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Humphrey Bold: A Story of the Times of Benbow by Herbert Strang is an exhilarating historical fiction adventure set against the backdrop of 18th-century naval warfare in the Caribbean.

This is the first general history of early modern Wales for more than a generation.

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This book examines the intellectual trajectories of international mid-career scholars working on the Second World War and the Holocaust in France across a wide range of disciplines, including history, literature, and cultural studies.

Although a young doctor when he volunteered for the Spanish Civil War in late 1936, New Zealander Douglas Jolly swiftly acquired a reputation as one of the most gifted and energetic surgeons of the Republican Armys medical services.

Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Pelican State has to offer!

Contains over one hundred descriptions of the Battle of the Alamo by people who were witnesses or who claimed to have witnessed the event.

This book uses, principally but not only, a case study of the Denbighshire town of Ruthin to discuss both the significance of Englishness versus Welshness and of gender distinctions in the network of small Anglo-Welsh urban centres which emerged in north Wales following the English conquest of 1282.

WINNER OF THE 2023 HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZEA WATERSTONES NATURE AND TRAVEL BEST BOOK OF 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT NATURE WRITING PRIZE 2023'Modern, revealing and restorative, a coastal treasure' Amy Liptrot'Like its talismanic title, Huband's voice is distinct and singular.

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Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution as both an islandwide and a circum-Caribbean phenomenon, Graham Nessler examines the intertwined histories of Saint-Domingue, the French colony that became Haiti, and Santo Domingo, the Spanish colony that became the Dominican Republic.

Joe Leslie's Wife: Or, A Skeleton in the Closet by M.

In nineteenth-century Wales, a protest took place like no other.

A warrior prince ambushes his brothers at Xuanwu Gate, takes the throne, and becomes one of imperial China's most celebrated rulers.

Dieses Buch beleuchtet, wie ein Einzelner aus dem Nichts ein Reich schmiedet, wo Gesetz verboten wird und Gier die Stadt knechtet.

Die Aufklarung als "e;Zeitalter der Philosophie"e; wird bis heute als Ara sachbezogener Kritik und vernunftiger Debatte verstanden, angesiedelt jenseits der niederen Spharen personlicher Angriffe und Schmahungen.

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject History of Europe - Newer History, European Unification, grade: 2,0, University of California, Berkeley (Department of History), course: U.

If the machine gun changed the course of ground combat in the First World War, it was the tank that shaped ground combat in World War II.

In AD 21, two Roman citizens with Gallic names led the most serious provincial rebellion that Gaul had seen since Julius Caesar's conquest.

Second to None: A Military Romance Vol.

This is a major contribution to the study of medieval Wales by a group of outstanding British historians, writing in honour of one of Wales's most distinguished scholars and the biographer of Prince Llywelyn ap Gruffudd.

The numerous flaws contained in the legal legislation were reflected in the reality of practical application, and worked to empty the parliamentary elections of the true purpose for which they were conducted, which is the peaceful transfer of power, to another purpose, which is to strengthen the position of the ruling party in power at the expense of other political parties from one election cycle to another.

This interdisciplinary study of medieval English anchoritism from 1080-1450, explodes the myth of the anchorhold as solitary death-cell, reveals it instead as the site of potential intellectual exchange, and demonstrates an anchoritic spirituality in synch with the wider medieval world.

Since 2007, Afro-Puerto Rican women have been revising the foundational myths of the island and the diaspora to create a new vision of family as a national allegory that includes powerful Black protagonists.

After a promising start as a prosperous and liberal democratic nation at the end of the nineteenth century, Argentina descended into instability and crisis.

Works which have sought to look specifically at the Welsh in Australia have been few in number and characterised by a concentration on prominent individuals and cultural/religious societies, thus excluding many facets of immigrant life.

Barry Island was one of the most cherished leisure spaces in twentieth-century south Wales, a playground of generations of working-class day-trippers.

Liverpool's rise to become the second city in the British Empire was directly linked to its development as a commercial port.

Paradise in Hell studies the role played by alcohol, morphine, cocaine, cannabis and amphetamines in the Spanish Civil War.

Thousands of books and articles have been written about the Battle of Gettysburg.

This study is the first thorough analysis of the extent of the opposition to the Great War in Wales, and is the most extensive study of the anti-war movement in any part of Britain.

In 1971, Californian congressman Thomas M.

In April 1846, tensions between the U.

How did the Welsh travel beyond their geographical borders in the Middle Ages?

This "e;brilliant"e; account of Benedict Arnold's military campaign to bring Canada into the Revolutionary War is "e;hard to put down"e;-includes maps (Mag Web).

Joshua Volume 3 by Georg Ebers is a captivating blend of historical fiction, archaeological fiction, and biblical narrative set in ancient Egypt.

Before the Bible Belt fastened itself across the South, competing factions of evangelicals fought over their faiths future, and a contrarian sect, self-named the Primitive Baptists, made its stand.

Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for thirty-eight creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences in Pennsylvania.

This book, based on extensive first-hand research conducted between 2020 and 2024, places “Russian antiquity” in the center of analysis, and addresses memory-making in the regions.

In 398 CE, on the windswept frontier between the Mongolian steppe and agricultural China, the nomadic Tuoba Xianbei people made a radical choice.

History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Frederick the Great Volume XVIII by Thomas Carlyle is a biographical work that delves into the life and reign of the influential Prussian monarch.

What better locale to consider for spooky happenings than the home of the Salem witch trials?

This is the first book-length treatment of the 'turncoat' John Poyer, the man who initiated the Second Civil War through his rebellion in south Wales in 1648.

Contains over one hundred descriptions of the Battle of the Alamo by people who were witnesses or who claimed to have witnessed the event.

Scientific Study from the year 2009 in the subject History - Basics, , language: English, abstract: It is considered that Pompeii was destroyed in the first century and, being buried under a layer of volcanic ash and pumice-stone, it remained forgotten for more than 1500 years until in 1592 the architect Domenico Fontana, during the construction of a canal to bring water to Torre Annunziata, found in an underground passageway several inscriptions on marble plates indicating the location of an ancient city.

The main focus of this book is on the contribution of Welsh scientists, engineers and facilities in Wales to the British nuclear programme - especially the military programme - from the Second World War through to the present day.

Joshua Volume 1 by Georg Ebers is a captivating blend of historical fiction, archaeological fiction, and biblical narrative set in ancient Egypt.

A study of the thirty-five Carnegie libraries built in towns and industrial communities in Wales before the First World War.

The nearly ten-month struggle for Petersburg, Virginia, is well known to students of the Civil War.

German Heavy Anti-Tank Unit 653 was equipped with the heaviest tank destroying vehicles of the German armed forces.