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With the Paras in Helmand: A Photographic DiaryCraig Allen, a Paratrooper for 29 years, returned to 2 PARA as a reservist and unofficial photographer for the Battlegroup's dramatic 2008 Tour in Helmand. As both a respected soldier and photographer he had unrivaled access to the fighting and moved from area to...
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The Adventures of Sir Samuel White Baker: Victorian HeroSir Samuel White Baker is one of those larger-than-life heroes only the Victorians could invent. For too long, the British Empire has been denigrated and equated with arrogance at best and racial bigotry at worst. Samuel Baker transcends that. He was an explorer and...
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Ukrainian Bishop, American Church: Constantine Bohachevsky and the Ukrainian Catholic ChurchConstantine Bohachevsky was not a typical bishop. On the eve of his unexpected nomination as bishop to the Ukrainian Catholics in America, in March 1924, the Vatican secretly whisked him from Warsaw to Rome to be ordained. He arrived in America that August to...
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Boeing B-29 Superfortress Manual 1942-60 (All Marks): An Insight Into the Design, Operation, Maintenance and Restoration of the Usa's Giant Long-RangeThe Boeing B-29 Superfortress has carved its name in history as the bomber aircraft that dropped the world's first ever H-bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Flown mainly by the USAAF towards the end of WW2 and later...
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Her Neighbor's Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire Within MarriageAt first glance, Barbara Kalish fit the stereotype of a 1950s wife and mother. Married at eighteen, Barbara lived with her husband and two daughters in a California suburb, where she was president of the Parent-Teacher Association. At a PTA training conference in San...
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Free and Natural: Nudity and the American Cult of the BodyFrom Naked Juice(R) to nude yoga, contemporary society is steeped in language that draws a connection from nudity to nature, wellness, and liberation. This branding promotes a free and natural lifestyle to mostly white and middle-class Americans intent on protecting their own bodies--and those...
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914The National Book Award-winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that was filled with both tragedy and triumph, told by master historian David McCullough. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Truman,...
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The Army of James II, 1685-1688: The Birth of the British ArmyBetween James' accession in February 1685 and flight in December 1688 the British Armies increased four fold (the English, Scots and Irish Armies were still separate institutions and were to remain so until the early 18th Century, in the case of the Scots, and...
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For Orange and the States: The Army of the Dutch Republic, 1713-1772: Part I: InfantryThe Dutch Republic was one of the great European powers during the 17th and 18th Centuries. Generally, the Dutch Republic was considered to have lost that status after the 1713 Peace of Utrecht; however, when the Republic entered the War of Austrian Succession in...
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Building a Century of Progress: The Architecture of Chicago's 1933-34 World's FairFrom the summer of 1933 to the fall of 1934, more than 38 million fairgoers visited a 3-mile stretch along Lake Michigan, home to Chicago's second World's Fair. Millions more experienced the Century of Progress International Exposition through newspaper and magazine articles, newsreels, and...
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The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of HaitiIn The Black Republic, Brandon R. Byrd explores the ambivalent attitudes that African American leaders in the post-Civil War era held toward Haiti, the first and only black republic in the Western Hemisphere. Following emancipation, African American leaders of all kinds--politicians, journalists, ministers, writers,...
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The Life and Travels of Isabella Bird: The Fearless Victorian AdventurerIsabella Bird traveled to the wildest places on earth, but at home in Britain she lay in bed, hardly able to write: 'an invalid at home and a Samson abroad.'In Japan she rode on a 'yezo savage' through foaming floods along unbeaten tracks, and...
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Just Another Square Dance Caller: Authorized Biography of Marshall FlippoMarshall Flippo is the most recognized caller's name in the square dance world internationally. Marshall Doyle Flippo was born September 2, 1927 in Tuscola, Texas to Roy and Gus Flippo. He had two sisters; Helen and Onita. Flip (or Flippo is what we called...
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From Arlington to Appomattox: Robert E. Lee's Civil War, Day by Day, 1861-1865WINNER, 2022, RICHARD HARWELL AWARD, CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE OF ATLANTADouglas S. Freeman's Pulitzer Prize-winning four-volume study on Robert E. Lee remains the most thorough history of the man. After spending so many years with his subject, Freeman claimed he knew where Lee was...
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The Origins of Satellite Communications, 1945-1965Conventional assumptions hold that U.S. government research and development efforts produced the satellite communications industry. David J. Whalen has looked deeply into the history of the industry and presents remarkable new information to tell a much different story. He finds that most of the...
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The Hall of Mirrors: War and Warfare in the Twentieth CenturyThe 20th Century was hugely violent. It was possibly the most violent century in history. It is a clearly defined period in the past. A huge amount has been written about war, and warfare, in that period. So, what can we learn from war,...
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Charles XI's War: The Scanian War Between Sweden and Denmark, 1675-1679The book describes and analyses the Scanian War, which was fought from 1675 to 1679 between, on one side, primarily Brandenburg and Denmark-Norway and, on the other, SE - Sweden. The war was mainly fought in Scania, the former Danish lands along the border...
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A Walk Against the Stream: A Rhodesian National Service Officer's Story of the Bush WarA Walk Against The Stream takes a look at the experiences of a young national service officer in the Rhodesian army. This is a true story, encompassing all eighteen months the author spent at Victoria Falls, Rhodesia, facing enemy territory just across the Zambezi...
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The Battle of Quiberon Bay, 1759: Hawke and the Defeat of the French InvasionRevered naval theorist, Alfred Thayer Mahan, thought the Battle of Quiberon Bay (20 Nov 1759) was as significant as Nelson's victory in 1805, calling it 'the Trafalgar of this war the Seven Years War]'. Arguably it was even more vital. Britain in 1759 was...
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Cromwell's Masterstroke: The Battle of Dunbar 1650The victory at Dunbar of Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army over the Scots under David Leslie merits a major place in the long succession of Anglo-Scottish battles. The Scots had brought Cromwell's invading army to its knees, but Cromwell took the offensive and, in...
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