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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
| TANYA O'DONNELL Book Number: 86704 |
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"All courtship is the art of convincing the other person of your innate desirability." Love At First, Second or Third Sight, Signalling Your Interest, Beauty and Seductive Items of Clothing and Ha...
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| JOHN WADE Book Number: 86706 |
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Victorian innovators were responsible for the world's largest glass structure, an electric railway with lines under the sea and a carriage on stilts 20ft above the waves, a monster globe that visit...
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| NICK ROBINS Book Number: 86633 |
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Scottish engineering, ship owning and operating as well as business and entrepreneurial skills have all played a big part in the success of the Merchant Navy. Scottish emigrants took skills with t...
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| EDIT BY STEPHEN BRENNAN Book Number: 86551 |
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Catherine Hayes was burned alive for the murder of her husband; Thomas Lympus executed for robbing the mail; Reverend Wheatley sentenced to public penance for adultery; John Everett sentenced to de...
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| J. G. HOLMSTROM Book Number: 86554 |
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Sub-titled 'The Fine Art of Horseshoeing and Wagon Making' here is the perfect guide to learning the timeless art of blacksmithing, or simply admiring the beautiful illustrations of the tools of th...
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| DOUGLAS PALMER, NICHOLAS JAMES Book Number: 86752 |
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'Tales of History's Greatest Archaeological Adventurers' is the sub-title of this history of courage, vision, resourcefulness, innovation and perseverance. Here is a book about the discovery of th...
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| CATHARINE ARNOLD Book Number: 86758 |
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From Hamlet Act 1, "Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat in this distracted Globe." William Shakespeare's life was inextricably linked with the history of London. Togethe...
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| JOHN HOLLIDAY Book Number: 86777 |
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Sub-titled 'How An Englishman Brought the West to The Orient' encapsulated within this historical biography is the whole history of the 19th century integration of the West and the Orient. It is a...
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| LYNDA TELFORD Book Number: 86800 |
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Inequality was a fact of life for medieval women and generally the law was pro-male in every respect. Educational possibilities were limited and even a woman's personal possessions could not be be...
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| IAN KLAUS Book Number: 86573 |
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"Every phase of out market society's expansion was shaped by deceit, fraud and mountebankery." - Chris Lehmann, In These Times. This engaging history looks at how Britain attempted to negotiate ca...
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| ALEV LYTLE CROUTIER Book Number: 86578 |
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"I was born in an old house in Izmir, Turkey, which had previously been inhabited by a Pasha who had a harem... People often whispered things about harems; my own grandmother and her sisters had be...
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| MICHAEL ALEXANDER Book Number: 86584 |
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A new interest in medieval things surfaced in England in the 1760s and with it a revival of medieval form, manifest in literature and in architecture. In the 1830s this affected religion and produ...
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| ANDREA PITZER Book Number: 86587 |
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Here for the first time is a chronological and geopolitical history of concentration camps. Beginning with 1890s Cuba, Andrea Pitzer documents concentration camps from the Philippines and Southern...
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| JAMES EVANS Book Number: 86871 |
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Sub-titled 'The Voyage of Discovery That Transformed Tudor England'. In 1553, three ships were commissioned to look for a short-cut sea route. They commissioned Sir Hugh Willoughby and Richard Ch...
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| Jeremy Black Book Number: 86921 |
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Professor Black's respected history of British foreign policy in this crucial and fascinating era deals with all the major conflicts including the Anglo-Dutch wars, the Wars of the Spanish and Aust...
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| SANDRA LAWRENCE Book Number: 86483 |
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A companion to code 86482 Death and Destruction, here is more grim and gruesome history for 10-14 year olds, presented in the most appealing and easy-to-absorb style. Corrupt trials, foul ways of ...
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| MATTHEW PARKER Book Number: 86500 |
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When Sir Walter Raleigh set out to South America to find the legendary city of El Dorado, he paved the way for a series of adventurers who would struggle against the harsh reality of South America'...
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| MARTIN PUCHNER Book Number: 86501 |
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"A story of letters and paper and rocket ships, of ruthless conquerors and elegant court ladies and middle-class entrepreneurs, of the will to power and the dream of freedom." - Stephen Greenblatt....
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| DAVID CRACKANTHORPE Book Number: 87026 |
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The persecution - torture, execution, confiscation of children, imposition of ruinous signs, and the violent hostility of the Catholic clergy combine to create conditions of terror and misery in th...
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| SALLY BERRIDGE Book Number: 87029 |
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Sub-titled 'The Seafaring Diaries of A Victorian Lady' here is life on board a Victorian ship as seen through the eyes of the Captain's wife. Maud Berridge (1845-1907) was the wife of Henry, a Mas...
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| PETER JAMES BOWMAN Book Number: 87031 |
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'As a German aristocrat in Regency London, Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau engaged in legendary exploits. His taste for fine living was the talk of the town, his pursuits of rich heiresses equal...
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| E. J. CLERY Book Number: 87032 |
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In 2013 the Governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney announced that Jane Austen would appear on the redesigned £10 note. Few noted a fact that the £10 'Austen' bank note was already in existenc...
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| JAMES SALZMAN Book Number: 86876 |
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There is no life without water, but drinking water can kill, and always has. The problem is that, apart from distilled water, no water source can ever be completely risk free, whether from the tap...
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| EDITED BY MICHAEL LEVENTHAL Book Number: 86877 |
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George Orwell said "History is written by the winners." Henry Kissinger "As a professor, I tended to think of history as run by impersonal forces. But when you see it in practice, you see the diff...
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| EDMONDO DE AMICIS Book Number: 86878 |
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The poet, novelist and travel writer Edmondo de Amicis (1846-1908) began his career as a soldier before switching to journalism. He is best remembered for his children's stories Heart of a Boy. T...
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| PHILIP MANSEL Book Number: 87013 |
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Another impeccably researched masterpiece of historical writing by one of Britain's leading historians on France and the Ottoman Empire. The court of Napoleon I, in its grandeur and extravagance, ...
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| JOSEPH SINCLAIR Book Number: 87020 |
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"The work of a man of superior education, who had enlisted in a moment of pique and humiliation to avoid facing at home the consequences of his own conceit and folly. The author wrote from the ran...
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| JOHN SPURLING Book Number: 87053 |
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At home with his wife Hilary Spurling the biographer and sitting on the terrace of his house in Arcadia on the coast of the Peloponnese, the award-winning playwright and novelist reimagines the sto...
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| MICHAEL BROERS Book Number: 87078 |
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The Oxford University historian focusses his masterly biography on the vitality, intelligence and phenomenal drive of this man. Between 1805 and 1810, Napoleon masterminded a host of stunning vict...
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| PETER JACOBS Book Number: 87084 |
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The Schneider Trophy, winner of a race for seaplanes and flying boats; cap and bag of the Women's RAF, control of velocity test, pilots' notes, RAF Association remembrance garland, Vulcan XM627, Ni...
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