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The Men Will Talk to Me: Ernie O'Malley's Interviews with the Northern DivisionsThe Men Will Talk to Me is a collection of interviews conducted and recorded by famed Irish republican revolutionary Ernie O'Malley during the 1940s and 1950s. The interviews were carried out with survivors of the four Northern Divisions of the IRA, chief among them...
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Markievicz: A Most Outrageous Rebel (Second Edition)Countess Constance Markievicz--one of the most remarkable women in Irish history--was a revolutionary, a socialist, and a feminist, as well as an artist and writer. A natural leader, Markievicz took an active part in the 1916 Rising and was one of the few leaders...
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Royal Navy Motor Gun Boat: 1942-45 (British Power Boat Company) * Insights Into the Design, Construction, Operation and Restoration of MGB 81 - TDuring the Second World War the Royal Navy's flotillas of small, fast and powerfully armed motor gun boats (MGBs) were looked upon as the 'Spitfires of the seas'. Operating from their harbour bases around the south and east coasts of England, RN Coastal Forces...
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The Lyons of Glamis 1350-1750This book revises the standard accounts of the Lyons of Glamis. It describes how the family emerged as an entity in the mid-fourteenth century because of Sir John Lyon's links with a group of prominent crusaders, and how it expanded and progressed over the...
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Controversies in Formative Shi'i Islam: The Ghulat Muslims and Their BeliefsI.B.Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies Among the various Muslim communities that were articulating their doctrinal positions in the early Islamic centuries, one in particular was known derisively as the Ghulat ('extremists'). This was owing to their specific interpretation of Islam,...
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The Seljuks of Anatolia: Court and Society in the Medieval Middle EastUnder Seljuk rule (c. 1081-1308) the formerly Christian Byzantine territories of Anatolia were transformed by the development of Muslim culture, society and politics, and it was then - well before the arrival of the Ottomans - that a Turkish population became firmly established in...
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Drones and Terrorism: Asymmetric Warfare and the Threat to Global SecurityIn warzones, ordinary commercially-available drones are used for extraordinary reconnaissance and information gathering. They can also be used for bombings - a drone carrying an explosive charge is potentially a powerful weapon. At the same time asymmetric warfare has become the norm - with...
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Edvard Munch: The Scream (Foiled Journal)Part of a series of exciting and luxurious Flame Tree Notebooks. Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine art, the covers are printed on foil in five colours, embossed then foil stamped. And they're powerfully practical: a pocket at the back for receipts and scraps,...
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Defendu: Scientific Self-DefenceThe Fairbairn's system was based on his training and knowledge in boxing, wrestling, savate, jujutsu, judo and fights he was involved in during his police work, Fairbairn began to develop his own system of hand to hand combat, initially referring it as "Defendu". It...
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All-In FightingThe author of this concise guide to unarmed combat and self-defence is a legend. W. E. Fairbairn (1885-1960) spent over thirty years in the tough environment of the Riot Squads of China's Shanghai Municipal Police. In order to lower levels of Police mortality at...
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Der Fernsprecher Und Hilfsbuch Fur Die Nachrichtentruppe Und Die Truppennachrichtenverbande: Mit M.-G. 34 ALS L.M-G., Der Machinenpistole 38 Und 40 InTHE TELEPHONE AND AUXILIARY BOOK NEWS FOR THE TROOPS AND THE TROOPS NEWS Associations: WITH M.-G. 34 LM AS-G., THE MACHINE GUN 38 AND 40 OF THE AUTOMOTIVE IND TRAININGAuthor: Hasso Von Wedel, Karl-Albert MuggePublisher: Naval & Military PressPublished: 06/09/2014Pages: 308Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.86lbsSize:...
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Hands Off!: Self-Defence for WomenOriginally published during the Second World War, Major Fairbairn's "Hands Off " shows the emancipated woman how to deal with any "unpleasant" situation which would immeasurably increase their efficiency in the War Effort. The methods of self-defence explained and illustrated were especially selected for...
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Urban Bodies: Communal Health in Late Medieval English Towns and CitiesThe idea of English medieval towns and cities as filthy, muddy and insanitary is here overturned in a pioneering new study. Carole Rawcliffe continues with her mission to clean up the Middle Ages. In earlier work she has already given us scholarly yet sympathetic...
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Stranger Places: Take a Trip to the World's Weirdest Locations!From animal islands filled with deadly snakes to terrifying towns and decaying buildings, these strange and surprising places will blow your mind. Journey to a giant blue hole in Belize that's filled with toxic gases, a Tanzanian lake that runs red, a town so...
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Dino Record Breakers: The Biggest, Fastest and Deadliest Dinos Ever!Dinosaurs once ruled the Earth--and they still rule the record books, because they had to be extreme to survive in prehistoric days! So meet the creatures that have never been equaled, including Edmontonia, the spikiest dinsoaur and Therizinosaurus, a super slasher with killer claws....
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British Military Operations in Aden and Radfan: 100 Years of British Colonial RuleThe book examines the military history of Aden Colony from 1839 including the fractious turn of the century Border Commissions with Turkey and the defeat of British forces near Aden by the Turks in 1915. Great Britain successfully defended the base for the rest...
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Frederick the Great on Warfare: Battlefield Tactics of the Seven Year's War & Military Instruction to the Officers of His Army by Frederick II, King oThe handbook of battle by an 18th century master Frederick the Great was one of the most outstanding figures in European history. He was, in the eighteenth century, the monarch of a German state, Prussia, which had few advantages. His was a comparatively small...
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The Russo-Japanese War at Sea 1904-5: Volume 1-Port Arthur, the Battles of the Yellow Sea and Sea of JapanA special two volume set on the Russian navy at war in the early 20th century Vladimir Semenoff's account of the famous naval Battle of Tsushima is a well known and highly regarded book by an author who experienced the conflict at first hand....
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Forty Years Among the Indians: Experiences of a Mormon Pioneer on the South-West FrontierThe life of an outstanding Mormon pioneer and Westerner As the title of this book suggests its author recalls a long period of his life in the American South- West of the nineteenth century commencing from 1847 when, travelling to take part in the...
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The Magical Sexual Practices of Ancient Egypt: The Alchemy of Night EnchiridionA step-by-step guide to raising kundalini and embodying the dynamic, sexual force, that is the Power of Sekhem. Sex is the most potent force in the universe. A primal power. And sacred sexuality is a gateway to the divine. Something that the ancient Egyptians...
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