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In this major new biography of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, and the first to appear in English based on Turkish sources, Andrew Mango strips away the myth, ... More

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Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest ... More

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Moses Maimonides' life reads like an adventure story. Personal tragedies, gained and lost fortunes, shipwrecks, all were part of his tumultuous tale, ... More

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The remarkable account of the famous hostage rescue at Entebbe, and its commander, Jonathan Netanyahu. Learn how this modern Joshua inspired not only ... More

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As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with carefully gathered eye ... More

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The personalities of the Twelve Caesars of ancient Rome - Julius Caesar and the first eleven Roman emperors who followed him - have profoundly ... More

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This second part of Robert Gravess fictionalized biography of Claudius brings to life some of the most scandalous and violent times in history, ... More

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The definitive account of the 20th-century Palestinian leader who allied himself with Hitler links the fascism of yesterday with the Radical Islam of ... More

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First published in 1976, John Mack's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography humanely and objectively explores the relationship between T.E. Lawrence's ... More

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It was 1918 in Jerusalem, when the admiring young American scholar and journalist Lowell Thomas first met T.E. Lawrence. He went on to write "With ... More

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A hero in each of Israel's wars, architect of the country's controversial invasion of Lebanon, Ariel Sharon frankly and brilliantly tells of his life ... More

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By assembling the biographies of 24 ordinary Middle Eastern men and women - peasants, villagers, pastoralists, and urbanites - this book provides a ... More

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A gripping biography of one of the most sensational figures in Turkish history Sultan Mehmet II, known to his countrymen as ?the Conqueror? and to ... More

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In the year 1838, a young adventurer raised the American flag on the summit of the Hindu Kush in the wilds of Afghanistan. Macintyre tells the ... More

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The Antonines - Antonius, Pius, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Verus and Commodus - played a crucial part in the development of the Roman Empire, ... More

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Taking into account the latest research on the subject, David Shotter has updated this second edition of Tiberius Caesar throughout and provides a ... More

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Virgil, the most famous of Roman poets, has fired the imaginations of millions for centuries and is considered, as T. S. Eliot pointed out, the ... More

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The story of the Third Crusade, and the two men who dictated its outcome: Saladin, hero of the Islamic world and Richard the Lionheart. Richard and ... More

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A groundbreaking eyewitness account of the key moments in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the perspective of one of its lead players, Ariel ... More

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A biography of the Roman Emperor who reigned as a wilful autocrat and planned the invasion of Britain and whose reign saw the beginning of anti ... More

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Marozzi travels in the footsteps of Tamerlane the Great (1336-1405), the last great Mongol conqueror of Central Asia, the ruler of a vast empire, and ... More

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The Ottoman chronicles recount that the first sultan, Osman, dreamt of the dynasty he would found -- a tree, fully-formed, emerged from his navel, ... More

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