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On 19 November 1838 James Bell, then aged 21, set out in the sailing vessel the Planter from St Katharine Docks in London to travel ...
The man, and the only man we have for this hour.' Indefatigable patriot, seasoned soldier, incomparable orator and leader of men - Winston Churchill's greatness ...
The British empire is long gone. Conventional wisdom has decreed it was A Bad Thing and that there's no more to be said. Darkest ...
The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of the USA. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize winners ...
Books and bodies, women and books, and the malleable word and flesh lie thematically at the center of The Gendered Palimpsest, which explores the roles ...
The second part of Hugh Thomas' magisterial history of the Spanish Empire
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Working simultaneously on two levels, Saladin represents the best kind of biography--a portrait of a man who is said to have made an age, and ...
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Italian military historian Pier Paolo Battistelli examines the elite and specialforces units of the Italian Army during World War II. This includes a vast array ...
The Dirlewanger Brigade was an anti-partisan unit of the Nazi army, reporting directly to Heinrich Himmler. The first members of the brigade were mostly poachers ...
In March 1896 a well-disciplined and massive Ethiopian army did the unthinkable--it routed an invading Italian force and brought Italy's war of conquest in ...
It is remembered in the Netherlands as "the sweetest of springs," the one that saw the country's liberation from German occupation. But for the ...
Specifically created for foreign nationals wishing to serve in the French Armed Forces, the world famous French Foreign Legion is known as an elite military ...
Just over a thousand years ago, the Song dynasty emerged as the most advanced civilization on earth. Within two centuries, China was home to nearly ...
