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The incredible true story of two WWI POWs who used amateur magic to convince their captors that they were in touch with the spirit world Captured during World War I, Lieutenant E. H. Jones, a Welsh officer in the Indian Army, and Lieutenant C. W. Hill, an Australian serving in the R.A.F., were prisoners ...

Recreates the retreat from southern Belgium to the Marne during the opening month of the Great War

From an acclaimed naval historian, Crusoe's Island charts the curious relationship between the British and an island on the other side of the world: Robinson Crusoe, in the South Pacific.

This fascinating compilation of wartime battlefield reports drawn from Russian and German sources has been carefully selected by Emmy Award winning author and historian Bob Carruthers to produce an absorbing overview of the organisation and tactics of the Red Army in World War II. Featured topics include ...

An interest in places of pilgrimage is very much a part of the life of many people in the modern world. For Christians, it is the Holy Land that holds specific interest - the area where the events described in the Bible, in both the Old and the New Testament, are located. This volume focuses on early ...

Concentrating on the sacrament of the altar, poverty, and conflicting versions of sanctity, this is a critical study of Christian literature, theology, and culture in late medieval England. David Aers considers how certain late medieval Christians and their Church engaged the resources of the Christian tradition in their own historical moment.

The fascinating and sensational story of the last two centuries of the papacy and a vital call for the reevaluation and reimagination of papal power by one of today's preeminent theologians

In this timely publication, Douglas Boyd shows how this still-flying banner of revolution changed the world.

Britain in the 1950s had a distinctive political and intellectual climate. Jim Smyth shows that, despite being allergic to McCarthy-style vulgarity, British intellectuals in the 1950s operated within powerful Cold War paradigms all the same.

More than a dozen of the most respected names in medieval and Renaissance scholarship have come together to present a variety of fighting lore from the rich heritage of the European fight masters, circa 1350 to 1675. The list of legendary fighters and instructors contained within these pages reads like ...

Examines the grim reality of southern Africa's contemporary post-'liberation' plight, with up-to-date analysis of the ANC and social movements.

A gripping historical account of Cold War subversion and revolution in post-colonial Africa, with crucial lessons for today.

The US politician Herbert Hoover described Russia as Banquo's ghost' at the Paris Peace Conference, an invisible but influential presence, and nowhere can this be more clearly seen than in the deliberations over the Baltic States. This title deals with the Baltic States.

In this collection Mahfouz deals with diverse political topics such as socio-economic class, democracy and dictatorship, Islam and extremism.

This book traces the dialectical development of auditory modes over six decades of commercial theatre history, combining surveys of the theatrical marketplace with focused attention to specific plays .

Bringing together leading scholars from across Europe, this volume represents a landmark intervention in the historiography of concepts.

The cultural borders of Europe are today more visible than ever, creating uncertainty for liberal democratic traditions, and questions of legitimacy, political representation, and the legal bases for citizenship. This book provides a wide-ranging exploration of these lines of demarcation in a variety of European regions and historical eras.

In 1944, a number of Sonderkommando-"special squads" of Jewish prisoners who kept the gas chambers running smoothly-buried on the grounds of Auschwitz a series of remarkable eyewitness accounts. This study reconstructs their history and textual content, revealing literary works that raise troubling questions about the nature of testimony.