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  • Defeat at the Dnepr

    The XLVIII. Panzerkorps’ Counterattack at Kiev, November 1943

    by Simon Waring ...
    “Drawing on an impressive body of primary sources, Waring’s book makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the desperate fighting of German army formations on the Eastern Front following the epic defeat at the Battle of Kursk in the summer of 1943. A particularly interesting and instructive aspect is his analysis and critique of the often self-justifying post-war memoirs of former ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Board of Longitude

    Science, Innovation and Empire

    by Alexi Baker, Richard Dunn, Rebekah Higgitt, Simon Schaffer, Sophie Waring ...
    In the first book-length history of the Board of Longitude, a distinguished team of historians of science bring to life one of Georgian Britain's most important scientific institutions. Having developed in the eighteenth century following legislation offering rewards for methods to determine longitude at sea, the Board came to support the work of navigators, instrument makers, clockmakers and ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

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    The Fatal Errors That Led to Nazi Defeat

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    From an acclaimed military historian, a fascinating account of just how close the Allies were to losing World War II.Most of us rally around the glory of the Allies' victory over the Nazis in World War II. The story is often told of how the good fight was won by an astonishing array of manpower and stunning tactics. However, what is often overlooked is how the intersection between Adolf Hitler's ... Read more

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  • Götterdämmerung - The Last Days of the Wehrmacht in the East

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    This fascinating collection of primary source accounts focuses on the combat actions of the Wehrmacht in the final battles of the war. The material is drawn from a variety of wartime sources and encompasses fascinating writings concerning the tactical, operational and strategic aspects of the battle for Berlin. Compiled and edited by Emmy Award winning author and historian Bob Carruthers, this ... Read more

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  • The Korsun Pocket

    The Encirclement and Breakout of a German Army in the East, 1944

    by Niklas Zetterling, Anders Frankson ...
    "Compelling prose, abundant tactical detail, lots of maps . . . If you're hungering for a good WWII East Front battle book, look no further." —Russ Lockwood, Magweb.comIn January 1944, around the village of Korsun (near the larger town of Cherkassy on the Dneiper), a disaster happened. Six divisions of Germany's Army Group South became surrounded after sudden attacks by the 1st and 2nd Ukrainian ... Read more

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  • Map of a Nation

    A Biography of the Ordnance Survey

    by Rachel Hewitt ...
    This "absorbing history of the Ordnance Survey"—the first complete map of the British Isles—"charts the many hurdles map-makers have had to overcome" ( The Guardian, UK).Map of a Nation tells the story of the creation of the Ordnance Survey map, the first complete, accurate, affordable map of the British Isles. The Ordnance Survey is a much beloved British institution, and this is—amazingly—the ... Read more

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  • Operation Zitadelle 1943

    The Greatest Tank Battle

    by Mark Healy ...
    In July 1943, Hitler launched Operation Zitadelle, the last German offensive on the Eastern Front. It was an attempt to shorten the German lines by eliminating the Kursk salient and was designed to result in the encirclement of the Red Army. In reality, the German tanks came up against impenetrable Russian defences: minefields, artillery and anti-tank emplacements, spread through lines 250km deep ... Read more

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  • The Weather Experiment

    The Pioneers Who Sought to See the Future

    by Peter Moore ...
    A history of weather forecasting, and an animated portrait of the nineteenth-century pioneers who made it possibleBy the 1800s, a century of feverish discovery had launched the major branches of science. Physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy made the natural world explicable through experiment, observation, and categorization. And yet one scientific field remained in its infancy. ... Read more

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  • Blitzkrieg

    From the Ground Up

    by Niklas Zetterling ...
    From the author of Bismarck: " A work of simply outstanding scholarship . . . unreservedly recommended for . . . World War II Military History collections" ( Midwest Book Review).The successes of the German Blitzkrieg in 1939-41 were as surprising as they were swift. Allied decision-makers wanted to discover the Germans' secrets, even though only partial, incomplete information was available to ... Read more

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  • The Philosophical Breakfast Club

    Four Remarkable Friends Who Transformed Science and Changed the World

    by Laura J. Snyder ...
    “[A] fascinating book...about the way four geniuses at Cambridge University revolutionized modern science.“ *—NewsweekThe* Philosophical Breakfast Club recounts the life and work of four men who met as students at Cambridge University: Charles Babbage, John Herschel, William Whewell, and Richard Jones. Recognizing that they shared a love of science (as well as good food and drink) they began to ... Read more

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  • Battleground Prussia

    The Assault on Germany's Eastern Front 1944–45

    by Prit Buttar ...
    An engrossing history of the last year of the Second World War, charting the battles fought between the Soviet Red Army and the Nazis across German soil.The terrible months between the arrival of the Red Army on German soil and the final collapse of Hitler's regime were like no other in the Second World War. The Soviet Army's intent to take revenge for the horror that the Nazis had wreaked on ... Read more

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  • Ships, Clocks, and Stars

    The Quest for Longitude

    by Richard Dunn, Rebekah Higgitt ...
    An illustrated history of an eighteenth-centuury British act of parliament and the heated race to find a ship's precise longitude at sea.A tale of eighteenth-century invention and competition, commerce and conflict, this is a lively, illustrated, and accurate chronicle of the search to solve "the longitude problem," the question of how to determine a ship's position at sea—and one that changed the ... Read more

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