Aelfred's Britain: War and Peace in the Viking Age by Max Adams
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Category: REM History
In 865, a great Viking army landed in East Anglia, precipitating a series of wars that would last until the middle of the following century. It was in this time of crisis that the modern kingdoms of Britain were born. In their responses to the Viking threat, these kingdoms forged their identities as hyb ...Show more
Persecution of the Templars by Alain Demurger; Teresa Lavender Fagan (Translator)
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Category: REM History
The trial of the Knights Templar is one of the most infamous in history. Accused of heresy by the king of France, the Templars were arrested and imprisoned, had their goods seized and their monasteries ransacked. Under brutal interrogation and torture, many made shocking confessions: denial of Christ, d ...Show more
Les Parisiennes - How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s by Anne Sebba
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Category: REM History | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE FRANCO-BRITISH SOCIETY BOOK PRIZE 2016 What did it feel like to be a woman living in Paris from 1939 to 1949? These were years of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation and secrets until - finally - renewal and retribution. Even at the darkest moments of Occupation, glamour was ever ...Show more
Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion by Anne Somerset
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Category: REM History
She ascended the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1702, at age thirty-seven, Britain s last Stuart monarch, and five years later united two of her realms, England and Scotland, as a sovereign state, creating the Kingdom of Great Britain. She had a history of personal misfortune, overcoming il ...Show more
Baghdad City of Peace, City of Blood--A History in Thirteen Centuries by Justin Marozzi
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Category: REM History
For much of its extraordinary life, Baghdad, known for centuries as the "City of Peace," enjoyed both cultural and commercial preeminence. For five centuries it was the seat of the Abbasid Empire, a marvel of glittering palaces, exquisite parks, magnificent mosques, and Islamic colleges. It was a city b ...Show more
The Nuns of Sant'AmbrogioThe True Story of a Convent in Scandal by Hubert Wolf
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Category: REM History
A true, never-before-told story—discovered in a secret Vatican archive—of sex, poison, and lesbian initiation rites in a nineteenth-century convent.In 1858, a German princess, recently inducted into the convent of Sant'Ambrogio in Rome, wrote a frantic letter to her cousin, a confidant of the Pope, clai ...Show more
How Do We Look? - The Eye of Faith by Mary Beard
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Category: REM History | Series: Civilisations | Reading Level: very good
Companion to the major new BBC documentary series CIVILISATIONS, presented by Mary Beard, David Olusoga and Simon SchamaThe idea of 'civilisation' has always been debated, even fought over. At the heart of those debates lies the big question of how people - from prehistory to the present day - have depi ...Show more
War Classics Slipcase: War Letters of General Monash & Australian Victories in France in 1918 by John Monash
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Category: REM History
John Monash War Classics, In his own words . . . War Letters of General MonashThis collection of extraordinary, intimate letters from General Sir John Monash to his wife and daughter, records his experiences throughout World War I, from landing at Gallipoli to leading decisive victories on the Western F ...Show more
Full Circle : How the Classical World came back to us by Ferdinand Mount
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Category: REM History
So much about the society that is now emerging in the twenty-first century bears an astonishing resemblance to the most prominent features of what we call the classical world - its institutions, its priorities, its entertainment, its physics, its sexual morality, its food, its politics, even its religio ...Show more
Paris in 3D in the Belle Epoque (1880-1914) by Bruno Fuligni
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Category: REM History
An innovative package includes a sturdy, metal stereoscopic viewer and 34 fascinating stereoscopic photographs of elegant, turn-of-the-century Paris. The package includes an accompanying 128-page paperback, which provides a brief history of the stereograph craze and an overview of the city's evolution d ...Show more
EMPIRE OF SECRETS BRITISH INTELLIGENCE THE COLD WAR AND THE TWILIGHT OF EMPIRE by WALTON CALDER
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Category: REM History
HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 1 000 OBJECTS by DK PUBLISHING
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Category: REM History
From the watch Napoleon used to synchronize with his generals at Waterloo and Chinese David vases believed to be the oldest example of blue and white porcelain to the US Constitution and the Mayan Dresden codex, the oldest book written in the Americas, History of the World in 1,000 Objects provides a co ...Show more