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Angels Of Mercy: Nurses On The Western Front
Eileen Crofton - Paperback - Birlinn
This story relates the wartime experiences of a group of women who ran a hospital near the trenches during World War I, often under conditions of great hardship. Told largely through letters home and diaries, it throws light on wartime conditions and the cause of women's suffrage.
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Salerno 1943: The Allies Invade Southern Italy
Angus Konstam - Paperback - Osprey
This is the story of the tense, bitter struggle around the Salerno beach-head which decided the issue and changed the course of the campaign - for those ten critical days the fate of Italy hung in the balance. Using documentary records, memoirs and eyewitness accounts, Konstam recreates every stage of the battle.
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Healing The Nation: Prisoners Of War, Medicine And Nationalism In Turkey, 1914-1939
Yucel Yanikdag - Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
Yucei Yanikdag explores how, during the Great War, Ottoman prisoners of war and military doctors discursively constructed their nation as a community, and at the same time attempted to exclude certain groups from that nation. Those excluded were not always the ethnic or religious Other as might be expected. They frequently included the internal Other in different guises.
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Death Was Our Bed-Mate: 155 (Lanarkshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment And The Japanese, 1941-1945
Agnes McEwan - Hardback - Pen & Sword
The book tells the story of a little known artillery regiment, the 155th (Lanarkshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, RA which saw constant action during the ill-fated Malayan Campaign of 1941/42 and whose members later experienced the worst kind of hell as POWs of a cruel and bestial enemy.
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The End Of The Roman Republic 146 To 44 BC: Conquest And Crisis
C. E. W. Steel - Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
Catherine Steel tells the history of this crucial and turbulent century, focusing on the issues of freedom, honour, power, greed and ambition, and the cherished but abused institutions of the Republic which were central to events then and which have preoccupied historians ever since.
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The End Of The Roman Republic 146 To 44 BC: Conquest And Crisis
C. E. W. Steel - Paperback - Edinburgh University Press
Catherine Steel tells the history of this crucial and turbulent century, focusing on the issues of freedom, honour, power, greed and ambition, and the cherished but abused institutions of the Republic which were central to events then and which have preoccupied historians ever since.
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The Family In The Roman World
Mary Harlow - Paperback - Edinburgh University Press
Looking at written texts and archaeological evidence, this book examines the interactions of ideals and social realities, and the history of the family in the Roman world.
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Force Z Shipwrecks Of The South China Sea: HMS Prince Of Wales And HMS Repulse
Rod Macdonald - Paperback - Whittles
The tragedy of the loss in 1941 of two Royal Navy capital ships, HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse, the core of Churchill's deterrent Force Z, stunned the world. Churchill had hoped that sending a small powerful squadron of ships to Singapore would deter a threatened Japanese invasion of Malaya and Thailand. He was to be proved tragically wrong. This book explores in detail the wrecks of these two vessels and narrates a summary of the Japanese threat.
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Vikings!
Gunnar Andersson - Paperback - NMS
In recent years archaeological discoveries have shed new light on the Vikings and this exhibition tells the Viking story through around 500 unique objects, seldom seen outside Scandinavia. It explores the perceptions of the Vikings as warriors, explorers, pirates and merchants.
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From Rome To Byzantium AD 363 To 565: The Transformation Of Ancient Rome
A. D. Lee - Hardback - Edinburgh University Press
Doug Lee charts significant developments which contributed to the transformation of ancient Rome and its empire into Byzantium and the early medieval west. By emphasising the resilience of the East during late antiquity and the continuing vitality of urban life and the economy, this volume offers an alternative perspective to the traditional paradigm of decline and fall.
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