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A popular writer, blogger, and Middle East scholar analyzes the disastrous collapse of the Middle East and America's future role there, and shows why the best case for Syria is that it becomes a country with the same standards of safety and prospects as Somalia.

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Thackeray's biographer, D.J. Taylor, updates The Book of Snobs (1848) for the twenty-first century. Waspish, acute and very funny.

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A historical look at why making things is a key to improving the world

The aborted coup in Turkey has fired up interest in a country which will play a critical geopolitical role in the wars of the Middle East.

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This book examines the potential and the problems of the new Turkey, and the expectations of the people who live there, drawing on first hand interviews and observations gathered over several years.

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The 1960s, the most tumultuous decade of the twentieth century, were a time of tectonic shifts in all aspects of society - from the March on Washington and the Second Vatican Council to the Summer of Love and Woodstock. This volume includes historic pieces from the magazine's pages that capture the sixties, set alongside new assessments.

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A wonderful historical caper, telling the farcical tale of attempts to be the first to break the news of the British victory at Waterloo.

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The untold story of the 999 young, unmarried Jewish women who were tricked into boarding a train in Poprad, Slovakia on March 25, 1942 that became the first official transport to Auschwitz.

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The thrilling, cinematic untold story of nine young women, WWII resistance fighters, captured by the Nazis, who launched a breathtakingly bold escape and found their way home.

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This riveting book explains why the Norman Conquest was the single most important event in English history.

Assessing the original evidence at every turn, Marc Morris goes beyond the familiar outline to explain why England was at once so powerful and yet so vulnerable to William the Conqueror's attack.

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This title covers the history and armies of the powerful military kingdom founded by the Normans in southern Italy and Sicily, which were contemporary to William the Conqueror's invasion of England.

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The 'Northern Crusades', inspired by the Pope's call for a Holy War, are less celebrated than those in the Middle East, but they were also more successful: vast new territories became and remain Christian, such as Finland, Estonia and Prussia. This title provides an account of a tumultuous era.

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In this fully illustrated introduction, acclaimed historian Dr Aaron Edwards provides a concise overview of one of the most difficult and controversial actions in recent history.

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A history of the UK's regional inequalities, and why they matter

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The Northmens Fury describes how and why a region at the edge of Europe came to dominate and to terrorise much of the rest of the continent for nearly three centuries and how, in the end, the coming of Christianity and the growing power of kings tempered the Viking ferocity and stemmed the tide of raids.

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This fascinating study combines the latest archaeological research with an analysis of the available literary and non-literary evidence to examine the organization, equipment, and tactics of the Numidian warriors who fought in conflicts across the ancient Mediterranean as part of the armies of Carthage and Rome between 300 BC and AD 300.

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Reveals the innermost thoughts of the former Nazi officials under indictment at the famous postwar trial. This work presents interviews with some of the highest-ranking Nazi officials in the Nuremberg jails, including Hans Frank, Hermann Goering, Ernest Kaltenbrunner, and Joachim von Ribbentrop.

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"This authoritative guide delivers in-depth reportage on the history of remarkable objects from the Smithsonian's collections"--

A compelling, masterly portrait of a country revaged by foreign occupation.