The Fall of the House of Habsburg

Edward Crankshaw

History

The downfall of the Habsburg monarchy was more than just the end of a great and powerful dynasty. It meant the

empire, europe

Empire

How Britain Made the Modern World

Niall Ferguson

History

Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prair

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The Decline of Imperial Russia

1855-1914

Hugh Seton-Watson

History

This book, originally published in 1952, describes and explains the stage of the decline of the Russian Empire

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Crimea

The Last Crusade

Orlando Figes

History

The Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nightingale—these are the enduring icons of the Crimean War. L

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Augustus

John Buchan

Biography

In 27 BC, out of the carnage of two civil wars, one man emerged to rule absolutely the Roman world. This man wa

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The Scramble for Africa

Thomas Pakenham

History

White Mans Conquest of the Dark Continent
from 1876 to 1912

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The Yamato Dynasty

The Secret History of Japans Imperial Family

Peggy Seagrave

History

In The Yamato Dynasty, Sterling Seagrave, who divulged the secrets of Mao Tse-tung and the ruthlessness of Chia

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Louis XIV

Philippe Erlanger

Biography

Acclaimed author Philippe Erlanger, winner of the Grand Prix Histoire de Academie Française, presents an int

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Louis XIV

Vincent Cronin

Biography

A brilliant and scholarly picture of the supreme period of Frances history and the great Monarch who ruled over

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The Age of Empire, 1875-1914

Modern History #3

Eric Hobsbawm

History

In this third volume of his four-volume history of the modern world, as it has been produced by the development

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