History
Discover the best books on history, including world, American, and ancient European history. Find top-selling history books and must-reads at our online bookstore.
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Warfare in Tenth-Century GermanyA complete survey of the military campaigns of the early Saxons, tactics, strategy, and logistics, demonstrating in particular the sophistication of the administration involved. Over the course of half a century, the first two kings of the Saxon dynasty, Henry I (919-936) and Otto...
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War Cruel and Sharp: English Strategy Under Edward III, 1327-1360A close study of the military and political strategies of Edward III and the Black Prince, whose great victories had by 1360 made England the foremost martial nation of Europe. Contemporaries considered Edward III of England "the wisest and shrewdest warrior in the world",...
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Gender and Space in Early Modern England Gender and Space in Early Modern England Gender and Space in Early Modern EnglandA nuanced re-evaluation of the ways in which gender affected the use of physical space in early modern England. Space was not simply a passive backdrop to a social system that had structural origins elsewhere; it was vitally important for marking out and maintaining...
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The Spy Who Came in from the Co-Op: Melita Norwood and the Ending of Cold War EspionageA story of wartime intelligence, super-power relations and spies and their handlers - seen through the experience of Melita Norwood. On September 11th 1999 The Times newspaper carried the front page article "Revealed: the quiet woman who betrayed Britain for 40 years. The spy...
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Kennedy's Revised Latin Primer"For over a hundred years Kennedy's textbooks have been the unrivalled books for the teaching of the Latin language in public schools in Britain. The new Wallenberg edition, which has kept to the original familiar format but with many improvements will be welcomed by...
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Colossus: Bletchley Park's Greatest SecretIn 1940, almost a year after the outbreak of World War II, Allied radio operators at an interception station in South London began picking up messages in a strange new code. Using science, math, innovation, and improvisation, Bletchley Park code breakers worked furiously to...
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The Palestinians: From Peasants to RevolutionariesAs the Israel-Palestine conflict rages on, it is more important now than ever to understand the history of the Palestinian people. Rosemary Sayigh's The Palestinians is a classic of radical history. Through extensive interviews with Palestinians in refugee camps, she provides a deeply-moving, grassroots...
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Getting Somalia Wrong?: Faith, War and Hope in a Shattered StateSomalia is a failed state, representing a threat to itself, its neighbours and the wider world. In recent years, it has become notorious for the piracy off its coast and the rise of Islamic extremism, opening it up as a new 'southern front' in...
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Chieftain Main Battle Tank 1965-2003The concept of the Main Battle Tank emerged from the Centurion Universal tank that was developed at the end of World War II. Development of its successor began as early as 1951. The Chieftain incorporated significant innovations including a reclining driver position and two-piece...
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The Kaiser's Warlords: German Commanders of World War IOsprey's study of the German commanders of World War I (1914-1918). The turn of the 20th century saw Imperial Germany as essentially a militarist state, whose growing industrial resources and wealth were harnessed to the task of increasing German military power, at a time...
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The Japanese Army 1931 45 (2): 1942 45Within months of its greatest triumph in 1942, the Japanese Imperial Army began to face the difficulties which would eventually destroy it - overstretched supply lines, and inadequate industrial support. Yet as the Allies grew steadily stronger and more skilful during World War II...
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US Navy F-4 Phantom II MiG Killers: 1972-73The second of two books on the Navy's Phantom II MiG killers of the Vietnam War (1955-1975), this book covers the numerous actions fought out over North Vietnam during the Linebacker I and II operations of 1972-73. No fewer than 17 MiGs were downed...
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Historical Comedy on Screen: Subverting History with HumourIn 1893 Friedrich Engels branded history "the cruelest goddess of all." This sorrowful vision of the past is deeply rooted in the Western imagination, and history is thus presented as a joyless playground of inevitability rather than a droll world of possibilities. There are...
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Nuclear Iran: The Birth of an Atomic StateThe Iranian nuclear crisis has dominated world politics since the beginning of the century, with the country now facing increasing diplomatic isolation, talk of military strikes against its nuclear facilities and a disastrous Middle East war. What is Iran's nuclear programme all about? What...
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The Renaissance: A Captivating Guide to a Remarkable Period in European History, Including Stories of People Such as Galileo Galilei, MIf you want to discover the captivating history of the Renaissance, then keep reading... "Renaissance" is the French word for "rebirth," which is given to the period of time between the 14th and 17th centuries in Europe when there was a marked resurgence in...
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Unchained: A Caribbean Woman's Journey Through Invasion, Incarceration and LiberationIt is said that you do not really know someone - including yourself - until that person encounters a profound crisis in life. This book is a remarkable first-person account of one woman's survival and ultimate triumph over cruel conditions of USA-orchestrated imprisonment, character-assassination,...
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The Path of the Martyrs: Charles Martel, the Battle of Tours and the Birth of Europe'West puts the battle in its historical context, and shows how it set the course of history for more than a thousand years.' Piers Paul Read732.The future of Europe is held in the balance.A Frankish force, assembled at speed, ready themselves to resist an...
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Suleiman the Magnificent: The Life and Legacy of the Ottoman Empire's Most Famous Sultan*Includes pictures*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingIn terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453. The city had been an imperial capital as far back as the 4th...
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The Five Good Emperors: The History of the Roman Empire During the Reigns of Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius*Includes pictures*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading"From the study of this history we may also learn how a good government is to be established; for while all the emperors who succeeded to the throne by birth, except Titus, were bad, all...
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Robin Hood: A True LegendAuthor: Sean McGlynnPublisher: Independently PublishedPublished: 11/23/2018Pages: 104Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.27lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.25dISBN: 9781790242535This title is not returnable
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