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The Pegasus and Orne Bridges: Their Capture, Defences and Relief on D-Day - Neil Barber - Google Books
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The glider-borne operation to capture Pegasus Bridge has an established place in the annals of warfare. Conducted by Major John Howard and his company of Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry it was a superbly daring, brilliantly executed 'coup de…
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George Best and 21 Others - Colin Shindler - Google Books
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In the spring of 1964 more than 50,000 people turned out to watch the two-legged semi-final of the FA Youth Cup between Manchester City and Manchester United. It was a time of great hope and excitement: a new era was to be ushered in, with the virtues of…
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Rocket Man: Robert H. Goddard and the Birth of the Space Age - David A. Clary - Google Books
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More famous in his day than Einstein or Edison, the troubled, solitary genius Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945) was the American father of rocketry and space flight, launching the world's first liquid-fuel rockets and the first powered vehicles to break the…
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Sidewinder: Creative Missile Development at China Lake - Ron Westrum - Google Books
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In the mid-1950s a small group of overworked, underpaid scientists and engineers, working on a remote base in the Mojave Desert, developed a weapon no one had asked for but that everyone was looking for. Sidewinder is the story of how that unorthodox team…
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Parenting Culture Studies - Ellie Lee, Jennie Bristow, Charlotte Faircloth, Jan Macvarish - Google Books
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Why have the minutiae of how parents raise their children become routine sources of public debate and policy making? This book provides in-depth answers to these features drawing on a wide range of sources from sociology, history, anthropology and…
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Iraqi Federalism and the Kurds: Learning to Live Together - Dr Alex Danilovich - Google Books
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Iraq today faces a whole gamut of problems associated with post-war recovery and state-rebuilding compounded by age old mistrust and suspicion. The situation in Iraq resembles a huge experiment in which social scientists can observe the consequences of…
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Smersh: Stalin's Secret Weapon - Dr. Vadim Birstein - Google Books
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SMERSH is the award-winning account of the top-secret counterintelligence organisation that dealt with Stalin's enemies from within the shadowy recesses of Soviet government. As James Bond's nemesis in Ian Fleming's novels, SMERSH and its operatives were…
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Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 2 and 3: Archaeology of ... - Google Books
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Archaeology of Southern Mesoamerica comprises the second and third volumes in the Handbook of Middle American Indians, published in cooperation with the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University under the general editorship of Robert Wauchope…
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Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective - Karen Barkey - Google Books
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This book is a comparative study of imperial organization and longevity that assesses Ottoman successes as well as failures against those of other empires with similar characteristics. Barkey examines the Ottoman Empire's social organization and mechanisms…
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Establishing Religious Freedom: Jefferson's Statute in Virginia - Thomas E. Buckley - Google Books
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The significance of the Virginia Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom goes far beyond the borders of the Old Dominion. Its influence ultimately extended to the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the separation of church and state. In his latest book,…