Bannockburn: The Battle for a Nation 9780857907998, 9781780272184, 0857907999

As 8,000 Scottish soldiers, most of them spearmen, faced 18,000 English infantrymen, archers and mounted knights in June

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Bannockburn: The Battle for a Nation
9780857907998, 9781780272184, 0857907999

As 8,000 Scottish soldiers, most of them spearmen, faced 18,000 English infantrymen, archers and mounted knights in June

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THE BATTLE FOR MAGDEBURG — Karel Margry describes how Magdeburg, located on the Elbe river in central Germany, was one o

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Few battles resonate through British history as strongly as Bannockburn. On June 24, 1314, the Scots under the leadershi

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“As a historian, Charnvit Kasetsiri is not satisfied simply to have found an instructive angle from which to explore the

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Table of contents : Insanity Fair, 1966. On Moving Frontiers. The Rise of Rhodesia. The Decade of Doubletalk. The Cross

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In 1277 the recently crowned king of England, Edward I, invaded Wales; his army, large for the time, was none the less m

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"The plan, I think, is the old one of world dominion in a new form . . . Today the scene is set for the third act,

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A look at democracy in the United States during the early 20th century. Specially focused around government, banking, ec

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The book is about the universal phenomenon of citymaking seen in a historical perspective - how and why cities took the

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Your battle is real; you're not imagining it. And how you care for your soul in the storm determines how well you&#

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