Dead Men Risen: The Welsh Guards and the Defining Story of Britain's War in Afghanistan
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WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE 2012. This is the gripping story of the men of the Welsh Guards and their...
For Brotherhood and Duty: The Civil War History of the West Point Class of 1862
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During the tense months leading up to the American Civil War, the cadets at the United States...
Kafka: The Years of Insight
Reiner Stach and Shelley Laura Frisch
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This volume of Reiner Stach's acclaimed and definitive biography of Franz Kafka tells the story of...
Known and Unknown: A Memoir
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With the same directness that defined his career in public service, Rumsfeld's memoir is filled with...
Lone Wolf: The Remarkable Story of Britain's Greatest Nightfighter Ace of the Blitz - Flt Lt Richard Playne Stevens DSO, DFC & Bar
Andy Saunders and Terry Thompson
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During the Second World War, Flt Lt Richard Stevens led an extraordinary campaign as an RAF...
Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy: The Story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the Cross-Dressing Spy Who Commanded Her Own Army
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Aisin Gioro Xianyu (1907-1948) was the fourteenth daughter of a Manchu prince and a legendary figure...
Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story - How a Single Man Saved the World's Largest Satellite Constellation from Fiery Destruction
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In the early 1990s, Motorola, the legendary American company, made a huge gamble on a revolutionary...
Britain's Economic Blockade of Germany, 1914-1919
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Great Britain's economic blockade of Germany in World War I was one of the key elements to the...
Selling Outer Space: Kennedy, the Media and Funding for Project Apollo, 1961-63
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In the early 1960s, the Kennedy administration's public campaign to sell Project Apollo met with...
Landscape as Infrastructure: A Base Primer
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As ecology becomes the new engineering, the projection of landscape as infrastructure-the...