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Life In Ancient Rome.

Publisher Description Ancient Rome, as a subject, has always attracted and fascinated people. The extent of its vast empire, much of it a result of its efficient military power, was such that many...

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First World War Weapons: 5 Minute History.

The First World War saw a wave of new developments in technology, and lots of new inventions, all of which advanced the science of killing. Here is information on those weapons that had the greatest...

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Modern Novel Writing: Or the Elegant Enthusiast.

First published in 1796 under the pseudonym Lady Harriet Marlow, this is William Beckford's satirical attack on what he saw as characteristically feminine novel writing. Beckford was reputedly the...

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The Workers' War: British Industry and the First World War.

Burton examines how different industries coped with the demands of war by showing how the war produced fundamental changes in British society. With the men at war and unprecedented loss of life, it...

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Coming Out of the Kitchen: Women Beyond the Home.

Publisher Description Until relatively recently, it was generally assumed that marriage was the only career for a woman, after which she was confined to the home, immersed in her domestic duties...

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The Companion to Local History.

An A-Z of many of the terms encountered in local history research including architecture, heraldry and place names, education, archaeology, Vikings, and more specialised terms such as beadle, club...

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The Warlord and the Renegade: The Story of Hermann and Albert Goring.

Publisher Description A founder member of the Nazi Party, Reichsmarschall Hermann Goring became the leader of the Nazis' economic war machine and supreme commander of the Luftwaffe. As a party to...

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The Unlikely Hero: George Scott Robertson.

Though born in London his parents and forebears were Orcadian from whom he inherited independence, self-reliance, discipline, a love of learning, and social dignity. As a surgeon he was caught up in...

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From the Frontline: The Extraordinary Life of Sir Basil Clarke.

A biography of the Daily Mail First World War reporter who went on to become the father of the UK public relations industry makes fascinating reading. He risked his life to send reports from near the...

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Masters of Crime: Fiction's Finest Villains and Their Real-Life Inspirations.

Fagin, Professor Moriarty, Moll Cutpurse and Raffles were all inspired by the lives and deaths of real-life criminals. Read their stories and discover how they were woven into fiction by writers such...

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Hope and Glory: Epic Stories of Empire and Commonwealth.

Publisher Description This work covers tales from local people whose journey through life has taken them from their homeland to Britain as well as those who left the Southwest for a life overseas...

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Joan of Arc: A Military Leader.

Many books have told Joan's tale from religious and feminist aspects, but this takes a different tack and addresses the question of why the soldiers of France followed a woman into battle when no...

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Agent Cicero: Hitler's Most Successful Spy.

Elyesa Bazna was born in 1904 of Albanian parents at Pristina, now in Kosovo. In the early 1940s he was employed by the British Embassy in Istanbul and began spying for the Germans. He did not much...

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Pigeon Guided Missiles: and 49 Other Ideas That Never Took Off.

The past is littered with examples of grandiose schemes and ambitious ideas that never quite took off. These 'might have beens' are rescued here, where we learn about these ideas and the optimistic...

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Scottish Voices from the Second World War.

Uses evidence from interviews with Scottish war veterans, plus material from un-published letters and diaries. Scots served in all theatres of war and all services and over 50,000 servicemen and...

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The Man Who Sank Titanic: The Troubled Life of Quartermaster Robert Hichens.

Robert Hichens has gone down in history as the man who was given the famous order to steer the Titanic away from the iceberg and failed. A key witness at both US and British Inquiries, Robert...

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The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Year: A Royal Souvenir.

A colourful collection of pictures of Queen Elizabeth and her family attending events that celebrated her 60 years as Queen of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth. There was much excitement,...

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Shakespeare's Bastard: The Life of Sir William Davenant.

Reassesses the life and achievements of the man (1606-1668) who liked to be thought of as Shakespeare's illegitimate son. He was a Civil War hero (on the side of the Royalists) and Britains second...

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Friendly Invasion: Memories of Operation Bolero, 1942-1945.

Publisher Description Between 1942 and 1945, tens of thousands of young American servicemen arrived in Britain. This book is an examination of the way their presence affected them and the local...

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The Other 'Ariel'.

Publisher Description With great care and critical insight, Lynda K. Bundtzen examines Plath's original typescript for "Ariel" and compares it to the version that was published by her estranged...

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The Diary of an Invalid.

Publisher Description Provides us with an insight into the life of an Englishman abroad in the early nineteenth century. Although plagued by the vagaries of the weather, of which the author...

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The Woman's Book of Household Management: Contains Everything a Woman Ought to Know.

Publisher Description With everything from the price of setting up and furnishing a new home to how to clean, deal with the paperwork, remove stains, wash and iron clothes properly, and generally...

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The Home Front: Civilian Life in World War One.

As men were called up to fight in the trenches, women for the first time went to work to replace them. The general public not only had to come to terms with the constant threat of explosions, fires...

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Walter Dew: The Man Who Caught Crippen.

Dew was a detective constable in Whitechapel, and was involved in many important investigations of the day. This story of his life from his humble beginnings to chief inspector at Scotland Yard in...

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