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Secret World

A History of Intelligence

by Christopher Andrew
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018

The first-ever detailed, comprehensive history of intelligence, from Moses and Sun Tzu to the present day The history of espionage is far older than any of today’s intelligence agencies, yet the long history of intelligence operations has been largely forgotten. The codebreakers at Bletchley...
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by Morris Rossabi
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013

Capturing China’s past in all its complexity, this multi-faceted history portrays China in the context of a larger global world, while incorporating the narratives of Chinese as well as non-Chinese ethnic groups and discussing people traditionally left out of the story—peasants, women, merchants,...
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Pastiche

Reflections on nineteenth-century Australia

by Penny Russell, Richard White
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1994

Memories of Australian History at school often evoke images of hot classrooms and well-meaning teachers struggling to spin out a thin tale of colonial administration and land settlement, in which nothing 'really happened'. All that is changing. The history that is taught and written in universities...
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by Philip Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2017

This textbook offers an insightful, introductory overview of the history of American society from its inception right up to present day. With coverage starting at the European Settlement in 1492 right through to the 2016 Presidential Election, this fully revised new edition succinctly depicts the...
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by David Watkins
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017

A wide-ranging history of the Vampire throughout its 46-year service history with the RAF, Fleet Air Arm and twenty-nine foreign air forces. A story that is of interest to aviation historians and those with a fascination in early jet aircraft, which also includes a new lease of life on the Warbirds...
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by Paul Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017

Paul Kennedy's classic naval history, now updated with a new introduction by the author This acclaimed book traces Britain's rise and fall as a sea power from the Tudors to the present day. Challenging the traditional view that the British are natural 'sons of the waves', he suggests instead...
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by Alexander Mikaberidze
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2005

Presented here, for the first time in any language, are more than 800 detailed biographies of the senior Russian officers who commanded troops in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, together with 440 b&x portraits. This amazing study spans the critical years of 1792 to 1815, but also includes...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019

Smell and History collects many of the most important recent essays on the history of scent, aromas, perfumes, and ways of smelling. With an introduction by Mark M. Smith—one of the leading social and cultural historians at work today and the preeminent champion in the United States of the emerging...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012

This Handbook is a current, comprehensive single-volume history of Iranian civilization. The authors, all leaders in their fields, emphasize the large-scale continuities of Iranian history while also describing the important patterns of transformation that have characterized Iran's past. Each of the...
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Writing History with Lightning

Cinematic Representations of Nineteenth-Century America

by Kenneth Greenberg, William L. Andrews, Lesley J. Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019

Films possess virtually unlimited power for crafting broad interpretations of American history. Nineteenth-century America has proven especially conducive to Hollywood imaginations, producing indelible images like the plight of Davy Crockett and the defenders of the Alamo, Pickett’s doomed charge...
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by Max Nettlau
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016

Max Nettlau, born in Austria in 1865 and died in 1944 in Amsterdam, was the most important chronicler and guide to anarchism prior to 1930. This 400-page introduction to the history of anarchist ideas and early movements, summarises the author's monumental 9-volume history and several biographies....
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by Olayanju Olajide
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013

This book is written mainly from my experience since my arrival in the United Kingdom in the early 1960s. I came to the UK before I came in contact with any Afro American or Caribbean. In Nigeria I know some people whose parents originally returned to Nigeria from Brazil and Cuba. The names of these...
Cover of A History of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 531: U.S. Marines History, Getting Started in 1942, Cherry Point, Tigercats, Skynight, Skyrays, WestPac, Phantoms, MIGs, Vietnam, El Toro Rebirth, Hornets
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016

Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique book traces a half century of active service by Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 531. It was a unique squadron because its history demonstrates the complete evolution from night fighter to all-weather fighter...
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Naval Air War: The Rolling Thunder Campaign

The Rolling Thunder Campaign

by Norman Polmar, Edward J. Marolda
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016

This is the sixth monograph in the series The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War. It covers aircraft carrier activity during Operation Rolling Thunder in the war.  Operation Rolling Thunder was one of the longest sustained aerial bombing campaigns in history. And it would be a failure. The U.S. Navy proved...
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