Letters for the Ages Winston Churchill: The Private and Personal Letters by All Sir Winston S.; Packwood Churchill
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Category: History | Series: Letters for the Ages Ser.
Here are some of the best of Churchill's letters, many of a more personal and intimate nature, presented in chronological order, with a preface to each letter explaining the context. The recipients include a vast range of people, including his schoolmaster, his American grandmother and former President ...Show more
Maus Now: Selected Writing by Hillary Chute (editor)
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Category: History
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Art Spiegelman is one of our most influential contemporary artists, and it is hard to overstate his effect on postwar American culture and the world of comics. Maus has shaped the fields of literature, history, and art, and enlivened our collective sense of what these pract ...Show more
Mutiny on the Bounty: A saga of sex, sedition, mayhem and mutiny, and survival against extraordinary odds by Peter FitzSimons
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Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before. Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plan ...Show more
Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes (75th Anniversary Edition) by Edith Hamilton
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Category: History
Since its original publication by Little, Brown and Company in 1942, Edith Hamilton's Mythology has sold millions of copies throughout the word and established itself as a perennial bestseller. For 75 years readers have chosen this book above all others to discover the thrilling, enchanting, and fascin ...Show more
Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the West - 'Magisterial' Books of the Year, Independent by Tom Holland
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Category: History | Reading Level: very good
In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory - rapid, spectacular victory - had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a single generation, they had swept across the Near East, shatte ...Show more
Scotland: The Global History: 1603 to the Present by Murray Pittock
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Category: History
An engaging and authoritative history of Scotland's influence in the world and the world's on Scotland, from the Thirty Years' War to the present day Scotland is one of the oldest nations in the world, yet by some it is hardly counted as a nation at all. Neither a colony of England nor a fully equal ...Show more
The Bone Chests: Unlocking the Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons by Catrine Jarman
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Category: History
From the brilliant bioarchaeologist and bestselling author of River Kings, a gripping new history of the Anglo-Saxons told through six bone chests, stored for over a thousand years in Winchester Cathedral. A book that unlocks the secrets of the pre-Norman past. In 1642, William Waller and his Parliamen ...Show more
The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict by Andrew Pettegree
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Category: History
Propaganda, pulp fiction, spies and censorship: the fascinating and action-packed story of books in wartime 'Rich, authoritative and highly readable, Andrew Pettegree's tour de force will appeal to anyone for whom, whatever the circumstances, books are an abiding, indispensable part of life.' David Kyn ...Show more
The Mirrored Door - Break Through the Hidden Barrier That Locks Successful Women in Place by Ellen Connelly Taaffe
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Category: Social Issues
Unlock what's blocking your career, and open the door to new opportunity At some point in their careers, many women encounter the mirrored door--the place where, when presented with opportunities, we reflect inward and hesitate, and deem we're not ready or worthy enough to move forward, whether that is ...Show more
The Persian War: A Military History by William Shepherd
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Category: History | Series: General Military Ser.
The victory of a few Greek city-states over the world's first superpower was an extraordinary military feat that secured the future of western civilization. All modern accounts of the war as a whole, and of Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis, the best-known battles, depend on the ancient sources, foremos ...Show more
The Romanovs: The Story of Russia and its Empire 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Category: History | Reading Level: good
"Epic history on the grandest scale. . . . Game of Thrones seems like the proverbial vicar's tea party in comparison."--Financial Times The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined princip ...Show more
The Secrets of the Universe in 100 Symbols by Sarah Bartlett
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Category: Ancient History/Mythology
The Secrets of the Universe in 100 Symbols is an illustrated reference to 100 ancient and diverse symbols that are said to hold the answers to the universe.