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The Nobleman and his Housedog

Maps Tycho Brahe’s Denmark Tycho and Kepler’s Europe Prologue Legacies Aristocrat by Birth, Astronomer by Nature Behaviour Unbecoming a Nobleman Having the Best of Several Universes The Isle of Hven Worlds Apart A Palace Observatory Adelberg, Maulbronn, Uraniborg Contriving Immortality The Undermining of Human Endeavour Years of Discontent Geometry’s Universe Divine Right and Earthly Machination …

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Arnhem: Jumping the Rhine 1944 and 1945

Introduction Dramatis Personae Prologue The Strategy of Exploitation – The Allies: 25 August-17 September 1944 Withdrawal – The Germans: 25 August-17 September 1944 Chasing the Dream – Airborne Warfare and its Soldiers: The Birth of Parachuting to Summer 1944 Stitching Things Together – Planning: 10-17 September 1944 Jumping the Rhine (I) – Operation Market Garden: …

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