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| Royal Pains: A Rogues' Gallery of Brats, Brutes, and Bad Seeds
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Leslie Carroll.
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| Publisher: New American Library. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780451232212. Daedalus Item Code: 31116 |
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| The bad seeds on the family trees of the most powerful royal houses of Europe often became the rottenest apples. Chock full of shocking scenes, titillating tales, and wildly wicked nobles, Royal ... (Read More)
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| The Second World War: A Military History
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Gordon Corrigan.
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| Publisher: Atlantic Books. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781843548942. Daedalus Item Code: 30391 |
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| A member of the British Commission for Military History and a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society as well as the author of Mud, Blood and Poppycock and Blood, Sweat and Arrogance, ... (Read More)
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| The Specter of Munich: Reconsidering the Lessons of Appeasing Hitler
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Jeffrey Record.
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| Publisher: Potomac. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781597970396. Daedalus Item Code: 01444 |
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| No historical event has exerted more undue influence on America's post–World War II use of military force than the Anglo-French appeasement of Nazi Germany at Munich in 1938, posits defense analyst ... (Read More)
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| The Story of the SS: Hitler's Infamous Legions of Death
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Nigel Cawthorne.
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| Publisher: Arcturus. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781848588417. Daedalus Item Code: 24036 |
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| With chapters on Heinrich Himmler, the "Night of the Long Knives," the Waffen SS, the Holocaust, the Nuremberg trials, and ODESSSA, the organization of former SS members, Nigel Cawthorne provides a ... (Read More)
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| The Sultan's Shadow: One Family's Rule at the Crossroads of East and West
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Christiane Bird.
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| Publisher: Random House. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780345469403. Daedalus Item Code: 21864 |
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| A story virtually unknown in the West, about two of the Middle East's most remarkable figures—Oman's Sultan Said and his rebellious daughter Princess Salme—comes to life in this narrative from the ... (Read More)
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| Talking to Rudolf Hess
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Desmond Zwar.
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| Publisher: History Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780752455228. Daedalus Item Code: 23169 |
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| Rudolf Hess was Adolf Hitler's Deputy Führer until, in May 1941, he flew to Scotland, ostensibly to negotiate peace between Germany and Britain. Captured by the British, he was held for the rest of ... (Read More)
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| Those Who Marched Away: An Anthology of the World's Greatest War Diaries
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Irene and Alan Taylor, eds.
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| Publisher: Canongate. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781847674159. Daedalus Item Code: 24154 |
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| Arranged as a diary around a calendar year, this thick volume tells many individual stories from many wars down the ages, with several compelling entries for each day of the year. The diarists range ... (Read More)
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| Three Armies on the Somme: The First Battle of the Twentieth Century
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William Philpott.
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| Publisher: Knopf/BOMC. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780307265852. Daedalus Item Code: 31674 |
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| The World War I Battle of the Somme has long exemplified the horrors and futility of trench warfare—even so, argues William Philpott, the battle ultimately gave the British and French forces on the ... (Read More)
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| Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology Through History
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Alfred W. Crosby.
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| Publisher: Cambridge. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780521791588. Daedalus Item Code: 11898 |
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| Historian Alfred Crosby, author of The Measure of Reality, here considers two uniquely human capabilities—hard, accurate throwing, and the manipulation of fire—and how they have shaped human ... (Read More)
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| To Marry an English Lord: Tales of Wealth and Marriage, Sex and Snobbery
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Gail MacColl & Carol McD. Wallace.
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| Publisher: Workman. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780761171959. Daedalus Item Code: 29156 |
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| From the Gilded Age until World War I, more than 100 American heiresses—including a Vanderbilt, a LaRoche, a Pfizer, and a Whitney—swapped their fortunes for titles, marrying into British peerage. ... (Read More)
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