CITIZENS : A CHRONICLE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION - 2 VOLUME SET by SIMON SCHAMA

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Medieval Panorama by ROBERT BARTLETT (ed)

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THE GREEK MYTHS - 2 VOLUME SET by ROBERT GRAVES

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Hitler and His Secret Partners : Contributions, Loot and Rewards, 1933-1945 by James Pool

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Rendezvous With Destiny by Michael Fullilove

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The period between Hitler's invasion of Poland and the attack on Pearl Harbor was the turning point of the twentieth century. While the American public and Congress were eager to isolate themselves from the conflict, President Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted to bring their considerable might to the aid of the Allies. To build a case, Roosevelt threw out the diplomatic playbook, turning to five unlikely men, only one of whom had any diplomatic background, and sent them on a series of remarkable journeys: Sumner Welles, the diplomat whose buttoned-down appearance belied a libertine spirit, who met with Mussolini, Hitler and Chamberlain in the spring of 1940, but failed to broker a peace deal; William 'Wild Bill' Donovan, war hero and future spymaster, who visited Britain in the summer to determine whether Churchill could hold out against the German advance, and convinced FDR that America's help was needed; Harry Hopkins, the frail social worker, sent to Churchill to explain the Lend-Lease deal that would make America the 'Arsenal of Democracy', and whose later meeting with Stalin, after Hitler's invasion of Russia, gave Roosevelt the confidence to gamble on aiding the Soviet Union; Averell Harriman, the ambitious banker and railroad heir, dispatched to run the massive aid program out of London; and Wendell Willkie, the charismatic man FDR had just defeated in the presidential election, whose visit to London and Dublin lifted British morale and bound Americans to the cause. Roosevelt's five emissaries are unforgettable characters. Taken together, their missions plot the arc of America's transformation from a reluctant middle power into a global leader. Drawing on vast archival research, historian Michael Fullilove has rescued these men and their missions and given them back to history. At the centre of everything, of course, is FDR himself, who moved his envoys around the globe with skill and elan. Rendezvous with Destiny is narrative history at its most delightful, stirring and important. ...Show more

In Quest of the Lost Legions - The Varusschlacht - SIGNED by Tony Clunn

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It was a military disaster on a huge scale. It dealt a body blow to the might of Imperial Rome, and may have changed the course of European history. Three entire legions and support troops - 25,000 thousand men in all - were wiped out by German tribesmen in the Teutoburger Wald in AD 9. It was a savage running battle lasting four days, and where Varus' surviving legionaries made their last stand is the subject of this book. The author claims to have established Kalkriese as the last point of attack, the bottleneck where the six to seven thousand were trapped and died. Here we have a gripping story of field detection, buried treasures, local legends and archaeological research, persistence and reward. The fruits of many years are here in this vivid record of one man's mission of discovery - into the fate of so many men all those centuries ago. ...Show more

Scotland and Beyond ; The Families of Donald Gunn and John Gunn by Alastair Gunn; Donald Gunn

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SHADES OF THE ALHAMBRA by RALEIGH TREVELYAN

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THE WITCHES OF SALEM : A DOCUMENTARY NARRATIVE by ROGER THOMPSON (ed)

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THE HABSBURGS : EMBODYING EMPIRE by ANDREW WHEATCROFT

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MONTAILLOU : CATHARS AND CATHOLICS IN A FRENCH VILLAGE 1294-1324 by EMMANUEL LE ROY LADURIE

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THE WAR IN GRANADA by DIEGO HURTADO DE MENDOZA

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