A Brief History of Science as seen through the Devellopment of Scientific Instruments by Thomas Crump
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Category: History | Series: Brief History of
An exploration of scientific advances throughout time. From earliest pre-history, with the dawning understanding of fire and its many uses, up to the astonishing advances of the 21st century, Thomas Crump traces the increasingly sophisticated means employed in our attempts to understand the universe. Th ...Show more
A Brief History of the Age of Steam by Thomas Crump
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Category: History | Series: Brief Histories
In 1710, an obscure Devon ironmonger Thomas Newcomen invented a machine with a pump driven by coal, used to extract water from mines. Over the next two hundred years, the steam engine would be at the heart of the industrial revolution that changed the fortunes of nations. Passionately written and insigh ...Show more
Abraham Lincoln - An Illustrated Life and Legacy by Thomas F. Schwartz
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Category: History
The sixteenth president of the United States was an exceptionally astute politician who has left a compelling story and legacy that continues to intrigue scholars and historians today. He led the nation through its greatest constitutional, military, and moral crisis--the Civil War. Inside the luxurious ...Show more
John Ransom's Civil War DiaryNotes from Inside Andersonville, the Civil War's Most Notorious Prison by John L. Ransom
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Category: History
John L. Ransom joined the Union Army in 1862, serving as brigade quartermaster of the Ninth Michigan Volunteer Cavalry. A year later, the 20-year-old soldier was captured in Tennessee and interned at the notorious Georgia prison camp, Andersonville. Ransom's harrowing firsthand account of Civil War ...Show more
The World Encyclopedia of Swords and Sabres by Harvey J. S. Withers
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Category: History
An authoritative history and visual directory of edged weapons from around the world, shown in over 600 stunning photographs. A comprehensive illustrated guide to more than 500 edged weapons from around the world, focusing on eras of historical and military significance such as the Napoleonic Wars and t ...Show more
Rebels and Redcoats: The American Revolutionary war by Hugh Bicheno
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Category: History
Published to accompany a four-part BBC TV series - written and presented by military historian, Richard Holmes, this book offers a somewhat controversial and revisionist view. Most people regard the American Revolutionary War of the 1775-83 (also known as the War of Independence) as a popular struggle f ...Show more
Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World by Adrian Goldsworthy
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Category: History
The Pax Romana is famous for having provided a remarkable period of peace and stability, rarely seen before or since. Yet the Romans were first and foremost conquerors, imperialists who took by force a vast empire stretching from the Euphrates in the east to the Atlantic coast in the west. Their peace m ...Show more
Defying Hitler - A Memoir by Sebastian Haffner; Oliver Pretzel (translator)
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Category: History
This memoir begins in 1914 when the family summer holiday is cut short by the outbreak of war, and ends with Hitler's assumption of power in 1933. It is a portrait of the author and his own generation in Germany, those born between 1900 and 1910, and explains through his own experiences and those of his ...Show more
The Tears of the Rajas: Mutiny, Money and Marriage in India 1805-1905 by Ferdinand Mount
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Category: History
The Tears of the Rajasis a sweeping history of the British in India, seen through the experiences of a single Scottish family. For a century the Lows of Clatto survived mutiny, siege, debt and disease, everywhere from the heat of Madras to the Afghan snows. They lived through the most appalling atrociti ...Show more
Love and Louis XIV by Antonia Fraser
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Category: History
Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the women in his life. This includes not only Louis XIV's mistresses, principally Louise de La Valliere, Athenais de Montespan, and the puritanical Madame de Mainten ...Show more