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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
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It speaks to the failure of medieval Europe, writes popular historian William Manchester, that "in the year 1500, after a thousand years of neglect, the roads built by the Romans were still the best on the continent." European powers were so absorbed in destroying each other and in suppressing peasant revolts and religious reform that they never qui... »
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The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America - -The Stalin Era
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The Haunted Wood fills in a valuable part of cold war history: the Soviet Union's attempts to spy on the United States from the time of FDR's New Deal, through the Second World War, and into the 1950s. Allen Weinstein (author of a highly regarded history of the Hiss-Chambers case, Perjury) and Alexander Vassiliev (a KGB agent turned journ... »
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The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
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Interested in understanding today's western world? this might be the book to start the quest... A miracle in Europe, no doubt, EspaA a didn't turn around its economy by just watching, but by huge ammounts of work and sacrifice. El Generalisimo Francisco Franco might have been the smartest leader in those days in Europe... perhaps he knew how to wait...... »
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The Making of the Middle Ages
[[ASIN:0300002300 The Making of the Middle Ages]] is a study of the period 972 to 1204. Before Southern wrote this book in 1952, the period has traditiona... »
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The Oxford Classical Dictionary
The Oxford Classical Dictionary is a must for those interested in Ancient history. It is well researched, thorough and easy to use. Its coverage is broa... »
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