Yleinen historia ja kulttuurihistoria
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Grays (Thurrock) in the Great War
Wynn, Stephen; Porter, KenPen and SwordGrays (Thurrock) in the Great War tells the story of Grays and the wider Thurrock area from the outbreak of the Great War until the peace of 1918. The Docks at nearby Tilbury were...
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The Ulster Tales
Wilsey, JohnPen and SwordThe Ulster Tales captures the lives and experiences of ten individuals who were caught up in the Troubles. Each has a very distinct story to tell according to their role and positi...
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A Dictionary of Coastal Command 1939 - 1945
Simpson, GeoffPen and SwordAn alphabetical account of the part in the Second World War played by the ‘Kipper Fleet’ as it was known in the RAF. Coastal Command often lacked resources compared with other home...
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Artillery Of Napoleonic Wars
Kiley, Kevin F.Pen and SwordIn this detailed study Kevin Kiley looks at artillery in use throughout the Napoleonic period. He examines Napoleon’s own artillery as well as that employed by his enemies, and he...
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Is There a British Chalcolithic?
Oxbow BooksThe Chalcolithic, the phase in prehistory when the important technical development of adding tin to copper to produce bronze had not yet taken place, is not a term generally used b...
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Mithridates the Great
Matyszak, PhilipPen and SwordA military biography of Mithridates VI ‘the Great’ of Pontus, Rome’s most persistent enemy. The Mithridiatic wars stretched over half a century and two continents, and have a fasci...
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Cromwell’s War Machine
Roberts, KeithPen and SwordThe New Model Army was one of the best-known and most effective armies ever raised in England. Oliver Cromwell was both its greatest battlefield commander and the political leader...
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Mi-1, Mi-6 and Mi-26
Gordon, YefimPen and SwordDeveloped in the early 1950s to meet a Soviet Army requirement and first flown in June 1957, the Mi-6 was the largest-yet helicopter created in the Soviet Union. Its notable featur...
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Current Research in Egyptology 2011
Oxbow BooksThe twelfth annual Current Research in Egyptology symposium aimed to highlight the multidisciplinary nature of the field of Egyptology. Papers in these proceedings reflect this mul...
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American Eagles: US Fighter Pilots in the RAF 1939-1945
Holmes, TonyPen and SwordAmerican Eagles provides a photographic snapshot of the lives of the American fighter pilots who volunteered their services during World War II, as well as the Spitfires and Hurric...
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Fight the Good Fight
Broom, JohnPen and SwordThe Second World War challenged many of the concepts that had provided stability and unity in the world. As totalitarian regimes in Europe and Asia attempted to impose their world...
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TRAC 2011
Oxbow BooksThis volume was derived from the twenty-first annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, which took place at the University of Newcastle (14-17 April 2011).
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Richard Hillary
Ross, DavidGrub StreetRichard Hillary was born in Australia in 1919 and brought up in England. Oxford educated, he was a writer foremost who was also a fighter pilot. When World War Two came he joined 6...
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In a Guardsman’s Boots
Rochford, Caroline; Rochford, PaddyPen and SwordWhen he was just eight years old, Paddy Rochford enrolled at Dublin’s Royal Hibernian Military School, where he was taught how to be a soldier with the British Army, like his fathe...
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Hitler’s Atlantic Wall
Williams, PaulPen and SwordThis well-illustrated book describes the massive effort that the occupying Nazi forces put into the construction of the Eastern section of the Atlantic Wall. While the D-Day invas...
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Nijmegen
Saunders, TimPen and SwordThe 82nd Airborne Division fought some of its most desperate battles in support of the British landings at Arnhem, yet these actions are little known today. All of the units, perso...
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Drop Zone Borneo - The RAF Campaign 1963-65
Annett, RogerPen and SwordIn 1963 the Indonesian Army that threatened Borneo numbered 330,000 men, plus three thousand Commandos. Of these, six thousand were within 20 miles of the Borneo frontier. This gre...
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Mad Mike
Rooney, DavidPen and SwordThis penetrating biography tells the story of his life including his exploits in Norway and the early Commandos. It also uncovers new evidence revealing that his court martial was...
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Conquerors of the Roman Empire: The Vandals
MacDowall, SimonPen and SwordOn 31 December AD 406, a group of German tribes crossed the Rhine, pierced the Roman defensive limes and began a rampage across Roman Gaul, sacking cities such as Metz, Arras and S...
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Wool Economy in the Ancient Near East
Oxbow BooksThe history of the Ancient Near East covers a huge chronological frame, from the first pictographic texts of the late 4th millennium to the conquest of Alexander the Great in 333 B...