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In The Persian Expedition, Xenophon, a young Athenian noble who sought his destiny abroad, provides an enthralling eyewitness account of the attempt by a Greek mercenary army - the Ten Thousand - to help Prince Cyrus overthrow his brother and take the Persian throne....
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Penguin
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1975-06-26
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Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kubilai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. On his return to the West he was made a prisoner of war and met Rustichello of Pisa, with whom...
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Penguin
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1974-11-28
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Written following the collapse of Rome's secular control over western Europe, the History of Gregory (c. AD 539-594) is a fascinating exploration of the events that shaped sixth-century France. This volume contains all ten books from the work, the last seven of which...
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Penguin
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1974-11-28
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A. J. P. Taylor was one of the most acclaimed and uncompromising historians of the twentieth century. In this clear, lively and now-classic account of the First World War, he tells the story of the conflict from the German advance in the West, through the Marne,...
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Penguin
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1974-03-28
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'With icy remorselessness, it puts paid to any notion that the horrors of modern history might be an aberration - for it tells of universal war, of terrorism, revolution and genocide' Tom HollandThe long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta plunged the...
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Penguin
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1974-02-28
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A full-scale life and times biography of an important Civil War figure.
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Oxford University Press
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1973-11-08
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Tacitus' Annals of Imperial Rome recount the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus up to the death of Nero in AD 68. With clarity and vivid intensity he describes the reign of terror under the corrupt Tiberius, the great fire of...
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Penguin
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1973-07-26
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'You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebels, the MacDonalds of Glencoe, and to put all to the sword under seventy.' This was the treacherous and cold-blooded order ruthlessly carried out on 13 February 1692, when the Campbells slaughtered their hosts the MacDonalds...
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Penguin
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1973-01-25
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'outstanding ... one of the most valuable contributions ever made to our knowledge of the history of our own land'
English Historical Review
This book covers the emergence of the earliest English kingdoms to the establishment of the Anglo-Norman monarchy in 1087....
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OUP Oxford
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1970-02-18
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'outstanding ... one of the most valuable contributions ever made to our knowledge of the history of our own land'
English Historical Review
This book covers the emergence of the earliest English kingdoms to the establishment of the Anglo-Norman monarchy in 1087....
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OUP Oxford
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1970-02-18
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The Land Office Business:The Settlement and Administration of American Public Lands, 1789-1837...
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Oxford University Press
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1968-01-15
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The Roman Revolution is a profound and unconventional treatment of a great theme - the fall of the Republic and the decline of freedom in Rome between 60 BC and AD 14, and the rise to power of the greatest of the Roman Emperors, Augustus.The transformation of state and...
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OUP Oxford
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1963-03-27
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Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History has been acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of modern scholarship. A ten-volume analysis of the rise and fall of human civilizations, it is a work of breath-taking breadth and vision. D.C. Somervell's abridgement, in two...
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Oxford University Press
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1947-12-31
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The Land Office BusinessThe Settlement and Administration of American Public Lands, 1789-1837...
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Oxford University Press
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1900-01-01
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