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Fully illustrated story of the army of the Greek king who fought both Rome and Carthage in the 280s--270s BC, and gave the world the phrase a Pyrrhic victory for a success so costly that it counts as a defeat.

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Based on the landmark Radio 4 series, this beautifully illustrated modern history of the connections between science and art offers a new perspective on what that relationship has contributed to the world around us.

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In the autumn of 1502 three giants of the Renaissance period - Cesare Borgia, Leonardo da Vinci and Niccol Machiavelli - set out on one of the most treacherous military campaigns of the period.

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Traces the development of human society through our understanding of science. This title discusses human invention from the flint tool to geometry, agriculture to genetics, and from alchemy to the theory of relativity, showing how they are expressions of our ability to understand and control nature.

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This is the story of JFK's assassination as told from the frontline: it is about the people - from the highest to the lowest - who were caught up in that four-day whirlwind in November 1963.

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Astonishing in its scale and ambition, this is the most balanced and accomplished book about the Iraq war so far.

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Explore the wonders that the world forgot with award-winning travel writer Oliver Smith - from breathtaking buildings with a dark past to decaying reminders of more troubled times.

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An illustrated study of the radical evolution of the Australian Army's capabilities, and its combat operations, that has taken place since the end of the Vietnam War.

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A popular telling of the story of the revival of European intellectual life after the collapse of civilisation that followed the fall of the Roman empire in the West.

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A new history of the letter that changed the history of the Middle East

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The first of two volumes on the Axis campaigns in the Balkans, exploring Mussolini's fateful decision to move against Greece in October 1940. The Greek President Metaxas rejected the Italian ultimatum with a famous 'Oxi' ('No'), and what followed was Italy's first debacle in World War II.

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This concise yet detailed overview gives a balanced account of this key Blitzkrieg campaign in the Balkans during the opening years of World War II.

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The history of a uniquely fascinating region, whose seat is soon to be the European Capital of Culture, as told by a team of renowned academics.

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A fascinating narrative excursion into a bizarre episode in 19th century Ethiopian and British imperial history featuring a remote African despot and his monstrous European-built gun.

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A revelatory uncovering of a vanished agricultural way of life by nature writer Sally Coulthard.

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The Basques settled in a corner of France and Spain in a land that is marked on no maps. They are a nation with a story that illuminates Europe's own saga. The author blends economic, political, literary and culinary history into a heroic tale.

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From a NAACP award-winning historian and Fulbright scholar, a history of education in the United States from the end of the Civil War to the historic ruling of Brown v. Board of Education.

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A notable account of an epic human experience' Max Hastings, Sunday Times

Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war Sir Winston Churchill, speech to the House of Commons, 18 June 1940

The Nazi Blitzkrieg was unlike any invasion the world had ever seen.

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In 1940 Britain was an island under siege. The march of the Nazi war machine had been unrelenting: France and Belgium had quickly fallen and now the British Empire and the Commonwealth stood alone to counter the grave threat. This book offers an in-depth assessment of the situation leading up to the summer of 1940.

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How close did Britain really come to invasion during this time What were Hitler and Churchill's motives And what was the battle's real effect on the outcome of the war This title deals with these questions.

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In late January 1968, some 84,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops launched a country-wide general offensive in South Vietnam, mounting simultaneous assaults on 36 of 44 provincial capitals, and five of the six autonomous cities (including the capital city of Saigon).