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  • The Spanish Civil War 1936–39

    by Patrick Turnbull ...
    Series series Men-at-Arms
    By the spring of 1936 an armed clash was imminent between the forces of Spain's extreme Left and extreme Right.Viewed largely as a confrontation between democracy and fascism, the resulting civil war proved to be of enormous international significance. Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy intervened to assist General Franco, while the Soviet Union came to the aid of the Republican forces.This book ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Spanish Civil War 1936–39

    by Patrick Turnbull ...
    Series Book 74 - Men-at-Arms
    By the spring of 1936 an armed clash was imminent between the forces of Spain's extreme Left and extreme Right.Viewed largely as a confrontation between democracy and fascism, the resulting civil war proved to be of enormous international significance. Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy intervened to assist General Franco, while the Soviet Union came to the aid of the Republican forces.This book ... Read more

    $17.29 CAD

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  • On War (Illustrated)

    Volume 1

    by Carl von Clausewitz, J. J. Graham ...
    "War is the continuation of politics by other means," is a chapter heading from Carl von Clausewitz’s controversial classic On War, which first appeared in 1832 and remains essential reading for military scientists and tacticians two centuries later. This new 2017 edition of Volume I from Enhanced Media Publishing features a revised translation of the original English version with modern American ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mysteries of the Middle Ages

    And the Beginning of the Modern World

    by Thomas Cahill ...
    Series series The Hinges of History
    **From the national bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization—a fascinating look at how medieval thinkers created the origins of modern intellectual movements.“Intoxicating.... Cahill's command of rich historical detail makes medieval cities and their colorful characters come to alive.” —The Los Angeles TimesAfter the long period of decline known as the Dark Ages, medieval Europe ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Pepyss London: Everyday Life in London 1650-1703

    Everyday Life in London 1650-1703

    by Stephen Porter ...
    Samuel Pepyss London was a turbulent, boisterous city, enduring the strains caused by foreign wars, the Great Plague and the Great Fire, yet growing and prospering. The Restoration in 1660 brought the reopening of the theatres, with women appearing on the stage for the first time, and the period saw the development of English opera and the first public concerts. Pepys lived through a time of ... Read more

    $12.49 CAD

  • The Renaissance

    A Short History

    by Paul Johnson ...
    Series Book 1 - Modern Library Chronicles
    The Renaissance holds an undying place in the human imagination, and its great heroes remain our own, from Michelangelo and Leonardo to Dante and Montaigne. This period of profound evolution in European thought is credited with transforming the West from medieval to modern; reviving the city as the center of human activity and the acme of civilization; and, of course, producing the most ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Irresistible North

    From Venice to Greenland on the Trail of the Zen Brothers

    by Andrea Di Robilant ...
    From the author of A Venetian Affair and Lucia comes a charming odyssey in the path of the mysterious Zen brothers, who explored parts of the New World a century before Columbus, and became both a source of scandal and a cause célèbre among geographers in the following centuries.This delightful journey begins with Andrea di Robilant’s serendipitous discovery of a travel narrative published in ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Leviathan and the Air-Pump

    Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life

    by Steven Shapin, Simon Schaffer ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thinkers: Thomas Hobbes, author of the political treatise Leviathan and vehement critic of systematic experimentation in natural philosophy, and Robert Boyle, mechanical philosopher and owner of the newly invented air-pump. The issues at stake in their ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • Indecent Secrets

    The Infamous Murri Murder Affair

    by Christina Vella ...
    On a hot summer day in Italy in 1902, the brutally stabbed body of Count Francesco Bonmartini was discovered, by means of its decomposing stench, inside his locked apartment. He was a typical Italian provincial aristocrat in all but one way: he had married into a prominent but deeply troubled family. His father-in-law was one of the nation's most famous doctors. His wife, Linda, a young ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Wondrous Beauty

    The Life and Adventures of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte

    by Carol Berkin ...
    From the award-winning historian and author of Revolutionary Mothers (“Incisive, thoughtful, spiced with vivid anecdotes. Don’t miss it.”—Thomas Fleming) and Civil War Wives (“Utterly fresh . . . Sensitive, poignant, thoroughly fascinating.”—Jay Winik), here is the remarkable life of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, renowned as the most beautiful woman of nineteenth-century Baltimore, whose marriage ... Read more

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  • Medieval Ireland (New Gill History of Ireland 1)

    The Enduring Tradition – Ireland from the Coming of Christianity to the Reformation

    by Michael Richter ...
    Series Book 1 - New Gill History of Ireland
    Medieval Ireland – The Enduring Tradition, the first instalment in the New Gill History of Ireland series, offers an overview of Irish history from the coming of Christianity in the fifth century to the Reformation in the sixteenth, concentrating on Ireland's cultural and social life and highlighting Irish society's inherent stability in an very unstable period. Such a broad survey reveals ... Read more

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  • The Great Expedition

    Sir Francis Drake on the Spanish Main 1585–86

    by Angus Konstam ...
    Series Book 17 - Raid
    In 1585, the English launched a pre-emptive strike against Spain, by attacking her New World colonies.Led by Sir Francis Drake, in command of 21 ships and 1,800 soldiers, the expedition struck first at the Canary Islands, then attacked the city of Santo Domingo and the treasure port of Cartagena. Frequently outnumbered, Drake's soldiers won an series of spectacular victories and, laden with ... Read more

    $19.89 CAD