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Forgotten Battles of the Zulu War

Forgotten Battles of the Zulu War

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Adrian Greaves uses his exceptional knowledge of the Anglo-Zulu War to look beyond the two best known battles of Isandlwana and the iconic action at Rorke's Drift to other fiercely...
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire

Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire

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As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition...
Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded: Volume One

Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abu Shaduf Expounded: Volume One

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Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yusuf al-Shirbini's Brains Confounded pits the "coarse" rural masses against the "refined" urban population. In Volume One, al-Shirbini describes the three rural "types"-peasant cultivator, village man-of-religion,...