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Air Power in the Falklands Conflict: An Operational Level Insight Into Air Warfare in the South AtlanticFrom the television footage shown in all its stark reality and the daily coverage and subsequent memoirs, the impression delivered from the air battles in the Falklands Conflict was that of heroic Argentine pilots who relentlessly pressed home their attacks against the British. While,...
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The Battle of Znaim: Napoleon, the Habsburgs and the End of the War of 1809Unique account of a key Napoleonic battle, with detailed maps and an incisive analysis from a former US Army officer.The little known Battle of Znaim (10th-11th July 1809) was the last battle to be fought on the main front of the Franco-Austrian War. Cut...
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The Charge of the Heavy Brigade: Scarlett's 300 in the Crimea'Glory to each and to all, and the charge that they made! Glory to all three hundred, and all the Brigade!'Everyone has heard of the charge of the Light Brigade, a suicidal cavalry attack caused by confused orders which somehow sums up the Crimean...
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The Mosquito in the Usaaf: de Havilland's Wooden Wonder in American ServiceOn 20 April 1941, a group of distinguished Americans headed by the US Ambassador to the United Kingdom, John Winant, and which included Major General Henry 'Hap' Arnold, Chief of the US Army Air Corps, visited the de Havilland Aircraft Company's airfield at Hatfield,...
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The Two Battles of Copenhagen 1801 and 1807: Britain and Denmark in the Napoleonic WarsThe Danish capital of Copenhagen was the site of two major battles during the Napoleonic Wars, but the significance of the fighting there, and the key role the country played in the conflict in northern Europe, has rarely been examined in detail. In this...
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Fighting the French Revolution: The Great Vendée Rising of 1793In 1793 France was facing foreign invasion along its borders and a fierce political war was raging in Paris when a large-scale revolt, centered on the western Department of the Vend e, suddenly erupted, almost bringing the new-born French Republic to its knees.The immediate...
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No Requiem for the Space Age: The Apollo Moon Landings and American CultureDuring the summer of 1969-the summer Americans first walked on the moon-musician and poet Patti Smith recalled strolling down the Coney Island Boardwalk to a refreshment stand, where "pictures of Jesus, President Kennedy, and the astronauts were taped to the wall behind the register."...
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Olympic, Titanic, Britannic: An Illustrated History of the Olympic Class ShipsA pictorial celebration of the world-famous sister ships: the Olympic-class liners A maritime expert tells the story of the sister ships using previously unseen pictures, passenger diaries, and deck plans, illustrating Olympic's successful career; the premature ends of her two unfortunate sisters; and the...
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Battles of the Jacobite Rebellions: Killiecrankie to CullodenMany books have been written about the Jacobite rebellions - the armed attempts made by the Stuarts to regain the British throne between 1689 and 1746 - and in particular about the risings of 1689, 1715, 1719 and 1745. The key battles have been...
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Political, Social and Religious Studies of the Balkans - Volume I - The Suffering of the Serbs in Sarajevo during the Bosnia War (1992-5)Since the end of the Bosnia War in 1995, a tradition was embraced by the West of vilifying the Serbs as the villains, and the Muslims as their victims.This necessitated the military intervention of the U.S. and NATO on the Muslim side, which caused...
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From Gum Wrappers to Richie Rich: The Materiality of Cheap ComicsBetween the 1930s and the invention of the internet, American comics reached readers in a few distinct physical forms: the familiar monthly stapled pamphlet, the newspaper comics section, bubblegum wrappers, and bound books. From Gum Wrappers to Richie Rich: The Materiality of Cheap Comics...
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The National Security Constitution in the Twenty-First CenturyA deeply researched, fully updated edition of The National Security Constitution that explores the growing imbalance of institutional powers in American foreign affairs and national security policy Since the beginning of the American Republic, a package of norms has evolved in the U.S. Constitution...
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Revolt of the Rich: How the Politics of the 1970s Widened America's Class DivideInequality in the United States has reached staggering proportions, with a massive share of wealth held by the very richest. How was such a dramatic shift in favor of a narrow elite possible in a democratic society? David N. Gibbs explores the forces that...
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Imperial Material: National Symbols in the Us Colonial EmpireAn ambitious history of flags, stamps, and currency--and the role they played in US imperialism. In Imperial Material, Alvita Akiboh reveals how US national identity has been created, challenged, and transformed through embodiments of empire found in US territories, from the US dollar bill...
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San Francisco Reds: Communists in the Bay Area, 1919-1958Founded in 1919, the Communist Party (CP) in San Francisco survived an ineffectual early period to become a force in the trade union heyday of the 1930s. Robert Cherny uses the lives and careers of more than fifty members to tell the story of...
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Newshawks in Berlin: The Associated Press and Nazi GermanyAfter the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, the Associated Press (AP) brought news about life under the Third Reich to tens of millions of American readers. The AP was America's most important source for foreign news, but to continue reporting under...
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Nazi ConscienceThe Nazi conscience is not an oxymoron. In fact, the perpetrators of genocide had a powerful sense of right and wrong, based on civic values that exalted the moral righteousness of the ethnic community and denounced outsiders. Claudia Koonz's latest work reveals how racial...
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Under Swiss Protection: Jewish Eyewitness Accounts from Wartime BudapestThis volume retraces Carl Lutz's diplomatic wartime rescue efforts in Budapest, Hungary, through the lens of Jewish eyewitness testimonies. Together with his wife, Gertrud Lutz-Fankhauser, the director of the Palestine Office in Budapest, Moshe Krausz, fellow Swiss citizens Harald Feller, Ernst Vonrufs, Peter Zürcher,...
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The Second World War: An Illustrated HistoryThe Second World War is brought to life with captivating color and detail in this illustrated history from renowned historian James Holland and award-winning artist Keith Burns From the internationally acclaimed historian James Holland comes an enthralling and illuminating account of the key battles...
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We Ain't What We Ought to Be: The Black Freedom Struggle from Emancipation to ObamaIn this exciting revisionist history, Stephen Tuck traces the black freedom struggle in all its diversity, from the first years of freedom during the Civil War to President Obama's inauguration. As it moves from popular culture to high politics, from the Deep South to...
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