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  • The Forts & Fortifications of Europe 1815- 1945: The Neutral States

    The Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland

    After the Napoleonic Wars the borders of Europe were redrawn and relative peace endured across the region, but the volatile politics of the late nineteenth century generated an atmosphere of fear and distrust, and it gave rise to a new era of fortress building. In the neutral states situated between France and Germany - The Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland - the need for extensive fixed ... Read more

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  • Castrum to Castle

    Classical to Medieval Fortifications in the Lands of the Western Roman Empire

    A richly illustrated history of military fortifications in ancient and medieval times.For over a thousand years, from the time of the Roman Empire to the classic period of castle-building in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, fortified sites played a key role in European warfare. This highly illustrated history gives a fascinating insight into their design and development and into the centuries ... Read more

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  • The Atlantic Wall

    History and Guide

    This WWII history and visitor's guide explores the extensive network of Nazi fortifications built to defend Fortress Europe.Hitler's Atlantic Wall, the complex system of coastal fortifications that stretched from Norway to the Spanish border during the Second World War, was built to defend occupied Europe from Allied invasion. Many of its principal structures survive and can be visited today. This ... Read more

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  • Castle to Fortress

    Medieval to Post-Modern Fortifications in the Lands of the Former Roman Empire

    The authors of Castrum to Castle trace the "evolution of defensive architecture at the turn of the late Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance." — Old Barbed Wire BlogAcross western Europe, the long tradition of castle-building took on its most sophisticated form in the later Medieval period and then, in response to the development of gunpowder weapons, it underwent a fundamental change ... Read more

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  • Verdun 1916

    The Renaissance of the Fortress

    Wrapped in myth and distortion, the Battle of Verdun is one of the most enigmatic battles of the Great War, and the controversy continues a century later. Before the battle the Germans believed they had selected one of the strongest points in the French defences in the hope that, if they smashed through it, the French would collapse. But Verdun was actually a hollow shell since its forts were ... Read more

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  • Fortress America

    The Forts That Defended America, 1600 to the Present

    "The best study, by far, on the general subject of fortifications within the country." — Journal of Military HistoryFrom the earliest colonial settlements to Cold War bunkers, the North American continent has been home to thousands of forts and fortress structures. Fortress America surveys the broad sweep of fortifications throughout North America—from seacoast forts of the late eighteenth century ... Read more

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  • Fortress Europe

    From Stone to Steel Fortifications,1850–1945

    An authoritative exploration of the architecture of Europe's fortifications built in the 19th and 20th centuries.A few of the fortifications and fortified lines of the world wars are well known and have often been written about, illustrated and studied. But they tend to distract attention from the wide range of fixed defenses constructed across Europe on an enormous scale after the Franco-Prussian ... Read more

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  • Hegel

    Texts and Commentary

    Herbert Marcuse called the preface to Hegel's Phenomenology "one of the greatest philosophical undertakings of all times." This summary of Hegel's system of philosophy is now available in English translation with commentary on facing pages. While remaining faithful to the author's meaning, Walter Kaufmann has removed many encumbrances inherent in Hegel's style. ... Read more

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  • American GI in Europe in World War II: D-Day: Storming Ashore

    Covers the D-Day airborne drops and amphibious landings at Omaha Beach and Utah Beach. Includes sidebars on landing craft, the naval bombardment, engineers, medics, the Germans' defenses, and more. ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed

    Sixteen Rivers Press, #1

    Series Book 1 - Sixteen Rivers Press
    The poems in this anthology embody what it's like to live in the astonishing weave of cities and towns, landscape and language, climate and history that make up the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Selected by the members of Sixteen Rivers Press, a regional poetry collective named after the web of rivers that flow into San Francisco Bay, the poems in THE PLACE THAT INHABITS US are drawn from both a ... Read more

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  • American GI in Europe in World War II The Battle in France

    Firsthand accounts and contextual narrative chronicling the war in Europe after D-Day. Sidebars on glider operations, rear-area activities, hedgerow country, and more. Based on interviews with more than 200 veterans. ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • American GI in Europe in World War II: The March to D-Day

    Firsthand accounts and contextual narrative chronicling the U.S. war effort before D-Day. Sidebars on patrols, service troops, the replacement system, Rangers, and more. Based on interviews with more than 200 veterans. ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD