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Based on memoirs written between September 1820 and November 1821.

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The Roman Emperor Julian (332-363 A.D.) attempted to reestablish paganism as the principal faith of the Roman world. Following his death on a Persian battlefield only two years into his reign, the Church suppressed paganism and Julian was branded "The Apostate."

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What are we willing to die for Michael Walsh restores the dignity of lost concepts like honour, duty, sacrifice and patriotism for our unheroic age.

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A top historian of Rome narrates the erosion of law and order in the last years of the Roman Republic through the rise and fall of its most famous lawyer, Cicero.

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This work reveals the attempts by Robert Kennedy to expose John F. Kennedy's killers--attempts that led to RFK's own murder. Interviews and newly declassified files document how three mob bosses and a few CIA operatives were able to prevent the truth from coming to light--until now.

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A unique combination of military handbook and popular history that brings to life the Legionarys experience in a witty yet informative guide.

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A re-examination of the battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval encounter in history and probably the most decisive naval battle of the entire Pacific War, and one that saw the Imperial Japanese Navy eliminated as an effective fighting force and forced to resort to suicide tactics.

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The most eloquent of American presidents, Lincoln offered sagacious and frequently humorous comments on everything that mattered. This volume features his thoughts and opinions concerning politics, human nature, and many other topics.

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A compelling, fresh perspective on the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln, as revealed through the unrivaled collection of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.

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Jeevan Vasagar is a superb and evocative writer, and Lion City is a compelling, illuminating and personal history that will be regarded as the definitive book on Singapore - and one of the great city chronicles.

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The extraordinary story of Singapore told by the expert correspondent for the Financial Times

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The epic history of Liverpool since the Second World War, from its promising rise to its disastrous decline.

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The author and photographer John Feder were among the few unembedded journalists during the 2002 Iraq War. They roamed around southern Iraq, but were then subjected to house arrest in Baghdad, where they continued to file reports in secret, and later arranged the evacuation of the horribly wounded little boy, Ali Abbas.

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This sensational 1941 memoir of life on wartime Europe's frontline by a trailblazing female reporter is an 'unforgettable' (The Times) rediscovered classic, introduced by Christina Lamb (who calls her 'the Forrest Gump of journalism').

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On a calm, tropical afternoon in the South Atlantic Ocean in Aril 1942, a British tramp steamer, the SS Willesden, was shelled, torpedoed and sunk by a German raider, the KMS Thor. The Willesden was carrying 47 officers and crew, and a cargo of vital war supplies destined for Britain's 8th Army in North Africa.

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A unique visual guide to America's war between the states, told through those sites swept aside by development or decay Take a journey through lost civil war battlefields in this photographic guide to the many historic sites that have been destroyed or become overgrown over the centuries.

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More than 100 large-format photographs depict extraordinary sites in South and Central American Mexico and the Caribbean

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Using letters between soldiers and their loved ones, parents, sweethearts, wives or children, this book traces the emotional and psychological ways by which New Zealanders made sense of the upheavals of war.

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'The best 'bird's eye view' of the helicopter war in Vietnam in print today ... Mills has captured the realities of a select group of aviators who shot craps with death on every mission' R.S. Maxham, Director, US Army Aviation Museum

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