Archbishop Laud (Phoenix Press)
 Less Than the Whole Laud: The mocking grace "To God much praise, and little laud to the Devil" reflected the opinion of many of William Laud's contemporaries - and also of several generations of Whig historians. To Macaulay and his ilk, Charles [... more]
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Gertrude and Alice (Phoenix Press)
Amazon.com Review: "Twentieth-century literature is Gertrude Stein." Or at least so felt Gertrude Stein, in a sentiment that she shared with few others, except of course Alice B. Toklas. Gertrude and Alice met in 1907 in Paris, and famously [... more]
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Stalin's Generals (Phoenix Press)
Red Army's top generals (but where's Chernyakovsky)?: While WWII studies have seen a lot of ink devoted to most of Wehrmacht top brass, the same cannot be said for the Soviet war leadership. Reasons have been mixed: lack of material, blind faith on the [... more]
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Phoenix: The Rise of the Greeks (Phoenix Press)
Early History of the Greek City States: "The Rise of the Greeks" by Michael Grant is a very good look at the period of history of the Greek City states from around 1000 to 500 BC. This is a period of history for which it is hard to find good [... more]
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The World of the Witches (Phoenix Press)
the world of the witches: this book gives an overview of witchcraft in many forms and how it has been viewed over the centuries by differing religius sects. a long read but good to balance out the positive and negative views of outsiders to the craft. [... more]
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Another Bloody Century: Future Warfare (Phoenix Press)
Fine study of warfare: In this fascinating book, Colin Gray, Professor of International Politics and Strategic Studies at Reading University, continues the argument of his classic `Modern Strategy' - Clausewitz still rules. "Technology is important, [... more]
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Lord Geoffrey's Fancy (Phoenix Press)
Author: Alfred Duggan Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914 EAN: 9780304366477 ISBN: 0304366471 Number Of Pages: 264 Publication Date: 2007-05-01 [... more]
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Wartime Women: A Mass-Observation Anthology (Phoenix Press)
Amazon.com Review: Too few Americans know about the fascinating Mass-Observation project initiated in England in 1937 (and coming to an end in the late 1940s) with the aim of documenting, without bias, the lives of ordinary people, typically through [... more]
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Phoenix: Saladin in His Time (Phoenix Press)
great introduction to a great historical figure: It was difficult not to be a partisan at the turn of the last millennieum. Two great cultural and religious forces, Chrtisianity and Islam, were meeting in a humdinger of a contest The Crusades. To behave [... more]
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The Church in the Dark Ages (Phoenix Press)
It takes a French historian to provide clear English!: I admit I bought the book almost on impulse, and by the time it arrived in the mail I was wondering if I would ever read it. Nonetheless, I started it, and can say I finished it. The title can be [... more]
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The Crusades (Phoenix Press)
Lively and Approachable: Zoe Oldenbourg's "The Crusades" was one of the first books I ever read about the subject, and still remains an unsurpassed introduction to the topic in my experience. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and it is still one of my [... more]
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Salisbury: Victorian Titan (Phoenix Press)
Salisbury: Big Book, Big Subject, Big Author: This is not just a book of immense intrinsic value. It's a book of real historical importance as one of two biographies of Salisbury published recently which entirely reassess his standing as one of the [... more]
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