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Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe
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Chess players know that the queen can outmanoeuvre the king in every respect, except in the final checkmate. Gristwood’s book reveals how “...Read Review
King John: England, Magna Carta and the Making of a Tyrant
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The fifth son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, John inherited the Angevin kingdom in 1199, after the deaths of his brothers. John ...Read Review
Hundred Days: The End of the Great War
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Hundred Days tells the story of the last four months of combat on the western front. It concentrates on the fighting in France ...Read Review
How to Create the Perfect Wife
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The feminist in me – not to mention the far from perfect wife – quailed at the title of this book. Neither need have worried. ...Read Review
The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe
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In The Enemy at the Gate, Andrew Wheatcroft sets out the political background to the 1683 siege of Vienna in clear detail. There had ...Read Review
