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Britain on the Brink: The Cold War's Most Dangerous Weekend, 27-28 October 1962At the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Britain was America's first-line defense, a vulnerable, but unsinkable 'aircraft carrier' on which the United States based the Strategic Air Command's first-strike elements of their America's nuclear deterrent. The Strategic Air Command's UK bases and the...
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The Italian Wars: Volume 1 - The Expedition of Charles VIII Into Italy and the Battle of FornovoOn 6 July 1495 a sudden gunshot came from the right bank of the Taro River in the Gerola Valley, near Fornovo (not far from Parma); shortly afterwards a sky full of clouds unleashed its fury on a wretched battlefield. That gunshot kicked off...
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Fighting at Sea in the Eighteenth Century: The Art of Sailing WarfareNaval warfare is vividly brought to life, from first contact through how battles were won and lost to damage repair. Our understanding of warfare at sea in the eighteenth century has always been divorced from the practical realities of fighting at sea under sail;...
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The Battle of the White Mountain 1620 and the Bohemian Revolt, 1618-1622The Battle of the White Mountain and the Bohemian Revolt, 1618-1622 looks not only at the battle of the White Mountain, but also the campaigns and events leading up to the battle, such as the Bohemian Army's march on Vienna, the sieges of Pilsen...
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The Vikings and the Victorians: Inventing the Old North in Nineteenth-Century BritainThe first book-length treatment of C19 fascination with Norse heroes. This is the first book-length treatment of the Victorians' fascination with the old north. It explores the ways in which the terms 'Viking' and 'Viking Age', both unknown in 1800, were invented, explored and...
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The Meek Cutoff: Tracing the Oregon Trail's Lost Wagon Train of 1845In 1845, an estimated 2,500 emigrants left Independence and St. Joseph, Missouri, for the Willamette Valley in what was soon to become the Oregon Territory. It was general knowledge that the route of the Oregon Trail through the Blue Mountains and down the Columbia...
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Saarbruck to Sedan: The Franco-German War 1870-1871: Volume 1 - Uniforms, Organisation and Weapons of the Armies of the Imperial Phase of the WarThe Franco-German War of 1870-71 saw the demise of one empire, that of Napoleon III and the birth of another, a German empire under the rule of the king of Prussia. Many books have been written on the campaigns and battles of the war,...
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Blood of Noble Men: The Alamo Siege & BattleThe Alamo and its defenders, according to historian Stephen L. Hardin, "transcended mere history; both entered the realm of myth." Indeed, the siege and battle of the Alamo serves today as a definition of American character. The date of March 6, 1836, is forever...
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The Hard Surface Road: A Memoir of the Great DepressionClyde R.Kennedy's extraordinary memory for detail and love of a good yarn make for a vivid depiction of life in Belmont County in southeastern Ohio during the Great Depression. In 1930, with his father broke and out of work, his family abandons their foreclosed...
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The Army of the Swabian League 1525The Swabian League was established as a defensive alliance of princes, prelates, and Imperial cities to maintain the peace within the territory of Southern Germany. In 1525 the League faced an existential threat in the form of an attempt by the exiled Duke Ulrich...
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The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery: The Abridgement of the Definitive Nebraska EditionFollowing orders from President Thomas Jefferson, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out from their wintering camp in Illinois in 1804 to search for a river passage to the Pacific Ocean. This is the riveting account of their journey. In their own words,...
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Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of AbolitionUndoing Slavery excavates cultural, political, medical, and legal history to understand the abolitionist focus on the body on its own terms. Motivated by their conviction that the physical form of the human body was universal and faced with the growing racism of eighteenth- and...
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Avro Shackleton Owners' Workshop Manual - 1949 to 1991 (All Marks): Insights Into the Design, Construction, Operation and Restoration of a Classic PisWith a design lineage that stretches back to the legendary Avro Lancaster and its successor the Avro Lincoln, the Avro Shackleton has a distinguished parentage. The Shackleton first entered service with the RAF in 1951 serving for 40 years.Author: Keith WilsonPublisher: Haynes Publishing UKPublished:...
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North Over South: Northern Nationalism and American Identity in the Antebellum EraIn most studies of nationalism, the United States is curiously ignored or is examined only during its colonial and republican periods. But it was the Civil War, argues Susan-Mary Grant, that truly formed the American nation by unifying the states once and for all,...
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Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIAMexico City was the Casablanca of the Cold War-a hotbed of spies, revolutionaries, and assassins. The CIA's station there was the front line of the United States' fight against international communism, as important for Latin America as Berlin was for Europe. And its undisputed...
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The Cia's Secret War in TibetDefiance against Chinese oppression has been a defining characteristic of Tibetan life for more than four decades, symbolized most visibly by the much revered Dalai Lama. But the story of Tibetan resistance weaves a far richer tapestry than anyone might have imagined. Kenneth Conboy...
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Warplane 12: Sopwith TriplaneAuthor: Nico BraasPublisher: LanastaPublished: 08/01/2022Pages: 44Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9789086162420This title is only available via back order
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The Presidency of Theodore RooseveltFirst published in 1991, The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt has won acclaim as a lucid and thorough narrative of Roosevelt's two terms in the White House. Reviewers praised the depth of Lewis L. Gould's research, his comprehensive coverage of major aspects of Roosevelt's tenure,...
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The President's Words: Speeches and Speechwriting in the Modern White HouseWhen Ronald Reagan invoked "a shining city on a hill" or George H. W. Bush "a thousand points of light," their words were engraved on the public's consciousness as signatures to their personal beliefs and a catalysts for political action. Such iconic phrases in...
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Rooted in DustFontell Littrell's grandmother was a devout Latter-Day Saint. But when Fontell's father turned to bootlegging and poker to support an extended family of ten during the dirty thirties, her grandmother took it in stride. "The Lord works in mysterious ways, his miracles to perform,"...
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