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The Gangs Of New Orleans: An Informal History of the French Quarter Underworld
by Herbert Asbury
by Herbert Asbury
Home to the notorious 'Blue Book', which listed the names and addresses of every prostitute living in the city, New Orleans's infamous red-light district gained a reputation as one of the most raucous in the world. But the New Orleans underworld cons...
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The Devil: A Biography
by Peter Stanford
by Peter Stanford
Talk of the Devil has become distinctly unfashionable. Our sceptical age has pensioned off Satan, for centuries the face and name put to the abstract reality of evil. However, the creation of Popes, archbishops and priests will not so easily accept...
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The Spanish Ulcer: A History of the Peninsular War
by David Gates
by David Gates
By July 1807, following his spectacular victories over Austria, Prussia and Russia, Napoleon dominated most of Europe. The only significant gap in his continental system was the Iberian Peninsula. He therefore begun a series of diplomatic and milit...
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The Avengers
by Rich Cohen
by Rich Cohen
When they were not yet twenty years old three young Jews left their families in Western Poland and came to the Lithuanian ghetto of Vilna. Abba, leader of the young people in the ghetto and Rushka and Vitka were his deputies. Together they organised ...
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Puritanism & Revolution
by Christopher Hill
by Christopher Hill
This illuminating collection of essays assesses the seventeenth century, interpreting what used to be called 'The Puritan Revolution', the ideas which helped to produce it and resulted from it, and the realtion between these ideas and the political a...
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The Terrible Hours
by Peter Maas
by Peter Maas
On the eve of World War II, the Squalus, America's newest submarine, plunged to the bottom of the North Atlantic. Miraculously, thirty-three crew members still survived in the stricken vessel. While their loved ones waited in unbearable tension onsho...
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The Defeat Of The Spanish Armada
by Garrett Mattingly
by Garrett Mattingly
Garrett Mattingly's thrilling narrative sets out the background of the sixteenth-century European intrigue and religious unrest that gave rise to one of the world's most famous maritime crusades and the naval battles that decided its fate. ...
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Before Civilization
by Colin Renfrew
by Colin Renfrew
The refinement of radiocarbon dating using the information form tree-ring counts has raised serious doubts about the accepted theoretical frameowkr of European prehistory. Monuments in Central and Western Europe have proved to be considerably older t...
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