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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
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WINNER OF THE 2013 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY General Alex Dumas, is a man almost unknown today,...
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W.A.S. Benson: Arts and Crafts Luminary and Pioneer of Modern Design
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On the 150th anniversary of his birth, this is the first work devoted to the life and work of the...
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The Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
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Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for...
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Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power 1799-1815
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'Napoleon's legend is so persistent that it confounds the historical reality in the popular...
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Jacob-Isaac Segal: A Montreal Yiddish Poet and His Milieu
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Born in the Ukraine in 1896, and settling in Montreal in 1910, Segal became one of the first Yiddish...
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Monty and Rommel: Parallel Lives
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Two men came to personify British and German generalship in the Second World War: Bernard Montgomery...
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George II: King and Elector
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Despite a long and eventful reign, Britain's George II is a largely forgotten monarch, his...
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A Lightness in My Soul
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Inspired by the incredible true story of a German teen taken prisoner at the end of WWII, determined...
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'An extraordinary book ... exceptionally fascinating, always readable and penetratingly intelligent'...
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