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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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| Travelling Heroes: In the Epic Age of Homer
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Robin Lane Fox.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780679444312. Daedalus Item Code: 12046 |
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| The 8th century BC was the formative age of the great epics of Homer—a remote and, in some ways, mysterious era. Here the author of Alexander the Great, Pagans and Christians, and ... (Read More)
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| The U.S. Army in World War II: The Stories Behind the Photos
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Steve Crawford.
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| Publisher: Potomac. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781597971331. Daedalus Item Code: 03122 |
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| From a group photo of U.S. servicemen in a prison camp, captured when the Japanese overran Mindanao in the spring of 1942, to an image of the Queen Mary steaming into New York in June 1945 ... (Read More)
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| Unless Victory Comes: Combat with a Machine Gunner in Patton's Third Army
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Gene Garrison with Patrick Gilbert.
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| Publisher: Casemate. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781932033304. Daedalus Item Code: 13624 |
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| On December 16, 1944, Gene Garrison spent a terrifying 19th birthday crammed into a muddy foxhole near the German border in the Saar, listening to the cries of wounded comrades as artillery shells ... (Read More)
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| Up and Down Stairs: The History of the Country House Servant
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Jeremy Musson.
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| Publisher: John Murray. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780719597305. Daedalus Item Code: 29753 |
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| For centuries, country houses were at the heart of British social, political, and sporting life, yet they could not have functioned without large numbers of skilled servants; by 1851, two million ... (Read More)
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| Victoria and Abdul: The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant
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Shrabani Basu.
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| Publisher: History Press. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780752453644. Daedalus Item Code: 23176 |
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| The tall, handsome Abdul Karim was just 24 years old when he arrived in England from Agra to wait at tables during Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. An assistant clerk at Agra Central Jail, he ... (Read More)
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| The Vikings: A History
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Robert Ferguson.
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| Publisher: Penguin. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780143118015. Daedalus Item Code: 38665 |
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| The Viking age effectively began in 793 with an attack on the monastery at Lindisfarne. "The church of St. Cuthbert is spattered with the blood of the priests of God," fumed the Northumbrian cleric ... (Read More)
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