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...
Dad's War
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This book is the Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. Chris Tarrant and his father Basil were very...
Eleanor of Castile: The Shadow Queen
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Eleanor of Castile, the remarkable woman behind England's greatest medieval king, Edward I, has been...
Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman
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With a unique, witty, and conversational voice historian Robert O'Connell breaks down the often...
For Science, King and Country: The Life and Legacy of Henry Moseley
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Even in his lifetime, Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley,who died at Gallipoli in 1915, was widely regarded...
John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy
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This book is the winner, 2008 Otto Grundler Book Prize, The Medieval Institute Notorious for his...
Josephine: Desire, Ambition, Napoleon
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This is the incredible rise and unbelievable fall of a woman whose energy and ambition is often...
Journey of a Thousand Miles: An Extraordinary Life
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Born into poverty in Japanese-occupied Taiwan, Ruey Yu overcame near-starvation during the Second...
Kesselring: The Making of the Luftwaffe
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Illustrated with maps and a center section of black and white photographs. Kesselring-commander,...
King of the World
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This unforgettable account of Muhammad Ali's rise and self-creation, told by a Pullitzer...