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Charge!
Justin Pollard
Hodder
ISBN : 9780719523144
War brings out the very best and worst in people although, frankly, its usually the latter. But for all our thousands of years of practice at this most dangerous art there is precious little evidence that we're either outgrowing it or getting any ...
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The Interesting Bits
Justin Pollard
Hodder
ISBN : 9781848541009
Did you give school history lessons your undivided attention? Even if you did, youre probably none the wiser as to how exactly Henry II of France came to have a two-foot splinter in his head or why Alexandra of Bavaria believed she had ...
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Betjeman's England
John Betjeman
John Murray
ISBN : 9781848540927
For more than half a century, Betjeman's writings have awakened readers to the intimacy of English places - from the smell of gaslight in suburban churches, to the hissing of backwash on a shingle beach. Betjeman is England's greatest topologist: ...
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The SS: A New History
Adrian Weale
Hachette Digital
ISBN : 9780316727235
The SS is the most historically important institution of Third Reich Germany yet it remains amongst the least well understood.The SS was at the forefront of implementing the most radical and terrible policies of Nazi Germany: the Jewish Holocaust ......
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How to Change the World
Eric Hobsbawm
Hachette Digital
ISBN : 9781408702871
In the 162 years since Karl Marx’s Das Kapital was published, the doctrine that bears his name has been embraced by millions in the name of equality, and just as dramatically has fallen from grace with the retreat of communism from the western ...
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The Maid and the Queen
Nancy Goldstone
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN : 9780297863366
How did an illiterate 17-year-old peasant girl manage to become one of histories most salient females? It is almost 600 years since Joan of Arc heard the voices of angels that would change her life forever: in a breathtaking story her quest saved ...
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Jerusalem
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN : 9780297852650
Jerusalem lacks a biography. It lacks a secret history. Simon Sebag Montefiore's account is seen through kings, conquerors, emperors, soldiers, Moslems, Jews, Christians, Macedonians, Romans and Greeks, Palestinians and Israelis, from King ...
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