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Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe
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Bill Bryson
From Scandinavia to Turkey, Bryson retraces his youthful, solo backpacking expedition that eventually landed him in England for 20 years. His experience lends wit to this slightly ethnocentric tour of greater Europe.
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Rick Steves' Amsterdam, Bruges & Brussels
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Who but Rick Steves can tell travellers the best ways to meander around Amsterdam's Van Gogh museum, explore its maze of canals, and find the tastiest breweries and restaurants? With "Rick Steves' Amsterdam, Bruges and Brussels", travellers can experience everything Amsterdam, Bruges, and Brussels have to offer - economically and hassle-free ...
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Citizen Soldiers: The U S Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945
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Professor Stephen E Ambrose (Introduction by)
An oral history of the last European campaigns of the Second World War, from the landings at Normandy to the final surrender of the Axis powers. Ambrose, who has already chronicled the Second World War in UNDAUNTED COURAGE and D_DAY, concentrates on the experiences of the ordinary soldier in the ranks, and makes use of hundreds of interviews ...
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Rick Steves' Best of Europe
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Rick Steves
Looking for the best gelateria in Florence? Stumped on the proper pronunciation of "Where's the bathroom" in several languages? Find the answers and much more in one compact guidebook - Rick Steves' Best of Europe 2005. Completely revised and updated, this is a one-stop shop for all the information any traveller would need to know in several major ...
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A Soldier's Story
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Omar Nelson Bradley
Omar Nelson Bradley led some of the major military campaigns during the Second World War, including the Normandy landings in June of 1944. The American commander is credited with supervising more soldiers at one time than any other leader in U.S. history. His memoir is considered a classic of military history.
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War as I Knew It
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George Patton
First published in 1947, War As I Knew It is the captivating memoir of George S. Patton, Jr., the legendary American general, incendiary warrior, and unparalleled military tactician of World War II. Drawing on his vivid memories of battle and detailed diaries, Patton dramatically recounts his celebrated Third Army's sweeping campaign across ...
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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
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Tony Judt
In this magnificent, unprecedented history of postwar Europe, esteemed historian Tony Judt covers 34 countries across 60 years in a single integrated narrative, using a great deal of material from newly available sources.
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Rick Steve's Europe Through the Back Door
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Rick Steves
Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door 2009 is the definitive guidebook for an affordable and unforgettable trip to Europe. Covering all the essentials and morefrom packing to transportation to foreign currencyRick's tips allow travelers to become "temporary Europeans," saving them time and money along the way. Rick also includes his personal ...
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The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society Since A.D. 1000
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William H McNeill
In this magnificent synthesis of military, technological, and social history, William H. McNeill explores a whole millennium of human upheaval and traces the path by which we have arrived at the frightening dilemmas that now confront us. McNeill moves with equal mastery from the crossbow--banned by the Church in 1139 as too lethal for Christians ...
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The Enlightenment
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Dorinda Outram
Debate over the meaning of 'Enlightenment' began in the eighteenth century and has continued unabated until our own times. This period saw the opening of arguments on the nature of man, truth, on the place of God, and the international circulation of ideas, people and gold. Did the Enlightenment mean the same for men and women, for rich and poor, ...
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Guns of August
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Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
Winner of a 1963 Pulitzer Prize, this profile of World War I captures the changes that took place at the turn of the 20th century, up until the tense days of the summer of 1914. Tuchman details these first several days of the conflict, paying special attention to people and events in the major capitals of Europe. She examines why the war began, as ...
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The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II
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Professor Stephen E Ambrose
This book deals with the closing events of World War II, beginning with D-Day in June 1944 and the Allied advance across Europe, until the end of the war in 1945. Much of the content is familiar from other Ambrose books on the period, as well as from the author's notable biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the commander and overseer of the Allied ...
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The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age
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Simon Schama
The book that first made Simon Schama's reputation when first published in 1987. This historical masterpiece is an epic account of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age of Rembrandt and van Diemen. 'This is history in the same spirit as Braudel, Ginzburg, Ladurie and Le Goff. It seems to me that Schama is one of the few historians writing in English ...
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Rick Steves' Portugal
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Rick Steves
Who but Rick Steves can tell travellers the best way to visit Lisbon, the Algarve, Salema, Evora, Coimbra, Nazare, and Obidos? With "Rick Steves' Portugal", travellers can experience the best of everything Portugal has to offer - economically and hassle-free.Completely revised and updated, this guide includes: opinionated coverage of both famous ...
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Eleni
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Nicholas Gage
A story of love, deceit, and betrayal, set in Greece during the civil wars of the late 1940s. Eleni Gatzoyiannis was murdered by Communist partisans in 1948 for refusing to allow her children to be conscripted into their band. Her son Nicholas escaped to America as a result and grew up to become a distinguished journalist. Many years after his ...
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Rick Steves' France
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Rick Steves
Who but Rick Steves can tell travelers what they really need to know when traveling in Paris, Normandy, the Loire Valley, Burgundy, Alsace, Dordogne, the Alps, the Languedoc, and Provence? With "Rick Steves' France 2006", travelers can experience Rick's favorite destinations in France, from silky sand beaches on the French Riviera to Parisian ...
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Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
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Maria Rosa Menocal, Professor Harold Bloom (Foreword by)
This history of the Andalusian legacy reveals how, for a time, the three monotheistic faiths were able to coexist comfortably amongst each other and flourish.
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Down & Out in Paris & London
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George Orwell
'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them'. George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute in London and Paris is a moving tour of the underworld of society. Here he painstakingly documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug ...
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Serpentine
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Thomas Thompson
This acclaimed book reconstructs the bizarre, bloody journey of a mesmerizing but sinister young man named Charles Sobhraj. Journeying back and forth over half the globe - from the boulevards of Paris to the slopes of Mount Everest to the underbellies of Bangkok and Hong Kong - Sobhraj left in his wake a trail of baffling mystery and inexplicable ...
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Rick Steves' Europe
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Rick Steves
Experienced travel writer Rick Steves points to the creme de la creme of European travel, covering the Continent's highlights and surprises. Every restaurant and lodging listed has been recently inspected by the author or his staff, and Steves has selected the best three or four activities, castles, resorts, and sights in each area. 100 maps.
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A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918: Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front
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Winston Groom
"A Storm in Flanders" is novelist and prizewinning historian Groom's gripping history of the four-year battle for Ypres in Belgian Flanders, the pivotal engagement of World War I that would forever change the way the world fought--and thought about--war. 16-pages of illustrations.
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The European Union: A Very Short Introduction
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John Pinder
John Pinder writes with expert knowledge of the European Union but in plain, readable English. He shows how and why the Union has developed from 1950 up to now. He explains the interplay between governments and federal elements in the institutions; consensus over the single market and the environment; conflicts over agriculture, social policies, ...
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The Pursuit of Glory: The Five Revolutions That Made Modern Europe: 1648-1815
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Tim Blanning
The new volume in the acclaimed Penguin History of Europe series takes on thegreater 18th century in all its revolutionary glory.
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The First Crusade
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Sir Steven Runciman
Whether the Crusades are regarded as the most romantic of Christian expeditions, or the last of the barbarian invasions, they remain one of the most exciting and colourful adventure stories in history. An army of mounted warriors, travelling with peasants, merchants and artisans, faced a journey over hostile terrain, meeting with unforeseen ...
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On Pilgrimage
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Jennifer Lash
After 28 years of family life, seven children raised, 15 house moves and an operation for cancer, Jennifer Lash suddenly had the urge to go on a pilgrimage. This is the story of that journey. The places are as various as the people - Lourdes, Lisieux, the great gipsy festival at Les Saintes Maries de la Mer on the Mediterranean, Le Puy, and alone ...
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