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Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of Rome (27 BC AD 14), brought peace and prosperity to his city after decades of savage…

From the 13th century, these seven stories feature both the pastoral society of Iceland and the royal courts of Norway and…

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Beginning with the Colonial period, progressing through the Revolution and the Antebellum period, this book chronologically…

Presents the early Medieval period as a lost world, far removed from our current age, which had risen from the smoking…

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The early 1980s in Britain were a time of hope, and of dread: of Cold War tension and imminent conflict, when crowds in the…

An historical account of the chaos and uncertainty that followed the liberation of Paris in August, 1944.…

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Drawing on a cache of personal documents, the author retraces Bruno Langbehn's journey from disillusioned adolescent to SS…

When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the…

• Rok vydání 2000

This is Ovid's poetical calendar of the Roman year, with its various observances and festivals, written in elegiacs. Ovid's…

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Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who led the Macedonian army to victory in Egypt, Syria, Persia and India, was perhaps the…

The Scots are one of the world's greatest nations of emigrants. This title offers an account of the Scots as a 'global…

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In the wake of Pakistan's development of nuclear weapons, unpoliceable border areas, shelter of the Afghan Taliban and Bin…

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A brilliantly arresting historical work, John Lewis Gaddis's The Cold War takes us as never before to the time when the…

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Tells the story of Spain's rise to greatness from its humble beginnings as one of the poorest and most marginal of European…

Kniha 9780141399744 Towards the Flame Dominic Lieven…

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The fall of Jerusalem in 1099 to an exhausted army of Western European soldiers was one of the extraordinary events of the…

What caused the Russian Revolution? Did it succeed or fail? Do we still live with its consequences? This book deals with…

Spanning thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, this title provides a…

In the first years of the thirteenth century Villehardouin served as an envoy in the Fourth Crusade. Half a century later,…

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Presenting Punic War in 264 BC, this title records the critical stages of Roman expansion: its campaigns throughout the…

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At midnight on 14 August 1947, Great Britain's 350-year-old Indian Empire was broken into three pieces. The greatest mass…

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Deals with literature's grandest evocation of life's journey, at once an ageless human story and an individual test of moral…

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Winner of the Wolfson Prize 2013 and Herald Books of the Year 2014, this book revels in both the drama of the Kremlin and…

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Charts the French Revolution from its beginnings at an impromptu meeting on an indoor tennis court at Versailles in 1789,…

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A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN, BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'This is the…

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A journalist pulls a random day in history from a hat to see if he can make a worthwhile story from what happened, and the…

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A translation that presents Homer's poem, recounting the great wandering of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage back home to…

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The Death of Yugoslavia is a survey of the pressures and events that contributed to the break-up of former Yugoslavia,…

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Attempts to reframe our understanding of Napoleon. This book creates a different context for Napoleon's career. It sees the…

Yn ymestyn o'r Oesoedd Ia hyd y dwthwn hwn, mae'r gyfrol feistrolgar hon yn olrhain hanes gwleidyddol, cymdeithasol a…

Offers an account of the reign of a Byzantine emperor. This book provides a view of the Byzantine world in the eleventh and…

Effectively it is the story of the birth of modern South and South- East Asia and the hopes and fears of the dozens of…

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Mike Nichols burst onto the scene as a wunderkind: he was half of a hit improv duo with Elaine May that was the talk of the…

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Kniha 9780241514733 I Will Greet the Sun Again Khashayar J. Khabushani…