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9781605986449 | New edition (Pegasus Books, November 15, 2014), cover price $27.95

Paperback:

9781605989624 | Pegasus Books, March 7, 2016, cover price $16.95

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Product Description: The story of an ambitious princess and heiress that captures this legendary medieval queen in all of her beauty and political intrigue. “A monstrous injurer of heaven and earth,” as Shakespeare referred to this powerful medieval matriarch, Eleanor of Aquitaine’s reign as England’s stormiest and most ambitious queen has never been matched...read more

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9781605986357 | Reprint edition (Pegasus Books, October 15, 2014), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: The dramatic story of an ambitious princess, heiress, and ruler, Eleanor of Aquitaine captures the character of this archetypal medieval queen in all of her beauty and political intrigue“A monstrous injurer of heaven and earth,” as Shakespeare referred to this powerful medieval matriarch, Eleanor of Aquitaine’s reign as England’s stormiest and most ambitious queen has never been matched.

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9781605988979 | Reprint edition (Pegasus Books, November 16, 2015), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The story of an ambitious princess and heiress that captures this legendary medieval queen in all of her beauty and political intrigue.

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Product Description: A vivid and colorful history of the most dominant royal dynasty in English history, from Richard the Lionheart and Edward the Black Prince to Henry IV and Richard III The Plantagenets reigned over England longer than any other family―from Henry II to Richard III...read more

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9781605986180 | Pegasus Books, September 15, 2014, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: A vivid and colorful history of the most dominant royal dynasty in English history, from Richard the Lionheart and Edward the Black Prince to Henry IV and Richard III The Plantagenets reigned over England longer than any other family―from Henry II to Richard III .

Paperback:

9781605988696 | Reprint edition (Pegasus Books, September 15, 2015), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A vivid and colorful history of the most dominant royal dynasty in English history, from Richard the Lionheart and Edward the Black Prince to Henry IV and Richard III The Plantagenets reigned over England longer than any other family―from Henry II to Richard III.

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Product Description: With the recent discovery of Richard III's remains, a newly-revised edition of the celebrated biography of England's most notorious king. With the victory of Henry Tudor, the usurping dynasty made an effort to besmirch the last Plantagenet’s reputation, and some historians claim that Richard’s "black legend" is nothing more than political propaganda...read more

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9781605985756 | New edition (Pegasus Books, July 15, 2014), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: With the recent discovery of Richard III's remains, a newly-revised edition of the celebrated biography of England's most notorious king.

Paperback:

9781605988399 | Pegasus Books, July 15, 2015, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: With the recent discovery of Richard III's remains, a newly-revised edition of the celebrated biography of England's most notorious king.
9780140266344 | Rev sub edition (Penguin USA, June 1, 1998), cover price $14.95

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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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Hardcover:

9781605985497 | Pegasus Books, April 15, 2014, cover price $27.95

Paperback:

9781605988382 | Reprint edition (Pegasus Books, July 15, 2015), cover price $16.95

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9781780331775 | Gardners Books, March 20, 2014, cover price $32.60

Paperback:

9781472121141 | Little Brown Uk, June 1, 2015, cover price $22.95
9781472119612 | Gardners Books, January 8, 2015, cover price $17.00

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.As a Jewish eyewitness who was given access to Vespasian's campaign notebooks, Josephus is our only source of information for the war of extermination that ended in the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple, and the amazing times in which he lived. He is of vital importance for anyone interested in the Middle East, Jewish history, and the early history of Christianity.

Hardcover:

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.

Paperback:

9780306818660 | Da Capo Pr, August 13, 2013, cover price $19.00

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Product Description: 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. Although a smaller conflict than the Western Front, in some ways it was more dramatic, involving the use of cavalry and the Arab revolt led by T...read more

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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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The story of Girolamo Savonarola, the visionary friar who terrified Renaissance Florence by his uncannily accurate prophesies of doom - especially of a new barbarian invasion from Charles VIII - and denounced Lorenzo the Magnificent as a tyrant and the Borgia Alexander VI as an unworthy pope.

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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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Product Description: From 1853 to 1870 Eugenie de Montijo was the world's most powerful woman. Empress of the French, she shared the Second Empire with her husband, Napoleon III, so impressing the Prussian Chancellor Bismarck that he called her 'the only man in Paris'...read more

Hardcover:

9780750929790 | Sutton Pub Ltd, March 1, 2004, cover price $24.95

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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.

Product Description: In "King John", Shakespeare portrayed Eleanor of Aquitaine as a "canker'd grandam". Indeed she spent 15 years in prison for conspiring against her husband Henry II. She dominated her children's lives, turning them against their father, feuded with at least one of her daughters-in-law and contributed to the death of her grandson...read more

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9781566492300 | Welcome Rain, April 1, 2002, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: In "King John", Shakespeare portrayed Eleanor of Aquitaine as a "canker'd grandam".

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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. Reprint.

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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.

Product Description: ‘Few characterisations are as refreshing and positive as Seward’s… The book relies heavily on Metternich’s personal and state papers and contains superb sections on his rather tragic daily life.’ Library Journal ‘This book helps us to see Metternich’s achievement and his personality...read more

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9780140117820 | Penguin USA, December 1, 1999, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: ‘Few characterisations are as refreshing and positive as Seward’s… The book relies heavily on Metternich’s personal and state papers and contains superb sections on his rather tragic daily life.

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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 (view table of contents)

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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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A lively 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. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

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

Paperback:

9780060677602, titled "New Directions from the Ten Commandments" | Harpercollins, July 1, 1976, cover price $3.95 | also contains New Directions from the Ten Commandments

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9780712651332 | Trafalgar Square, May 1, 1997, cover price $19.95

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Product Description: 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...read more

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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 $18.00

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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. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

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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Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786101870 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, December 1, 1990), cover price $56.95

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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

Hardcover:

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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