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Our Media Limited
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English
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The Essential Guide to Family History includes 20 simple steps to get you started on your journey of discovery, followed by in-depth articles to help you overcome any stumbling blocks and take your research further. From the basics of birth, marriage and death to the best techniques for tracing military records and the latest online resources, this easy-to-follow guide is all you need to give yourself the Who Do You Think You Are? treatment.
3) The Crusades
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Series
Essential histories volume 1
Publisher
Osprey
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Author
Series
Essential histories volume 8
Publisher
Osprey Pub
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
The Korean War was a significant turning point in the Cold War. This book explains how the conflict in a small peninsula in East Asia had a tremendous impact on the entire international system and on the balance of power between the two superpowers, America and Russia.
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Series
Essential histories volume 69
Publisher
Osprey Pub
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The Russian Civil War was the most important event of its kind in the 20th century. It changed the lives of over half a billion people and dramatically shaped the political, human and economic geography of Europe, the Far East and Central Asia. Over a tempestuous four-year period the Communist Red Army and the loosely formed, anti-Bolshevist White Army battled in a war that would totally transform the vast Eurasian heartland and lead to Communist...
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Series
Essential histories volume 40
Publisher
Osprey
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
During the 19th century, Britain entered into three brutal wars with Afghanistan, each one saw the British trying and failing to gain control of a warlike and impenetrable territory. The first two wars (1839-42 and 1878-81) were wars of the Great Game; the British Empire's attempts to combat growing Russian influence near India's borders. The third, fought in 1919, was an Afghan-declared holy war against British India-- in which over 100,000 Afghans...
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Series
Essential histories volume 61
Publisher
Osprey Pub
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Between the end of World War II and the dawn of the Cold War, one of the most important conflicts in modern history reached its climax. With China's Japanese occupiers now defeated, the long struggle between Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists and Mao Zedong's Communists exploded into an intense, bloody and ruthlessly fought civil war. By 1949 the Nationalist government was defeated and in exile in Taiwan, and the new People's Republic of China was ready...
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Series
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Peter Robb's clear, fluent narrative explores the interplay between India's empires and regions of rule, custom and belief, from early times right up to the present. The new edition of this established text has been revised to incorporate the latest scholarship and now includes a Chronology and an extended and updated final chapter"--
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Series
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Anita Prazmowska provides a wide-ranging survey of Poland's history, from early settlements, through the establishment of the Kingdom of Poland, to the present day modern state. This expanded second edition has been revised throughout in the light of the latest research, and brings the story right up to date. A new Bibliography also features"--Provided by publisher.
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Series
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"From earliest times to the present day, Jeremy Black explores the rich history of the whole of the British Isles and how they have achieved their current identity. The third edition of this established concise text has been revised and updated throughout, and now contains more on social and cultural history and the British Empire"--
Author
Series
Essential histories volume 74
Publisher
OSPREY Publishing
Pub. Date
©2012.
Language
English
Description
"The culmination of decades of nationalist aspiration and cynical Realpolitik, the Second War of Italian Unification saw Italy transformed from a patchwork of minor states dominated by the Habsburg Austrians into a unified kingdom under the Piedmontese House of Savoy. Unlike many existing accounts, which approach the events of 1859-61 from a predominantly French perspective, this study draws upon a huge breadth of sources to examine the conflict as...
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Series
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"This study of the Pacific Islands provides a dynamic and provocative account of the peopling of the Pacific, and its broad impact on world history. Spanning nearly 50,000 years of human presence in an area which comprises one-third of our planet - Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia - the narrative follows the development of the region, from New Guinea's earliest settlement to the creation of the modern Pacific states"--Publisher's description.
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Series
Essential histories volume 78
Publisher
Osprey Publishing
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
The Chechens of the North Caucasus region endured many decades of first Russian, then Soviet domination before open war broke out in 1994. In response to Chechnya's unilateral declaration of independence and its rapid descent into disorder, Moscow sent in ground troops, but its forces struggled to counter the Chechens' guerrilla tactics amid the mountainous terrain. The 1996 Khasav-Yurt Accord, which ended the first war, failed to address many of...
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