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On the night of the 22 September 1943 Pearl Witherington, a twenty-nine-year-old British secretary and agent of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), was parachuted from ...
Masterly biography of the 'greatest commander of the 20th century' In 2011 the National Army Museum conducted a poll to decide who merited the title ...
The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of ...
Pepper was once worth its weight in gold. Onions have been used to cure everything from sore throats to foot fungus. White bread was once ...
During the chaos of the eurozone crisis, few mainstream commentators have stopped to question the purpose of the European Union itself, and whose interests it ...
This pioneering book brings together for the first time the latest genetic evidence and combines it with archaeology and linguistics to produce a new history ...
For too long the Neanderthals have been seen as dim-witted evolutionary dead-enders who looked and behaved completely differently from us, but in recent years their ...
An exciting introduction to astronomy, the fourth edition of this book uses recent discoveries and stunning photography to inspire non-science majors about the Universe. Written ...
Germany's 30-year colonial episode in Africa, the Pacific, and her enclave in China is a relatively unexplored aspect of the country's history. Under ...
On 26 August 1071 a large Byzantine army under Emperor Romanus IV met the Saljuq Turk forces of Sultan Alp Arslan near the town of ...
One of the most underrated medium bombers of the Second World War, the Martin B-26 Marauder never fully managed to shake off an underserved early ...
The Allies' M10 Tank Destroyer and the Germans' Sturmgeschutz (StuG) lll were the unsung workhorses of the northwest European battlefields of 1944-45. While their mission ...
Going Big by Getting Small examines how the United States Special Operations Forces apply operational art, the link between tactics and strategy, in the non-wartime ...
