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Engaging and highly entertaining Sunday Times

The dramatic confrontation between the two 'mighty opposites' of the Victorian age, brilliantly recreated by a talented young historian.

Gladstone and Disraeli were the fiercest political rivals of the modern age.

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Amazing stories surround Kings and Queens throughout history, and The Little Guide to Kings and Queens is full of fun facts, anecdotes, witty and wise quotes, and plenty of lists.

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The story of one of the Boston area s most famous attractions, the Mount Auburn Cemetery, and how its founders and residents have influenced American culture When the Mount Auburn Cemetery was founded, in 1831, it revolutionized the way Americans mourned the dead by offering a peaceful space for contemplation. This cemetery, located not far from Ha

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The fascinating story of the Princesses of Hesse, four sisters at the heart of twentieth-century politics

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The fascinating story of the Princesses of Hesse, four sisters at the heart of twentieth-century politics

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A lively and insightful study of the many roles played by women in the Tudor era, from queens to wet-nurses and countesses to serving maids.

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A true story of a soldier who lost his memory and identity during World War I, and of a people in mourning, who found in him the symbol of a lost generation. Revealing of the human cost of war, this book portrays not just the fate of one individual but a nation's inconsolable post-war grief and illuminates the nature of mourning.

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A veteran political correspondent presents a ground-level history of Iran since 1979, showing how the country's enduring reform movement will reshape the country-if the West gives it the chance

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There is nothing quite as beautiful as an English country house in summer. And there has never been a summer quite like that Indian summer between the two world wars, a period of decline in which the sun set slowly on the British Empire and the shadows lengthened on the lawns of a thousand stately homes. The author uncovers the truth about them.

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At the small Belgian village of Waterloo two large, hastily mobilized armies faced each other to decide the future of Europe. This book tells their story and recaptures the fear, chaos and chanciness of battle and uses various eye-witness reports.

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A sweeping account of the relationship between Pakistan and India that traces the two countries' contentious history from long simmering tensions between Hindus and Muslims, to the conflict over Kashmir, to the possibility for a present day detente.

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They had many legendary names - the Divine Pelasgians of Greece, the Luwians of Troy and western Anatolia, the Rephaim and Anakim of the Bible, and the Hyksos rulers of Avaris who suppressed Egypt for generations.

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A passionate and vivid recreation of the history of Trinidad by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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The remarkable untold WWII story of the US airman who was shot down over Nazi-occupied France and evaded Gestapo pursuers for more than six months before escaping to freedom, as told by his grandson.

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A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A medical mystery. A journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle and a stunning archaeological discovery.

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In 1524, the Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazano was sent by the French king, Francis I, on an expedition to find a shorter route to China. However, his true mission, Steven Sora suggests, was to contact a Templar colony that might have been established in Newport, Rhode Island, by Henry Sinclair at the end of the 14th century.