General and world history

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History is a very interesting yet boring topic for most children.

Uncivil Wars opens in 1857 and takes the reader through the horrors of the Indian Mutiny to China and the Second Opium War, during which Speedicut is captured and tortured in the notorious Board of Punishments.

Government are governed by laws.

El fútbol y la historia se mezclan en Libertadores de América, un libro de viajes por el continente, por su independencia y por una de nuestras mayores pasiones.

La reflexión sobre España tiene una larga e ilustre tradición.

This reference book is all about the troubled times in the western world with all those deaths, diseases and dark times.

The American Civil War was caused by so many inequalities.

Rick Jolly was the Senior Medical Officer in the Falklands, setting up and running the field hospital at Ajax Bay, where he and his Royal Marine and Parachute Regiment medical teams treated a total of 580 casualties, of which only 3 died of wounds.

The 2nd volume in this comprehensive naval history details the design and employment of British warships through the 18th century.

An American visitor and uninvited guest in the village of Nok, Marie Hasluck is an irrepressible anthropologist who believes that she has found the Kingdom of Heaven in the forests of Nigeria.

'A truly majestic work of scholarship, thought and literary imagination.

This is the story of an ordinary young man, unworldly, untried and patriotic, who enlisted at 18 in 1942 and became an infantryman specialising as a machine gunner with the Middlesex Regiment and later with the Cheshire Regiment.

España fundó la primera navegación global de la historia, dibujó continentes desconocidos e inventó las máquinas maravillosas que hicieron posible aquella primera globalización.

The 1960s is a decade often seen through a rose-tinted lens: an era when the young would not only rule the world but change it, too, for the better.

This is the story about Franz Hess, a Jewish scientist working at an armaments Research and Development complex in the Ruhr, Germany during World War 11.

The Sumer and Akkad are two of the most ancient civilizations known to men.

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Thomas Jefferson is most famous for the writing of the Declaration of Independence, which espouses the general principles of freedom and democracies that Americans hold dear.

These are two sermons which speak to the necessary aim of all pastors and preachers from the first African American ordained as a minister in the U.

After the fall of the Parthians, the Sassanids came into power.

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While the Arthurian folk tales are mostly stories of friendships, this one is focused on the strength and spirit of King Arthur especially when he pulled the sword from the stone.

An acclaimed examination of the latter years of the Cold War, from one of the finest historians of modern Russia.

Fighting between Christians and Muslims in the medieval period is often seen in the narrow context of the battle for the Holy Land.

The author of We Also Served examines what life was like for children during World War I.

John Howard’s name will forever be linked to the highly successful Pegasus Bridge assault by his glider-born company of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.

Failure to exploit the potential of an original idea is a recurring phenomenon in our national history.

When the Great Depression hit, millions of families were affected but the degree of effect varied greatly between cities and farms.

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Russell Janney's debut novel tells the story of Bill Dunnigan, the greatest press agent in America, who brings the body of Olga Treskovna, the purest female and best actress of America, to Coaltown, the worst mining town in the country, for burial.

Aus dem brennenden Troja können nur wenige fliehen.

One of the leading voices on national-security issues in the US Congress demonstrates how words have been sharp and powerful weapons of victory in this compilation of great military speeches that helped turn the tide of history.

Following the recent unveiling of the monument to Bomber Command in London's Green Park, the publication of this lovingly crafted account of the exploits of oft-overlooked 1 Group is set to be a timely one.

Originally published in 1949, this book tells the story of a Southern white girl and her reaction when she discovers that her unborn child will inherit Negro blood.