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  • Exporting British Policing During the Second World War

    Policing Soldiers and Civilians

    by Prof. Clive Emsley ...
    Exporting British Policing is a comprehensive study of British military policing in liberated Europe during the Second World War. Preventing and detecting thefts, receiving and profiteering together with the maintenance of order in its broadest sense are, in the peacetime world, generally confided to the police. However, the Second World War witnessed the use of civilian police to create a ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

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  • World War One A Brief History For Beginners

    by Kevin Arnett ...
    Learn the history of World War I in an easy afternoon read.World War One, or the “Great War” as it was called at the time, was the devastating consequence of a Serbian revolutionary group’s 1914 murder of a royal couple of the Austro-Hungarian empire.When the war ended four years later, 9 million soldiers and 5 million civilians were dead, and 7 million soldiers were disabled. Billions of dollars ... Read more

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  • The Jews of Spain and Portugal and the Inquisition

    by Frederic David Mocatta ...
    This book was originally composed as a lecture to some Jewish working-men at the East end of London. The subject was, to the author, naturally an interesting one no less from a national than from a family point of view. The position of the Jews in Spain and Portugal during a great part of the middle ages forms an exceptionally bright spot in their dark and chequered history, and developed some ... Read more

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  • Warships of the Anglo-Dutch Wars 1652–74

    by Angus Konstam ...
    Series Book 183 - New Vanguard
    Three times during the 17th century, England and Holland went to war as part of an ongoing struggle for economic and naval supremacy.Primarily fought in the cold waters of the North Sea and the English Channel, the wars proved revolutionary in their impact upon warship design, armament, and naval tactics. During this time, the warship evolved into the true ship-of-the-line that would dominate ... Read more

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  • Leviathan and the Air-Pump

    Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life

    by Steven Shapin, Simon Schaffer ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thinkers: Thomas Hobbes, author of the political treatise Leviathan and vehement critic of systematic experimentation in natural philosophy, and Robert Boyle, mechanical philosopher and owner of the newly invented air-pump. The issues at stake in their ... Read more

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  • Against the Tide

    The widely acclaimed autobiography of Irish politician and doctor Noël Browne

    by Noël Browne ...
    'Against the Tide' is a story told with honesty and great emotion; the narrative of a life in which tragedy and good fortune succeeded each other with bewildering speed. After training as a doctor, Noël Browne experienced at first hand the devastating ravages of tuberculosis both personally and professionally. Drawn to politics, he was appointed Minister for Health on his first day in the Dáil at ... Read more

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  • Charlemagne

    by Derek Wilson ...
    An incisive and absorbing biography of the legendary emperor who bridged ancient and modern Europe and singlehandedly altered the course of Western history.Charlemagne was an extraordinary figure: an ingenious military strategist, a wise but ruthless leader, a cunning politician, and a devout believer who ensured the survival of Christianity in the West. He also believed himself above the rules of ... Read more

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  • Letters from the Front

    by Dorothy Gilding ...
    “There were dead men everywhere, and a good number of our cavalry. We passed Fritz artillery with dead horses attached to their limbers. I come across a wounded Fritz. He was just a young boy and our tanks had run over him. A crew of five had a gun mounted in a shell-hole and the tank had flattened it into the ground, killing the rest. He had both his legs broken and had a very pitiful look. I ... Read more

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  • Ten Decisions

    Canada’s Best, Worst, and Most Far-Reaching Decisions of the Second World War

    by Larry D. Rose ...
    In the chaos of the Second World War, Canada faced cruel choices, both on the battlefield and in the world of politics. Of all these life-and-death choices, ten stand above the others in their importance, their agonizing stakes, and the impact they have on the country to this day. ... Read more

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  • The Battle of the Somme

    by Dr Jonathan Krause ...
    The Battle of the Somme is the most famous battle of World War I in the English-speaking world.Published to coincide with the centenary commemoration of the battle of the Somme, this study comprises 12 separate articles written by some of the foremost military historians, each of whom looks at a specific aspect of the battle.The terrors of the Somme have largely come to embody trench warfare on ... Read more

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  • Salamanca 1812

    by Oliver Hayes ...
    For six weeks in the spring of 1812 Wellingston's Anglo-Spanish army marched and countermarched across western Spain as it sought to find away past the French army of Marshal Marmont. Their chance came at Salamanca.The hilly country around Salamanca had bad roads and poor sightlines, a fact that explains why Marmont mistook a move by Wellington to dress his lines as being a preparatory move for a ... Read more

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