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The inside story of the most daring SAS rescue mission everIn September 2000 eleven British soldiers were captured by a notorious militia gang in Sierra Leone.The so-called 'West Side Boys' had subjected their part of the country to a long reign of terror, murdering,...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Romantic Revolution
A compelling and persuasive account of how the Romantic Movement permanently changed the way we see things and express ourselves.Three great revolutions rocked the world around 1800. The first two - the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution - have inspired the...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Viceroy's Daughters
The lives of the three daughters of Lord Curzon: glamorous, rich, independent and wilful.Irene (born 1896), Cynthia (b.1898) and Alexandria (b.1904) were the three daughters of Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India 1898-1905 and probably the grandest and most self-confident...

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Télécharger le livre :  Prehistory
A brief and original prehistory of the worldPrehistory covers human existence before written records, i.e. most of human existence. But it also refers to the discipline through which we scrutinize prehistoric times. PREHISTORY begins by looking at the discovery of a...

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Télécharger le livre :  Memory and Identity
A truly historical document that leaves for posterity the intellectual and spiritual teachings of His Holiness Pope John Paul IIA truly historical document, Memory and Identity contains Pope John Paul II's personal thoughts on some of the most challenging issues and...

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Télécharger le livre :  Cinnamon Kiss
New York Times bestseller Walter Mosley's sizzling new novel pits Easy Rawlins against his greatest ever challenge.It is the Summer of Love as CINNAMON KISS opens, and Easy Rawlins is contemplating robbing an armoured car. It's further outside the law than Easy has...

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Télécharger le livre :  Bloody April
The story of the decimation of the Royal Flying Corps over Arras in 1917As the Allies embarked upon the Battle of Arras, they desperately needed accurate aerial reconnaissance photographs. But by this point the Royal Flying Club were flying obsolete planes.The new...

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Télécharger le livre :  Mud, Blood and Poppycock
The true story of how Britain won the First World War.The popular view of the First World War remains that of BLACKADDER: incompetent generals sending brave soldiers to their deaths. Alan Clark quoted a German general's remark that the British soldiers were 'lions led...

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Télécharger le livre :  Achtung Panzer!
This is one of the most significant military books of the twentieth century. By an outstanding soldier of independent mind, it pushed forward the evolution of land warfare and was directly responsible for German armoured supremacy in the early years of the Second World...

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Télécharger le livre :  Jutland, 1916
Dramatic, illustrated account of the biggest naval battle of the First World War.On 31 May, 1916, the great battle fleets of Britain and Germany met off Jutland in the North Sea. It was a climactic encounter, the culmination of a fantastically expensive naval race...

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Télécharger le livre :  Cochrane
Bestselling account of the life of a real Horatio HornblowerThe life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, later 10th Earl of Dundonald, was more extraordinary than that of Nelson, more far fetched than that of Hornblower or Patrick O'Brien's Jack Aubrey. Born the son of an...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Somme
A major new history of the most infamous battle of the First World War, as described by the men who fought it.On 1 July 1916, Douglas Haig's army launched the 'Big Push' that was supposed finally to bring an end to the stalemate on the Western Front. What happened next...

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Télécharger le livre :  1939: The Last Season
A wonderful portrait of British upper-class life in the Season of 1939 - the last before the Second World War.The Season of 1939 brought all those 'in Society' to London. The young debutante daughters of the upper classes were presented to the King and Queen to mark...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Pursuit of Oblivion
'The most important study on this subject in years, perhaps ever' Phillip Knightley, SUNDAY TIMESA history of drug-taking, telling the story across five centuries of addicts and users: monarchs, prime ministers, great writers and composers, wounded soldiers, overworked...

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Parution : 2012-11-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Bombay Ice
A wonderful first novel which dramatically combines the suspense of a gripping literary thriller with a meditation on the nature of scientific chaosRoz Benegal, a feisty young BBC researcher, goes to India to pick up the threads of her life there (she spent part of her...

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Télécharger le livre :  My Favourite Year
'There is much humour here, much of the deadpan and the rapturous' Time OutRoddy Doyle's account of the Republic of Ireland's triumphant journey through Italia '90 is just one of the many first-class pieces in this anthology of original football writing.Contributors...

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Télécharger le livre :  Blood, Sweat and Arrogance
Why the British forces fought so badly in World War II and who was to blameGordon Corrigan's Mud, Blood and Poppycock overturned the myths that surround the First World War. Now he challenges our assumptions about the Second World War in this brilliant, caustic...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Deadly Sisterhood
The women who wielded the real power behind the throne in Renaissance Italy, from a bestselling historian.This book is one of drama on a grand scale, a Renaissance epic, as Christendom emerged from the shadows of the calamitous 14th century.The sweeping tale involves...

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Parution : 2012-11-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Time's Anvil
A personal and lyrical rediscovery of the history of England through archaeology and the imagination.History thrives on stories. TIME'S ANVIL explores archaeology's influence on what such stories say, how they are told, who tells them and how we listen.In a dazzlingly...

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Télécharger le livre :  Byzantium
A concise political, social and religious history of the Byzantine empire.Michael Angold's book is a clear, concise and authoritative history of the successor state to the Roman Empire, known as the Byzantine Empire. It was named after Byzantium, which Emperor...

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