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A major historical biography: the dramatic, harrowing and contested story of Sir Walter Ralegh…

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A revised edition of this popular and brilliantly concise guide to Russia's turbulent history - from Peter the Great to…

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A new history of the Portugal’s Carnation Revolution on its fiftieth anniversary25 April 1974, Lisbon. Over the course of a…

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