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Between 1918 and 1986 the marine branch of the Royal Air Force provided rescue facilities, support and other services to this armed service. In its ...
In the latter years of the fourteenth century a child was born, so unimportant that even his exact date of birth is unknown. Yet before ...
We in the west share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civilization whose citizens shared an entirely different ...
Since 1959 The John Harvard Library has been instrumental in publishing essential American writings in authoritative editions.
Jacob Riis's pioneering work of photojournalism takes ...
An A-Z encyclopedia of the classical myths and great mythical figures of ancient Greece and Italy, this title features over 160 entries describing the central ...
The critically acclaimed biography of Lenin by one of the greatest Russian history experts and bestselling author of Trotsky, Stalin and Comrades.
Lenin is a ...
The German Third Reich had the most technologically advanced and innovative weapons industries in World War II, with aircraft, tanks and bombs that could match ...
Surprisingly early in the Second World War - long before an Allied victory was assured - people began to plan for its aftermath. They were haunted by ...
The political and military history of the sixteenth century is well known, and much written about, but what of the thousands of women who have ...
Few if any 20th century warships were more justly acclaimed than the destroyers of the U.S. Navy's Fletcher class. Admired as they were ...
Les Carlyon's Gallipoli is one of the most successful, and critically acclaimed, works of Australian non-fiction published in the last decade. Carlyon's book ...
The third volume of Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire trilogy, Century of the Wind, offers a panorama of Galeano's singular vision of the ...
The disappearance of Colonel Fawcett in the Matto Grosso remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of today.
In 1925 Fawcett was convinced that he ...
Until very recently, the academic view of the Fall of the Roman Empire has downplayed the violence and destruction, in an attempt to provide a ...