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A brilliant book about political rivalries through the ages, from the prize-winning biographer and historian Personal rivalry is the very stuff of politics. The causes and controversies, the parties and the technology have changed, but political conflict is still dramatised by the competition of read more... |
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A brilliant and rich group biography of the imperial women of Rome - from an exciting young historian. The First Ladies of Rome is a richly detailed historical picture of some of those great women of Rome, born or married into the house of the caesars. Opening at the dawn of the imperial age, the read more... |
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As gripping as the best historical novel - an exuberant account of the American sisters who enthralled high society in the wake of Waterloo. The first American heiresses took Britain by storm in 1816, two generations before the great late Victorian beauties. Marianne, Louisa, Emily and Bess Caton read more... |
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If Reagan, Gorbachev, Thatcher and Mitterand only manage one book this year, they could do a lot worse than pick up Phillip Knightley's and discover what imbecilities are committed in the hallowed name of intelligence.' John le Carr-'A brilliant and original book that makes sense for the first time read more... |
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The first single-volume history of the century's most tragic and brutal revolution; a brilliant, highly readable narrative in the manner of Simon Schama's Citizens . Vast in scope, based on exhaustive original research, and written with passion, narrative skill and human sympath, A People's Tragedy read more... |
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A magisterial new history book about the bloodlands - the lands that lie between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany - where 14 million people where killed during the years 1933 - 1944 The central event of European history has been overlooked. In the middle of Europe in the middle of the twentieth read more... |
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Winston Churchill's eye-witness account of the Boer War. The first shots of the Boer War were fired at Kraaipan on 12 October 1899. Winston Churchill, though he had left his Regiment, the 4th Hussars, in the previous March, was eager as ever to be within the sound of guns and wasted no time in read more... |
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Popular history at its best: an epic story in which the newly united Roman Empire under Justinian is decimated by bubonic plague. In the middle of the sixth century, the world’s smallest organism collided with the world’s mightiest empire. With the death of twenty-five million people, the Roman read more... |
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Thames: Sacred River displays the same qualities as London: the biography: scholarship, wit, discursiveness, lovely descriptive writing, anecdotes, spirit of place, narrative and character. This hugely enjoyable book is packed with fascinating facts and insights: it will be another mammoth read more... |
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