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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
| THOMAS PAINE Book Number: 25248 |
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Published as a reply to Burke's Reflections of the Revolution in France, Rights of Man is a classic statement of the belief in humanity's potential to change the world for the better. Paine writes ...
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| Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Book Number: 27141 |
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Rousseau (1712-1778) argues for the preservation of individual freedom in political society. An individual can only be free under the law, he says, by voluntarily embracing the law as his own. Henc...
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| ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE Book Number: 28847 |
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Hailed as the finest book ever written on the nature of democracy, it continues to be an influential text on both sides of the Atlantic, above all in the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe. De ...
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| SUN TZU Book Number: 35497 |
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The two political classics in this book are the product of a time of intense turmoil in Chinese history. They are anything but armchair strategy or ivory-tower speculation: they are serious, urgen...
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| RICHARD GOODENOUGH Book Number: 74510 |
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The house historian is a detective, painstakingly piecing together clues and hints until they start to form a whole picture. In this invaluable guide to methods and resources, the author uses his ...
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| JOHN LOCKE Book Number: 73734 |
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John Locke (1632-1704) was perhaps the most influential English writer of his time. His 'Essay concerning Human Understanding' (1690) and 'Two Treatises of Government' (1690) weighed heavily on the...
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| ANGUS KONSTAM Book Number: 76159 |
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Sub-titled 'Sir Francis Drake on the Spanish Main 1585-86', here is a detailed, authoritative analysis of one of the greatest raids in military history. In 1585, war between Spain and England was ...
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| STANLEY JENKINS Book Number: 76380 |
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It is like playing spot-the-difference with these then and now sepia and colour photographs contrasted on every page of this fascinating selection of images from this most picturesque county. Oxfo...
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| ASA BRIGGS Book Number: 76485 |
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One of our most respected British historians describes how he got his unusual name, a question often put to him, and considers whether having been born in Bradford, an industrial town surrounded by...
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| DUC DE SAINT-SIMON Book Number: 76763 |
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Memoirs of Duc De Saint-Simon 1691-1723. Buy all three paperbacks and make further savings.
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| JOHN M. BARRY Book Number: 76933 |
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In a masterful and penetrating book, the author layers biography and history, ranging widely across questions of politics, religion and ideology, and culminating in a definition of the very princip...
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| DIANA PRESTON Book Number: 78606 |
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In 1838 the British government, convinced that its Indian territories were threatened by Russia, Persia and Afghan tribesmen, ordered its mighty Army of the Indus into Afghanistan with the aim of o...
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| SANDER GILMAN Book Number: 78547 |
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With a continuing debate as to whether it should be addressed as a physiological or psychological problem, obesity is one of the most important medical concerns in today's society. Sander Gilman t...
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| RICHARD STONEMAN Book Number: 78752 |
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Sub-titled 'A Literary Guide to Turkey', here is a lively guide to the remarkable literature which has inspired for 2,000 years. The range of travel writing shows how, while political circumstance...
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| MIKE PETTY Book Number: 77143 |
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In 1925, a group of Cambridge antiquarians - including a printer, a doctor, an anatomist and a pathologist - set off on a journey into the unknown. They loaded their car with cameras, tripods and ...
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| JOHN STUART MILL Book Number: 78849 |
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With an Introduction by Dr Mark G. Spencer of Brock University, Ontario, Canada. John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) is the most important of Britain's 19th century philosophers. His writings and activit...
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| F. E. HALLIDAY Book Number: 74373 |
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For all those who want to refer to the events in English history in a broad context and to learn the chronology of our island story, here is an easy-to-read and informative book. Widely praised wh...
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| STEPHEN PARKINSON Book Number: 80294 |
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Founded in 1815, the Cambridge Union immediately became the subject of controversy when an attempt was made to shut it down on the grounds that it was interfering with students' studies. The real f...
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| GEORGE DREWRY SQUIBB Book Number: 80704 |
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Sub-titled 'A Study in the Civil Law in England', in its heyday the High Court of Chivalry was much more than an heraldic tribunal. Its jurisdiction extends to all military matters not governed by...
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| WILLIAM WILLIAMS Book Number: 80715 |
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First published by the Indiana University Press in 1969, this welcome reprint of a long-neglected first American novel narrates the adventures of a young British man who flees an unhappy home life ...
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| EDITED BY LAURENCE KELLY Book Number: 81130 |
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Kelly recreates for contemporary visitors the vanished glories of Constantinople with vivid, eyewitness accounts of the coronation of a Byzantine emperor, the funeral of a sultan and the building o...
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| Machiavelli, Nicolo Book Number: 80667 |
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Written in 1513 for the Medici, immediately following their return to power in Florence, The Prince remains as relevant a text on the craft of ruling and the exercise of power in today's world of c...
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| VICKY WOOD Book Number: 78086 |
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Bite-sized facts, places of interest, the book includes every English King or Queen since Alfred the Great, covering ten centuries of civil wars, executions, abdications and royal weddings. Comple...
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| DONALD WEINSTEIN Book Number: 80804 |
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Sub-titled 'Love, Honour and Violence in Renaissance Tuscany' this master historian has a talent for drama and suspense. On March 21st 1578, Holy Thursday, cavalier Fabrizio Bracciolini claimed th...
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| SIMON WEBB Book Number: 80823 |
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Sub-titled 'Terrorism in Victorian and Edwardian London', we learn that in fact terrorist attacks have been a feature of life in London for many years. The worst bombing in the capital before 7/7 ...
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| ROMAN FRISTER Book Number: 80859 |
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Following a surprise find of documents in the flea market at Jaffa, the author lovingly reconstructs the lives of five generations of the Jewish family Levy, based mainly in Pomeranian towns which ...
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| DAVID REES Book Number: 80869 |
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The recent history of Korea is well-known: Japanese occupation in the 20th century brought with it modernisation and industrialisation on the one hand, but also cultural suppression symbolised in t...
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| BEN WILSON Book Number: 80872 |
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Alexander Pope said 'satire's my weapon', and here the first of many illustrations is of William Hone and George Cruikshank, the author and the artist, and their fight for a free press. It is an e...
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| MARTIN HACKETT Book Number: 80880 |
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The author has personally visited and photographed each battle site listed within the book to provide the most accurate and up-to-date information possible. With each battle is a scale map designe...
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| EDITED BY JOHN CHERRY Book Number: 80888 |
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Courtly love and romance originated in Provence in Southern France in the 12th century and this concept underlies the romances chosen here. The story of Tristan and Isolt is well known to us throu...
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