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The Baltic

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(43 reviews)

Alan Palmer traces the history of the Baltic region from its early Viking days and its time under the Byzantine Empire through its medieval prime when the Baltic Sea served as one of Europe's central trading grounds. Palmer... See More

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The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire

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(27 reviews)

"A scholarly, readable and balanced history." -- The Independent on Sunday Like England's Charles II, the Ottoman Empire took "an unconscionable time dying." Since the seventeenth century, observers had been predicting the... See More

$11.99 Price verified 7 hours ago
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Alexander I: Tsar of War and Peace

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(15 reviews)

As Alan Palmer himself writes in his preface, 'Alexander 1, ruler of Russia for the first quarter of the nineteenth century, is remembered today mainly on three counts: as the Tsar who refused to make peace with the French... See More

$20.36 Price verified 18 hours ago
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Metternich: Councillor of Europe

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(9 reviews)

A glib assessment of Metternich might not be a favourable one, he was not without his ridiculous qualities, and yet he survived, more than survived, in fact, with the 'Age of Metternich' lasting for more than a generation... See More

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The East End: Four Centuries of London Life

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(5 reviews)

The East End as an idea is known to every Londoner, and to many others, though its boundaries are vague. Alan Palmer's historical overview of the area (first published in 1989 and revised in 2000) takes its extent to be the... See More

$13.88 $14.99 Save 7% Price verified 11 hours ago
Literary Criticism

Fictional Minds (Frontiers of Narrative)

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(5 reviews)

Fictional Minds suggests that readers understand novels primarily by following the functioning of the minds of characters in the novel storyworlds. Despite the importance of this aspect of the reading process, traditional... See More

$23.70 Price verified 17 hours ago
Biographies & Memoirs

Napoleon and Marie-Louise: The Second Empress

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(22 reviews)

'Arch-duchesses have always been disastrous for France', Napoleon once remarked. Yet in 1810 he married the Arch-duchess Marie Louise, the eighteen-year-old daughter of his persistent enemy, the Emperor of Austria. On the... See More

$4.99 Price verified 13 hours ago
Biographies & Memoirs

Bismarck

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(96 reviews)

Bismarck was not an individual, but a legend... At the peak of his eminence, Otto von Bismarck, the statesman who created a unified Germany and who dominated world politics in the closing decades of the nineteenth century... See More

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Bernadotte: Napoleon's Marshal, Sweden's King

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(62 reviews)

A soldier as dashing in appearance as Murat, as brave as Ney, as eagle-eyed as Masséna. At the time this biography was written, over half of Europe's reigning monarchs numbered among their ancestors the Gascon Sergeant... See More

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The Kaiser: War Lord of the Second Reich

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(172 reviews)

He was, in the minds of many, the man responsible for the catastrophe that engulfed Europe in 1914. Kaiser Wilhelm II, the cold, brutal ruler who represented the pride and swagger of Imperial Germany, and must take the... See More

$4.99 Price verified 6 hours ago
History

An Encyclopaedia of Napoleon’s Europe

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(8 reviews)

Alan Palmer's An Encyclopaedia of Napoleon's Europe is a comprehensive A-Z of life in the age of Napoleon, the years between 1797 and 1815. Artists, poets, philosophers, scientists and authors all advanced society in... See More

$4.99 Price verified one day ago
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The Salient: Ypres, 1914-18

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(17 reviews)

Ypres today is an international 'Town of Peace', but in 1914 the town, and the Salient, the 35-mile bulge in the Western Front, of which it is part, saw a 1500-day military campaign of mud and blood at the heart of the First... See More

$3.99 Price verified 18 hours ago
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