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(Paperback)

By: Si Sheppard

ISBN: 9781472849182
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
UK Publication Date: 16th March 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In 1915-18, ANZAC and Ottoman soldiers clashed on numerous battlefields, from Gallipoli to Jerusalem. This illustrated study investigates the two sides' fighting men.


(Paperback)

By: Si Sheppard

ISBN: 9781472844200
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 17th February 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Following the American Declaration of Independence, communities from Boston to Savannah were forced to make a choice: to strike out for an independent republic, or remain true to the British Crown. This study explores the origins, methods, and combat record of the combatants on both sides.


(Paperback)

By: Si Sheppard

ISBN: 9781472845696
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 20th January 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This is the detailed story of the Vikings' expedition to conquer medieval Paris - a brutal year-long siege which ultimately brought about the foundation of modern France.


(Hardback)

By: Si Sheppard

ISBN: 9781440831058
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This groundbreaking work tells the true story behind Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1936 reelection, drawing upon never-before-published personal files to expose a nexus of patronage and power that changed America forever.


(Hardback)

By: Si Sheppard

ISBN: 9781472851468
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 27th February 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A groundbreaking new history of the wars of the Ottoman Expansion, a truly global conflagration that crisscrossed three continents and ultimately defined the borders and future of a modern Europe.


(Paperback)

By: Si Sheppard

ISBN: 9781472836922
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
UK Publication Date: 19th March 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The siege of Constantinople in AD 717-18 was a key clash between the expanding Umayyad Caliphate and the Byzantine Empire, and one which influenced the fate of Western civilization. In this specially-illustrated study, Si Sheppard examines the course of this pivotal campaign.


(Paperback)

By: Si Sheppard

ISBN: 9781472843807
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 23rd December 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A highly illustrated and detailed study of one of the most important campaigns in the colonization of the Americas, the Spanish conquest of the vast Inca Empire.


(Paperback)

By: Si Sheppard

ISBN: 9781472838261
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 23rd July 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This fascinating book explores the epic clash between two ancient empires in a 250-year conflict which would define the boundaries of the ancient world for more than seven centuries.


(Paperback)

By: Si Sheppard

ISBN: 9781472820181
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
UK Publication Date: 31st May 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A highly illustrated history of one of the greatest military campaigns of all time--the Spanish conquest of Mexico from 1519 to 1521, an epic clash of civilizations that saw the destruction of the Aztec Empire.


(Paperback)

By: Si Sheppard

ISBN: 9781780961835
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
UK Publication Date: 20th October 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In AD 66 a local disturbance in Caesarea caused by Greeks sacrificing birds in front of a local synagogue exploded into a pan-Jewish revolt against their Roman overlords. Gaining momentum, the rebels successfully occupied Jerusalem and drove off an attack by the Roman legate of Syria, Cestus Gallius, who was defeated at the battle of Beth Horon.


(Paperback)

By: Si Sheppard

ISBN: 9781472837868
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 20th August 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This study explores, in fascinating detail, the story of how the skill of codebreakers and fighter pilots terminated the career of Admiral Yamamoto--and the subsequent controversy over who fired the fatal shots.


(Paperback)

By: Si Sheppard

ISBN: 9781846034053
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Tells the story of the battle of Actium.


(Paperback)

By: Si Sheppard

ISBN: 9781846030024
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In 48 BC, the stage was set for the final clash of the two titans of the Roman world and the odds were heavily in Pompey's favour, with 45,000 men against Caesar's 22,000. This work charts the events surrounding the Pharsalus campaign, and the seismic implications of the decisive clash between the two greatest generals of their age.


(Paperback)

By: Si Sheppard

ISBN: 9781846032653
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Forever immortalised by Shakespeare's play "Julius Caesar", the battle of Philippi was the final battle between the forces of Mark Antony and Octavian against the armies of Caesar's assassins Brutus and Longinus.


(Paperback)

By: Si Sheppard

ISBN: 9781472801289
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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When Paris, prince of Troy, ran off with Helen, wife of the king of Sparta, it launched the greatest war of the mythic age of Greece. Heroes and gods assembled on both sides, as the combined armies of Greece launched a siege that would last for ten years.