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  • Britain 3000 BC

    Were prehistoric people like us? How did they live, what did they think and how did they see their world?3000 BC was a moment of great significance in the British Isles: Avebury, Stonehenge and many other major monuments were at vital stages in their construction and use, and writing – often regarded as the ultimate hallmark of civilisation – made its first appearance in Europe. In this revised ... Read more

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  • Encounters with God

    That Changed the World

    Series Book 1 - Encounters that Changed the World
    This e-book is an extract from Encounters that Changed the World and is also available as part of that complete publication.There have been many instances across the centuries of people’s encounters with God. Often these are intensely personal private experiences that powerfully influence and often transform individual lives. Occasionally profound spiritual experiences remake communities and lead ... Read more

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  • Conflicts that Changed the World

    Conquest, glory, death and destruction

    Conflict and warfare is perpetual in the world today. It has always been like that. The history of the human race is the history of conflict. Conquest and glory versus death and destruction. Who takes us to war and why? This book traces world history through the conflicts that changed the world. From the Battle of Megiddo in 1479 BC to the Wars of the Roses of the Middle Ages and the American ... Read more

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  • Encounters that Changed the World

    Empress Josephine grew up in a well off, white Creole, sugar-plantation-owning family in Martinique. But a hurricane destroyed the plantation along with her family’s fortunes. In 1795 she met Napoleon Bonaparte and a legendary romance developed. Her hair was dark and silky, her voice was low and beautifully modulated. Napoleon need no encouragement and they married in 1796. Napoleon’s passionate ... Read more

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  • Encounters with Love

    That Changed the World

    Series Book 3 - Encounters that Changed the World
    This e-book is an extract from Encounters that Changed the World and is also available as part of that complete publication.Anne Boleyn’s meteoric rise from complete obscurity to the dizzy heights of the English throne was followed by an equally swift journey to the Tower of London. Accused of plotting to kill the King, Anne was no murderer. Her real crime was that she failed to produce a male ... Read more

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  • Minoans

    Life in Bronze Age Crete

    Thoroughly researched, Rodney Castleden's Minoans: Life in Bronze Age Crete here sues the results of recent research to produce a comprehensive new vision of the peoples of Minoan Crete.Since Sir Arthur Evans rediscovered the Minoans in the early 1900s, we have defined a series of cultural traits that make the ‘Minoan personality’: elegant, graceful and sophisticated, these nature lovers lived in ... Read more

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  • Great Friendships

    That Changed the World

    Series Book 2 - Encounters that Changed the World
    This e-book is an extract from Encounters that Changed the World and is also available as part of that complete publication.In many relationships we know a great deal about a friendship from one participant’s point of view and much less from the other’s. Because Plato wrote and Socrates did not, we know a great deal about what Plato thought of Socrates, but we know absolutely nothing about what ... Read more

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  • Creative Encounters

    That Changed the World

    Series Book 7 - Encounters that Changed the World
    This e-book is an extract from Encounters that Changed the World and is also available as part of that complete publication.The great Renaissance artist Michelangelo loved young men. In 1532 he began a courtship with the love of his life. But Tommaso Cavalieri came from a distinguished, conventional Roman family and was shocked by the artist’s passion. Michelangelo’s unrequited love profoundly ... Read more

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  • Political Encounters

    That Changed the World

    Series Book 5 - Encounters that Changed the World
    This e-book is an extract from Encounters that Changed the World and is also available as part of that complete publication.On 26 September 1960, an estimated 70 million Americans watched John Kennedy and Richard Nixon in the first ever televised presidential debate. Nixon perspired heavily and appeared unshaven while Kennedy was immaculate and composed with a California suntan. Kennedy had found ... Read more

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  • The Attack on Troy

    "A most insightful treatment of the seemingly mythic events that make up part of the foundation of Western history . . . an excellent book." —The NYMAS ReviewThirty-three hundred years ago, Agamemnon, king of Mycenae in Greece, attacked the city of Troy in western Anatolia. The bloody siege that followed gave rise to one of the most famous legends of the ancient world, and the search for the truth ... Read more

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  • Chance Encounters

    That Changed the World

    Series Book 4 - Encounters that Changed the World
    This e-book is an extract from Encounters that Changed the World and is also available as part of that complete publication.He didn’t realize it at the time, but in the late 1860s, David Livingstone had disappeared and was presumed dead. He had been in Central Africa and out of touch with the world for 5 years. In November 1871, Henry Morton Stanley mounted an expedition to find him. Read about ... Read more

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  • Hostile Encounters

    That Changed the World

    Series Book 6 - Encounters that Changed the World
    This e-book is an extract from Encounters that Changed the World and is also available as part of that complete publication.The final phase of the Hundred Years’ War between England and France coincided with the reign of England’s most charismatic king – Henry V. Within that final phase came the most famous battle of the war, the Battle of Agincourt. For the English the confrontation between the ... Read more

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