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Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
by Jane Dunn
This is the first biography of the fateful relationship between Elizabeth l and Mary Queen of Scots. Distinguished historian and biographer Jane Dunn reveals an extraordinary story of two rival queens reigning in one isle, both with a right to the throne of England, both embodying opposing qualities of character, ideals of womanliness and divinely-ordained kingship.
It is a story of sex and power, recklessness, passion and political intrigue in a period of history that was as dark and dangerous as it was dazzling.
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Empire
by Niall Ferguson
The British Empire was the largest in all history, its reach the nearest thing to world domination ever achieved. By the eve of the Second World War, over a fifth of the world's land surface and nearly a quarter of the world's population were under some form of British rule. Yet for today's generation, the British Empire has come to stand for nothing more than a lost Victorian past--one so remote that it has ceased even to be a target for satire. The time is ripe for a reappraisal.
In this major new work of synthesis and revision, Niall Ferguson argues that the British Empire should be regarded not merely as vanished Victoriana but as the very cradle of modernity.
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The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust
by Martin Gilbert
Oskar Schindler, Raoul Wallenberg and Mies Giep: these are names that most of us recognize. What is less well known is the story of the thousands of other ordinary non-Jews all over occupied Europe who similarly risked their own lives and those of their famillies, and sometimes their whole community, to save Jews from the Nazis. Some of these were civil servants, officials, and diplomats - but many others were ordinary people who had the courage to turn against the general tide of passive collaboration in order to do what seemed right.
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1776
by David McCullough
Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is a powerful drama written with extraordinary narrative vitality. It is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. And it is the story of the King's men, the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known.
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Benjamin Franklin : An American Life
by Walter Isaacson
Benjamin Franklin is the Founding Father who winks at us. An ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings, he seems made of flesh rather than of marble. In bestselling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin seems to turn to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind his new-fangled spectacles. By bringing Franklin to life, Isaacson shows how he helped to define both his own time and ours.
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1421: the Year China Discovered the World
by Gavin Menzies
On 8 March 1421 the largest fleet the world had ever seen sailed from its base in China. The ships, huge junks nearly five hundred feet long and built
from the finest teak, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals.
Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from
the barbarians beyond the seas' and unite the whole world in Confucian harmony. Their
journey would last over two years and circle the globe.
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The Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany
by Aubrey Burl
The spectacular stone circles of western Europe, some nearly 6000 years old, have intrigued viewers through the ages. This beautiful book about
these megalithic rings explores their ancestry, methods of construction, and eventual
desertion. A substantially revised version of Aubrey Burl's highly praised book The Stone
Circles of the British Isles, it offers new insights into the purpose of stone circles.
It also provides a new interpretation of Stonehenge and of Callanish in Scotland, the
first overview of the cromlechs in Brittany, a discussion of the problems of
archaeo-astronomy as related to stone circles, and includes a greatly expanded
Gazetteer, and an up-to-date list of radiocarbon dates and recent excavations.
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Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination
by Peter Ackroyd
From Beowulf and the Venerable Bede through King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table to Tolkeinís LORD OF THE RINGS; from Chaucer through
Shakespeare to Jane Austen and the Bronte sisters; from Purcell to Vaughan Williams,
Hogarth to Turner; from mystery plays and lives of the saints through music hall to
pantomime.
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Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed
by Patricia Cornwell
Using the firsthand expertise she has gained through writing the bestselling Dr Kay Scarpetta novels, Patricia Cornwell utilizes the demanding methods of
modern forensic investigation to re-examine the evidence in the Jack the Ripper murders.
These include state-of-the-art DNA testing on various materials, computer enhancement of
watermarks and expert examinations of hand-writing, paper, inks and other relics. She also
uses her knowledge of profiling on the possible suspects, as well as consulting experts in the field. On presenting her conclusions to a very senior
Metropolitan Police officer she learns that had the investigators of the time been
presented with the facts she has unearthed, her suspect would definitely have been
arrested and would probably have faced trial. Naming the killer as the artist, Walter
Sickert, Cornwell details the reasons and evidence for this conclusion.
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Britain BC: Life in Britain and Ireland Before the Romans
by Francis Pryor
Aided by aerial photography, coastal erosion (which has helped expose such coastal sites as Seahenge) and new planning legislation which requires developers to excavate the land they build on, archaeologists have unearthed a far more sophisticated life among the Ancient Britons than has been previously supposed. Far from being the woaded barbarians of Roman propaganda, we Brits had our own religion, laws, crafts, arts, trade, farms, priesthood and royalty. And the Scots, English and Welsh were fundamentally one and the same people.
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Fields of Fire: The Canadians in Normandy
by Terry Copp
Fields of Fire offers a stunning reversal of accepted military history. Terry Copp challenges and refutes the conventional view that the Canadian contribution to the Battle of Normandy was a 'failure': that the allies won only through the use of 'brute force,' and that the Canadian soldiers and commanding officers were essentially incompetent. His detailed and impeccably researched analysis of what actually happened on the battlefield portrays a flexible, innovative army that made a major, and successful, contribution to the defeat of the German forces in just seventy-six days.
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Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
by Margaret Olwen MacMillan
Between January and July 1919, after 'the war to end all wars,' men and women from around the
world converged on Paris to shape the peace. Center stage, for the first time in history,
was an American president, Woodrow Wilson, who with his Fourteen Points seemed to promise
to so many people the fulfillment of their dreams. Stern, intransigent, impatient when it
came to security concerns and wildly idealistic in his dream of a League of Nations that
would resolve all future conflict peacefully, Wilson is only one of the larger-than-life
characters who fill the pages of this extraordinary book. David Lloyd George, the
gregarious and wily British prime minister, brought Winston Churchill and John Maynard
Keynes. Lawrence of Arabia joined the Arab delegation.
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Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America
by Daniel K. Richter
Viewed from Indian country, the sixteenth century was an era in which Native people discovered Europeans and struggled to make sense of a new world. Well into the seventeenth century, the most profound challenges to Indian life came less from the arrival of a relative handful of European colonists than from the biological, economic, and environmental forces the newcomers unleashed. Drawing upon their own traditions, Indian communities reinvented themselves and carved out a place in a world dominated by transatlantic European empires. In 1776, however, when some of Britain's colonists rebelled against that imperial world, they overturned the system that had made Euro-American and Native coexistence possible. Eastern North America only ceased to be an Indian country because the revolutionaries denied the continent's first peoples a place in the nation they were creating.
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My Life
by Bill Clinton
Former President Bill Clintonís My Life is the strikingly candid portrait of a global leader who decided in early life to devote his intellectual and political gifts, and his extraordinary capacity for hard work, to serving the public. It is the fullest, most concretely detailed, most nuanced account of a presidency ever written, and a testament to the positive impact on America and on the world of his work and his ideals
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Walking with Cavemen
by John Lynch, Louise Barrett
This is the story of how a cocktail of extraordinary traits were combined to create us, human beings. Fusing epic science with the drama of individual lives, it is the tale of everyone on the planet today. The story starts in east Africa where apes first walked on two legs. Four million years later, half a dozen different species of human populated Africa but eventually Homo erectus was to dominate this world and be the first ape-man to colonize elsewhere. This book follows the changing lives of each species, ending with our last rival, the physically powerful Neanderthals, and suggesting that it was through pure good fortune that Homo sapiens survivied to rule the world. Our story is told as continuous narrative with feature boxes explaining the evolutionary science and the archeological finds, and easy-to-use fact boxes on each of the species.
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How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It
by Arthur Herman
How the Scots Invented the Modern World (The Scottish Enlightenment is the UK/European title) reveals how Scottish genius for creating the basic
ideas and institutions of modern life stamped the lives of a series of remarkable
historical figures, from James Watt and Adam Smith to Andrew Carnegie and Arthur Conan
Doyle, and how Scottish heroes continue to inspire our contemporary culture, from William
'Braveheart' Wallace to James Bond.
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Salt: A World History
by Mark Kurlansky
From the award-winning and bestselling author of Cod comes the dramatic, human story of a simple substance, an element
almost as vital as water, that has created fortunes, provoked revolutions, directed
economies and enlivened our recipes.
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Blue Latitudes
by Tony Horwitz
Tony Horwitz vividly recounts Cook's voyages and the exotic scenes the captain encountered: tropical orgies, taboo rituals, cannibal feasts, human sacrifice.
He also relives Cook's adventures by traveling in the captain's wake to such places as
Tahiti, Savage Island, and the Great Barrier Reef; along the way, he discovers Cook's
embattled legacy in the present day. Signing on as a working crewman aboard a replica of
Cook's vessel, Horwitz experiences the thrill and terror of sailing a tall ship. He also
explores Cook the man: an impoverished farm boy who broke through the barriers of his
class and time to become the greatest navigator in British history. This book bears the title "Into the Blue" in
the UK/European edition.
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