The history books have cast Katherine of Aragon, the first queen of King Henry VIII of England, as the ultimate symbol of the Betrayed Woman, cruelly tossed aside in favor of her husband’s seductive…
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Julia Fox
Ballantine Books, January 2012
ISBN: 9780345532312
History, Renaissance
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In 1521, Suleiman the Magnificent, Muslim ruler of the Ottoman Empire at the height of its power, dispatched an invasion fleet to the Christian island of Rhodes. This would prove to be the opening…
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Roger Crowley
Random House, July 2008
ISBN: 9781588367334
History, Military
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Hitler’s rise to power, Germany’s march to the abyss, as seen through the eyes of Americans—diplomats, military, expats, visiting authors, Olympic athletes—who watched horrified and up close. By…
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Andrew Nagorski
Simon & Schuster, March 2012
ISBN: 9781439191026
History, Germany
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“The Inquisition is a dark mark in the history of the Catholic Church. But it was not the first inquisition nor the last, as Cullen Murphy shows in this far-ranging, informed, and (dare one say…
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Cullen Murphy
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, January 2012
ISBN: 9780547607825
History, Renaissance
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History of the Battle of Crecy (Hundred Years War). According to Wikipedia: "Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (27 July 1870[1] 16 July 1953) was an Anglo-French writer and historian who became a…
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Hilaire Belloc
B&R Samizdat Express, December 2009
ISBN: 9781455405893
History, European General
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Toward the end of the Middle Ages, many of the large cities of the Netherlands had bought or won charters giving them many rights of freedom, but when Charles V came to the throne of Spain he…
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Anonymous
Charles River Editors, January 2012
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History, European General
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Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal…
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Sharon Marcus
Princeton University Press, January 2007
ISBN: 9781400830855
Literary Theory & Criticism, Gay & Lesbian
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A comprehensive and thrilling history, based on the latest scholarship, offers the definitive portrait of the Vikings Raiders and traders, settlers and craftsmen, the medieval Scandinavians who have…
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Robert Ferguson
Penguin, November 2009
ISBN: 9781101151426
History, European General
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From the ashes of World War II to the conflict over Iraq, William Hitchcock examines the miraculous transformation of Europe from a deeply fractured land to a continent striving for stability…
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William I. Hitchcock
Anchor, November 2008
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History, European General
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Noah Prylucki (1882-1941), a leading Jewish cultural and political figure in pre-Holocaust Eastern Europe, was a proponent of Yiddishism, a movement that promoted secular Yiddish culture as the basis…
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