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Brief Histories- Ancient Greece
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Journey back in time to explore one the most fascinating and influential periods of ancient history. In this concise and incredibly readable short history, Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts journeys from the warrior societies of The Bronze Age all the way to the invention of democracy during the golden age o...
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<p><b>Journey back in time to explore one the most fascinating and influential periods of ancient history.</b><br/><br/>In this concise and incredibly readable short history, Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts journeys from the warrior societies of The Bronze Age all the way to the invention of democracy during the golden age of Athens, charting the incredible rise and fall of the Greek world and revealing just how much the Greeks influenced the world we live in today, from art and philosophy to architecture and politics.<br/><br/><i>Brief Histories: Ancient Greece </i>is the perfect short introduction for anyone interested in the Greek world and all it has to offer.</p>
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Brief Histories- Ancient Egypt
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Journey back in time to explore one the most fascinating and influential periods of ancient history. In this concise and incredibly readable short history, Dr Campbell Price takes us through every aspect of Ancient Egypt, from the incredible architectural marvels of the pyramids of Giza to the visu...
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<p><b>Journey back in time to explore one the most fascinating and influential periods of ancient history.</b><br/><br/>In this concise and incredibly readable short history, Dr Campbell Price takes us through every aspect of Ancient Egypt, from the incredible architectural marvels of the pyramids of Giza to the visually stunning and complex language of hieroglyphics all the way through to those at the top of society, pharaohs such as Tutankhamen and queens like Cleopatra.<br/><br/><i>Brief Histories: Ancient Egypt </i>is the perfect short introduction for anyone interested in Ancient Egypt and all it has to offer.</p>
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Holding The Line
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AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW From the multi-million copy bestselling author Demon Copperhead: a true story of female-led resilience during the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 - now available for the first time in the UK. '[Kingsolver] means to save us by telling us stories . . . She comes closer th...
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<p></p><b>AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW</b><br/><br/><b>From the multi-million copy bestselling author <i>Demon Copperhead</i>: a true story of female-led resilience during the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 - now available for the first time in the UK.<br/><br/>'[Kingsolver] means to save us by telling us stories . . . She comes closer than anyone else I know.' ANNE PATCHETT</b><br/><br/><b>'Clear and emotional . . . This is a report from the trenches of where the political meets the personal.' JOHN SAYLES</b><br/><br/>It was the summer of 1983. Barbara Kingsolver had a day job as a scientific writer spending weekends cutting her teeth as a freelance journalist when she landed an assignment at a constellation of small, strike-gripped mining towns strung out across southern Arizona. Her mission was to cover the Phelps Dodge mine strike.<br/><br/>Over the year that followed Kingsolver stood with those miners and their families, increasingly engaged and heartbroken, as they cried out to a wide world that either refused to believe what was happening to them, or didn't care, or simply could not know.<br/><br/>Kingsolver recorded stories of striking miners and their stunningly courageous wives, sisters, daughters. Sometimes visiting them in jail, witnessing the outrageous injustices they suffered. She saw rights she'd taken for granted denied to people she had learned to care about.<br/><br/>This book is not precisely about the mine strike of 1983, and not at all about copper. It is the true story of the families who held the line, and of Kingsolver's commitment to tell the story of the women and girls who discovered themselves in their fight to keep their families from destitution.<br/><br/><i>Made in Dagenham </i>meets <i>Erin Brockovich, </i>this book is about the sparks that fly when the flint of force strikes against human mettle.<br/><br/><b>FROM THE WINNER OF THE PULITZER AND WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023</b>
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The Children Of Athena
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A compelling and fascinating portrait of the continuing intellectual tradition of Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome. In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the military might of the Roman Republic; sixty years later, when Athens and other Greek city-states rebelled against Rome, the general Luciu...
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<b>A compelling and fascinating portrait of the continuing intellectual tradition of Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome.</b> In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the military might of the Roman Republic; sixty years later, when Athens and other Greek city-states rebelled against Rome, the general Lucius Cornelius Sulla destroyed the city of Socrates and Plato, laying waste to the famous Academy where Aristotle had studied. However, the traditions of Greek cultural life would continue to flourish during the centuries of Roman rule that followed, in the lives and work of a distinguished array of philosophers, doctors, scientists, geographers, travellers and theologians. Charles Freeman's accounts of such luminaries as the physician Galen, the geographer Ptolemy and the philosopher Plotinus are interwoven with contextual 'interludes' that showcase a sequence of unjustly neglected and richly influential lives. Like the author's <i>The Awakening</i>, <i>The Children of Athena</i> is a cultural history on an epic scale: the story of a rich and vibrant tradition of Greek intellectual inquiry across a period of more than five hundred years, from the second century BC to the start of the fifth century AD.
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November 1942
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**A Telegraph Best History Book of 2023* 'An astonishing achievement' ANTONY BEEVOR An intimate history of the most important month of the Second World War as experienced by those who lived through it, completely based on their diaries, letters and memoirs. At the beginning of November 1942, it loo...
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<p><b>**A <i>Telegraph</i> Best History Book of 2023*<br/><br/>'An astonishing achievement' </b>ANTONY BEEVOR<br/><br/><b>An intimate history of the most important month of the Second World War as experienced by those who lived through it, completely based on their diaries, letters and memoirs.</b><br/><br/>At the beginning of November 1942, it looked as if the Axis powers could win the war; at the end of that month, it was obviously just a matter of time before they would lose.<br/><br/>In between came el-Alamein, Guadalcanal, the French North Africa landings, the Japanese retreat in New Guinea, and the Soviet encirclement of the German 6th Army at Stalingrad. In this innovatively kaleidoscopic and riveting historical marvel, Peter Englund reduces these epoch-making events to their basic component: the individual experience.<br/><br/>In thirty memorable days we meet characters including a Soviet infantryman at Stalingrad; an Italian truck driver in the North African desert; a partisan in the Belarussian forests; a machine gunner in a British bomber; a twelve-year-old girl in Shanghai; a university student in Paris; a housewife on Long Island; a prisoner in Treblinka; Albert Camus, Vasily Grossman, and Vera Brittain. We also witness the launch of <i>SS James Oglethorpe</i>; the fate of U-604, a German submarine; the building of the first nuclear reactor; and the making of <i>Casablanca.</i><br/><br/><b>Not since Englund's own <i>The Beauty and the Sorrow </i>has a book given us one of the most dramatic periods of human history in all its immensity and emotional range.</b><br/><br/><b>'Thought-provoking' </b><i>SUNDAY TIMES</i><br/><b>'Thoroughly worth reading' </b><i>TELEGRAPH</i></p>
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Conflict
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Conflict is both a sweeping history of the evolution of warfare up to Putin's invasion of Ukraine, and a penetrating analysis of what we must learn from the past, and anticipate in the future, in order to navigate an increasingly perilous world. In this deep and incisive study, General David P...
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<p>Conflict is both a sweeping history of the evolution of warfare up to Putin's invasion of Ukraine, and a penetrating analysis of what we must learn from the past, and anticipate in the future, in order to navigate an increasingly perilous world. In this deep and incisive study, General David Petraeus, the former CIA director who commanded the US-led coalitions in both Iraq and Afghanistan, and the prize-winning historian Andrew Roberts, explore over seventy years of conflict, drawing significant lessons and insights from their fresh analysis of the past. Petraeus and Roberts show how often critical mistakes have been repeated time and again, and explore the challenge, for statesmen and generals alike, of learning to adapt to various new weapon systems, theories and strategies. Among the conflicts examined are the Arab - Israeli wars, the Korean and Vietnam wars, the two Gulf wars, the Balkan wars in the former Yugoslavia, and both the Soviet and Coalition wars in Afghanistan, as well as guerrilla conflicts in Africa and South America. Conflict culminates with a bracing look at Putin's disastrous invasion of Ukraine, yet another case study in the tragic results that occur when leaders refuse to learn from history, and an assessment of the nature of future warfare. Filled with sharp insight and the wisdom of experience, Conflict is not only a critical assessment of our recent past, but also an essential primer of modern warfare that provides crucial knowledge for waging battle today as well as for understanding what the decades ahead will bring.</p>
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Normal Women
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A NEW STATESMEN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 'A lasting work of social history' THE TIMES 'A genuinely new history of our nation' DAN JONES 'This celebration of women is a triumph of popular history' SPECTATOR FROM THE MULTI-MILLION BESTSELLING HISTORICAL NOVELIST COMES THE CULMINATION OF HER LIFE'S WORK ...
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<p> <strong>A <em>NEW STATESMEN </em>BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023</strong> </p> <p> <strong> 'A lasting work of social history' <em>THE TIMES</em></strong> </p> <p> <strong>'A genuinely new history of our nation' DAN JONES</strong> </p> <p> <strong>'This celebration of women is a triumph of popular history' <em>SPECTATOR</em></strong> </p> <p> <strong>FROM THE MULTI-MILLION BESTSELLING HISTORICAL NOVELIST COMES THE CULMINATION OF HER LIFE'S WORK</strong> </p> <ul><li>Did you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry?</li><li>That the Peasant's Revolt was started and propelled by women, protesting a tax on women?</li><li>Or that celebrated naturalist Charles Darwin believed not just that women were naturally inferior to men but that they'd evolve to become ever more inferior?</li></ul> <p>These are just a few of the startling findings you will learn from reading Philippa Gregory's <em>Normal Women</em>. In this ambitious and ground-breaking book, she tells the story of our nation over 900 years, but for the very first time women - some fifty per cent of the population - are no longer invisible in this history of England, but are at its beating heart.</p> <p>Using research skills honed in her work as one of our foremost historical novelists, Gregory trawled through court records to find highway women, beggars and shepherdesses, through newspapers and diaries to find murderers and brides, housewives and pirates, female husbands and hermits. The 'normal women' you will meet in her pages went to war, ploughed the fields, campaigned, wrote, and loved. They rode in jousts, flew Spitfires, issued their own currency and built ships, corn mills and houses as part of their everyday lives They committed crimes, or treason, worshipped many gods, cooked and nursed, invented things and rioted. A lot. They built our society to be as diverse and varied as the women themselves. They are there in the archives - if you look - and they made our history.</p> <p> <strong>'You'll lose count of the number of things you learn about women and their skewed place in history as you read Philippa Gregory's stunning <em>Normal Women </em>... the book reframes the past ... an essential read' <em>INDEPENDENT, FIVE-STAR REVIEW</em></strong> </p>
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