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  • The English Civil War

    A Military History

    by Peter Gaunt ...
    Sir, God hath taken away your eldest son by a cannon shot. It brake his leg. We were necessitated to have it cut off, whereof he died.' In one of the most famous and moving letters of the Civil War, Oliver Cromwell told his brother-in-law that on 2 July 1644 Parliament had won an emphatic victory over a Royalist army commanded by King Charles I's nephew, Prince Rupert, on rolling moorland west of ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • The English Civil War

    A Military History

    by Peter Gaunt ...
    Focusing on the martial core of the English Civil War, this account offers a detailed overview of the decade-long conflict: from the social, religious, and political divisions that influenced the nation's militarization, to the experiences of combatants and civilians, and the War's relationship with urban and rural environments.Peter Gaunt uses rich contemporary accounts to examine experiences of ... Read more

    $38.89 CAD

  • The English Civil Wars 1642–1651

    by Peter Gaunt ...
    Series series Guide to...
    The period 1642-1651, one of the most turbulent in the history of mainland Britain, saw the country torn by civil wars.Focusing on the English and Welsh wars this book examines the causes, course and consequences of the conflicts. While offering a concise military account that assesses the wars in their national, regional and local contexts, Dr Gaunt provides a full appraisal of the severity of ... Read more

    $13.29 CAD

  • The British Wars, 1637-1651

    by Peter Gaunt ...
    Series series Lancaster Pamphlets
    During the 1640s, the kingdoms ruled by Charles I - England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland - were gripped by a series of civil wars and conflicts which were, in part, distinct to each kingdom, but which also overlapped and inter-related, leading some British historians to portray them as a single 'British' conflict. The British Wars by Peter Gaunt offers a concise history of these wars, from the ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • The Stuart Age

    England, 1603–1714

    by Barry Coward, Peter Gaunt ...
    The Stuart Age provides an accessible introduction to England’s century of civil war and revolution, including the strains upon and breakdown of the Elizabethan system of government in the early Stuart decades; the causes of the English Civil War; the nature of the English Revolution; the aims and achievements of Oliver Cromwell; the continuation of religious passion in the politics of Restoration ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

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  • The Stuart Age

    England, 1603–1714

    by Barry Coward, Peter Gaunt ...
    The Stuart Age provides an accessible introduction to England's century of civil war and revolution, including the causes of the English Civil War; the nature of the English Revolution; the aims and achievements of Oliver Cromwell; the continuation of religious passion in the politics of Restoration England; and the impact of the Glorious Revolution on Britain. The fifth edition has been ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Shatterzone of Empires

    Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands

    by Larry Wolfe, Gregor Thum, Dan Diner, Theodore R. Weeks, Gary B. Cohen, Pieter M. Judson, Frithjof Benjamin Schenk, Elke Hartmann, Patrice M. Dabrowski, Robert Nemes, Yaroslav Hrytsak, Tomas Balkelis, Taner Akçam, Eyal Ginio, Keith Brown, David Gaunt, Peter Holquist, Alexander V. Prusin, John-Paul Himka, Pamela Ballinger, Myroslav Shkandrij, Paul Robert Magocsi, Kai Struve, Philipp Ther ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    "Anyone who studies nationalism, genocide, mass violence, or war in these regions, from the Enlightenment through the mid-20th century, needs to read [this]."— Central European HistoryShatterzone of Empires is a comprehensive analysis of interethnic relations, coexistence, and violence in Europe's eastern borderlands over the past two centuries.In this vast territory, extending from the Baltic to ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tudor and Stuart Britain

    1485-1714

    by Roger Lockyer, Peter Gaunt ...
    Tudor and Stuart Britain charts the political, religious, economic and social history of Britain from the start of Henry VII’s reign in 1485 to the death of Queen Anne in 1714, providing students and lecturers with a detailed chronological narrative of significant events, such as the Reformation, the nature of Tudor government, the English Civil War, the Interregnum and the restoration of the ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

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    Josephine Tey: The Daughter of Time & other mysteries

    A BBC Radio crime collection

    by Josephine Tey ...
    Narrated by Julia Foster, Joan Sims, Paul Young, Edward Petherbridge, Tilly Gaunt, Giles Fagan, Peter Gilmore, Full Cast ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 18 min

    Dramatisations and readings of five of Josephine Tey's classic mystery novelsScottish novelist and playwright Josephine Tey was one of the greatest Golden Age crime writers and the author of eight mysteries, including six featuring Scotland Yard inspector Alan Grant. The most famous of these, The Daughter of Time, was acclaimed the greatest crime novel of all time by the Crime Writers' Association ... Read more

    $25.83 CAD

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  • Grant's Tomb

    The Epic Death of Ulysses S. Grant and the Making of an American Pantheon

    by Louis L. Picone ...
    The moving story of Ulysses S. Grant's final battle, and the definitive account of the national memorial honoring him as one of America's most enduring heroesThe final resting place of Ulysses S. Grant, the victorious general in the Civil War and the eighteenth president of the United States, is a colossal neoclassical tomb located in the most dynamic city in the country. It is larger than the ... Read more

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  • John Keats

    Poetry, Life & Landscapes

    by Suzie Grogan ...
    "This is a celebratory meld of memoir, biography and travelogue, intensely personal and all the better for it." —Eleanor Fitzsimons, author of Wilde's WomenJohn Keats is one of Britain's best-known and most-loved poets. Despite dying in Rome in 1821, at the age of just twenty-five, his poems continue to inspire generations who reinterpret and reinvent the ways in which we consume his work.Apart ... Read more

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  • Voices of Our Republic

    Exploring the Constitution with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Alan Dershowitz, Sandra Day O'Connor, Ron Chernow, and Many More

    Edited by Douglas H. Ginsburg ...
    This inspiring coffee table book serves as a companion to thethree-part 2020 PBS series A More or Less Perfect Union, A Personal Exploration by Judge Douglas Ginsburg, which delves into past, present, and future struggles for liberty through the lens of the US Constitution. Voices of Our Republic features thoughts about the Constitution from personalities, dignitaries, and everyday heroes, ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD