Reporting the Retreat: War Correspondents in Burma
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The British defeat in Burma at the hands of the Japanese in 1942 marked the longest retreat in...
Rockets and Revolution: A Cultural History of Early Spaceflight
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Rockets and Revolution offers a multifaceted study of the race toward space in the first half of the...
Operation Garbo: The Personal Story of the Most Successful Spy of World War II
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Garbo was the British codename of Joan Puyol Garcia, perhaps the most influential spy of the Second...
Ghost Platoon
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An eye-opening account of Australian combat history, untold ...until now. 'thoroughly researched and...
Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age
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A Hollywood biopic about the life of computer pioneer Grace Murray Hopper (1906--1992) would go like...
Do you Remember Kunan Poshpora?: The Story of a Mass Rape
Samreen Mushtaq, Essar Batool, Natasha Rather and Ifrah Butt
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On a cold February night in 1991, a group of soldiers and officers of the Indian army stormed into...
Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing
Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
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Why do some less talented students manage to consistently outperform their smarter classmates in...
A World of Struggle: How Power, Law, and Expertise Shape Global Political Economy
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A World of Struggle reveals the role of expert knowledge in our political and economic life. As...
After the Final Whistle: The First Rugby World Cup and the First World War
Stephen Cooper and Jason Leonard
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When Britain's empire went to war in August 1914, rugby players were the fi rst to volunteer: they...
American Founding Son: John Bingham and the Invention of the Fourteenth Amendment
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John Bingham was the architect of the rebirth of the United States following the Civil War. A...