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The Lovecraftian Poe: Essays on Influence, Reception, Interpretation, and TransformationH.P. Lovecraft, one of the twentieth century's most important writers in the genre of horror fiction, famously referred to Edgar Allan Poe as both his "model" and his "God of Fiction." While scholars and readers of Poe's and Lovecraft's work have long recognized the...
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Infantrymen of the Air: An Operational History of the Royal Italian Airborne Forces in the Second World War, 1936-1943There is little written modern history about the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army) in the Second World War in the English language. Most readers' knowledge of the actions of the R.E. are in works that focus on the Allied side of the conflict and...
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Faces of Old Key West 1918: what island life was really like a century agoKey West was a very different place before it became the famous resort town it is today. This book provides a peek-hole into what island life was like a century ago through the portraits and personal stories of ordinary and mostly forgotten "Conchs"-what native...
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Hungary 1849: The Summer CampaignThe Hungarian War of Independence was one of the largest European conflicts of the 19th century, lasting a year, encompassing a dozen major battles and many smaller actions and sieges, with half a million men under arms by its end. Yet it remains strangely...
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The Armies and Wars of the Sun King 1643-1715: Volume 5: Buccaneers and Soldiers in the AmericasLouis XIV, France's Sun King, had global Overseas Grand Visions for his nation. In America. His transformation of struggling small Caribbean settlements into an extensive and very prosperous French domain amidst many challenges and battles are mostly unknown. Thanks to research mostly in France's...
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Charles X's Wars: Volume 3 - The Danish Wars, 1657-1660This book describes and analyses the 'Swedish Deluge' (potop szwedski), the devastating 1655-1660 wars fought between Sweden, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Brandenburg- Prussia, Muscovite Russia, Transylvania, Cossack Ukraine, the Tatar Khanate of Crimea, and the Holy Roman Empire during the reign of Swedish King Charles...
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The Anglo-Spanish War 1655-1660: Volume 2 - War in JamaicaIn 1655 Oliver Cromwell, England's Lord Protector, sent a fleet to attack and seize Spanish possessions in South America. After initial failure on Hispaniola, the English occupied Jamaica and in so doing started a five year war with Spain in the West Indies, but...
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The Colonial Ironsides: English Expeditions Under the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1650 - 1660The Colonial Ironsides is a comprehensive survey of the role played by Oliver Cromwell's expeditionary forces in subduing Royalist outposts abroad after the conclusion of the Civil Wars in the Three Kingdoms, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, the Scillies, the West Indies...
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French Light Infantry 1784-1815: From the Chasseurs of Louis XVI to Napoleon's Grande ArméeIn 1792 France unleashed a new form of warfare in Europe. Faced with the well-drilled Austrian and Prussian armies, the French introduced the tactic of mass skirmishing by tirailleurs. Soldiers were thrown forwards and told to fight in open order. Moving quickly and making...
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Royal Navy Officers of the Seven Years War: A Biographical Dictionary of Commissioned Officers 1748-1763Royal Navy Officers of the Seven Years War provides detailed reference information on over 2,000 commissioned officers of the Royal Navy: all of those whose career as a commissioned officer included the Seven Years War (1756-1763). In addition, those officers commissioned during and after...
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St. Ruth's Fatal Gamble: The Battle of Aughrim 1691 and the Fall of Jacobite IrelandIn 1685, James, Duke of York, ascended to the thrones of England, Ireland and Scotland. As the first catholic monarch in 150 years many believed that his reign would be short and that he would be succeeded by his eldest daughter Mary, a Protestant,...
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The End of Empire: Napoleon's 1814 CampaignThe End of Empire is a continuation of Nafziger's definitive military studies of the Napoleonic era beginning with the 1812 campaign and progressing through the 1813 campaign. Having suffered a massive reversal of fortunes in Russia Napoleon found himself confronted, in Germany, by the...
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Charles X's Wars: Volume 1 - Armies of the Swedish Deluge, 1655-1660This book describes and analyses the 'Swedish Deluge' (potop szwedski), the devastating 1655-1660 wars fought between Sweden, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Brandenburg-Prussia, Muscovite Russia, Transylvania, Cossack Ukraine, the Tatar Khanate of Crimea, and the Holy Roman Empire during the reign of Swedish King Charles X...
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The Danish Army of the Napoleonic Wars 1801-1815. Organisation, Uniforms & Equipment: Volume 1 - High Command, Line and Light InfantryThis book was written to provide an in-depth study of the Danish and Norwegian armies of the Napoleonic Wars. The goal was to provide a working document which is as accurate as possible, covering the uniforms of these armies, their weapons and their evolution...
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On Gladsmuir Shall the Battle Be!: The Battle of Prestonpans 1745In the summer of 1745, a charismatic (but inexperienced) young Prince sailed to Scotland - determined to wrest the crowns of Great Britain from the head of George II. In a few short weeks, he raised an army large enough to challenge the government's...
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The First British Army, 1624-1628: The Army of the Duke of BuckinghamTrue, the concept of Britain dates back to Roman times, but it was James I that founded Britain in the modern sense. With his accession to the throne in 1603 for the first time Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland were united - with James...
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Neither Believer Nor Infidel: Skepticism and Faith in Melville's Shorter Fiction and PoetryShedding new light on both classic and lesser-known works in the Melville canon with particular attention to the author's literary use of the Bible, Neither Believer Nor Infidel examines the debate between religious skepticism and Christian faith that infused Herman Melville's writings following Moby-Dick....
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The Revolution of '28: Al Smith, American Progressivism, and the Coming of the New DealThe Revolution of '28 explores the career of New York governor and 1928 Democratic presidential nominee Alfred E. Smith. Robert Chiles peers into Smith's work and uncovers a distinctive strain of American progressivism that resonated among urban, ethnic, working-class Americans in the early twentieth...
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The Fight for Local Control: Schools, Suburbs, and American DemocracyThroughout the twentieth century, local control of school districts was one of the most contentious issues in American politics. As state and federal regulation attempted to standardize public schools, conservatives defended local prerogative as a bulwark of democratic values. Yet their commitment to those...
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Nine from AberdeenIn Tunisia with II Corps, Lt. John Randall locates a downed German plane and demolishes two live bombs still mounted on the wreckage... In Italy, Capt. Ronald Felton's team contends with dreaded Butterfly Bombs left behind to menace the US 5th Army... Landing with...
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