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Valerian Inglemoore
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Год написания книги 2019
From wild and rugged Cornwall, the setting of Poldark and Jamaica Inn, comes another fabulous, dramatic story…The rake’s return!For years Valerian Inglemoore, Viscount St Just, lived a double lif…
Ancient Egypt: History in an Hour
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Год написания книги 2019
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.Learn about the Egyptian gods, mummification and how the Egyptians built the only wonder of the ancient world still standing – the Pyramids o…
Churchill: History in an Hour
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Год написания книги 2018
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour…Sir Winston Churchill was a soldier, journalist, writer, Nobel Prize winner and, above all, a leader. Conservative then Liberal then Conserva…
Post Wall, Post Square: Rebuilding the World after 1989
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Год написания книги 2019
This landmark global study makes us rethink what happened when the Cold War ended and our present era was born. The world changed dramatically as the Berlin Wall fell and protest turned to massac…
Irish History: People, places and events that built Ireland
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Год написания книги 2019
From mesolithic Ireland to the peace process, this little book covers all of the main historical and cultural events, places and figures in Irish history. A must for all lovers of Ireland and the…
September 1, 1939: A Biography of a Poem
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Год написания книги 2019
This is a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More than a work of literary criticism or literary biography, it is a record of why and how we cre…
Chastise: The Dambusters Story 1943
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Год написания книги 2019
A masterly history of the Dambusters raid from bestselling and critically acclaimed Max Hastings. Operation Chastise, the overnight destruction of the Möhne and Eder dams in north-west Germany by…
Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11
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Год написания книги 2019
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ‘The farewell calls from the planes… the mounting terror of air traffic control… the mothers who knew they were witnessing their loved ones perish… From an author wh…
Island Stories: Britain and Its History in the Age of Brexit
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Год написания книги 2019
What does Brexit mean to you? For award-winning historian David Reynolds, it’s neither a saga of British liberation nor a Westminster soap: it’s a crisis of national identity a long time in the m…
Long Live the Queens: Mighty, Magnificent and Bloody Marvellous Monarchs History’s Forgotten
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Год написания книги 2019
Powerful and influential kings have long dominated our view of global history, their queens often relegated to the shadows, their influence, deeds and sacrifices unacknowledged and lost in the pa…
Maths on the Back of an Envelope: Clever ways to (roughly) calculate anything
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Год написания книги 2019
‘Another terrific book by Rob Eastaway’ SIMON SINGH ‘A delightfully accessible guide to how to play with numbers’ HANNAH FRY How many cats are there in the world? What's the chance of winning the…
Semicolon: How a misunderstood punctuation mark can improve your writing, enrich your reading and even change your life
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Год написания книги 2019
‘Fascinating… I loved this book; I really did’ David Crystal, Spectator A biography of a much misunderstood punctuation mark and a call to arms in favour of clear expression and against stifling …
The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones
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Год написания книги 2019
‘Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace … He writes about things so clearly they come to feel like some of the most important things you have…
The Taming of Mei Lin
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Год написания книги 2019
Faced with a proposal from a man she despises, impetuous Mei Lin makes a daring declaration: she will only marry the man who can defeat her in a sword fight. She has bested everyone who has so fa…
The Lady's Scandalous Night
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Год написания книги 2019
Tang Dynasty China, 759 A. D.Yao Ru Jiang, known as River, has woven many romantic dreams of honorable swordsman Wei Chen from her brother's stories. Their meeting should have been a happy event;…
How to Tame a Lady
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Год написания книги 2019
A lady untamed… Lady Nicole Daughtry has vowed never to be vulnerable to any man. Despite the suitors vying for the beauty’s hand, she wants no part in the pursuits of love. But Lucas Paine has c…
An Officer But No Gentleman
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Год написания книги 2019
London, 1839Ex-cavalry officer Captain Grahame Westmore is restless for change, but escorting a diplomat’s spoiled daughter to Vienna isn’t what he had in mind—though for once he hasn’t been hire…
How to Ruin a Reputation
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Год написания книги 2019
ASHTON BEDEVERE: RENOWNED LIBERTINE WHO CAN RUIN A REPUTATION QUICKER THAN OTHER GENTLEMEN CAN DRINK THEIR BRANDYAfter years in Italy, honing his skills in the delicious art of seduction, Ashe re…
The Black Sheep's Return
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Год написания книги 2019
THE RECLUSE AND THE PAMPERED LADYAs the long-lost black sheep of the aristocratic Seaborne family, Richard gave up everything to protect his wife and children – his wealth, his home, even his nam…
The Fall of a Saint
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Год написания книги 2019
THE ONLY WOMAN WHO CAN MAKE HIM REPENT!Honourable – and handsome to boot! – Michael Poole, Duke of St Aldric, has earned his nickname ‘The Saint’. But the ton would shudder if they knew the truth…