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Land Travel and Communications in Tudor and Stuart England: Achieving
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Focused on the period between 1500 and 1700, Land Travel and Communications in Tudor and Stuart England documents the unprecedented growth that occurred in road travel by all sections of...
Burgoyne Diaries
These are the diaries of Gerald Achilles Burgoyne, wrote from the trenches just south of Ypres while he was with the Royal Irish Rifles in the Great War. The author's...
Albuera 1811: the Bloodiest Battle of the Peninsular War
On 16 May 1811, the small town of Albuera was the setting for one of the Peninsular War's most bloody and desperate battles. A combined Spanish, British and Portuguese force...
Decline and Fall of Napoleon's Empire
In this wide-ranging study of the Napoleonic regime, Digby Smith tracks Napoleon's rise to power, his stewardship of France from 1804 15, and his exile. He highlights his military mistakes,...
Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews
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The Balkan Wars
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Mermaid Singing (Oe)
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The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
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Thirties and the Nineties
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A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret
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As heard on the New Yorker Radio Hour: The triumphant and "engaging history" (The New Yorker) of the young women who devised a winning strategy that defeated Nazi U-boats and...
Hitler's Spy Chief
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Arrested in the wake of the July 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler, Canaris was executed by the Nazis in the last week of the war, although the extent of his...
The Crimean War and Irish society
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The purpose of this book is to produce what is essentially a 'home front' study of Ireland during the Crimean War, or more specifically Irish society's responses to that conflict....
Victorians in Camera
'The making of a lifelike picture was something to be wondered at. It was an adventure, it was an expense, and it was often something of an ordeal...' 'Victorians in...
Defiance!: Withstanding the Kaiserschalcht
This fascinating volume charts the progress of the Allied breakout of Normandy through German eyes. Beginning with Operation COBRA and ending with the offensive which led to the liberation of...
Kidnap in Crete: The True Story of the Abduction of a Nazi General
This is the story of how a small SOE unit led by Patrick Leigh Fermor kidnapped a German general on the Nazi-occupied island of Crete in 1944. For thirty-two days,...
Normandy Invasion, June 1944
The Noemandy Invasion literally takes a different view of D-Day and just beyond, showing the well-known events using aerial photos. This is what anxiously waiting senior officers knew about progress...
The Lost History of 1914: How the Great War Was Not Inevitable
In The Lost History of 1914, Jack Beatty examines the First World War and its causes, testing against fresh evidence the long-dominant assumption that it was inevitable. 'Most books set...
Augustus at War: The Struggle for the Pax Augusta
The words Pax Augusta - or Pax Romana - evoke a period of uninterrupted peace across the vast Roman Empire. Lindsay Powell exposes this as a fallacy. Almost every year...
London: the Autobiography
In London: The Autobiography the life of the capital is told, for the first time, by those who made it and saw it at first hand. From Roman times to...
The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople
In 1202, zealous western Christians gathered in Venice determined to liberate Jerusalem from the grip of Islam. But the crusaders never made it to the Holy Land. Steered forward by...
The Most Dangerous Moment of the War: Japan'S Attack on the Indian
. Gripping account of a little-known but crucial episode in World War IIOne of the biggest 'what if' moments of WWIIPuts a new perspective on Japan's military ambitions in WWII...
Panzer Rollen!
Repair, logistics, recovery, tactics and movement of a panzer division compiled from post- war debriefs, contemporary intelligence reports and interviews. AUTHOR: Bob Carruthers is one of the UK's leading military...
Churchill's Spearhead
This book covers the inception, growth and employment of Britain's airborne forces (parachute and glider-borne formations) between June 1940 and March 1945. It takes a comparative approach and follows tailored...
Brutus of Troy
Just who did the British think they were? For much of the last 1,500 years, when the British looked back to their origins they saw the looming mythological figure of...
Marching to the Sound of Gunfire: North-West Europe 1944-1945
In this delightful book, scores of British soldiers tell their amazing stories of life - and death - in the front line of the Allies' advance from Normandy to Hitler's...
The Dragon's Trail: The Biography of Raphael's Masterpiece
In her fascinating new book, Pitman has written an enthralling micro history of Raphael's painting St. George and the Dragon--as well as the colorful rogue's gallery of historical characters who...
The Last Stalinist: The Life of Santiago Carrillo
The life of the complex, ruthless adversary of General Franco, whose life spanned much of Spain's turbulent 20th century. From 1939 to 1975, the Spanish Communist Party, effectively lead for...
Churchill and Sea Power
Winston Churchill had a longer and closer relationship with the Royal Navy than any British statesman in modern times, but his record as a naval strategist and custodian of the...
The First Clash: The Miraculous Greek Victory at Marathon and Its
Marathon--one of history's most pivotal battles. Its very name evokes images of almost superhuman courage, endurance, and fighting spirit. But until now, the story of what happened at Marathon has...
The Battle of the Ypres-Comines Canal 1940: France and Flanders
Known in some accounts as the Battle of Wijtschaete, the confrontation along the Ypres-Comines Canal in 1940 is still hardly remembered in this country and, apart from the battle honours...
Fighting in Hell the German Ordeal on the Eastern Front
The German war in Russia was so brutal in all its extremes that all past experiences paled beside it. Everything in Russia - the land, the climate, the distances and...
Battle for the Escaut 1940: The France and Flanders Campaign
On 10 May 1940 the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), under the command of Lord Gort, moved forward from the Franco-Belgian border and took up positions along a 20-mile sector off...
Shakespeare's Local: Six Centuries of History Seen Through One Extraordinary Pub
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Splendour and Squalor: The Disgrace and Disintegration of Three Aristocratic Dynasties
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The Later Roman Empire
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Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police: A Cold War Escape
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George VI: The Dutiful King
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Nine Day Queen of England : Lady Jane Grey
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The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War
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The Spy Who Saved the World: How a Soviet Colonel Changed the Course of the Cold War
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The Riviera Set
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From Heracles to Alexander the Great: Treasures from the Royal Capital of Macedon, an Hellenic Kingdom in the Age of Democracy
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A Year in Paris: Season by Season in the City of Light
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I Shall Bear Witness: The Diaries Of Victor Klemperer 1933-41
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The Red Line: The Gripping Story of the RAF's Bloodiest Raid on Hitler's Germany
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Carve Her Name with Pride
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The Devil's Disciples
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Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess
A Spectator Best Book of the YearTrawling through a vast family archive and arcane sources in half a dozen languages, Adam Zamoyski has revealed the dramatic life of his great-great-great...