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Beyond Washington and Jefferson: Ranking the Founders.

Immediately after the armistice was signed in November, 1918, an American journalist asked Paul von Hindenburg who won the war against Germany.

This book explores and analyzes developments in the military institution, military engagements as well as the larger security environment of (including non-war violence and maritime regions linking to) the Portuguese Empire in India.

This book discusses ethical behavior through the genocidal stages of the Holocaust.

This book discusses ethical behavior through the genocidal stages of the Holocaust.

In the summer of 1945, Eberhard Bethge began the search for traces of his colleague and friend Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

The year 1922 marks a major turning point in Eastern Mediterranean history, with the abolition of the Ottoman Sultanate concluding a long period of upheaval known as the "e;Eastern Question.

This book examines Italy's colonial history from the turn of the twentieth century to the outbreak of the First World War.

How can some politicians, pundits, and scholars cite the principles of just war to defend military actionsand others to condemn those same interventions?

Who has the answer to the world's fuel problems?

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION WINNER OF THE KITSCHIES GOLDEN TENTACLE AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C.

Walter Wolff was the son of a Jewish merchant family that fled their German home when the Nazis came to power and took refuge in Brussels, Belgium.

In the South, one can find any number of bronze monuments to the Confederacy featuring heroic images of Robert E.

This book explores and analyzes developments in the military institution, military engagements as well as the larger security environment of (including non-war violence and maritime regions linking to) the Portuguese Empire in India.

This book focuses on the wars that are normally relegated to the periphery of geo-politics at the heart of Europe's 'new' military history.

This book reveals that the visual narrative of the events of the Russian campaign of 1812 was inextricably linked to Russia's search for national identity and helped to form competing definitions of 'Russianness'.

This book explores China's strategic culture in the context of relations across the Taiwan Strait.

This handbook is an innovative recasting and reinterpretation of modern Turkish history centered on war and society.

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Only the best officers are given command of U.

';Beguiling.

WINNER OF THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE ';A gripping reconstruction utterly compelling reading.

';One of our very best writers on France.

There are no winners in war, only losers.

The battle is for a city.

';A hugely enjoyable, eccentric account of clerical heroism in the face of evil.

A SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY EDITION TO COMMEMORATE 80 YEARS SINCE THE EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS OF 1943 Sophie Scholl and the White Rose tells the gripping true story of five Munich university students who set up an underground resistance movement in World War II.

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Who has the answer to the world's fuel problems?

A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Science & Technology Book Prize ';The most entertaining writer in science' The Times, Books of the Year War.

War has been a perennial feature of human history since ancient times, yet it remains a poorly understood phenomenon.

The book that is providing a storm of controversy, from ';Israel's bravest historian' (John Pilger)Renowned Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe's groundbreaking work on the formation of the State of Israel.

This book reveals that the visual narrative of the events of the Russian campaign of 1812 was inextricably linked to Russia's search for national identity and helped to form competing definitions of 'Russianness'.

At Sea Against the Soviet Fleet is a history of the evolution of the United States Navys Operational Intelligence culture that informs great power competition with China today.

This book offers comprehensive coverage of China's military history from the Qing dynasty (1644-1912) to present.

This book offers comprehensive coverage of China's military history from the Qing dynasty (1644-1912) to present.

How the British might have handled Hitler differently remains one of history's greatest ';what ifs'.

War, revolution, treason and love the thrilling tale of Sir John of Gaunt brought to life by medieval history's rising star.

As the public increasingly questioned the war in Vietnam, a group of American scientists deeply concerned about the use of Agent Orange and other herbicides started a movement to ban what they called "e;ecocide.

Sources of Evil: Studies in Mesopotamian Exorcistic Lore is a collection of thirteen essays on the body of knowledge employed by ancient Near Eastern healing experts, most prominently the 'exorcist' and the 'physician', to help patients who were suffering from misfortunes caused by divine anger, transgressions of taboos, demons, witches, or other sources of evil.

THE HILL TIMES TOP 100 BOOKS OF 2024Punching Above Our Weight takes readers on a riveting exploration spanning one hundred and fifty years of Canadian forces.

In 1943, while the New York Yankees and St.

Apples and Ashes offers the first literary history of the Civil War South.

';The art of war is of vital importance to the State.