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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
| TIMOTHY BROOK Book Number: 92943 |
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Histories of China usually start in 221 BCE with the establishment of Imperial China under the Qin dynasty, but the author of this readable book believes that those days are too remote for us to en...
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| PHILIP J. POTTER Book Number: 92960 |
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From the voyages of Christopher Columbus into the unchartered dark blue waters of the Atlantic Ocean to the daring exploration of the Louisiana Purchase by Meriwether Lewis, the book brings to life...
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| MACKINLAY CANTOR Book Number: 92967 |
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The American Civil War raged for four years before it culminated in the peace treaty made in the village of Appomattox Court House by the dapper, well-dressed Confederate General Robert E. Lee and ...
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| FRANCK MONNIER & D. LIGHTBODY Book Number: 92526 |
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Another in the quirky and reliable Haynes series by an archaeologist and scholar specialising in the landscapes, technologies and cultures of Antiquity, particularly from Ancient Egypt, Greece, the...
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| STEPHEN TOMKINS Book Number: 92732 |
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The sailing of the Mayflower, the ship that took the Pilgrim Fathers to the New World, is a fundamental event in American history, but it began as an English story that pioneered the idea of religi...
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| AMY LICENCE Book Number: 92733 |
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A 500 year journey back in time to experience the Tudor era through the five senses. Woodsmoke and sage, peacocks and cinnamon, falcons and linen. These were the sights, smells, sounds, tastes an...
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| KATHERINE PANGONIS Book Number: 92734 |
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The American-British historian who specialises in the medieval world of the Mediterranean and the Middle East holds MA degrees from Oxford and University College London and here tells the untold st...
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| LAUREN JOHNSON Book Number: 92736 |
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In 1509 King Henry VII died and his son succeeded to the throne as Henry VIII. The year stands as a crossroads between two very different kings and between equally different worlds, sitting in the...
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| GERALD EASTER, MARA VORHEES Book Number: 92738 |
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'Catherine the Great, A Golden Age Masterpiece and A Legendary Shipwreck' is the sub-title to this riveting history and maritime adventure about priceless masterpieces originally destined for the Q...
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| THE BRITISH MUSEUM Book Number: 92111 |
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Ready to easily pull out and send, this selection of 20 beautiful postcards are illustrated with details of objects from the Ancient Egypt and Sudan Collection of the British Museum. Images includ...
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| Jonathan Falconer Book Number: 92616 |
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The Pilgrim Fathers are often hailed as the founders of the American nation, although the Virginia Company had created a colony a few years earlier and the whole continent was already peopled by na...
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| MARTYN PRING Book Number: 92984 |
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Sub-titled 'The English Channel and Ocean Liner Specials, History, Development and Operation' here is the exciting story of more than 125 years of independent and organised tourism. The routes to ...
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| Tom Quinn Book Number: 92997 |
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A splendiferous foray into the weirder side of the capital, Quinn provides a collection of bizarre-but-true stories that explore a thousand years of London's history. Discover the pit packed with ...
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| STEVEN JOHNSON Book Number: 92599 |
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The story of London's most terrifying epidemic, and how it changed science, cities, and the modern world is the subtitle of this lively and beguiling book by the author of Everything Bad is Good fo...
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| JOSEPHINE WILKINSON Book Number: 92606 |
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Immortalised in the novel of the same name by Alexander Dumas, the real Man In The Iron Mask became a prisoner on the orders of Louis XIV and remained in custody for the remaining 34 years of his l...
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| ROBIN LAURENCE Book Number: 93013 |
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Sex and mutiny is the first chapter which begins "To botanists, the coconut palm is the Cocos nucifera, a member of the Aceraceae or Palm family." Writings in Sanskrit refer to coconut oil as bein...
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| RUTH GOODMAN Book Number: 93022 |
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Sub-titled 'A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves and Braggarts' we enter a rowdy street gang scouring a tavern. Gentlewomen hold insolent eye contact. Drunkards ...
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| GEOFFREY PIMM Book Number: 93037 |
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In this era, women were often beaten and abused at home by husbands exercising their legal right and were whipped, branded, exiled and burned alive by the courts. This extraordinary work records t...
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| JULIUS CAESAR Book Number: 93038 |
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The war in Gaul was the making of Caesar. For nine years he battered his way through his province, and the rich and promising land beyond, bullying armies and brutalising the resistance. By the tim...
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| GREG JENNER Book Number: 93069 |
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'50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know' is the sub-title of this book by the author who is the host of the BBC podcast 'You're Dead to Me'. Every page contains a delight: How d...
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| JEREMY BLACK Book Number: 93074 |
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The revised and updated fourth and final volume in a highly acclaimed series which begins in the specially-constructed Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition, showcasing British national achieveme...
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| RICHARD KILLEEN Book Number: 93075 |
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Ireland has been home to successive groups of settlers and waves of immigration - Celts, Vikings, Normans, Elizabethan-English adventurers, Anglo-Scots settlers, Cromwellians, Huguenots, Palatines ...
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| JEREMY BLACK Book Number: 93076 |
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With plentiful literary references, quotations from visitors and boxes covering topics such as Jack the Ripper, Black analyses the pivotal moments in history that make London what it is today. Fro...
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| JOHN HAYWOOD, C. HURDMAN Book Number: 93099 |
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Heavy quality illustrated softback for ages 9-12 years or adults wishing to have a visual and simplified overview exploring the ideas, discoveries and technology that have shaped the human race sin...
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| JOHN HAYWOOD Book Number: 93139 |
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Human history began between eight and six million years ago in East Africa. At that time, according to DNA evidence, humans began their separate evolution from the great apes. The development of ...
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| GRAHAM HANCOCK Book Number: 91042 |
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Hancock's multi-million bestseller 'Fingerprints of the Gods' remains an astonishing, deeply controversial investigation of the mysteries of our past, and evidence for earth's lost civilisation. 2...
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| JOHN JULIUS NORWICH Book Number: 92486 |
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Sub-titled 'A Short History from the Greeks to Cosa Nostra', the well known historian has written histories of Norman Sicily, Venice, Byzantium, the Mediterranean and the Papacy as well as his trav...
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| MAJOR-GENERAL WILLIAM ALLAN, Book Number: 93217 |
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The Crimean War of 1854-56 was the first of the 'modern' wars. The opening round at the Alma was a direct throwback to the Napoleonic campaigns of 50 years earlier, whereas the Siege of Sevastopol...
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| LAURA BRENNAN Book Number: 93219 |
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James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, may have been the eldest and illegitimate son of a monarch, but when he entered the world his father, Charles II, was a monarch without a kingdom, and with little pro...
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| GEMMA HOLLMAN Book Number: 92947 |
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England in the 15th century was dominated by the Wars of the Roses in which descendants of King Edward III struggled for power. Edward's son John of Gaunt had numerous children by two wives, and th...
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