got them from Iran. Who gave the Jamaican Posse's Uzi's and Crack-Cocaine to Sell? A Dallas, Texas Story is characterizing and looking at factors that led the Jamaican Posse's to Dallas, Texas to distribute crack – cocaine and have possession of semi-automatic guns (e.g., Uzi's). ... Read more

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  • Henry VII (Penguin Monarchs)

    Treason and Trust

    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    Part of the Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers in a collectible formatHenry VII was one of England's unlikeliest monarchs. An exile and outsider with barely a claim to the throne, his victory over Richard III at Bosworth Field seemed to many in 1485 only the latest in the sequence of violent convulsions among England's nobility that would come to be known as ... Read more

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  • حماقت ملتها (Nations' Idiocracy)

    این کتاب تحلیلی است بر مهمترین تصمیماتِ "اشتباه و ویرانگرِ" عامه مردم و ملت ها در طول تاریخLooking at the history of nations and peoples, we come to a remarkable point: the "community of peoples", regardless of gender, nationality, ethnicity, religion, etc., when affected, commits strange, horrible, deadly and destructive folly in have been throughout their history. ... Read more

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