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The crucial three-day battle of Leipzig, known to posterity as the Battle of the Nations, was the biggest battle of... Read more
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The struggle of the Irish people for independence is one of the epic tales of the 20th century. Morgan Llywelyn has... Read more
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Like gold nuggets amongst pebbles, the more than 200 images reproduced in this book include many of transcendent... Read more
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Narrated partly by Antony himself as he stands on the verge of ruin, and partly by his Greek secretary Critias, the... Read more
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The text of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1921 novel of desire and its implications in Old New York is... Read more
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A richly textured historical novel centered around the father of the American nuclear weapons program chronicles the... Read more
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Plutarch was a Greek scholar living in the Roman Empire. He was not a historian, per se, but rather a biographer who... Read more
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This is a collection of photocopiable resources about the Anglo-Saxons with ideas on how to use these sheets. It is... Read more
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Amedeo Clemente Modigliani (July 12, 1884 – January 24, 1920) was an Italian artist, practicing both painting and... Read more
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Continuum Contemporaries give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most... Read more
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Barrie Pitt, who died on April 15 aged 87, was a highly capable editor of popular histories, and the workmanlike... Read more
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This is a history of the forgotten third battle of 1066, the battlefield which until now remained undiscovered.... Read more
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Our main selection of titles covering World War Two.
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When we think of great events in the history of the world, we tend to think of war, revolution, political upheaval... Read more
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Former KGB spy Vladimir Putin, named Prime Minister of Russia in 1999 and, one year later, President, has been... Read more
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The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. What began as a small community of peasants camped... Read more
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The world at the beginning of the 20th century seemed for most of its inhabitants stable and relatively benign.... Read more
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'Shakespeare and Company' in Paris is one of the world's most famous bookshops. The original store opened in 1921... Read more
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Africa is forever on our TV screens, but the bad-news stories (famine, genocide, corruption) massively outweigh the... Read more
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The rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat by the Nazis at Dunkirk was not just about... Read more
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