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  • Mediterranean Naval Battles That Changed the World

    by Quentin Russell ...
    This epic naval history examines seven pivotal Mediterranean conflicts, from the Battle of Salamis in the fifth century BC to the Siege of Malta during WWII.This book tells the story of the Mediterranean as a theater of war at sea. Historian Quentin Russell covers seven major battles or campaigns, each of which changed the balance of power and shape the course of history. Chronicling each battle ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ali Pasha, Lion of Ioannina

    The Remarkable Life of the Balkan Napoleon

    by Quentin Russell, Eugenia Russell ...
    A fascinating biography of Ottoman Greece and Albania's notorious despot—a major player in the power struggles of Revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe.At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the life of a petty tyrant in an obscure corner of the Ottoman Empire became the stuff of legend. What propelled this cold-blooded archetype of Oriental despotism, grandly known as the Lion of Yanina and ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Watford at War 1939–45

    by Eugenia Russell, Quentin Russell ...
    Series series Your Towns & Cities in World War Two
    On the eve of the Second World War, Watford was a growing center for light industry with close connections to London. These two facts would play an important role in how the ensuing conflict impacted on the lives of the people of the town and its neighbors in South-west Hertfordshire. This book puts into context local experiences by exploring how the dangers and sacrifices of war became everyday ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Machiavelli: The Prince

    by Niccolo Machiavelli ...
    Series series Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
    This new edition of the acclaimed translation of Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince - revised for the first time after thirty years - includes a rewritten and extended introduction by Quentin Skinner. Niccolò Machiavelli is arguably the most famous and controversial figure in the history of political thought. The Prince remains his best-known work, and throws down a challenge that subsequent writers ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Struggle and Suffrage in Watford

    Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality

    by Eugenia Russell, Quentin Russell ...
    A study of the many changes in women's lives in an English town over the course of a century.This book shines a light on women's lives in and around the English town of Watford, in the home and at work, in traditional rural employment or in dressmaking, textiles, and the silk industry. The lives of local women are put into the context of the national movement to address inequality and injustice, ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Watford and South West Herts in the Great War

    by Eugenia Russell, Quentin Russell ...
    Series series Your Towns & Cities in the Great War
    This book highlights the importance of Watford as a regional centre within South West Herts during the years of the Great War as well as the cohesion of the local area and the impact events and initiatives had on the entire region. The organization and presence of the Army are discussed before focusing on different aspects of civilian life such as the contribution of civilians to the war effort, ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Marzipan Pig

    by Russell Hoban ...
    Illustrated by Quentin Blake ...
    Who but Russell Hoban could weave a tale of life’s pleasures and pain around a candy pig? And who but Quentin Blake could make the most poignant of stories so lighthearted and delightful? In this episodic picture book by an inimitable author-illustrator duo, a fantastic chain of events is triggered by the unacknowledged fall of a marzipan pig behind the sofa. We meet in quick succession a ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

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  • Zeppelin Nights

    London in the First World War

    by Jerry White ...
    ‘Zeppelin Nights is social history at its best… White creates a vivid picture of a city changed forever by war’ The Times2018 marks the centenary of the end of the First World War. In those four decisive years, London was irrevocably changed. Soldiers passed through the capital on their way to the front and wounded men were brought back to be treated in London’s hospitals. At night, London plunged ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Thomas MacDonagh

    16Lives

    by Dr. Shane Kenna ...
    Series series 16Lives
    Born in Cloughjordan in Co. Tipperary, MacDonagh was a poet and playwright, an educator and political activist. Appointed to the IRB Military Council he became a member of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic and was a signatory of the 1916 Easter proclamation. During the Rising MacDonagh was commandant of the 2nd Battalion of the Dublin Brigade of the Irish Volunteers and occupied the ... Read more

    $11.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Empires of the Sea

    The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580

    by Roger Crowley ...
    In 1521, Suleiman the Magnificent, ruler of the Ottoman Empire at the height of its power, despatched an invasion fleet to the island of Rhodes. This was the opening shot in an epic struggle between rival empires and faiths, and the ensuing battle for control of the Mediterranean would last sixty years.Empires of the Sea tells the story of this great contest. It is a fast-paced tale of spiralling ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Princess Mary

    The First Modern Princess

    by Elisabeth Basford ...
    Princess Diana is seen as the first member of the British royal family to tear up the rulebook, and the Duchess of Cambridge is modernising the monarchy in strides. But before them was another who paved the way.Princess Mary was born in 1897. Despite her Victorian beginnings, she strove to make a princess's life meaningful, using her position to help those less fortunate and defying gender ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Constantinople

    The Last Great Siege, 1453

    by Roger Crowley ...
    'Engagingly fresh and vivid . . . The 21-year-old Mehmet [the Ottoman Sultan] emerges from this book as ruthless but innovative, irascible but versatile and, above all, indefatigable - a worthy successor to Alexander and the Roman emperors he admired as much as any Muslim hero.' Malise Ruthven, Sunday TimesIn the spring of 1453, the Ottoman Turks advanced on Constantinople in pursuit of an ancient ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD