
Revolt in the Desert: The Abridged Edition of 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom'
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The Arab Revolt of 1916-1918, when the disparate tribes of Arabia rose up as one great force to...

Sheila: The Australian Ingenue Who Bewitched British Society
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Vivacious, confident and striking, young Australian Sheila Chisholm met her first husband, Lord...

Heroes in Death: the Von Blucher Brothers in the Fallschirmjager, Crete, May 1941: The Von Blucher Brothers in the Fallschirmjager, Crete, May 1941
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Crete, 20 May 1941. An amazed world watched as the first great airborne invasion in history began....

Into Battle: A Seventeen-Year-Old Joins Kitchener's Army
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Written well over 90 years ago while the experiences of youth were still fresh in the author's mind,...

Victorian and Edwardian British Industrial Architecture
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By the end of Queen Victoria's reign, factories had become an inescapable part of the townscape,...
Business Structure, Business Culture and the Industrial District: The Potteries, c. 1850-1914
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This title was first published in 2001: North Staffordshire has been synonymous with the manufacture...

Everything is Happening: Journey into a Painting
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Michael Jacobs was haunted by Velazquez's enigmatic masterpiece Las Meninas from first encountering...

The 'Broomhandle' Mauser
Jonathan Ferguson and Peter Dennis
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At a time when most handguns were limited to six rounds, the ten-shot Mauser caught the attention of...

Bandaging the Blitz
Phyll MacDonald Ross and I.D. Roberts
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In 1938, eighteen-year-old Phyllis Ellsworth packs her bags, says goodbye to her anxious parents and...

A Room with a View
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The Penguin English Library Edition of A Room with a View by E. M. Forster '"But you do," he went...