EGYPT : GODS, MYTHS AND RELIGION by Lucia Gahlin
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Egypt’s cultural heritage is vast, and the story of this sophisticated ancient civilisation has captured our imagination with its vast treasure chests of found objects, archaeological sites, hieroglyphic inscriptions and beautiful tomb art. This vivid and authorative reference book introduces us to t ...Show more
The Philosophy Steamer : Lenin and the Exile of the Intelligentsia by Lesley Chamberlain
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Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans After the Second World War by R. M. Douglas
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Immediately after the Second World War, the victorious Allies authorized and helped to carry out the forced relocation of German speakers from their homes across central and southern Europe to Germany. The numbers were almost unimaginable - between 12,000,000 and 14,000,000 civilians, most of them women ...Show more
Tutankhamun - The Untold Story by Thomas Hoving
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
The discovery of Tutankhamun's treasure-filled tomb is one of the greatest events in modern archeology. It is also a story so filled with intrigues, accusations, international imbroglios, and lasting scandals that it forever altered the way archaeological expeditions were organized and conducted. Hoving ...Show more
The Most Evil Pirates in History by Shelley Klein
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"The Most Evil Pirates in History" takes a scintillating look at fifteen of the most evil swashbucklers of all time, including John Avery - perhaps Britain's most infamous pirate of the late seventeenth century, and the model for Daniel Defoe's wicked hero in "Life, Adventures, and Pyracies of the Famou ...Show more
The Last Medici by Harold Acton
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In his remarkable account of the last Medici, famous aesthete and historian Harold Acton (1904-1994) takes up the causes which led to the disappearance of a house which has left indelible traces on the art, literature and commerce of the world; and his book was one of the first attempts to deal with thi ...Show more
A History of the Indians of the United States by Angie Debo
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
In 1906 when the Creek Indian Chitto Harjo was protesting the United States government's liquidation of his tribe's lands, he began his argument with an account of Indian history from the time of Columbus, for, of course, a thing has to have a root before it can grow. Yet even today most intelligent non ...Show more
Berlin : From Frontline Town to the Bridge of Europe by RAINER HILDEBRANDT
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The Borgias: History's Most Notorious Dynasty by Mary Hollingsworth
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The Borgias have become a byword for pride, lust, cruelty, avarice, splendour and venomous intrigue. An inspiration for many works of fiction, most famously Mario Puzo's The Godfather, they have aroused abomination and fascination in almost equal measure, while their patronage of the arts created some o ...Show more