The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary by Sarah Ogilvie
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Category: History
What do three murderers, Karl Marx's daughter and a vegetarian vicar have in common? They all helped create the Oxford English Dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary has long been associated with elite institutions and Victorian men; its longest-serving editor, James Murray, devoted 36 years to the ...Show more
The Long '68 - Radical Protest and Its Enemies by Richard Vinen
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Category: History
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Gladiators: Fighting to the Death in Ancient Rome by M. C. Bishop
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Category: History | Series: Casemate Short History
The gladiator is one of the most enduring figures of Ancient Rome. Heroic, though of lowly status, they fought vicious duals in large arenas filled with baying crowds. The survivor could be either executed (the famous 'thumbs down' signal) or spared at the whim of the crowd or the Emperor. Few lasted mo ...Show more
Vikings - Raiders from the Sea by CASEMATE PUB & BOOK DIST LLC
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Category: History | Series: Casemate Short History Ser.
From the 9th to the 11th century, Viking ships landed on almost every shore in the Western world. Viking ravages united the Spanish kingdoms and stopped Charlemagne and the Franks' advance in Europe. Wherever Viking ships roamed, enormous suffering followed in their wake, but the encounter between cultu ...Show more
Catherine the Great and Potemkin: The Imperial Love Affair by Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Category: History | Series: Master Bridge Ser.
'One of the great love stories of history, in a league with Napoleon and Josephine, and Antony and Cleopatra ...Excellent, with dazzling mastery of detail and literary flair' Economist It was history's most successful political partnership - as sensual and fiery as it was creative and visionary. Catheri ...Show more
Stalin and the Scientists : A History of Triumph and Tragedy 1905-1953 by Simon Ings
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Category: History
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION. War-torn, unstable and virtually bankrupt, revolutionary Russia tried to light its way to the future with the fitful glow of science. It succeeded through terror, folly and crime - but also through courage, imagination and even genius. Stalin bel ...Show more
Why DId the Chicken Cross the World: The Story of the Bird That Powers Civilisations by Andrew Lawler
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Category: History
Queen Victoria was obsessed with it. Socrates' last words were about it. Charles Darwin and Louis Pasteur made their scientific breakthroughs using it. Hailed as a messenger of the gods, powerful sex symbol, gambling aid, all-purpose medicine and handy research tool, the humble chicken has been also cas ...Show more
Five Days in London, May 1940 by John Lukacs
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Category: History
The days from May 24 to May 28, 1940 altered the course of the history of this century, as the members of the British War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue what became known as the Second World War. The decisive importance of these five days is the focus of John Lukacs's ma ...Show more
The Protest Years: The Official History of ASIO, 1963-1975 by John Blaxland
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Category: History | Series: Official History of ASIO Ser.
In 1963, Robert Menzies had been in office for 13 years, Australians had entered the war against communism in Vietnam, and change was in the air. With its focus on exposing Soviet spies and communist collaborators, ASIO struggled to adjust to a society no longer willing to unquestioningly accept authori ...Show more
The Seven Sins of Wall Street: Big Banks, their Washington Lackeys, and the Next Financial Crisis by Bob Ivry
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Category: History
We all know that the financial crisis of 2008 came dangerously close to pushing the United States and the world into a depression rivaling that of the 1930s. But what is astonishing--and should make us not just afraid but very afraid--are the shenanigans of the biggest banks since the crisis. Bob Ivry p ...Show more
Catullus' Bedspread -The Life of Rome's Most Erotic Poet by Daisy Dunn
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Category: History
Daisy Dunn's immediate narrative rediscovers the life and poetry of Gaius Valerius Catullus, Rome's first 'modern' poet, a dandy who fell in love with another man's wife and made it known to the world through his timeless verse. Famed for his lyrical, subversive voice, Catullus was Rome's first and fore ...Show more