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Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe
Chess players know that the queen can outmanoeuvre the king in every respect, except in the final checkmate. Gristwood’s book…
King John: England, Magna Carta and the Making of a Tyrant
The fifth son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, John inherited the Angevin kingdom in 1199, after the deaths…
Hundred Days: The End of the Great War
Hundred Days tells the story of the last four months of combat on the western front. It concentrates on the…
How to Create the Perfect Wife
The feminist in me – not to mention the far from perfect wife – quailed at the title of this…
The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe
In The Enemy at the Gate, Andrew Wheatcroft sets out the political background to the 1683 siege of Vienna in…
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