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Origins of the Second World War in Europe
PMH Bell's famous book is a comprehensive study of the period and debates surrounding the European origins of the Second World War. He approaches the subject from three different …
Liberating Europe: D-Day to Victory in Europe 1944-1945
Despatches in this volume include the Despatch on air operations by the Allied Expeditionary Air Force in North West Europe between November 1943 and September 1944, the despatch …
The Jacobite Movement in Scotland and in Exile, 1746-1759
The argument presented in this book arose from an extension to the question of whether the suppression of the Jacobite Rising of 1745-46, as represented by a long-standing …
War in the Tyrol
War in the Tyrol is a translation of part of 'Geschichte des k. k. Infanterie-Regiments Georg Prinz von Sachsen Nr.11', edited by Franz Jaeger. The account describes what happened …
MI5 in the Great War
In 1921, MI5 commissioned a comprehensive, top-secret review of the organisation's operations during the First World War. Never intended for circulation outside of the government, …
The War in the South
An informal history of the Carolinas and Georgia in the American Revolution--when hangings were commonplace; passions were taut as strung gut; and scalding-hot tar-and-feathers …
Conflict and the Decline of Pastoralism in the Horn of Africa
This work represents a collective effort by ten social scientists with experience in the Horn of Africa to portray the marginalization and deprivation of the pastoralist population …
Fortifications in Wessex c. 800 1066
The defence of the 9th-century kingdom of Wessex under King Alfred against the 'Great Viking Army' is one of the major military achievements of Early Medieval history.While the …
Total Defence Forces in the Twenty-First Century
Total defence, as a concept, combines and extends military and civil defence: in a state of war or emergency, all social institutions mobilize to defend the state. Total defence …
Nomads and Nation-building in the Western Sahara
Fabled for more than three thousand years as fierce warrior-nomads and cameleers dominating the western Trans-Saharan caravan trade, today the Sahrawi are admired as …
War in the South Pacific
The Japanese invaded the Solomon Islands in May 1942 with the aim of building an airfield at Guadalcanal. After an epic six month struggle they were repulsed and the island became …
The Battle of Fort Sumter
On April 12, 1861, the long-simmering tensions between the American North and South exploded as Southern troops in the seceding state of South Carolina fired on the Federal forces …