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The distinguished historian John Lukacs has been described as "one of the most powerful as well as one of the most learned minds [of the ...
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This text aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to ancient magic. It gives direct access to the sources but selects the important, characteristic examples. Ancient ...
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Originally the German assault gun was designed as an infantry support weapon, but the changing conditions of the battlefields of the Second World War forced ...
The B-24 Liberator was built in greater numbers than any other US warplane, yet its combat crews live, even today, in the shadow of the ...
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Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and 1779. In voyages that ranged from the Antarctic circle to ...
The eagerly-awaited paperback of an incredible work of history, social injustice and survival.
'...a grandly conceived and prodigiously researched homage to his Irish forebears' The ...
Flexibility, mobility, and the ability to effectively communicate were all key requirements that the units operating armoured cars and reconnaissance half-tracks demanded - and that were ...
In the Spring of 1974, 2nd Lt. Hiroo Onoda of the Japanese army made world headlines when he emerged from the Philippine jungle after a ...
Filip Muller came to Auschwitz with one of the earliest transports from Slovakia in April 1942 and began working in the gassing installations and crematoria ...
A searing portrait of Palestinian life and identity that is at once an exploration of Edward Said's unclaimable past and a testimony to the ...
