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ISBN: 9780465018383 - Strange Rebels Strange Rebels
Christian Caryl

ISBN10: 0465018386  ISBN13: 9780465018383
Publisher: The Perseus Books Group Basic Civitas Books
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 20 Jun 2013
After World War II, a secular, progressive consensus defined the international order. That changed in 1979, when a series of counterrevolutions swept the globe, blazing a path for a new era. In a brisk and gripping narrative, award... More

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ISBN: 9781409466536 - Albert of Aachen's History of the Journey to Jerusalem (Volume 2) Albert of Aachen's History of the Journey to Jerusalem (Volume 2)

ISBN10: 1409466531  ISBN13: 9781409466536
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Group Ashgate Publishing Limited
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 12 Jun 2013
Albert of Aachen's History of the Journey to Jerusalem presents the story of the First Crusade (1095-1099) and the first generation of Latin settlers in the Levant (1099-1119). Volume 2, The Early History of the Latin States, provides a surprising... More

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ISBN: 9780747812364 - Gypsies of Britain Gypsies of Britain
Janet Keet-Black

ISBN10: 0747812365  ISBN13: 9780747812364
Publisher: Shire Publications Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 10 Jun 2013
Explores the history of this lifestyle, looking at how Gypsies have maintained their distinctive culture and how they have adapted to the twenty-first century, and focusses on a range of traditional Gypsy occupations including harvesting, horse... More

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ISBN: 9780747812203 - Royal Coronations Royal Coronations
Lucinda Gosling

ISBN10: 0747812209  ISBN13: 9780747812203
Publisher: Shire Publications Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 10 Jun 2013
The monarchy has made many concessions to the modern age, but the affirming rituals of the coronation - the pageantry, the theatre and the symbolism - are centuries old. Looking at the British coronation from its beginnings, this title takes the... More

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ISBN: 9780747812395 - The Chicago School of Architecture The Chicago School of Architecture
Rolf Achilles

ISBN10: 074781239X  ISBN13: 9780747812395
Publisher: Shire Publications Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 10 Jun 2013
The birth of the skyscraper in Chicago in the mid-1880s introduced a new direction for city architecture: upwards. But how - and why- was it that Chicago set the standard for high-rise buildings, not only across the USA but all over the world? More

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ISBN: 9780747812142 - The Tudor Garden The Tudor Garden
Twigs Way

ISBN10: 0747812144  ISBN13: 9780747812142
Publisher: Shire Publications Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 10 Jun 2013
Artificiality was the fashion of the age, with clipped and twining plants vying for space with brightly painted woodwork and patterned beds. Renaissance discoveries reared their heads in royal gardens, where gilded and painted heraldic figures... More

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ISBN: 9781909166042 - No Parachute No Parachute
Arthur Gould Lee

ISBN10: 1909166049  ISBN13: 9781909166042
Publisher: Grub Street
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Jun 2013
From the young airmen who took their frail machines high above the trenches of World War I and fought their foes in single combat there emerged a renowned company of brilliant aces - among them Ball, Bishop, McCuddon, Collishaw and Mannock ... More

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ISBN: 9780708326251 - Arthur in Medieval Welsh Literature Arthur in Medieval Welsh Literature
O J Padel

ISBN10: 0708326250  ISBN13: 9780708326251
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 31 May 2013
Although the legends of Arthur have been popular throughout Europe from the middle ages onwards, the earliest references to Arthur are to be found in Welsh literature, starting with the Welsh-Latin Historia Brittonum which dates from the ninth... More

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ISBN: 9781781592892 - Posters of the Great War Posters of the Great War
Frederick Hadley, Martin Pegler

ISBN10: 1781592896  ISBN13: 9781781592892
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd Pen & Sword Military
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 31 May 2013
Two hundred full-colour posters from the Great War Posters from Britain, France, Germany, Russia, America Classic graphic designs covering recruitment, fund-raising, soldiering, the enemy, the family, the home front, the post-war world Until... More

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ISBN: 9781781592144 - Wehrmacht Combat Reports: The Russian Front Wehrmacht Combat Reports: The Russian Front
Bob Carruthers

ISBN10: 1781592144  ISBN13: 9781781592144
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd Pen & Sword Military
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 31 May 2013
This book is part of the Eastern Front from Primary Sources series, a new military history range compiled and edited by Emmy Award winning author and historian Bob Carruthers. The series draws on both German and Russian primary sources and... More