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This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

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This book, first published in 1969, examines the achievement of Montgomery in the campaign in NW Europe in 1944-5. The author provides an in-depth analysis of Montgomery¿s generalship, personality, complex relations with his American allies, and his own subordinates.

This book, first published in 1967, examines the foundations and the substance of the Montgomery Legend. The public needed a Hero as Britain¿s time on the ropes ended, and it was also politically necessary, lest Britain be swamped by the power of its allies.

This book, first published in 1963, is an early biography of Winston Churchill, attempting to discover a complete and complex Churchill, in his character, ambitions and personal experiences, the book seeks to present a clearer insight into the events of his life.

Imagine you are an eleven-year-old boy, out in the woods one day. What if you came across the tracks of an animal that is considered extinct! Would you believe it? Would you spend your time to check it out, or would you just disregard it? What if it turned out to be real? What would be the impact on you, your family, the animal? All of this happens while you are experiencing the loss of your mother, trying to understand the pain your father fe...

For those who truly love the game, there is no beginning player, or former player, there are only players. Daydreaming, A Baseball Story is for everyone who loves the game, be they younger players who are crossing the white lines for the first time, or those of us that know we will not cross them again as an active player, but in our minds we are still capable of making a play or getting a key hit. It is a story that begins and ends in an olde...

This book, first published in 1888 and reprinted in 1974, offers a history of US protective tariffs and their consequences for that country¿s international trade, particularly with Great Britain. It is a comprehensive analysis of the issue, seen from a time when the debate was perhaps at its most intense.

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from The History of Protective Tariff LawsThe arguments with reference to the general aspects of the subject have been long since exhausted. It would be as difficult to add any new ones as it would be to write an original essay upon the causes that led to our national independence. In arrangement alone can there be any thing like originality.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. F...

Excerpt from The Papacy: And the Civil PowerN ot so with the Protestant. He appeals to reason, ex amines history for himself, weighs both evidence and argu ment, and exercises his own intelligent judgment in sepa rating right from wrong, truth from falsehood. While the papacy demands implicit and passive obedience - the entire submission of the whole man, by the sacrifice of all his sense of personality - Protestantism encourages and develops ...

This is perhaps the most revealing case history of the politics of modern warfare ever set down. It is a story of a time when image making and public relations took precedence over strategy at the cost of thousands of lives. It is the story of the distortion of history and the promulgation of questionable glory. By August 1942, disaster had struck Great Britain in every theater of war, Singapore had fallen, Crete was gone, the Egyptians were ...

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This book is a compilation of edited papers which were presented at the XIth World Congress of Fertility and Sterility held in June 1983 in Dublin, Ireland. Although it has long been known that male factors are responsible in at least 30% of infertile couples only recently have concerted efforts been made on the part of urologists, gynaecologists and basic scientists to identify these factors more precisely. The nature of spermatogenesis is co...

What kind of science do we need today and tomorrow? In a game that knows no boundaries, a game that contaminates science, democracy and the market economy, how can we distinguish true needs from simple of fashion? How can we distinguish between necessity and fancy? whims How can we differentiate conviction from opinion? What is the meaning of this all? Where is the civilizing project? Where is the universal outlook of the minds that might be c...