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  • The First World War (3)

    The Western Front 1917–1918

    de Peter Simkins ...
    Series series Guide to...
    In this, the second volume in the Guide To... series covering the war on the Western Front, Peter Simkins describes the last great battles of attrition at Arras, on the Aisne and at Passchendaele in 1917.Then he moves on to relate the successive offensives launched by Germany in the spring and summer of 1918 in an effort to achieve victory or a favourable peace before American manpower proved ... Leer más

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  • The First World War (2)

    The Western Front 1914–1916

    de Peter Simkins ...
    Series series Guide to...
    More than 80 years on, the Great War - and particularly the great battles such as the Somme and Verdun - continues to fascinate us and to cast long shadows over the world in which we live.For Britain, the effort and sacrifice involved in creating and sustaining its first-ever and biggest-ever mass citizen army, and in helping to defeat the main enemy in the decisive theatre of operations, left ... Leer más

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  • The Birth of the West

    Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century

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    The tenth century dawned in violence and disorder. Charlemagne's empire was in ruins, most of Spain had been claimed by Moorish invaders, and even the papacy in Rome was embroiled in petty, provincial conflicts. To many historians, it was a prime example of the ignorance and uncertainty of the Dark Ages. Yet according to historian Paul Collins, the story of the tenth century is the story of our ... Leer más

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  • Historia regum Britanniae (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Geoffrey's British History

    Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae is a sweeping Latin prose chronicle that fashions Britain's past from its Trojan founder Brutus to the seventh-century decline of native rule. Blending annalistic history, classical epic memory, biblical patterning, and Celtic legendary material, it gives enduring literary form to King Lear, Merlin's prophecies, and above all Arthur's imperial ... Leer más

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  • Vienna, 1814

    How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War, and Peace at the Congress of Vienna

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    “Reads like a novel. A fast-paced page-turner, it has everything: sex, wit, humor, and adventures. But it is an impressively researched and important story.”—David Fromkin, author of Europe’s Last SummerVienna, 1814 is an evocative and brilliantly researched account of the most audacious and extravagant peace conference in modern European history. With the feared Napoleon Bonaparte presumably ... Leer más

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  • Joan of Arc

    A Life Transfigured

    The profoundly inspiring and fully documented saga of Joan of Arc, the young peasant girl whose "voices" moved her to rally the French nation and a reluctant king against British invaders in 1428, has fascinated artistic figures as diverse as William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Voltaire, George Bernard Shaw, Bertolt Brecht, Carl Dreyer, and Robert Bresson. Was she a divinely inspired saint? A ... Leer más

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  • Radical Enlightenment

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    Arguably the most decisive shift in the history of ideas in modern times was the complete demolition during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - in the wake of the Scientific Revolution - of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought, and belief by the new philosophy and the philosophes, culminating in Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau. In this revolutionary process which ... Leer más

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  • The Fate of the Masterpiece

    How the Monuments Men Rescued the Mystic Lamb from the Nazis

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    This short e-book, adapted from Noah Charney's book Stealing the Mystic Lamb, tells the dramatic story of the rescue of The Ghent Altarpiece from Nazi pillagers.As the Nazis stormed across Europe during the Second World War, hundreds of thousands of artworks disappeared in their wake. A group of Allied officers set off on the trail of Europe's vanished art treasures -- they were known as the ... Leer más

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  • Cognac

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  • The Thirty Years' War 1618-1648

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  • The Mediator

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