Military Innovation in the Interwar Period
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In 1914, the armies and navies that faced each other were alike right down to the strengths of their...
Writing Biography in Greece and Rome: Narrative Technique and Fictionalization
Koen De Temmerman and Kristoffel Demoen
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Ancient biography is now a well-established and popular field of study among classicists as well as...
Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana: A Royal Celebration: 2015
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The nation is celebrating a new royal princess.The arrival of Prince George two years ago was a...
Ralph Waldo Emerson in Context
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This collection of newly commissioned essays maps the vital contextual backgrounds to Ralph Waldo...
Shorthand Letters of Samuel Pepys: From a Volume Entitled S. Pepys' Official Correspondence 1662-1679
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Originally published in 1933, this book presents the content of 56 shorthand, or partly shorthand,...
Squeezing the Orange
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The quintessentially English cricket commentator, writer, oenophile, bon viveur, collector and...
Stephen Fry in His Own Words
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In a fascinating collection of archive interviews with the celebrated writer, presenter and...
Commodore Squib: The Life, Times and Secretive Wars of England's First Rocket Man, Sir William Congreve, 1772-1828
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Sir William Congreve, political propagandist, lawyer, inventor, and Chief Equerry to King George IV,...
Darker Than the Deepest Sea
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When singer-songwriter Nick Drake died of a drug overdose in the autumn of 1974, he left behind only...
Darwin and Women: A Selection of Letters
Charles Darwin and Samantha Evans
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Darwin and Women focusses on Darwin's correspondence with women and on the lives of the women he...