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How We Fight: Crusades, Quagmires, and the American Way of War

How We Fight: Crusades, Quagmires, and the American Way of War

Dominic Tierney

In HOW WE FIGHT, author and scholar Dominic Tierney investigates the way in which American society views war, identifying specific traditions that take hold of the nation at different moments in...

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Available 02/12/2010

The Last Crusaders: East, West and the Battle for the Centre of the World

The Last Crusaders: East, West and the Battle for the Centre of the World

Barnaby Rogerson

The Last Crusaders is about the titanic contest between Hadsburg-led Christendom and the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the last great conflict between East and West – the...

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Available 04/11/2010

A Disastrous History of the World: Chronicles of war, earthquake, plague and flood

A Disastrous History of the World: Chronicles of war, earthquake, plague and flood

John Withington

Tsunamis, earthquakes, floods, bird flu, international terrorism - the world seems to get more dangerous by the day. Or does it? John Withington's disturbing yet fascinating new book describes the...

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Available 04/11/2010

Because You Died: Poetry and Prose of the First World War and After

Because You Died: Poetry and Prose of the First World War and After

Vera Brittain, edited by Mark Bostridge

This collection of Vera Brittain’s poetry and prose, some of it never published before, commemorates the men she loved - fiancé, brother and two close friends - who served and died in the...

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Available 04/11/2010

The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898

The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898

Evan Thomas

On February 15, 1898, the USS Maine exploded in the Havana Harbor. Although there was no evidence that the Spanish were responsible, newspapers such as Hearst's New York Journal whipped up a...

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Available 07/10/2010

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1789: The Revolutions that Shook the World

1789: The Revolutions that Shook the World

David Andress

In 1789 the world stood at the threshold of the modern age. While the French Revolution and the election of George Washington seemed to herald a new global order, Britain stood shocked at the new...

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The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898

The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898

Evan Thomas

On February 15, 1898, the USS Maine exploded in the Havana Harbor. Although there was no evidence that the Spanish were responsible, newspapers such as Hearst's New York Journal whipped up a...

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Available 07/10/2010

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The Complete War Years: Life in Britain during 1939 to 1945

The Complete War Years: Life in Britain during 1939 to 1945

Janice Anderson

World War II is known as the people's war and for a just reason - young or old, male or female, everyone played a part in what would turn out to be a life changing event for British people.

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Available 23/09/2010

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Thrifty Tips from the War Years

Thrifty Tips from the War Years

Janice Anderson

The British people learned to be thrifty in the two decades before the outbreak of the Second World War ijn 1939. They had been introduced to food rationing towards the end of the First World War...

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The SS: A New History

The SS: A New History

Adrian Weale

The SS is the most historically important institution of Third Reich Germany yet it remains amongst the least well understood. The SS was at the forefront of implementing the most radical and...

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The SS: A New History

The SS: A New History

Adrian Weale

The SS is the most historically important institution of Third Reich Germany yet it remains amongst the least well understood. The SS was at the forefront of implementing the most radical and...

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The Wars of the Roses: England's First Civil War

The Wars of the Roses: England's First Civil War

Trevor Royle

THE WARS OF THE ROSES is the definitive account of one of the bloodiest episodes in British history – wars between the houses of York and Lancaster. Trevor Royle provides a military history of the...

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