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Chasing Icarus: The Seventeen Days in 1910 That Forever Changed ...
Gavin Mortimer.
 
Publisher: Walker
Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780802717115
Daedalus Item Code: 31877
 
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Battle of Britain
Patrick Bishop.
 
Publisher: Quercus
Format: paperback
ISBN: 9781849162241
Daedalus Item Code: 32505
 
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Cleopatra and Antony: Power, Love, and Politics in the Ancient World
Diana Preston.
Publisher: Walker.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780802717382.  Daedalus Item Code: 31880
 
Their love joined two great empires, and they died rather than being captured by their enemies. In this history Diana Preston lays aside the romanticized legends surrounding ancient history's most ... (Read More)
 
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The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany & Japan
Ian Buruma.
Publisher: Atlantic Books.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781843549604.  Daedalus Item Code: 32582
 
In this highly original and now classic text, Erasmus Prize and Shorenstein Journalism Award winner Ian Buruma explores and compares how Germany and Japan have attempted to come to terms with their ... (Read More)
 
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The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There
Sinclair McKay.
Publisher: Aurum.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781781311288.  Daedalus Item Code: 32632
 
Bletchley Park looked like any other sprawling country estate in wartime England, yet it housed Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School, where Nazi Germany's vaunted Enigma code was ... (Read More)
 
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The Girl in the Painted Caravan: Memories of a Romany Childhood
Eve Petulengro.
Publisher: Pan.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780330519991.  Daedalus Item Code: 32312
 
Born into a Romany gypsy family in 1939, astrologer Eva Petulengro enjoyed an idyllic childhood. She describes traveling the country with her family in a painted caravan and spending evenings by the ... (Read More)
 
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The Madness of Nero
Tacitus. Michael Grant, trans.
Publisher: Penguin.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780141026862.  Daedalus Item Code: 32323
 
This extract from Tacitus's Annals of Imperial Rome, written at the turn of the 2nd century, describes the life and political career of Rome's fifth emperor Nero some 50 years earlier. ... (Read More)
 
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Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election That Brought On the Civil War
Douglas R. Egerton.
Publisher: Bloomsbury.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781596916197.  Daedalus Item Code: 31931
 
In early 1860, pundits across America confidently predicted the election of Illinois senator Stephen A. Douglas in the coming presidential race. But the Democrats would split over the issue of ... (Read More)
 
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On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery
Robert M. Poole.
Publisher: Walker.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780802715487.  Daedalus Item Code: 31915
 
"Along Eisenhower Drive, as far as the eye could see, the grave markers formed into bone-white brigades, climbed from the flats of the Potomac River, and scattered over the green Virginia hills in ... (Read More)
 
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Fidel and Che: A Revolutionary Friendship
Simon Reid-Henry.
Publisher: Walker.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780802715739.  Daedalus Item Code: 31892
 
Creating a dual portrait from historical sources in Cuba, Latin America, the United States, Europe, and Russia, and from interviews he conducted during several lengthy stays in Cuba, University of ... (Read More)
 
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Papa Spy: Love, Faith, and Betrayal in Wartime Spain
Jimmy Burns.
Publisher: Walker.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780802717962.  Daedalus Item Code: 31917
 
With the declaration of war in 1939, a dashing young publisher named Tom Burns left his business for the Ministry of Information, the propaganda arm of the British secret services, and found himself ... (Read More)
 
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Selling Hitler: His Classic Account of the Hitler Diaries
Robert Harris.
Publisher: Arrow.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780099791515.  Daedalus Item Code: 32443
 
April 1945: From the ruins of Berlin, a Luftwaffe transport plane takes off carrying secret papers belonging to Adolf Hitler. Half an hour later, it crashes in flames. April 1983: In a bank vault in ... (Read More)
 
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