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Napoleon the man emerges as an even more fascinating character than previously imagined, and McLynn brilliantly reveals the extent to which he was both existential hero and plaything of Fate;

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The contrast with Britains European neighbours, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, Russia, is dramatic all have been convulsed by external warfare, revolution and civil war and experienced fundamental change to their ruling elites or social and economic structures.

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Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known, whose empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central Europe, including all of China, the Middle East and Russia. So how did an illiterate nomad rise to such colossal power, eclipsing Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Napoleon

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In this study, underpinned by biographical sketches of the great warriors who fought for the crown of England in 1066, Frank McLynn shows that the Battle on Senlac Hill on 14 October was desperately close-run thing, which Harold lost only because of a run of bad fortune and some treachery from the Saxon elite in England.

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Drawing on a mass of primary materials - from texts in the Vatican archives to oral histories of the North American Indians, this title shows how the conflict between Britain and France triggered the first 'world war', raging from Europe to Africa; the Caribbean to the Pacific; the plains of the Ganges to the Great Lakes of North America.

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Anyone who has seen The Lion in Winter will remember the vicious, compelling world of the Plantagenets and readers of the romance of Robin Hood will be familiar with the typecasting of Good King Richard, defending Christendom in the Holy Land, and Bad King John who usurps the kingdom in his absence.

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Marcus Aurelius is the one great figure of antiquity who still speaks to us today, nearly 2,000 years after his death.

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A vivid, brutal and enthralling account of the Burma Campaign one of the most punishing and hard-fought military adventures of World War Two.

The Burma Campaign was one of the most punishing and protracted military adventures of World War Two.