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Product Description: When the Jews revolted against Rome in 66 CE, Josephus, a Jerusalem aristocrat, was made a general in his nation's army. Captured by the Romans, he saved his skin by finding favor with the emperor Vespasian. He then served as an adviser to the Roman legions, running a network of spies inside Jerusalem, in the belief that the Jews' only hope of survival lay in surrender to Rome...read more
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9780306818073 | Da Capo Pr, April 27, 2009, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: When the Jews revolted against Rome in 66 CE, Josephus, a Jerusalem aristocrat, was made a general in his nation’s army.
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9780306818660 | Da Capo Pr, August 13, 2013, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: When the Jews revolted against Rome in 66 CE, Josephus, a Jerusalem aristocrat, was made a general in his nation's army.
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9781844256723 | Haynes Pubns, November 1, 2009, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Few people know of the battle over the Sinai Desert between the Royal Flying Corps and German airmen, part of Britain’s campaign against Turkey in the First World War.
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9780786720668 | Running Pr Book Pub, September 6, 2007, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: During the fifteenth century, England was split in a bloody conflict between the Houses of York and Lancaster over who should claim the crown.
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9780750929813 | Sutton Pub Ltd, November 1, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Traces the life and historical context of the visionary friar whose doomsday prophecies lead to his virtual rule over Renaissance Florence after he decried Lorenzo the Magnificent and Borgia Pope Alexander VI, describing his tragic influence over the city, his relationships with such supporters as Michelangelo and Machiavelli, and his eventual condemnation as a heretic.
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9780750929790 | Sutton Pub Ltd, March 1, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Eugenie de Montijo was Empress of the French, sharing the Second Empire with her husband Napoleon III.
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9780750929806 | Trafalgar Square, January 30, 2006, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: From 1853 to 1870 Eugenie de Montijo was the world's most powerful woman.
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9781566492300 | Welcome Rain, April 1, 2002, cover price $15.00
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9780141390581 | Reissue edition (Penguin USA, February 1, 2002), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A new and startling look at Henry V, the heroic English warrior-king of Shakespeare's drama, argues that he was an intolerant bigot who avidly persecuted and burned Protestants, a Machiavellian politician, and a ruler bent on securing his questionable claim to the English throne at any cost.
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9780140117820 | Penguin USA, December 1, 1999, cover price $12.00
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9780689109195 | Macmillan Pub Co, October 1, 1978, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: This social and military history covers the time between 1337 and 1453, the years of plunder, looting, and kidnapping that characterized the war and made fortunes for English soldiers
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9780140283617, titled "The Hundred Years War: The English in France 1337-1453" | Penguin USA, August 1, 1999, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Offers a social and military history covering the time between 1337 and 1453, the years of plunder, looting, and kidnapping that characterized the war and made fortunes for English soldiers
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9780688150327 | William Morrow & Co, November 1, 1998, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A portrait of the Baroque painter highlights the many contradictions of his life, contrasting his criminal record with his achievements as a painter of religious experience against the background of life in early seventeenth-century Italy
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9780140266344 | Rev sub edition (Penguin USA, June 1, 1998), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This text argues that the traditional view of Richard III is very near the truth - Shakespeare's Richard is closer to reality than the image of a betrayed hero favoured by his modern defenders.
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9780531098172 | Franklin Watts, March 1, 1984, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A biography of the controversial British monarch examines the evidence of his guilt in politically motivated murders, and attempts to portray his complex personality
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9780712651332 | Trafalgar Square, May 1, 1997, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A guided tour of Sussex covering its history, folklore, geography and architecture.
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9780140234022 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, December 1, 1996), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: With the help of magnificent illustrations, the turbulent civil wars of medieval England are recreated through the lives of five larger-than-life people of the times, from soldier William Hastings to Lady Margaret Beaufort.
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9780094765801 | Reprint edition (Trans-Atlantic Pubns, October 1, 1996), cover price $32.50 | About this edition: A study of the lives of two of history's greatest dictators, Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolf Hitler, which examines the parallels between their roles and shows how Carl von Clausewitz's treatise ON WAR, an analysis of the Napoleonic campaigns, linked the two men.
9780671701871 | Reprint edition (Touchstone Books, May 1, 1990), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Compares and contrasts the two infamous dictators by considering their origin, their obsession with being accepted, and their dream of conquering Europe
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9780140195019 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, March 1, 1996), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: The Templars, the Hospitallers, the Tuetonic Knights and the Knights of the Spanish and Portuguese orders were 'noblemen vowed to poverty, chastity and obedience, living a monastic life in convents which were at the same time barracks, waging war on the enemies of the Cross'.
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With the help of magnificent illustrations, the turbulent civil wars of medieval England are recreated through the lives of five larger-than-life people of the times, from soldier William Hastings to Lady Margaret Beaufort. 20,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo.
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9780670842582 | Viking Pr, October 1, 1995, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: With the help of magnificent illustrations, the turbulent civil wars of medieval England are recreated through the lives of five larger-than-life people of the times, from soldier William Hastings to Lady Margaret Beaufort.
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Reveals how Metternich, Austria's Minister of State, helped create an era of peace, and shows how his vision of a unified Europe is nearing reality
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9780670826001 | Viking Pr, December 1, 1991, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Reveals how Metternich, Austria's Minister of State, helped create an era of peace, and shows how his vision of a unified Europe is nearing reality
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Product Description: Seward examines the striking parallels between Napoleon and Hitler and their roles in shaping the destiny of modern Europe. 8 cassettes.
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9780786101870 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, December 1, 1990), cover price $56.95 | About this edition: Seward examines the striking parallels between Napoleon and Hitler and their roles in shaping the destiny of modern Europe.
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A comparison and contrast between two infamous dictators considers their origin, the obsession they shared with being accepted, and their common dream of conquering Europe--by whatever means were necessary
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9780670814800 | Viking Pr, April 1, 1989, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A comparison and contrast between two infamous dictators considers their origin, the obsession they shared with being accepted, and their common dream of conquering Europe--by whatever means were necessary
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A new and startling look at Henry V, the heroic English warrior-king of Shakespeare's drama, reveals him to be an intolerant bigot who avidly persecuted and burned Protestants, a Machiavellian politician, and a ruler bent on securing his questionable claim to the English throne at any cost
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9780670811748 | Viking Pr, May 1, 1988, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A new and startling look at Henry V, the heroic English warrior-king of Shakespeare's drama, reveals him to be an intolerant bigot who avidly persecuted and burned Protestants, a Machiavellian politician, and a ruler bent on securing his questionable claim to the English throne at any cost
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9780880290555 | Dorset Pr, September 1, 1986, cover price $6.95
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Selections from novels, letters, biographies, and histories portray the culture, history, and social life of Naples
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9780689707124 | Macmillan Pub Co, September 1, 1986, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Selections from novels, letters, biographies, and histories portray the culture, history, and social life of Naples
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Filled with scandals and social machinations, this chronicle of the Bonaparte clan profiles Napoleon and the brothers, sisters, and in-laws who profited from his ascent and accelerated his fall
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9780670811465 | 1 edition (Viking Pr, July 1, 1986), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Filled with scandals and social machinations, this chronicle of the Bonaparte clan profiles Napoleon and the brothers, sisters, and in-laws who profited from his ascent and accelerated his fall
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9780905715285 | Dufour Editions, January 1, 1986, cover price $35.00
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This social and military history covers the time between 1337 and 1453, the years of plunder, looting, and kidnapping that characterized the war and made fortunes for English soldiers
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9780689706288 | Macmillan Pub Co, September 1, 1982, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This social and military history covers the time between 1337 and 1453, the years of plunder, looting, and kidnapping that characterized the war and made fortunes for English soldiers
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