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The Campbells, 1250-1513

The Campbells, 1250-1513

Author: Stephen Boardman
ISBN: 9780859767248
Format: Paperback
$44.99

If not perhaps the most popular Highland clan, the Campbells are undoubtedly one of the most successful. This book...  Read More >>

Disability and Healing in Greek and Roman Myth

Disability and Healing in Greek and Roman Myth

Author: Christian Laes (University of Manchester)
ISBN: 9781009335539
Format: Paperback
$43.99

This Element places stories of disability and healing in Greek and Roman Myth in context, with due attention to...  Read More >>

Hellfire: Evelyn Waugh and the Hypocrites Club

Hellfire: Evelyn Waugh and the Hypocrites Club

Author: David Fleming
ISBN: 9781803996516
Format: Paperback
$49.99

The first book to tell the remarkable story of Oxford University's hedonistic Hypocrites Club and its (in)famous...  Read More >>

Roman Chichester

Roman Chichester

Author: Joseph Chittenden
ISBN: 9781739125479
Format: Paperback
$31.65

Travel back in time almost 2000 years to see how Chichester looked in Roman times. Brand-new highly detailed computer...  Read More >>

We Called Him Jeb: James Ewell Brown Stuart as He Was Seen by His Contemporaries

We Called Him Jeb: James Ewell Brown Stuart as He Was...

Author: Lochlainn Seabrook
ISBN: 9781955351423
Format: Paperback
$60.69

In We Called Him Jeb award-winning historian Lochlainn Seabrook provides a biographical series of recollections...  Read More >>

Deluge: Gaza and Israel from Crisis to Cataclysm

Deluge: Gaza and Israel from Crisis to Cataclysm

Author: Jamie Stern-Weiner ,  Avi Shlaim
ISBN: 9781682196199
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Why did Hamas attack? What is Israel trying to achieve? Did this catastrophe have to happen? And is there a way...  Read More >>

Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944

Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944

Author: Max Hastings
ISBN: 9781035022854
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Acclaimed historian Sir Max Hastings' masterly account of the D-Day landings in 1944, as the Allies battled to take...  Read More >>

Britain 3000 BC

Britain 3000 BC

Author: Rodney Castleden ,  Penelope Lively
ISBN: 9781803995557
Format: Paperback
$49.99

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The Last Citadel: Petersburg, June 1864 - April 1865

The Last Citadel: Petersburg, June 1864 - April 1865...

Author: Noah Andre Trudeau
ISBN: 9781611217056
Format: Paperback
$75.00

The dramatic, moving story of The Last Citadel is told largely through the words of the men and women who were there,...  Read More >>

Richard III and the Princes in the Tower

Richard III and the Princes in the Tower

Author: A.J. Pollard
ISBN: 9781803996332
Format: Paperback
$44.99

A look at the original sources and depictions that have informed our view of Richard III through history  Read More >>

Making Sense of the Great War: Crisis, Englishness, and Morale on the Western Front

Making Sense of the Great War: Crisis, Englishness,...

Author: Alex Mayhew (London School of Economics and Political Science)
ISBN: 9781009168755
Format: Hardback
$258.75

Alex Mayhew provides new perspectives on military morale by exploring the experiences of English infantrymen in...  Read More >>

How French Moderns Think: The Lévy-Bruhl Family, From “Primitive Mentality” to Contemporary Pandemics

How French Moderns Think: The Lévy-Bruhl Family, From...

Author: Frédéric Keck ,  Michael M. J. Fischer
ISBN: 9781914363023
Format: Paperback
$49.95

This book traces the contributions of the Lévy-Bruhl family to social and political thought and expertise in 20th-century...  Read More >>

The Triumvirate: Captain Edward J. Smith, Bruce Ismay, Thomas Andrews and the Sinking of Titanic

The Triumvirate: Captain Edward J. Smith, Bruce Ismay,...

Author: George Behe
ISBN: 9781803993355
Format: Hardback
$65.00

Presenting the true stories of three core individuals in Titanic’s history - Captain Edward J. Smith, shipbuilder...  Read More >>

From Saloons to Steak Houses: A History of Tampa

From Saloons to Steak Houses: A History of Tampa

Author: Andrew T. Huse
ISBN: 9780813080727
Format: Paperback
$65.87

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A Short History of New Kingdom Egypt

A Short History of New Kingdom Egypt

Author: Robert Morkot (Petrie Museum, UK)
ISBN: 9781780764733
Format: Hardback
$116.44

Expertly taking readers through one of the most transformative periods in Ancient Egypt, Robert Morkot demonstrates...  Read More >>

Fascist Italy at War: 1939-1943

Fascist Italy at War: 1939-1943

Author: Thomas X. Ferenczi
ISBN: 9781781559154
Format: Hardback
$76.99

‘Fascist Italy at War: 1939–1943’ examines in depth Mussolini’s expansionist aims in the Balkans and North Africa;...  Read More >>

Ottoman Nationalism in Transition from Empire to Republic, 1908–1931

Ottoman Nationalism in Transition from Empire to Republic,...

Author: Abdullah Simsek
ISBN: 9783031569272
Format: Hardback
$316.77

This book deals with the complex process of national identity formation in the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish...  Read More >>

Jimmy Carter in the White House: A Captain with No Compass

Jimmy Carter in the White House: A Captain with No Compass...

Author: Robert K. Green
ISBN: 9781350352919
Format: Hardback
$130.00

A fresh interpretation of Jimmy Carter's troubled presidency which examines his ideologies and key policies to debunk...  Read More >>

Narrative, Piety and Polemic in Medieval Spain: Biblical Rhetoric in the Reconquest Chronicles of León-Castile

Narrative, Piety and Polemic in Medieval Spain: Biblical...

Author: Alun Williams (University of Exeter, UK)
ISBN: 9781788314619
Format: Hardback
$170.00

This book presents an original perspective on the variety and intensity of biblical narrative and rhetoric in the...  Read More >>

A Companion to Aristophanes

A Companion to Aristophanes

Author: Matthew C. Farmer (Haverford College, PA) ,  Jeremy B. Lefkowitz (Swarthmore College, PA)
ISBN: 9781119622888
Format: Hardback
$348.95

Provides a comprehensive and systematic treatment of the life and work of Aristophanes A Companion to Aristophanes...  Read More >>

Much Ado About Numbers

Much Ado About Numbers

Author: Rob Eastaway
ISBN: 9781805460275
Format: Hardback
$34.99

A fascinating new take on the world of Shakespeare.  Read More >>

Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular Age

Some New World: Myths of Supernatural Belief in a Secular...

Author: Peter Harrison (University of Queensland)
ISBN: 9781009477222
Format: Hardback
$90.56

What was believable in one era is no longer acceptable in another. What one culture finds utterly incredible elsewhere...  Read More >>

We Called Him Jeb: James Ewell Brown Stuart as He Was Seen by His Contemporaries

We Called Him Jeb: James Ewell Brown Stuart as He Was...

Author: Lochlainn Seabrook
ISBN: 9781955351430
Format: Hardback
$105.57

In We Called Him Jeb award-winning historian Lochlainn Seabrook provides a biographical series of recollections...  Read More >>

The Anatomy of a Murder Trilogy: A Classic Trial, Book, and Film

The Anatomy of a Murder Trilogy: A Classic Trial, Book,...

Author: Frank J Parker
ISBN: 9781662939488
Format: Paperback
$44.85

In the early morning of July 31, 1952, a murder occurred in a dingy bar in a small resort town in the uppermost...  Read More >>

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