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Great Feuds in History: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever by Colin Evans Publisher Comments In Great Feuds in History, Colin Evans puts us in the middle of ten of history's most significant struggles — high-stakes personal conflicts that had a lasting impact on the societies around them and on generations that followed. Spanning five... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The History of Medieval Europe by Maurice Keen Synopsis A picture of the politics, society and religion of medieval Europe, the age that had as its theme the unity of Christendom.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cannae 216 BC: Hannibal Smashes Rome's Army (Praeger Illustrated Military History) by Mark Healy Publisher Comments The battle of Cannae is rightly regarded as one of the greatest battles of military history. Apart from it being the greatest defeat ever suffered by Roman arms, Hannibal's stratagem has become a model of the perfectly fought battle and is studied in... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $16.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Most Holy War: The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom by Mark Gregory Pegg Publisher Comments Historian Pegg has produced a swift-moving, gripping narrative of a horrific crusade, drawing in part on thousands of testimonies collected by inquisitors in the years 1235 to 1245. These accounts of ordinary men and women bring the story vividly to life.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list At the Abyss an Insiders History of The by Thomas Reed Publisher Comments “The Cold War . . . was a fight to the death,” notes Thomas C. Reed, “fought with bayonets, napalm, and high-tech weaponry of every sort—save one. It was not fought with nuclear weapons.” With global powers now engaged in... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $3.53 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list From Armageddon To the Fall of Rome by Erik Durschmied Publisher Comments The bestselling author of "The Hinge Factor", selling over 50,000 copies, takes an entertaining look at ancient battles.... (read more) Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A History of the Roman People by Allen M Ward Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 543-557) and index.... (read more) List Price $64.00 Your price $57.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Hoover Institution Press Publication #538: Turning Points in Ending the Cold War by Kiron K Skinner Book News Annotation Skinner (history, Carnegie Mellon U.) brings together government officials involved with Cold War policy-making in the United States and the Soviet Union together with Russian and American academics to examine and analyze policies and events that they... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917 - 1950 by Arthur Schlesinger Publisher Comments As a preeminent historian of our time, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., continues in his many books and articles to show Americans who we are as a nation, to explain our past, and to illuminate possibilities for the future. But here, in the first volume of... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $2.99 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples by Herwig Wolfram Publisher Comments "(Wolfram) explores the high points in the history of a number of closely related Germanic societies as they faced the power of the Roman Empire and Roman imperial society. . . . This is a learned, sophisticated, and valuable book--one which can address... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $20.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Western Civilization on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   At the End of an Age by John Lukacs Publisher Comments This compelling book is a deeply informed reflection on the nature of historical and scientific knowledge. Renowned historian John Lukacs asserts that now, even at the end of the modern age, our understanding of the universe is based on what we fallible... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The European Union After the Treaty of Amsterdam by Jorg Monar Publisher Comments The 1997 Treaty of Amsterdam was the result of thirty months of negotiation and major political debates in all the member states of the E.U. Praised as a triumph of the possible and a breakthrough in major policy areas by some, it has also attracted... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $6.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list It Seemed Like a Good Idea...: A Compendium of Great Historical Fiascoes by William R Forstchen Publisher Comments Throughout the annals of history, the best of intentions—and sometimes the worst—have set in motion events with a vastly different outcome than originally intended. In this entertaining, fact-filled chronicle, William Forstchen and Bill... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cleopatra: Beyond the Myth by Michel Chauveau Synopsis Michel Chauveau combines his knowledge of Egyptian sources with judicious use of classical materials to produce an authoritative biography of Cleopatra, woman and queen, seen in the light of the turbulent era in which she lived.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list How Came Civilization by Fitzroy Rich Raglan Publisher Comments Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the... (read more) List Price $27.45 Your price $18.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Debunking History: 155 Popular Myths Exploded by Ed Rayner Publisher Comments History is full of myths, legends, fables, folklore, misinformation and misconceptions. Whether they have come about inadvertently or deliberately, many have ingrained themselves upon the public imagination. This book presents some of the most popular... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Forged in War by Warren F Kimball Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 389-406) and index.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $7.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list On History by Fernand Braudel Publisher Comments "The great French historian Fernand Braudel has done what only giants can: he has made Western man confront the problem of time--individual time, historical time, relative time, real time. . . . Braudel, more than any other historian, has wrestled with... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Life in a Medieval City by Joseph Gies Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-261) and index.... (read more) Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West by Tom Holland Publisher Comments Holland's new work describes the very first "clash of empires" between East and West. Revealing extraordinary parallels between the ancient world and the present, this history takes in the entire sweep of the Persian Wars.... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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