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  • That Sweet Enemy

    The British and the French from the Sun King to the Present

    by Isabelle Tombs, Robert Tombs ...
    From Blenheim and Waterloo to 'Up Yours, Delors' and 'Hop Off You Frogs', the cross-Channel relationship has been one of rivalry, misapprehension and suspicion. But it has also been a relationship of envy, admiration and affection.In the nearly two centuries since the final defeat of Napoleon, France and Britain have spent much of that time as allies - an alliance that has been almost as uneasy, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Polish Crisis and Relations with Eastern Europe, 1979-1982

    Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series III, Volume X

    Edited by Isabelle Tombs, Richard Smith ...
    Series series Whitehall Histories
    This volume presents a collection of diplomatic documents describing Britain’s relations with Eastern Europe from 1979 to 1982, with special focus on the crisis in Poland.After coming to power in 1979, the Conservative Government of Margaret Thatcher reaffirmed a policy of ‘differentiation’ between the Soviet Union and the rest of Eastern Europe, and between individual countries; concurrently it ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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  • Rise to Greatness

    The History of Canada From the Vikings to the Present

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    Masterful, ambitious, and groundbreaking, this is a major new history of our country by one of our most respected thinkers and historians -- a book every Canadian should own.From the acclaimed biographer and historian Conrad Black comes the definitive history of Canada -- a revealing, groundbreaking account of the people and events that shaped a nation.Spanning 874 to 2014, and beginning from ... Read more

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  • The Pursuit of Power

    Europe, 1815-1914

    by Richard J. Evans ...
    ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016'A scintillating, encyclopaedic history, rich in detail from the arcane to the familiar... a veritable tour de force' Richard Overy, New Statesman'Transnational history at its finest ... .. social, political and cultural themes swirl together in one great canvas of immense detail and beauty' Gerard DeGroot, The Times'Dazzlingly erudite and entertaini... ... Read more

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  • The English and Their History

    by Robert Tombs ...
    A New York Times 2016 Notable BookRobert Tombs’s momentous The English and Their History is both a startlingly fresh and a uniquely inclusive account of the people who have a claim to be the oldest nation in the world. The English first came into existence as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. They have lasted as a recognizable entity ever ... Read more

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  • A Brief History of Ireland

    by Richard Killeen ...
    Series series Brief Histories
    From the dawn of history to the decline of the Celtic Tiger - how Ireland has been shaped over the centuries.Ireland has been shaped by many things over the centuries: geography, war, the fight for liberty. A Brief History of Ireland is the perfect introduction to this exceptional place, its people and its culture.Ireland has been home to successive groups of settlers - Celts, Vikings, Normans, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Pursuit of Glory

    Europe 1648-1815

    by Tim Blanning ...
    'Let the nations rejoice: this history of Europe is a truly glorious book' John Adamson, Sunday TimesThe Pursuit of Glory brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in European history – from the battered, introvert continent after the Thirty Years War to the dynamic one that experienced the French Revolution and the wars of Napoleon. Tim Blanning depicts the lives of ordinary people and ... Read more

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  • The Literary Churchill

    Author, Reader, Actor

    by Jonathan Rose ...
    "An interesting and at times surprising account of Churchill's tastes as a reader…many of [these] nuggets will be new even to Churchill junkies."— The Wall Street JournalThis strikingly original book introduces a Winston Churchill we haven't known before. Award-winning author Jonathan Rose explores Churchill's careers as statesman and author, revealing the profound influence of literature and ... Read more

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  • The Long Shadow

    The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century

    by David Reynolds, Ph.D. ...
    **Winner of the 2014 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for the Best Work of History"Brilliant…the most challenging and intelligent book on the Great War and our perceptions of it that any of us will read." —John Charley, The Times [London]**One of the most violent conflicts in the history of civilization, World War I has been strangely forgotten in American culture. It has become a ghostly war fought in a ... Read more

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  • What Might Have Been?

    Leading Historians on Twelve 'What Ifs' of History

    Edited by Andrew Roberts ...
    A dozen star historians on what might have happened at history's turning points if the dice had fallen differently.'Stimulating, provocative and playful' Literary ReviewThroughout history, great and terrible events have often hinged upon luck. Andrew Roberts has asked a team of twelve leading historians and biographers what might have happened if major world events had gone differently? Each ... Read more

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  • The Napoleonic Wars: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Mike Rapport ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The Napoleonic Wars have an important place in the history of Europe, leaving their mark on European and world societies in a variety of ways. In many European countries they provided the stimulus for radical social and political change - particularly in Spain, Germany, and Italy - and are frequently viewed in these places as the starting point of their modern histories. In this Very Short ... Read more

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  • Great Contemporaries

    by Winston S. Churchill ...
    Series Book 3 - Winston S. Churchill Essays and Other Works
    Insightful biographical sketches of major historical figures of the twentieth century, from the incomparable British statesman.Winston S. Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on the strength of "his mastery of historical and biographical description." Nowhere is that mastery more evident than in Great Contemporaries—which features Churchill's profiles of many of the major figures of ... Read more

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