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Taking the reader on a tour of cities and landscapes grimly familiar to today's reader--from a bombed-out Fallujah, to Baghdad, to Damascus--Blood, Oil and the Axis is poised to become the definitive chronicle of the Axis's menacing play for Iraq and the Levant in 1941 and the extraordinary alliance that confronted it.

The true story of the British Navy campaign to put an end to the African slave trade, told with the energy of the "Master & Commander" series.

The fascinating true story of how four Royal Navy officers campaigned to end the slave trade in East Africa

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As people crowded into British cities in the nineteenth century, industrial and biological waste byproducts and then epidemic followed. The solution that prevailed was the idea that British towns must build public water supplies, replacing private companies. But the idea was not an obvious or inevitable one. As Broich demonstrates, the debate over how to supply London with water came to a head when the climate itself forced the endgame near th...