The Birth of the West: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century, Paperback - Paul Collins

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Flodoard of Rheims (893/4-966) is one of the tenth century's most intriguing but neglected historians, who wrote in the tumultuous decades that fol...

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Reducere. Empires and Barbarians presents a fresh, provocative look at how a recognizable Europe came into being in the first millennium AD. With sharp analy...

DescriptionIn The Europe Illusion, Stuart Sweeney considers Britain's relationships with France and Prussia-Germany since the map of Europe was red...

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Embracing history and society, literature and theatre, medicine and religion, author and magician Ian Keable reveals our susceptibility to being du...

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The Splendor of Germany examines the major developments in German draughtsmanship over the course of the eighteenth century. Published to coincide ...

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This major new study examines, for the first time, the US, Canadian, and British policies formulated in reaction to the mass atrocities at the birt...

A sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe, Out of Ashes tells the story of an era of unparalleled violence and barbarity yet also of humanity,...

Reducere. The Second World War is one of the most significant conflicts in history, but for seven decades our understanding of the war has remained mostly fi...

DescriptionPaul Ricoeur is widely regarded as one of the most distinguished philosophers of our time. In The Rule of Metaphor he seeks 'to show how...

'A wonderful book' - Guardian Truth, murder and the birth of the lie detectorPublisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Amit KatwalaNumber of pa...

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This first English translation of the twelfth-century Chronicle of Petershausen offers an intimate and colourful view of traditional monastic life ...

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A new interpretation of Celtic Christianity, supported by images of Christ taken from manuscripts, metalwork and sculpture, and showing how it depa...

Reducere. The Second Creation is a dramatic--and human--chronicle of scientific investigators at the last frontier of knowledge. Robert Crease and Charles Ma...

A British tank commanders classic eyewitness account of the Second World War.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Bill CloseIllustration(s): ...

Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of ...

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Reducere. Tales from the Cold War is one man's memoir about his service time in Germany during the Cold War. Colonel Michael D. Mahler (Ret.) first went to G...

A complete survey of the military campaigns of the early Saxons, tactics, strategy, and logistics, demonstrating in particular the sophistication o...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Charles (The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, USA) ThepautNumber of pages: 272Collection: ...

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