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History, military and Historical Biography of pre-20th century characters like Nelson, Napoleon to Buddha or Ghengis Khan.
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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
| Gordon Napier Book Number: 85745 |
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King James VI and first in Daemonologie said, "The fearefull abounding at this time in this countrie, of these detestable slaves of the Devil, the Witches or enchanters, hath moved me to dispatch i...
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| Dan O'Sullivan Book Number: 85761 |
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"He experienced during the religious upheaval of political intrigue of four Tudor reigns, while many close to him lost their positions and even their lives." Serving in the household of Thomas Cro...
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| R. E. PRITCHARD Book Number: 85764 |
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An insight into the most hedonistic court in English history, the context is Restoration Libertinism and political events such as Charles II's secret deals with Louis XIV, the wars with the Dutch, ...
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| Amarpal Singh Book Number: 85767 |
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The tale of the bloody war that ended in the conquest and annexation of the Punjab by the East India Company. A disgruntled garrison's chance killing of two young British officers sent to govern t...
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| Andrea Zuvich Book Number: 85780 |
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Hold on to your periwigs! We are taking a whirlwind tour of the history of Stuart Britain which encompassed the majority of the 17th century and the first 14 years of the 18th. The period is some...
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| Felicity Trotman Book Number: 85781 |
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Queen Victoria reigned for 64 years and in those years Britain changed enormously not only through many scientific and technological advances such as the spread of railways, a transatlantic telegra...
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| HELENE ALEXANDER Book Number: 85784 |
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The celebrated fan maker Félix Alexandre (b.1823) was active in an age when the art of fan-making reached a glorious apogee. Brought together for the first time, here is an array of exquisite fans...
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| HELENE ALEXANDER & R. HARRIS Book Number: 85785 |
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From the luxurious medieval languor of Lady Ashburton, photographed as Tennyson's Enid and clothed 'in apparel like the day' for the Devonshire House Ball of 1897, to the understated elegance of Mi...
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| DON JORDAN & MICHAEL WALSH Book Number: 84876 |
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Sub-titled 'Charles II and the Greatest Manhunt in British History', several months after the execution of Charles I in 1649, his elder son Charles, the Prince of Wales, wrote from exile in Holland...
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| JEFFREY JAMES Book Number: 85875 |
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A country with a small population, Ireland has been invaded and exploited throughout its history, but the Irish have always fought back with tenacity and courage. In the first century AD the Irish ...
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| KIEF HILLSBERY Book Number: 85885 |
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Sub-titled 'A Journey to the Other Side of British India', in this page-turning addition to the literature of the Great Game, the author sets out to discover the riddle of his ancestor Nigel Hallec...
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| GARETH GLOVER Book Number: 85904 |
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Written by an ex-Royal Navy officer and author of more than 40 books of previously unpublished archival material from the period, this is an excellent Pen & Sword publication. Charles Penman Gaird...
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| DANIEL MERSEY Book Number: 85913 |
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Early imperial Rome is hugely popular with wargamers and this book covers the principate of 27-284 AD, offering the gamer a versatile force with high discipline and a range of different troop types...
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| JEREMY ARMSTRONG Book Number: 85914 |
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Sub-titled 'From the First Regal Period to the First Punic War' the author reviews both the literary sources and the latest archaeological evidence to provide a fresh analysis of Roman military org...
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| ROSS COWAN Book Number: 85917 |
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A Roman legionary soldier was equipped with a heavy javelin, cut and thrust sword and a shield from shoulder to shin. As a member of a maniple of 120 men he was expected to form a unit of power to ...
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| DAVID HEY Book Number: 85930 |
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Much more than just a guide book, this is a study of how our ancestors shaped the South Yorkshire countryside over the centuries, not only with monasteries, castles and parish churches, but also wi...
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| RICHARD ENSOR Book Number: 85934 |
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A few miles to the east of Hastings, on the beach at Pett Level, lies the wreck of the warship Anne, and just a few times a year, at very low tides, it is possible to see her outline and some of he...
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| CLARA SCHMIDT Book Number: 85944 |
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Mostly in black and white but with some fine colour examples are the most beautiful Arabesques, lattice patterns, swastikas, stylised bamboos, friezes, Thomas W. Cutler's 'A Grammar of Japanese Orn...
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| CLARA SCHMIDT Book Number: 85947 |
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Ornate scrollwork, engraved copper, French gold work, candlesticks in bronze, decorated reliquaries, beautiful enamelled earthenware tiles, painted ceilings, keystones, 14th and 15th century milita...
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| RICHARD KILLEEN Book Number: 85354 |
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No visitor to or historian of Ireland should miss the chance to read this enthralling celebration of the people, places and events which make the country unique. Richard Killeen is the author of se...
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| REBECCA RIDEAL Book Number: 85795 |
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1666 was a watershed year for England. An outbreak of the Great Plague, the eruption of the second Dutch War, and the devastating Great Fire of London all struck the country in rapid succession and...
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| PETER DUCKERS Book Number: 85805 |
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For over 200 years the British maintained a powerful military system in India. If it is recalled at all in the popular imagination of today, the Victorian Indian Army remembered as much for its use...
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| DANIEL NOLAN Book Number: 85810 |
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Clippers were the ultimate refinement of the merchant sailing ship and dominated ocean trade routes. The greatest wind-propelled vehicles ever, their seaworthiness and exceptional beauty was match...
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| EDITED BY STEPHEN ROBERTS Book Number: 85811 |
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How can Chartism in its Biblical righteousness, in its Shakespearian grandiloquence and unremitting class consciousness, in its internationalist generosity and in its Jacobin militance, in its bala...
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| RUTH AND VINCENT MEGAW Book Number: 85815 |
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This widely praised Shire publication, now extensively revised and enlarged, examines the predominantly warrior and aristocratic art of the Iron Age inhabitants of Britain and Ireland from the four...
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| JOHN ROBERTSON Book Number: 85820 |
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Lost in the daily reports of warfare is any objective information about the daily lives of Iraqis, their ethnic diversity, their rich cultural heritage, and their incredibly ancient history stretch...
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| C. DE LA BEDOYERE & C. KIDNEY Book Number: 85977 |
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Big spiral bound fact book with a fantastic 3D scene of gladiators in combat on the front cover and verdict stickers Live! or Die! with thumbs up and thumbs down among the 90 colourful stickers inc...
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| ADRIAN GOLDSWORTHY Book Number: 85979 |
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A Yale University Press first edition 2010 by the prize-winning classicist who combines scholarship with storytelling. Grounded in scrupulous analysis of ancient sources from documents on papyrus ...
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| C. V. WEDGWOOD Book Number: 85983 |
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Dame Cicely Veronica Wedgwood (1910-1997) specialised in the history of 17th century England and Continental Europe. Originally published in the Collin's Pictures of Britain series, this super lit...
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| C. BRAD FAUGHT Book Number: 85989 |
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One of the excellent Potomac Military Profiles series, this lively, informed and balanced account of the great military and political leader shows that Robert Clive (1724-1774) was an unlikely mili...
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