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A Brief History of the Private Life of Elizabeth II, Updated Edition by Michael Paterson
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Category: Biography | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning British monarch. A personally quiet, modest and dutiful person, she is far better-informed about the lives of her subjects than they often realize. She has known every Prime Minister since Winston Churchill and every American President since Eisenhower. Yet what of t ...Show more
A Brief History of the Roman Empire - Rise and Fall by Stephen Kershaw
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Category: History | Series: Brief Histories
In this lively and very readable history of the Roman Empire from its establishment in 27 BC to the barbarian incursions and the fall of Rome in AD 476, Kershaw draws on a range of evidence, from Juvenal's "Satires" to recent archaeological finds. He examines extraordinary personalities such as Caligula ...Show more
Brief History Of The British Army by Jock Haswell, John Lewis-Stempel
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Category: Warfare | Series: Brief Histories
The story of the British Army has many sides to it, being a tale of heroic successes and tragic failures, of dogged determination and drunken disorder. It involves many of the most vital preoccupations in the history of the island - the struggle against Continental domination by a single power, the batt ...Show more
Brief History of Atlantis: Plato's Ideal by Dr. Stephen P. Kershaw
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Category: No Category | Series: Brief Histories
The Atlantis story remains one of the most haunting and enigmatic tales from antiquity, and one that still resonates very deeply with the modern imagination. But where did Atlantis come from, what was it like, and where did it go to?Atlantis was first introduced by the Greek philosopher Plato in two dia ...Show more
Jerusalem: A Brief History by Michael Zank; J. Freedman
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Category: History | Series: Wiley Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion Ser.
Provides a short, accessible, and lively introduction to Jerusalem Jerusalem - A Brief History shows how Jewish, Christian, and Islamic scriptures confer providential meaning to the fate of the city and how modern Jerusalem is haunted by waves of biblical fantasy aiming at mutually exclusive status-quo ...Show more