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Jack Tar
Roy Adkins
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Lesley Adkins
Hachette Digital
ISBN : 9780349120348
The Royal Navy to which Admiral Lord Nelson sacrificed his life depended on thousands of sailors and marines to man the great wind-powered wooden warships. Drawn from all over Britain and beyond, often unwillingly, these ordinary men made the navy invinci
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Trafalgar
Roy Adkins
Hachette Digital
ISBN : 9780349116327
This is the true story of the Battle of Trafalgar, Britain's most significant sea battle, as seen through the smoke-hazed gunports of the fighting ships. In an atmosphere of choking fumes from cannon and musket fire, amid noise so intense it was ...
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Spies In The Sky
Taylor Downing
Hachette Digital
ISBN : 9781408703625
SPIES IN THE SKY is the thrilling, little known story of the partner organisation to the famous code-breaking centre at Bletchley Park. It is the story of the daring reconnaissance pilots who took aerial photographs over Occupied Europe during the ...
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In Search Of Zarathustra
Paul Kriwaczek
Phoenix
ISBN : 9781842126554
IN SEARCH OF ZARATHUSTRA is a quest to trace the influence of the prophet the Greeks called Zoroaster and considered the greatest religious legislator of the ancient world. Long before the first Hebrew temple, the birth of Christ or the mission of ...
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Wedlock
Wendy Moore
Phoenix
ISBN : 9780753828250
When Mary Eleanor Bowes, the Countess of Strathmore, was abducted in Oxford Street in broad daylight in 1786, the whole country was riveted to news of the pursuit. The only daughter of a wealthy coal magnate, Mary Eleanor had led a charmed youth. ...
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Napoleon and Wellington
Andrew Roberts
Orion
ISBN : 9781842127407
On the morning of the battle of Waterloo, the Emperor Napoleon declared that the Duke of Wellington was a bad general, the British were bad soldiers and that France could not fail to win an easy victory. Forever afterwards historians have accused ...
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A History of England in 100 Places
John Julius Norwich
John Murray
ISBN : 9781848546066
From battlefield to sacred building, from castle to cottage, from the Bridgwater Canal to Blackpool Pier, historian John Julius Norwich tells the political, cultural, social, religious and economic story of England through one hundred key places ...
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The Essence of Maya
Luis Alberto Martos López
Cacciani, S.A. DE C.V.
ISBN : 9786078187010
Of all pre-Hispanic cultures, the Maya have perhaps attracted the most attention on the part of archaeologists and historians. Their cultural proliferation, their extraordinary scientific contributions, and their epic survival have given rise to ...
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