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 | Firearms in the American West 1700 - 1900
Author:Martin Pelger
Using a wealth of contemporary accounts, this book puts into context how the specific demands created by the struggle for survival in such a hostile environment helped create the often unique types of firearms used in the West ie. muskets, rifles, shotguns and pistols. The history of some of America's more famous manufacturers and other equally deserving but now largely forgotten makes are traced. Hardback/Illus
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 | Gilbraltar - A History
Author:Maurice Harvey
This is a lucid, comprehensive and accurate account of the Rock's political and military history from prehistoric times to the present day. It includes a plan and tour of Gibraltar. Paperback/Illus
RRP:£17.50
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 | The Way and the Light
Author:Mick Sharp
An illustrated guide to the Saints and Holy Places of Britain. The author reveals the meaning of the hidden landscape, by relating the lives and legends of the saints who made it. He transports the reader back to a time in Britain in which evil spirits lurked, and in which visions and miracles were commonplace. Through his text and photographs he enables us to experience the sense of the sacred which still permeates these Holy Places. Paperback/Illus
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 | Brunel's Ships
Author:Denis Griffiths, Andrew Lambert & Fred Walker
The story of Brunel and his ships, is surrounded by myth and self-created propaganda. In this book, a multi-talented team of marine engineer, historian, and naval architect combine to analyse the scientific and economic context of the ships; the sum and substance of Brunel's contribution; and the technical features of his ships. It is illustrated in-depth with original draughts, contemporary prints and photographs. Hardback/Illus
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 | Ernst Junger and Germany Into the Abyss 1914-1945
Author:Thomas Nevin
The writer focuses on Junger's first fifty years, from the last years of the Kaiser to the end of Hitler's Third Reich. Neither apology, whitewash, nor vilification, this book is an assessment of the complex evolution of a man whose work and nature have been viewed as both inspiration and threat. Hardback/Illus
RRP:£20.00
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 | Yesterday's Countryside
Author:Valerie Porter
The author examines the minutiae of everyday life in the countryside and how it has changed for the people who live there. She compares the past with the present. Hardback/Illus
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 | Blue Fires The Lost Secrets of Nazi Technology
Author:Gary Hyland
The extraordinary story of the top secret Nazi technologies adopted and adapted by the allies after WW II. The book tells an amazing story of espionage and technology, cover-ups and conspiracies, cock-ups and total disasters. It traces a line from the secret societies of 1930s Germany where the nascent ideology of Nazism took shape to the cutting edge of aeronautical innovation. Hardback/Illus
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 | Making Faces
Author:John Prag and Richard Neave
This is the story of how Neave and Prag have developed the art of 'making faces' - it takes the reader into byways of forensic study, surgery and folklore and reveals how facial reconstruction has opened up whole new vistas of the past. Hardback/Illus
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