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A Brief History of Roman Britain by J.P. Alcock
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Category: No Category | Series: Brief Histories
In BC 55 Julius Caesar came, saw, conquered and then left. It was not until AD 43 that the Emperor Claudius crossed the channel and made Britain the western outpost of the Roman Empire that would span from the Scottish border to Persia. This book is a social history of the period showing how roman socie ...Show more
A Brief History of Superheroes by Brian J. Robb
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Category: Art & Fashion | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
This is a fascinating written exploration of the superhero phenomenon, from its beginnings in the depths of Great Depression to the blockbuster movies of today. For over 90 years, superheroes have been interrogated, deconstructed, and reinvented. In this wide-ranging study, Robb looks at the diverse cha ...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
A Brief History of the Amazons: Women Warriors in Myth and History by Lyn Webster Wilde
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Category: No Category | Series: Brief Histories
'Golden-shielded, silver-sworded, man-loving, male-child slaughtering Amazons,' is how the fifth-century Greek historian Hellanicus described the Amazons, and they have fascinated humanity ever since. Did they really exist? For centuries, scholars consigned them to the world of myth, but Lyn Webster Wil ...Show more
A Brief History of the Battle of Agincourt by Christopher Hibbert
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Category: No Category | Series: Brief Histories
There can be few military victories so complete, or achieved against such heavy odds, as that won by Henry V on 25 October 1415 against Charles VI's army at Agincourt. In the words of one contemporary French chronicler, it was the 'most disgraceful event that had ever happened to the Kingdom of France'. ...Show more
A Brief History of the Druids by peter berresford ellis
$9.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Brief Histories
A history of the cult of the ancient Druids, exploring who they really were and what role they played in the Celtic world. The author's interpretation of the facts is based on both archaeological and etymological findings. Peter Berresford Ellis sifts through evidence and, with reference to the latest a ...Show more
A Brief History of the House of Windsor: The Making of a Modern Monarchy by Michael Paterson
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Category: No Category | Series: Brief Histories
The British monarchy may be over a thousand years old, but the House of Windsor dates only from 1917, when, in the middle of the First World War that was to see the demise of the major thrones of continental Europe, it rebranded itself from the distinctly Germanic Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to the homely and fam ...Show more
A Brief History of the Private Life of Elizabeth II, Updated Edition by Michael Paterson
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Category: No Category | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning British monarch. A personally quiet, modest and dutiful person, she is far better-informed about the lives of her subjects than they often realize. She has known every Prime Minister since Winston Churchill and every American President since Eisenhower. Yet what of t ...Show more
A Brief History of the Third Reich: The Rise and Fall of the Nazis by Martyn J. Whittock
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Beginning in the broken aftermath of the First World War and the Treaty of Versailles that made German recovery almost impossible, Whittock tells not just the account of the men who rose to the fore in the dangerous days of the Weimar republic, circling around the cult of personality generated by Adolf ...Show more
Brief Guide to Ghost Hunting by Leo Ruickbie
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Category: No Category | Series: Brief Histories
There has been an upsurge in books, television programmes, films and websites exploring the reality or otherwise of the spirit world. Not since the founding of The Ghost Club in 1862 and the Society for Psychical Research in 1882 has ghost hunting been so popular. Television and the internet, in particu ...Show more
Brief Guide to Spiritual Classics by James M. Russell
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Category: Mind Body Spirit | Series: Brief Histories
This very readable brief guide examines a wide range of spiritual writing that can be read for enjoyment or inspiration, including some books that come from beyond any religious tradition. While written from within the Christian tradition, and offering introductions to the writings of medieval mystics, ...Show more
Brief History Of The British Army by Jock Haswell, John Lewis-Stempel
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Category: No Category | Series: Brief Histories
The story of the British Army has many sides to it, being a tale of heroic successes and tragic failures, of dogged determination and drunken disorder. It involves many of the most vital preoccupations in the history of the island - the struggle against Continental domination by a single power, the batt ...Show more