This masterpiece of military history recounts the fateful hours that preceded and followed the invasion of Normandy, retelling the story of an epic battle that turned the tide against world...
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Author: Ryan, CorneliusSummary:Genre: History and geography
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Author: Cotterill, ColinSummary:
In a Lao village, a woman is killed and her body burned. Three days later she is back home as if nothing happened--and she can speak to the dead. Now the long-dead brother of a Lao general has...
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Author: Ackroyd, PeterSummary:
From the accession of the thrillingly unappealing James VI & I to his hapless heir, Charles I, to the ruthless Oliver Cromwell, Peter Ackroyd tells the story of the turbulent seventeenth...
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Author: Ackroyd, PeterSummary:
Peter Ackroyd, one of Britain's most acclaimed writers, brings the age of the Tudors to vivid life in this monumental book in his History of England series, charting the course of English history...
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Author: Cotterill, ColinSummary:
A fiendishly clever mystery in which Dr. Siri and his friends investigate three interlocking murders-and the ungodly motives behind them Laos, 1979: Retired coroner Siri Paiboun and his wife,...
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Author: Chevallier, GabrielSummary:
In 1915, Jean Dartemont heads off to the Great War, an eager conscript. Soon, however, the vaunted "war to end all wars" is just an unimaginable, unceasing slaughter. Wounded, Jean returns from...
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Author: Tinniswood, AdrianSummary:
Adrian Tinniswood brings alive this dynamic chapter in history, where clashes between pirates of the East and governments of the West grew increasingly intense and dangerous. In vivid detail,...