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Instruments of War: Weapons and Technologies That Have Changed History ... - Spencer C. Tucker - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=-5EeCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA143
In war, the weapons and technologies employed have direct effects on how battles are waged. When new weapons are introduced, they can dramatically alter the outcomes of warfare—and consequently change the course of history itself. This reference work…
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The Tyrannicide Brief: The Story of the Man who sent Charles I to the Scaffold - Geoffrey Robertson - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=lvEaSt3h1VEC&pg=PA287#v=onepage&q&f=false
Charles I waged civil wars that cost one in ten Englishmen their lives. But in 1649 parliament was hard put to find a lawyer with the skill and daring to prosecute a King who was above the law: in the end the man they briefed was the radical barrister,…
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Hiroshima Nagasaki - Paul Ham - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=J7hw0x0WEz4C&pg=PA367#v=onepage
Japan 1945. In one of the defining moments of the twentieth century, more than 100,000 people were killed instantly by two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by US Air Force B29s. Hundreds of thousands more succumbed to their horrific injuries,…
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Timor: A Nation Reborn - Bill Nicol - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=8uxwaCR_71cC&pg&pg=PA127&dq=Taolin#v=onepage
The geopolitical landscape of Southeast Asia has been dramatically re-shaped with the emergence of East Timor as the world's newest nation. Like a phoenix, East Timor has risen triumphantly from the ashes of Indonesian invasion and occupation. But it has…
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Sir Francis Drake: The Queen's Pirate - Harry Kelsey - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=HVV5CAza6jYC&pg=PA158&dq=Cacafuego+spitfire&hl=de&sa=X&ei=poBPUb3KDo_NswaY1IDIDg&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAT
In this biography, Harry Kelsey seeks to shatter the familiar image of Sir Francis Drake. The Drake of legend was a pious, brave and just seaman who initiated the move to make England a great naval power and whose acts of piracy against his countries…
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The Battle for Leningrad: 1941-1944 - David M. Glantz - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?ei=cBKOUZqSBqmJ0AXvloG4Ag&hl=de&id=4uRmAAAAMAAJ&dq=david+glantz&q=colonel+general#search_anchor
The German siege and Soviet defense of Leningrad in World War II was an epic struggle in an epic war, a drama of heroism and human misery unmatched in the annals of modern warfare. While innumerable writers have dealt at length with the besieged city…
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Timor: A Nation Reborn - Bill Nicol - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=8uxwaCR_71cC&pg=PA58
The geopolitical landscape of Southeast Asia has been dramatically re-shaped with the emergence of East Timor as the world's newest nation. Like a phoenix, East Timor has risen triumphantly from the ashes of Indonesian invasion and occupation. But it has…
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Timor: A Nation Reborn - Bill Nicol - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=8uxwaCR_71cC&pg&pg=PA231&dq=Taolin#v=onepage
The geopolitical landscape of Southeast Asia has been dramatically re-shaped with the emergence of East Timor as the world's newest nation. Like a phoenix, East Timor has risen triumphantly from the ashes of Indonesian invasion and occupation. But it has…
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Timor: A Nation Reborn - Bill Nicol - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=8uxwaCR_71cC&pg&pg=PA308&dq=Taolin#v=onepage
The geopolitical landscape of Southeast Asia has been dramatically re-shaped with the emergence of East Timor as the world's newest nation. Like a phoenix, East Timor has risen triumphantly from the ashes of Indonesian invasion and occupation. But it has…
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The Regional State of Zhao 趙 (www.chinaknowledge.de)
http://www.chinaknowledge.de/History/Zhou/rulers-zhao.html
Zhao 趙 was a regional state of the Zhou period 周 (11th cent.-221 BCE). It emerged as a separate state when several noble families of Jin 晉 extinguished the ducal house and divided its territory into three, namely Wei 魏, Han 韓 and Zhao 趙. Zhao played an…