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  • Empires of Violence

    Massacre in a Revolutionary Age

    Violence was a constant on all colonial frontiers, from the British expansion into the Australian and African continents, to the expansion of the United States and the Napoleonic Empire's many incursions into Europe. Yet how did the forms of violence perpetrated in these four corners of the world compare? Did the oppression and exploitation of colonized peoples constitute a new form of violence? ... Leer más

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  • 1650-1850

    Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 25)

    Series Libro 25 - 1650-1850
    Volume 25 of 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era investigates the local textures that make up the whole cloth of the Enlightenment. Ranging from China to Cheltenham and from Spinoza to civil insurrection, volume 25 celebrates the emergence of long-eighteenth-century culture from particularities and prodigies. Unfurling in the folds of this volume is a special ... Leer más

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  • China's Spies

    Beijing’s Espionage Offensive

    de Nigel West ...
    “China’s Spies is a necessary alarm for those who still nurse delusions of a rosy partnership with a benign rising power.”– The NYMAS ReviewWhile many of President Xia Jinping’s increasingly aggressive foreign policies, manifested by expansion into the South China Sea, trade confrontation with Australia, and political suppression in Hong Kong, have become obvious, there has been a covert dimension ... Leer más

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  • Soviet and Nazi Defectors

    Counter-Intelligence in WW2 and the Cold War

    de Nigel West ...
    “… a valuable introduction to the role of defectors in counterintelligence operations and a fine contribution to intelligence literature.” -Studies in IntelligenceA well-informed defector is the most dangerous counter-intelligence commodity because it takes a spy to catch a spy. Very occasionally, an agent, especially a mole or an intelligence professional, will make a mistake and incriminate ... Leer más

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  • Le Cateau

    Series series Battleground Early Battles 1914
    Le Cateau (26–27 August 1914) was the second major action fought by the BEF in the Great War. His men exhausted after fighting at Mons and by the subsequent speedy retreat, Lieutenant-General Horace Smith-Dorrien (commanding II Corps) decided that he had to make a stand in the vicinity of Le Cateau.There his men took on elements of four German corps in an action that succeeded in giving the BEF a ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    Enemy Coast Ahead

    The Illustrated Memoir of Dambuster Guy Gibson

    Narrado por Nigel Gair ...

    Completo

    12 hora 45 minutos

    Prior to World War Two, Wing Commander Guy Gibson joined the Royal Air Force. In 1944, he wrote down his experience of serving in the RAF.Aged just 25, Gibson had completed two full tours, each of 30 operations, with Bomber Command, and had led the now-famous Dam Busters raid against the dams of the Ruhr Valley in May 1943. He died aged 26 in 1944, when his Mosquito crashed near Steenbergen in the ... Leer más

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  • The Battle Book of Ypres

    A Reference to Military Operations in the Ypres Salient 1914–1918

    de Beatrix Brice ...
    Of the many hard-fought battles on the Western Front, Ypres stands out as an example of almost inhuman endeavour. For four long years it was the focal point of desperate fighting. Officially there were four main battles in 1914, 1915, 1917 and 1918; these were more accurately peaks in a continuing struggle, for Ypres symbolised Belgian defiance, and the British continued to expend disproportionate ... Leer más

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  • The Venlo Incident

    A True Story of Double-Dealing, Captivity, and a Murderous Nazi Plot

    de Nigel Jones ...
    In November 1939, the Nazis used the so-called Venlo Incident as a pretext for invading the Netherlands. Following orders from Himmler, two British intelligence officers, Sigismund Payne Best and Richard Stevens, were captured from the Café Backus in the town of Venlo.Best had been trying to contact German officers plotting against Hitler. The Netherlands had been an ideal ground for operations, ... Leer más

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  • Voodoo Warriors

    The Story of the McDonnell Voodoo Fast-Jets

    de Nigel Walpole ...
    The story of the supersonic fighter with "interesting insight into the period of the 1950s and early 1960s, the Cold War and of course the war in Vietnam" ( Military Modelling).During the mid–1950s the United States Air Force was given its most powerful single-seat, two-engine fighter to date. The Voodoo would be deployed before the end of that decade in the tactical nuclear bomber and tactical ... Leer más

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  • Best of Breed

    The Hunter in Fighter Reconnaissance

    de Nigel Walpole ...
    This book is about the tactical reconnaissance mark of the Hunter FR10 and its front line operation between 1961-70. With the Hunter already well proven in ground attack role this variant was an ideal platform for the excellent Vinten F95 strip aperture cameras. The heavy armament of four 30-mm Aden cannon was retained for use in defence suppression and target marking, unilateral action against ... Leer más

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  • A Century of Man-Made Disasters

    Series series Images of the Past
    A pictorial history of the major man-made calamities that shocked the world throughout the twentieth century.It was a period during which the power and scale of industrialization changed the planet—an unforeseen consequence being the creation of more human-created catastrophes than ever before experienced.The events recorded here include the needless carnage of history's worst air disaster when ... Leer más

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  • Double Agent Celery

    MI5's Crooked Hero

    This personal biography reveals the incredible true story of the British secret agent who posed as a Nazi spy during WWII.With Britain braced for a German invasion, MI5 recruited Walter Dicketts, a former officer of the Royal Naval Air Force—and a known con artist—as a double agent. Codenamed Celery, Dicketts was sent to Lisbon with the mission of persuading the Germans he was a traitor and then ... Leer más

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