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Napoleon And Russia Tells, For The First Time, The Full Story Of Napoleon And His Crucial Relationship With Russia, From The 1790s And Bonaparte's Rise To P...

This Is The Biggest, Grandest, Most Sprawling Epic Ever Told, Filled With Battles And Hardship, Courage, Determination, Daring Voyages Into The Unknown, And...

Paris, 1911. Picasso, Debussy, And Proust Were Revolutionizing Art, Music, And Literature. Electricity Had Transformed The City Of Lights. And The Parisian ...

Review"The simple, unadorned narrative is gripping and makes its point all the more forcefully because of its lack of pretension." -- Karen Armstrong, autho...

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Corsica will lead you straight to the best attractions this unique European island has to offer. Explore its beautiful beaches,...

This book covers the crucial role of evolutionary biology in transforming our view of human origins and relation to the universe, and its impact on tradit...

Recalls The Nobel Laureate's War Years.Categories: HistoryMilitary

Françoise d’Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon and secret wife of the Sun King, Louis XIV, was born in a bleak French prison in 1635, her father a condemned t...

Written by one of Britain’s best known and most respected military historians, this is the essential account of the Napoleonic campaigns. Now in a new con...

The Greater Journey is the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, archi...

The New York Times bestseller: the secrets of the City of Light, revealed in the lives of the great, the near-great, and the forgotten—by the author of t...

the Closest Thing To Total War Before World War One, The Seven Years' War Was Fought In North America, Europe, The Caribbean And India With Major Conseque...

A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2017 and a Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2017. Winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Award in Culinary...

For thirty dramatic years, England ruled a great swath of France at the point of the sword—an all-but-forgotten episode in the Hundred Years’ War that ...

During a pivotal few months in the middle of the First World War all sides-Germany, Britain, and America-believed the war could be concluded. Peace at the ...

The Business Of L'oreal Is Beauty. It Is The World's Largest Cosmetics Firm. This Startling Book Shows The Other Face Of Beauty. It Is The Story Of How This...

'It's the end of the 1916 winter and the conditions are almost unbelievable. We live in a world of Somme mud. We sleep in it, work in it, fight in it, wade ...

The history and philosophy of the mysterious Cathar religion and its lost treasure • Demonstrates that Catharism is not simply a heretical Christian cul...

Meticulously Written Recipes Explain The Basics--rules That Will Help Anyone Become A Better Cook--while Providing The Deep Satisfaction That Comes From Cre...

The Inventive Peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse, when on a summer's day in 1560 a man swaggered i...

Beaumont Hamel is a name which conjures up appalling visions of the catastrophic reverse suffered by men of VIII Corps, British Fourth Army on 1st July 191...