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To the Last Man: Spring 1918
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To the Last Man: Spring 1918

As poignant as Niall Fregusson's The Pity of War, as powerful as John Keegan's The First World War, this is an engrossing eye-witness history of World War I. From the trenches to the battle lines, in bold advances and fighting retreats and courageous stands, this oral chronicle of World War I by award-winning historian Lyn Macdonald brings to life the massive German offensive of Spring 1918 that became the Second Battle of Somme.
 
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Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War
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Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War

The battle on the Eastern Front between 1941 and 1945 was arguably the single most decisive factor of World War II, fixing the course of world history over the next half century. Now, drawing on sources newly available since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the reunification of Germany, historian and journalist Chris Bellamy presents the first full account of this deadly conflict.
 
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Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans
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Between Two Worlds: How the English Became AmericansIn the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future. Whether they settled in Jamestown, Salem, or Barbados, these migrants—entrepreneurs, soldiers, and pilgrims alike—faced one incontrovertible truth: England was a very, very long way away.
In Between Two Worlds, celebrated historian Malcolm Gaskill tells the sweeping story of the English experience in America during the first century of colonization.
 
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Discover Britain - June-July 2015
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Discover Britain - June-July 2015Discover Britain - June-July 2015

Discover Britain is Britain’s leading historic travel magazine, created with passion and designed to engage, inspire and motivate our readers to discover the nation’s finest heritage sites. Combining the traveler's firsthand experience of the present with the historian's expert knowledge of the past, DISCOVER BRITAIN is your most trustworthy guide to historic Britain as it lives on today. Published bimonthly.
 
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American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World
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American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World

For four hundred years—from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army’s massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s—the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of violence. During that time the native population of the Western Hemisphere declined by as many as 100 million people. Indeed, as historian David E. Stannard argues in this stunning new book, the European and white American destruction of the native peoples of the Americas was the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world.
 
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