Fifty Weapons That Changed the Course of History by Joel Levy
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Category: REM History
Fifty Weapons that Changed the Course of History is a fascinating and beautifully presented guide to the arms and armaments that have had the greatest impact on the development of human civilization.
Rome Eternal City by Ferdinand Addis
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$59.99 (66% off)
Category: REM History | Reading Level: near fine
Why does Rome continue to exert a hold on the world's imagination? Ferdinand Addis brings the myth of Rome alive by concentrating on vivid episodes from its long and unimaginably rich history. Each of his beautifully composed chapters is an evocative, self-contained narrative, whether it is the murder ...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
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
Books on Fire: The Destruction of Libraries Throughout History by Lucien X. Polastron
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Category: REM History
A historical survey of the destruction of knowledge from ancient Babylon and China to modern times • Includes the three separate destructions of the Library of Alexandria as well as many equally significant collections around the world • Examines the causes of violence directed at repositories of knowle ...Show more
Caught in the Revolution - Petrograd, Russia, 1917 - a World on the Edge by Helen Rappaport
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Category: REM History
Selected as a Book of the Year in the Telegraphand Evening Standard 'A gripping, vivid, deeply researched chronicle of the Russian Revolution told through the eyes of a surprising, flamboyant cast of foreigners in Petrograd, superbly narrated by Helen Rappaport.' Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The R ...Show more
Lusitania: Triumph, Tragedy, and the End of the Edwardian Age by Greg King
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Category: REM History
Lusitania: She was a ship of dreams, a microcosm of the last years of the waning Edwardian Era and the coming influences of the twentieth century. When she left New York on her final voyage, she sailed from the New World to the Old. Yet an encounter with a primitive German U-Boat sent her and her gilded ...Show more
QUEENS OF THE CONQUEST ENGLAND'S MEDIEVAL QUEENS BOOK ONE by WEIR ALISON
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Category: REM History | Series: England's Medieval Queens Ser.
In the first volume of an exciting new series, bestselling author Alison Weir brings the dramatic reigns of England's medieval queens to life. The lives of England's medieval queens were packed with incident--love, intrigue, betrayal, adultery, and warfare--but their stories have been largely obscured ...Show more
Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991A History by Orlando Figes
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Category: REM History
From the author of A People's Tragedy, an original reading of the Russian Revolution, examining it not as a single event but as a hundred-year cycle of violence in pursuit of utopian dreams In this elegant and incisive account, Orlando Figes offers an illuminating new perspective on the Russian Revolut ...Show more
Lives of the Ancient Egyptians: Pharaohs, Queens, Courtiers and Commoners by Toby Wilkinson
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Category: REM History
This sumptuous new book reveals the greatest civilization of the ancient world through the lives of 100 men and women who experienced it at first hand. Lavishly illustrated with spectacular works of art and scenes of daily life, "Lives of the Ancient Egyptians" offers unique and remarkable insights into ...Show more
After Hitler: The Last Ten Days of World War II in Europe by Michael Jones, Dr (University of Nottingham)
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Category: REM History
Ten days that changed the course of history. On April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide in a bunker in Berlin. But victory over the Nazi regime was not celebrated in western Europe until May 8, and in Russia a day later, on the ninth. Why did a peace agreement take so much time? How did this brut ...Show more
The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexievich
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$39.99 (55% off)
Category: REM History
A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia--from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature "But why? I asked myself more than once. Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women ...Show more
When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944 by Ronald C Rosbottom
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Category: REM History
The spellbinding and revealing chronicle of Nazi-occupied ParisOn June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a silent and nearly deserted Paris. Eight days later, France accepted a humiliating defeat and foreign occupation. Subsequently, an eerie sense of normalcy settled over the City of Light. Many Parisians ...Show more