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Pocket Essentials: A Short History of India

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How To Win a Roman Chariot Race

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Madeira: Women, History, Books and Places

The history of Madeira's women and the writing of women travellers about the island are less well known than they should be. This livret combines

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Corporal Eric Gunton of the Royal Engineers, landed on Gold Beach on 8 June 1944, carrying his camera into the aftermath of battle. His photographs,

Lucifer Rising British Intelligence and the Occult in the Second World War

Summer 1940. In the desperate fight against Nazi Germany, nothing is considered too outlandish, so the British secret services turn to figures from the occult

1919 - a Land Fit for Heroes

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A Brief History of The British Army

The story of the British Army has many sides to it, being a tale of heroic successes and tragic failures, of dogged determination and drunken

Establishment and Meritocracy

Like so many of the postwar generation in Britain, Peter Hennessy climbed the ladders of opportunity set up by the 1944 Education Act designed to

Facts, Legends & Mysteries: Pyramids of Giza

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Reader's Digest and The Royals : A Jubilee Celebration of the British Royal Family

The Reader’s Digest Magazine has a long and close association with the Royal Family. This book, reproduced from the magazine archives, features the best of

Full Steam Ahead

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Trump on Trump

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On May 7, 1915, the Lusitania, a large British luxury liner, was sunk by a German submarine off the Irish coast. Nearly 1,200 people, including

A Soldier's Song

An utterly compelling and much needed reminder of what war is really all about. In 1982 Private Ken Lukowiak served with 2 Para in the

American Bible-Whose America Is This?

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FIRST WORLD WAR TRENCHES

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Mary Ball Washington

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First World War at Sea: 5 Minute History

How much can you really find out about the War at Sea during the First World War in five minutes? This handy little history book

First World War Leaders and Commanders

One of the greatest myths of World War I is that it was a case of 'lions led by donkeys,' yet there were many strong

Wolves in Sheep's Clothing

Forget the neoconservatives. The biggest threat to Western democracy is the US liberal elite.

They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children

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FIRST WORLD WAR WEAPONS

How much can you really find out about the Weapons of the First World War in five minutes? This handy little history book will surpass

FIRST WORLD WAR GREAT BATTLES

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To Win a War

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Great British Men and Women

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Putin: A Man's Manual of Manliness

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Tommies The British Army in the Trenches

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Little Book of Trumpisms

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To Win A War, 1918 The Year of Victory

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The introduction describes the context in which these texts were written, identifies various politicians, academics, and collectors, and elucidates topics of particular ...

The Power of Judges

The role of the Supreme Court has often been considered out of reach and incomprehensible to the vast majority of the public, while judges might

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The Stuart era encompasses the whole of the seventeenth century and beyond, with seven monarchs and a civil war that changed Britain forever. It was

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Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence

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GANGS

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Testament of War

Testament of War compares the English-language poetry and fiction of the First World War with that written in German, French, Italian and - to a

Crimes of the Century: Home Front Killers

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Hugh Dulley's father (Peter Dulley) and mother (Therese Sander) met in Hong Kong on New Year's Eve 1935. Four years later at the outbreak of

Slave of Allah

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Intel Wars

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