King, Kaiser, Tsar: Three Royal Cousins Who Led the World to War 0802718833, 9780802718839

King, Kaiser, Tsar: Three Royal Cousins Who Led the World to War 0802718833, 9780802718839

The extraordinary family story of George V, Wilhelm II, and Nicholas II: they were tied to one another by history, and h

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Crowned Cousins: Anglo-German Royal Connection

For two long periods in modern history — from 1714 to 1760 and from 1837 to 1901 — the sovereign in London looked upon t

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I Led Three Lives: Citizen, 'Communist', Counterspy

1952: by Herbert A. Philbrick - Published by McGraw-Hill - 323 pages.

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We, the King: Creating Royal Legislation in the Sixteenth-Century Spanish New World 1009315412, 9781009315418

We, the King challenges the dominant top-down interpretation of the Spanish Empire and its monarchs' decrees in the

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The Doctor Who Would Be King 9781478022480

Guillaume Lachenal tells the extraordinary story of Dr. Jean Joseph David—a French colonial army doctor who governed an

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The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War 9780802123893, 9780802123251, 0802123899

On a summer morning in Sarajevo a hundred years ago, a teenager named Gavrilo Princip took a pistol out of his pocket an

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Who Was King Tut? 9781101099636

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Ice-breaker: who started the Second World War? 9780241126226, 0241126223

A historian, the Soviet defector Victor Suvorov tells the story of World War II as started not by Hitler, but by Stalin.

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Who Were the Three Stooges? 9780451534538

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The End of World War II in Europe: The History of the Final Campaigns that Led to Nazi Germany’s Surrender

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the fighting during D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge, the Battle of Berlin, and m

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