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The Invention Of Peace And The Reinvention Of War

The Invention Of Peace And The Reinvention Of War

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Female Secret Agents

Female Secret Agents

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Codeword Overlord: Axis Espionage and the D-Day Landings

Codeword Overlord: Axis Espionage and the D-Day Landings

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How Israel Lost: The Four Questions

How Israel Lost: The Four Questions

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The Sandline Affair: Politics and Mercenaries and the Bougainville Crisis

The Sandline Affair: Politics and Mercenaries and the Bougainville Crisis

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The Siege: The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama

The Siege: The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama

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Lucy Sparrow's Felt World

Lucy Sparrow's Felt World

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Exuberant, engaging, and thought-provoking, Lucy Sparrow's felt art objects are brought together for the first time in this book. If British artist Lucy Sparrow had her way, the entire world...
John Gielgud: An Actor's Life

John Gielgud: An Actor's Life

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A celebration of the life of John Gielgud through interviews and personal accounts. 'A sense of delight permeates Gyles Brandreth's John Gielgud: An Actor's Life Brandreth combines neat reportage, deft...
Hitler's Heroine: Hanna Reitsch

Hitler's Heroine: Hanna Reitsch

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The story of Hanna Reitsch, ardent Nazi, Hitler fanatic and extreme test pilot. Hanna Reitsch longed to fly. Having broken records and earned the respect of the Nazi regime, she...
The Traitor of Arnhem: WWII's Greatest Betrayal and the Moment That

The Traitor of Arnhem: WWII's Greatest Betrayal and the Moment That

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Sunday Times Bestselling author of The Traitor of Colditz Robert Verkaik reveals the incredible never-before-told story of the role played by the Cambridge Spies in the British defeat at Arnhem...
Loring W. Coleman: Living and Painting in a Changing New England

Loring W. Coleman: Living and Painting in a Changing New England

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This publication examines the art of this distinguished American watercolour painter and teacher, produced over a career of 50 years through a recounting of the artist's experiences as a student,...
M1 Abrams: The US's Main Battle Tank in American and Foreign Service,

M1 Abrams: The US's Main Battle Tank in American and Foreign Service,

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Since its introduction in 1981, at the height of the Cold War, the Abrams main battle tank has been one of the most visible and iconic symbols of American military...
Panzer Destroyer - SHORT RUN RE-ISSUE: Memoirs of a Red Army Tank

Panzer Destroyer - SHORT RUN RE-ISSUE: Memoirs of a Red Army Tank

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The day after Vasiliy Krysov finished school, on 22 June 1941, Germany attacked the Soviet Union and provoked a war of unparalleled extent and cruelty. For the next three years,...
The Great War Illustrated 1916: Archive and Colour Photographs of WWI

The Great War Illustrated 1916: Archive and Colour Photographs of WWI

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With conscription introduced, Zeppelins carrying out bombing raids on key towns and cities across England, the Battle of Jutland seeing fourteen British ships sunk and the Battle of the Somme...
The Death Railway: The Personal Account of Lieutenant Colonel Kappe on

The Death Railway: The Personal Account of Lieutenant Colonel Kappe on

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AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR They had faced the indignity of surrender and the squalor of Changi prison, so the spirits of the British and Australian troops lifted when they were told that...
The Waffen SS Ardennes Offensive: Rare Photographs from Wartime

The Waffen SS Ardennes Offensive: Rare Photographs from Wartime

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In late 1944 under extreme pressure on both the Eastern and Western fronts, Hitler realized he needed to force the Allies into negotiating a truce thereby saving Germany from total...
Dog

Dog

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DOG is an unprecedented collection of Tetro's dog illustrations presented as art in a luxurious, deluxe format. Included here are finished drawings, sketches, and even some never-before-seen artworks created exclusively...
Art Deco Murals of Hildreth Meiere

Art Deco Murals of Hildreth Meiere

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An unsung heroine of Art Deco art and architecture, Hildreth Meiere is the artist behind many of the most spectacular mural installations of the mid-20th century. The vibrant, dynamic roundels...
Russian Supply Efforts in America During the First World War

Russian Supply Efforts in America During the First World War

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The Imperial Russian government's efforts to procure much-needed military supplies in the American market before and after America's entry into World War I are the focus of this work. It...
Accelerate!: A History of the 1990s

Accelerate!: A History of the 1990s

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The 1990s was the decade in which Google was launched, Nelson Mandela was released from prison and scientists in Edinburgh cloned a sheep from a single cell. It was also...
Convicts Capitalists and Corruption: Nubrygyn and the Colony's

Convicts Capitalists and Corruption: Nubrygyn and the Colony's

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Convicts, Capitalists and Corruption is a gripping narrative portraying personal stories of the leaders of Sydney society, convicts building the Mountain Road and the captivating history of the pioneers who...
The Spy in the Tower: The Untold Story of Joseph Jakobs, the Last Person to be Executed in the Tower of London

The Spy in the Tower: The Untold Story of Joseph Jakobs, the Last Person to be Executed in the Tower of London

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Barron Field in New South Wales: The Poetics of Terra Nullius

Barron Field in New South Wales: The Poetics of Terra Nullius

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Women of the Raj: The Mothers, Wives and Daughters of the British Empire in India

Women of the Raj: The Mothers, Wives and Daughters of the British Empire in India

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The Irish War

The Irish War

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Living Fashion: Daily Women's Wear 1750-1950

Living Fashion: Daily Women's Wear 1750-1950

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Living Fashion by Leen Demeester, explains the influence of fashion on the daily life of middle class women in Western Europe between 1750 and 1950. The text focuses mainly on...
Palette Perfect: Color Combinations Inspired by Fashion, Art & Style

Palette Perfect: Color Combinations Inspired by Fashion, Art & Style

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Color Collective's Palette Perfect is both a practical guide and an inspirational book on the universe of colour combinations. Aimed to fashion students and designers, Palette Perfect is both a...
Voyage to the Heart of Europe 1953-2009

Voyage to the Heart of Europe 1953-2009

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A History of the Christian-Democratic Group and the Group of the European People's Party in the European Parliament With an introduction by Hans-Gert Poettering and a foreword by Joseph Daul,...
Pierre Guariche

Pierre Guariche

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Pierre Guariche (1926-1995) was a leading interior architect, furniture, and lighting designer in postwar France. He created a prolific body of work during what is known as the Thirty Glorious...
F.l. Griggs (1876-1938): The Architecture of Dreams

F.l. Griggs (1876-1938): The Architecture of Dreams

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A fantastic biography of a little known but pivotal master of etching Includes over 100 examples of his work F. L. Griggs (1876-1938) was universally acclaimed as one of the...
Enigma Traitors: The Struggle to Lose the Cipher War

Enigma Traitors: The Struggle to Lose the Cipher War

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Second World War code-breaking turned on its head - the aces were German and the British were too weak for words. Everyone knows the story of Enigma and code-breaking in...
Mr Pim

Mr Pim

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Gentle chaos sets in when the absent-minded Mr Pim calls in to see George Marden, bearing some innocent news... George is a fine upstanding citizen and a stickler for doing...
Cinema of the 70s: 101 Iconic Movies

Cinema of the 70s: 101 Iconic Movies

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A celebration of the cinema of the 70s. What a decade! Today, over half a century later, great films are measured by those of the 70s. Has there been a...
Bread and Henna: My time with the women of a Yemeni mountain town

Bread and Henna: My time with the women of a Yemeni mountain town

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Bread and Henna: an engaging travel narrative relating a social anthropologist's experiences of eighteen months living among the women of a small mountain town in Yemen during the early 1980s....
Speed Duel: The Inside Story of the Land Speed Record in the Sixties

Speed Duel: The Inside Story of the Land Speed Record in the Sixties

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Until the 1950s, the land speed record (LSR) was held by a series of European gentlemen racers such as British driver John Cobb, who hit 394 miles per hour in...
Double Agent Celery: MI5's Crooked Hero

Double Agent Celery: MI5's Crooked Hero

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With Britain braced for a German invasion, MI5 recruited an ex RNAS officer, come confidence trickster, called Walter Dicketts as a double agent. Codenamed Celery, Dicketts was sent to Lisbon...
An-Li: A Chinese Ghost Tale

An-Li: A Chinese Ghost Tale

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Presenting a stunning new body of works by Hong Kong-born, Melbourne-based artist Kate Beynon, 'An-Li: A Chinese Ghost Tale' marks Art & Australia's second iteration of the Dott Tales series,...
Russia: A 1,000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East

Russia: A 1,000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East

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The First Salute: View of the American Revolution

The First Salute: View of the American Revolution

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The Spy Catchers: The Official History of ASIO, 1949-1963

The Spy Catchers: The Official History of ASIO, 1949-1963

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The Hunt for Zerzura: The Lost Oases and the Desert War

The Hunt for Zerzura: The Lost Oases and the Desert War

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Bea Mombaers: Items & Interiors

Bea Mombaers: Items & Interiors

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Interior stylist Bea Mombaers is passionate about vintage and design; she's always on the lookout for special finds and unique objects. Over time she developed a distinctive signature style. This...
Lolita, a Style Icon

Lolita, a Style Icon

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Lolita: on the cusp between fashion and cinema, childhood and adolescence, capriciousness and sensuality... The figure of the 'Lolita' embodies one of the most fascinating, but at the same time...
Pencil in Hand: 20th-Century Drawings

Pencil in Hand: 20th-Century Drawings

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Pencil in Hand, 20th-Century Drawings presents a considered selection of more than 100 drawings, providing a wide-ranging view of art from the past century, both from Spain and abroad. All...
Pierre Guariche

Pierre Guariche

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Pierre Guariche (1926-1995) was a leading interior architect, furniture, and lighting designer in postwar France. He created a prolific body of work during what is known as the Thirty Glorious...
Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle for Smolensk 10 July-10 September 1941

Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle for Smolensk 10 July-10 September 1941

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Volume 3 contains the documentary evidence for the two volumes of narrative of Barbarossa Derailed. Volume 3, the Documentary Companion to Barbarossa Derailed, contains the documentary evidence for the two...
At All Costs: The British Army on the Western Front 1916

At All Costs: The British Army on the Western Front 1916

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1916 was a pivotal year for the British Army. It was a year of intense combat that was defined by the Battle of the Somme and the appalling casualties of...
Vintage 1954

Vintage 1954

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"The very quintessence of French romance...' - The Times After drinking a bottle of vintage Beaujolais, a group of Parisian neighbours are transported back in time to 1954. When Hubert...