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Jeffrey Grey

A Military History of Australia provides a detailed chronological narrative of Australia's wars across more than two hundred years, set in the contexts of defence and strategic policy, the development of society and the impact of war and military service on Australia and Australians. It discusses the development of the armed forces as institutions and examines the relationship between governments and military policy. This book is a revised and updated edition of one of the most acclaimed overviews of Australian military history available. It is the only comprehensive, single-volume treatment of the role and development of Australia's military and their involvement in war and peace across the span of Australia's modern history. It concludes with consideration of Australian involvement in its region and more widely since the terrorist attacks of September 11 and the waging of the global war on terror.

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G.C. Skipper

Describes the Allied attack of the beaches of Normandy, the largest invasion the world had ever seen, which marked the end of Adolf Hitler'sNazi Europe.

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Michel Rodigneaux

L'activité frénétique des corsaires au large des côtes guadeloupéennes au temps de Victor Hugues a pu évoquer à divers titres celles des terribles pirates barbaresques qui sévissaient en Méditerranée à la même époque. C'est cette aventure méconnue que l'auteur nous fait revivre ici. Il décortique ce qu'il faut bien appeler une "économie corsaire", pendant la Révolution et l'Empire en Guadeloupe. La grande et la petite histoire se rejoignent ainsi en une épopée héroïque.

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W.E.B. Griffin

The Philippines, 1943: As the ragged remnants of the American forces stand against the might of the Imperial Japanese Army, a determined cadre of OSS agents becomes their only contact with the outside world-and their only hope for survival.