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On Grand Strategy
JOHN LEWIS GADDIS · Penguin Press Pages: 384 Format: Hardcover
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A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary program the author has co-taught at Yale for decadesJohn Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian of the Cold War, has for almost two decades co-taught grand strategy at Yale University with his colleagues Charles Hill... |
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The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders
STUART KELLS · Counterpoint Pages: 224 Format: Hardcover
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"If you think you know what a library is, this marvellously idiosyncratic book will make you think again. After visiting hundreds of libraries around the world and in the realm of the imagination, bibliophile and rare-book collector Stuart Kells has compiled an enchanting compendium... |
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Lexington and Concord: The Battle Heard Round the World
GEORGE C DAUGHAN · W. W. Norton & Company Pages: 384 Format: Hardcover
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An award-winning historian reinterprets the battle that launched the American Revolution.George C. Daughan's magnificently detailed account of the Battle of Lexington and Concord challenges the prevailing narrative of the American War of Independence. It was, Daughan argues, based as much... |
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Richard III: England's Most Controversial King
CHRIS SKIDMORE · St. Martin's Press Pages: 448 Format: Hardcover
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From acclaimed historian Chris Skidmore comes the authoritative biography of Richard III, England's most controversial king, a man alternately praised as a saint and cursed as a villain.Richard III is one of English history's best known and least understood monarchs. Immortalized... |
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Hadrian's Wall
Adrian Goldsworthy · Basic Books Pages: 192 Format: Hardcover
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From an award-winning historian of ancient Rome, a definitive history of Hadrian's WallStretching eighty miles from coast to coast across northern England, Hadrian's Wall is the largest Roman artifact known today. It is commonly viewed as a defiant barrier, the end of the empire,... |
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Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History
ROY ADKINS · Viking Pages: 448 Format: Hardcover
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A rip-roaring account of the dramatic four-year siege of Britain's Mediterranean garrison by Spain and France - an overlooked key to the British loss in the American RevolutionFor more than three and a half years, from 1779 to 1783, the tiny territory of Gibraltar was besieged and blockaded,... |
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Francis I: The Maker of Modern France
LEONIE FRIEDA · Harper Pages: 384 Format: Hardcover
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The bestselling author of Catherine de Medici returns to sixteenth-century Europe in this evocative and entertaining biography that recreates a remarkable era of French history and brings to life a great monarch - Francis I - who turned France into a great nation.Catherine de Medici's... |
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It's Better Than It Looks: Reasons for Optimism in an Age of Fear
Gregg Easterbrook · PublicAffairs Pages: 352 Format: Hardcover
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Is civilization teetering on the edge of a cliff? Or are we just climbing higher than ever?Most people who read the news would tell you that 2017 is one of the worst years in recent memory. We're facing a series of deeply troubling, even existential problems: fascism, terrorism, environmental... |
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