1914: The Year the World Ended 9781864711424, 9781742757261

Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth: 1914 did. In July that year, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russ

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1914: The Year the World Ended
9781864711424, 9781742757261

Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth, yet 1914 did. The story of the outbreak of World War I. In

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For the past 100 years some of the greatest historians and political scientists of the twentieth century have picked apa

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When the Berlin Wall fell, people who lived along the dismantled border found their lives drastically and rapidly transf

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A magisterial account of how the cultural and maritime relationships between the British, Dutch and American territories

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*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of fighting at major battles like D-Day, Okinawa, Iwo Jima, the Bulge, and more *I

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This volume is a collection of papers originally delivered by an international group of researchers at a conference orga

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“The South Pole discovered” trumpeted the front page of The Daily Chronicle on March 8, 1912, marking Roald Amundsen’s t

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Get to grips with history like never before as you travel through the ages in this history encyclopedia for children tha

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