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  • The Killing Fields of Scotland

    AD 83 to 1746

    by R.J.M Pugh ...
    Most people are familiar with references to Scottish battles such as Bannockburn and Flodden but know little if anything about those events. Rugby and soccer fans outside Scotland may wonder at the sign 1314 held up by Scottish fans and not know that it is the date of the Battle of Bannockburn when an English king was defeated on Scottish soil. The battle is also commemorated in Scotlands ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wingate Pasha

    The Life of General Sir Francis Reginald Wingate, 1861–1953

    by R.J.M Pugh ...
    Wingate Pasha is the first biography of an eminent Scottish soldier-statesman who contributed much to the development of the Sudan and Egypt during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It tells the story of a man from an impoverished background with a rudimentary education who nonetheless mastered several foreign languages including Arabic. In 1884, Wingate joined the expeditionary force to ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East

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  • A History Of Scotland

    by Neil Oliver ...
    The dramatic story of Scotland as it has never been told before - as seen on the BBC**The beauty of Scotland is overwhelming and I've often thought that Scotland's popular history is just like her landscape - impossibly romantic, obscured by mist and myth and always changing.'Vivid and compelling'** Good Book GuideScotland is one of the oldest countries in the world with a vivid and diverse past, ... Read more

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  • The Great Game

    by Peter Hopkirk ...
    For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth, Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia, fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia. Those engaged in this shadowy struggle called it 'The Great Game', a phrase immortalized by Kipling.When play first began the two rival empires lay nearly 2,000 miles apart. By the end, some Russian outposts were within 20 miles of ... Read more

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  • The English Civil Wars 1642-1649

    This is the definitive military history of the Civil Wars which swept the British Isles from 1642 to 1649.The martial aspects of the wars are covered in detail along with a comprehensive overview of the religious and political dimensions which shaped the armies involved in the conflict. This excellent single volume history is the perfect introduction to the military history of this turbulent ... Read more

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  • 1920

    A Year of Global Turmoil

    "History writing at its best . . . teasing out extraordinary parallels between our current world and that of a century ago." —Tim Butcher, author of Blood RiverA pandemic has killed millions. Violent uprisings are tearing apart the Middle East. Nationalism is on the march in Europe. An unlikely candidate is running for president in the US on a populist platform to put "America first." The year is ... Read more

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  • The Last Highlander

    Scotland’s Most Notorious Clan Chief, Rebel & Double Agent

    by Sarah Fraser ...
    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PERFECT FOR FANS OF OUTLANDER The true story of one of Scotland’s most notorious and romantic heroes.He was a spy, a clan-chief, a traitor. A polyglot, a deserter and a man of philosophy.Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, was the last of the great Scottish chiefs – and the last nobleman executed for treason. In life, his wit, ambition and dubious sense of morality kept him in ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Edward IV and the Wars of the Roses

    This fascinating account of an unsung English monarch and military leader is "a pleasing and well-informed appraisal of the first Yorkist king" (Dr. Michael Jones, author of Bosworth 1485: Psychology of a Battle).Indisputably the most effective general of the Wars of the Roses in fifteenth-century England, King Edward IV died in his bed, undefeated in battle. Yet he has never been accorded the ... Read more

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  • On Secret Service East of Constantinople

    The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire

    by Peter Hopkirk ...
    Under the banner of a Holy War, masterminded in Berlin and unleashed from Constantinople, the Germans and the Turks set out in 1914 to foment violent revolutionary uprisings against the British in India and the Russians in Central Asia. It was a new and more sinister version of the old Great Game, with world domination as its ultimate aim.Here, told in epic detail and for the first time, is the ... Read more

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  • Kings & Queens of England

    A royal history from Egbert to Elizabeth II

    Kings & Queens of England is an entertaining account of the larger-than-life characters that have ruled England through the ages. Divided into easy-reference chapters based on the ruling dynasties of England, it follows the fascinating history of monarchs from the first Saxon kings to the Windsors of the present day.Author Nigel Cawthorne paints vivid portraits of a mixed bunch of rulers ranging ... Read more

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  • The Steel Bonnets

    From the author of the famous ‘Flashman Papers’ and the ‘Private McAuslan’ stories.An historical narrative about the Anglo-Scottish border raiders in the 16th century. ... Read more

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