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This is the inspiration behind the HBO series "The Pacific." This was a brutish, primitive hatred, as characteristic of the horror of war in the Pacific as the palm trees and the islands...

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6th June 1944 saw the largest seaborne assault in human history: D-Day. The landings on the five Normandy beaches, Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword, will go down in legend as the first footsteps on the journey to end the war in northern Europe...

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Command and Control interweaves the minute-by-minute story of an accident at a missile silo in rural Arkansas, where a single crew struggled to prevent the explosion of the most powerful nuclear warhead ever built by the United States, ...

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He is the deadliest American sniper ever, called "the devil" by the enemies he hunted and "the legend" by his Navy SEAL brothers. From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military history...

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We have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats. Yet by the time the gas chambers became operation more than a million European Jews were already dead: shot at close range over pits and ravines...

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In an America torn apart by the Vietnam War and the demise of '60s idealism, airplane hijackings were astonishingly routine. Over a five-year period starting in 1968, the desperate and disillusioned seized commercial jets nearly once a week...

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Alchemy was an experimental laboratory activity that involved numerous disciplines. It was practised over time and among various strata of society, ranging from artisans and burghers, physicians and clergy, to nobility and rulers. It was part of the...

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On 1st May 1915, the luxury ocean liner Lusitania sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool. Her passengers were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone and its submarines were bringing terror to the Atlantic...

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Fake news about the past is fake history.Did Hugo Boss design the Nazi uniforms?Did medieval people think the world was flat?Did Napoleon shoot the nose off the Sphinx?...

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Sborník příspěvků ze stejnojmenné mezinárodní konference pořádané Slovanskou knihovnou a občanským sdružení Ruta ve dnech 21. - 22. října 2010 v Klementinu. Studie se nezabývají vojensko-politickým významem Ukrajinské povstalecké armády...

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As the Cold War faded into history, it appeared to have been replaced by a new conflict...

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Rich with tales of discovery from Galileo to general relativity, a stimulating and timely analysis of how science works and why we need it...

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With an introduction by Kevin Powers A groundbreaking piece of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket. We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality...

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Discover the emotional history of emigration from Slovakia. Explore 44 authentic stories of Slovak Settlers who left everything behind in search of better life in the New World....

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What if the ancient Greeks were right, and the universe really did spring into being out of chaos and the void? How could we know? And what must its first moments have been like? ...

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Antiquarian, archaeologist, vulcanologist, and envoy to the British Embassy in Naples, Sir William Hamilton (1731 – 1803) was a leading European figure of his time. Though the romance between his wife Lady Emma Hamilton and ...

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Mary Kaldor's New and Old Wars has fundamentally changed the way both scholars and policy-makers understand contemporary war and conflict. In the context of globalization, this path-breaking book has shown that what we think of as war - that is to say...

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In 1948, a war broke out that would result in Israeli independence and the erasure of Arab Palestine. Over twenty months, thousands of Jews and Arabs came from all over the world to join those already on the ground to fight...

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Čtyřicetičtyřstránková publikace v anglickém a českém jazyce obsahuje detailní fotografie zrenovovaného vozidla, historické snímky, výkresy v měřítku, detailní perokresby z manuálu a barevné bokorysy...

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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Egypt is your in-depth guide to the very best of the oldest tourist destination on Earth...

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