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Like most of those who study
history, he (Napoleon III) learned
from the mistakes of the past how
to make new ones.
- A. J. P Taylor
| BARNABY ROGERSON Book Number: 91154 |
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For 40 years, Barnaby Rogerson has travelled across North Africa making sense of the region's complex and fascinating history as both a writer and a guide. His book is a journey into ruins of a la...
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| JOHAN NORBERG Book Number: 91166 |
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The topic is how collaboration and curiosity has shaped mankind. As we recover from the pandemic of 2020, the world needs more open minds, open hearts, open communications, open markets, and Norbe...
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| ADRIAN GOLDSWORTHY Book Number: 91185 |
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It was the year 44BC when Julius Caesar was killed, when Augustus was a mere teenager who had been adopted into Caesar's household. His rection to Caesar's death was to step forward and proclaim h...
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| JOHN GRAINGER Book Number: 91226 |
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Antipater was a key figure in the rise of Macedon under Philip II and instrumental in the succession of Alexander III (the Great). Alexander entrusted Antipater with ruling Macedon in his long abse...
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| TIMOTHY DAWSON Book Number: 91235 |
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'Military Dress and Court Regalia in the Later Romano-Byzantine Empire' is the sub-title of this richly illustrated book. Drawing on literary and artistic sources, archaeology and reconstructions,...
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| TONY O'TOOLE, MARTIN DERRY Book Number: 91248 |
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The Hurricane was one of Britain's most iconic aircraft which was not only pivotal during the Battle of Britain but also served as a night fighter, fighter-bomber, naval fighter and dedicated groun...
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| HANS SEIDLER Book Number: 91249 |
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In this publication from Images of War, witness the struggle between the Nazis and Allied military over a ten month period, between 1944 and 1945. This is a fascinating combination of rare photogra...
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| D. P. GRAHAM Book Number: 91251 |
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Irish troops had fought for Louis XIV in the 1670s and took part in most of the major conflicts of the time including the Wars of the 1670s, the Nine Years War, the War of the Spanish Succession, t...
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| DAVID HOFFMAN Book Number: 91452 |
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An unforgettable journey into Cold War espionage, this is a breakthrough book in intelligence writing, drawing on CIA operational cables. Hoffman reveals CIA tradecraft tricks and chilling insight...
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| CATHARINE ARNOLD Book Number: 91466 |
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The life of Britain's greatest dramatist was inextricably linked with the history of London. Together the great writer and the great city came of age and confronted triumph and tragedy. Triumph c...
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| DOMINIC SELWOOD Book Number: 91520 |
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Sub-titled 'A History of British Identity In 50 Documents', historian and barrister Dominic Selwood explores over 950,000 years of British History. Some of the 50 documents he has chosen are well ...
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| GUY DE LA BEDOYERE Book Number: 91523 |
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The author has written a great number of books on the Roman world over the last 30 years and was part of Channel 4's archaeology series Time Team for 15 years. This is his richly researched, detai...
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| GABRIEL MANDEL KHAN Book Number: 91322 |
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The exquisite calligraphy and letters of the Arabic alphabet are explained in this thorough and illuminating guide. Writing styles and the alphabet presents an understanding of a culture and civil...
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| MICHELLE PERROT Book Number: 91325 |
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The bedroom, or "chambre", is where life begins and ends, and this highly readable translation brings a prize-winning French social history to an English-speaking readership. The bedroom of the Sun...
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| DAN JONES Book Number: 91334 |
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Sub-titled 'The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands', when Christian armies seized Jerusalem in 1099, they began the most notorious period of conflict between Christianity and Islam in hist...
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| PRIYA SATIA Book Number: 91343 |
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Sub-titled 'The Violent Making of The Industrial Revolution', sweeping in its scope and entirely original in its approach, here is a rigorous historical argument with a human story at its heart. S...
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| DAVID TREUER Book Number: 91356 |
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For over a century it has been generally accepted that Native American history essentially ended in 1890 with the massacre of up to 300 Native men, women and children at Wounded Knee at the hands o...
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| MACKENZI LEE Book Number: 91360 |
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Informative and lighthearted, this unusual take on world history beats anything you can find on the shelves of your average bookshop. Practically every world leader has had a dog, and sure enough h...
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| ALAN STRAUSS-SCHOM Book Number: 91396 |
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Very few people have the power to change the world they live in but Louis Napoleon, Emperor of France as Napoleon III, was one of the few. Nephew of the Great Napoleon, he presided over France's Se...
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| SIMON CRITCHLEY Book Number: 91407 |
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'The oldest extant piece of theatre that we possess, Aeschylus's The Persians, from 472BCE, depicts the defeated enemy not with triumph but with sympathy, and with an anticipation of the possible h...
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| JÜRGEN OSTERHAMMEL Book Number: 91409 |
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Sub-titled 'The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia', during the long 18th century, Europe's travellers, scholars and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony and openness. In...
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| MARTIN PUCHNER Book Number: 91414 |
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The subject of this enjoyable book is the story of story-making, starting with the Epic of Gilgamesh, the first written masterpiece, discovered in 1842 in a roomful of tablets in cuneiform writing ...
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| OWEN REES Book Number: 91578 |
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While battles such as Spartolus (429BC) and Solygeia (425BC) are important to our understanding of battle tactics, the sources do not allow for a thorough reconstruction like they can for Delium (4...
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| SAMANTHA PRIESTLEY Book Number: 91580 |
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We know our Bibliophile readers very well and this gruesome history of Britain's most brutal punishment will sell out fast. The history of gibbeting is the story of hanging of criminals in a body ...
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| MICHAEL FULTON Book Number: 91588 |
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Despite the attention dedicated to castles, siege warfare is often given little more than a token chapter in books on these strongholds or medieval warfare more generally and little has been writte...
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| IAN HERNON Book Number: 91620 |
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From the New York Times, 4th July 1857: 'Brick-bats, stones and clubs were flying thickly round, and from the windows in all directions, and the men ran wildly about brandishing firearms. Wounded m...
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| ALBERTO ANGELA Book Number: 91625 |
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Sub-titled 'The Queen Who Challenged Rome and Conquered Eternity', more than a muse and greater than a myth, Cleopatra was ruler, lover, diplomat and icon. The last Queen of Egypt lived less than ...
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| MUNGO MELVIN Book Number: 91637 |
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Lying at a crossroads of culture and commerce, Crimea has proved both a cradle of civilisation and a crucible of conflict. The Crimean Peninsula and the city of Sevastopol share a violent past. T...
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| SUJIT SIVASUNDARAM Book Number: 91644 |
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The Indian and Pacific oceans constitute a forgotten quarter of this planet, brought here together perhaps for the first time in a sustained work of history by the Cambridge academic. The decades ...
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| PHILIPPA FAULKS, R.L.D. COOPER Book Number: 91757 |
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'The Life and Death of Count Cagliostro and His Egyptian Rite' is the sub-title of this first English translation of the Egyptian Rite ever published. It tells the extraordinary story of a cult fi...
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