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The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulersElizabeth II is the longest-serving monarch who ever sat on the English or British throne. Yet her personality and influence remain elusive. This book, by a senior politician who has...
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Penguin
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2015-08-27
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Although it is often thought that Herodotus is a simple author, and that his Histories do not contain many passages requiring textual criticism, closer investigation reveals this view to be inaccurate. Written to accompany and augment the new Oxford Classical Texts...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-08-27
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National Anthems have been sung for hundreds of years, inspired patriots and rebels, armies and athletes. Each one has its own story. And yet most of us know almost nothing about them ... until now.In Republic or Death!, Alex Marshall takes to the road on an adventure...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2015-08-27
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From Shakespeare to The Beatles, the battle of Agincourt has dominated the cultural landscape as one of the most famous battles in British history. Anne Curry seeks to find out how and why the legacy of Agincourt has captured the popular imagination.
Agincourt (1415)...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-08-27
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From Shakespeare to The Beatles, the battle of Agincourt has dominated the cultural landscape as one of the most famous battles in British history. Anne Curry seeks to find out how and why the legacy of Agincourt has captured the popular imagination.
Agincourt (1415)...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-08-27
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This book is a 'hidden' history of Bletchley Park during the Second World War, which explores the agency from a social and gendered perspective. It examines themes such as: the experience of wartime staff members; the town in which the agency was situated; and the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-08-26
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A compelling account of Australia's intelligence organisations and special forces - from the early days of the commandos during World War II through to the SAS of today and the cyber wars of the future. From the co-author of SAS Sniper.Warrior Elite is a unique and...
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Hachette Australia
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2015-08-25
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The continued vitality of the Greek city (polis) in the centuries after the Peloponnesian War has now been richly demonstrated by historians. But how does that vitality relate to the prominence in the same period of both civic unrest, or stasis, and utopian political...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-08-20
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The new edition of this popular and widely-used American history textbook has been thoroughly updated to include a wealth of new scholarship on American diplomacy in the decade leading up to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. Features new material on the Washington...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2015-08-19
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The American History Series
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Scholars and Poets Talk About Queens is a lively and erudite collection, unusual in an especially appealing way. This collection of essays shows how queens were represented in the Middle Ages and Renaissance through primary accounts, chronicles, and literary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-08-18
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The Crimean War was fought far from its namesake peninsula in Ukraine. Until now, accounts of Britain's and France's naval campaigns against Czarist Russia in the Baltic, White Sea, and Pacific have remained fragmented, minimized, or thinly-referenced. This book...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-08-18
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Dieser Band der «Arbeiten und Bibliographien zum Buch- und Bibliothekswesen» ist dem Gründer und langjährigen Herausgeber der Reihe, Horst Röhling, aus Anlass dessen 85. Geburtstags gewidmet. Er vereint Beiträge zu den Gebieten «Bibliotheca-Slavica-Ecclesia orientalis»,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-08-14
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At the beginning of the 1650s, England was in ruins – wrecked, impoverished, grief-stricken by plague and civil war. Yet shimmering on the horizon was an intoxicating possibility, a vision of paradise: Willoughbyland.Ambitious and free-thinking adventurers poured in,...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2015-08-13
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The Nazi regime and local collaborators killed 800,000 Belorussian Jews, many of them parents or relatives of young
Jews who survived the war. Thousands of young girls and boys were thus orphaned and struggled for survival on their own. This book is the first systematic...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-08-13
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Canals hold a unique place in British culture, with associations of lazy summer afternoons, journeying through lush green countryside. But as Liz McIvor explains in the book to accompany her BBC series, the story of our canals is also the story of how modern Britain was...
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Bbc Digital
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2015-08-13
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The island of Sicily has for centuries been a meeting point where civilizations transformed one another and gave life to the cultural developments at the foundation of European modernity.The essays collected here explore Sicily as a place where these cultural...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-08-12
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The first major study on the making of new cultures, movements and public celebrations of transnational solidarity in Weimar Germany.The book shows how solidarity was used to empower the oppressed in their liberation and resistance movements and how solidarity networks...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-08-11
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In the context of their war experience in the First World War, the changes and developments of the Executive branch of the Royal Navy between the world wars are examined and how these made them fit for the test of the Second World War are critically assessed.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-08-11
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As the 400th anniversary of the outbreak of the Thirty Years War approaches, Geoff Mortimer provides a timely re-assessment of its origins. These lie mainly neither in religious tensions in Germany nor in the conflicts between Spain, France and the Dutch, but in the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-08-11
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In the mid-twentieth century the relationship between America and Britain had a chequered past. Theirs was a history of protection and oppression, of rebellion and ultimately war. But then the shared crisis of the Second World War brought Britain and America closer than...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2015-08-06
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