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Gettysburg

Gettysburg

Hugh Bicheno

Hugh Bicheno's compelling and original account is an important re-examination of the bloodiest battle ever fought on North American soil.
Midway

Midway

Hugh Bicheno

This book is a brand new look at the historic battle, which for the first time put the Japanese on the back foot.
Vendetta: high art and low cunning at the birth of the ...

Vendetta: high art and low cunning at the birth of the ...

Hugh Bicheno

Using the rivalry between the two as a focus, the author explores the much-neglected story of the military Renaissance - a time of almost constant warfare between the Italian states.
Crescent and Cross: The Battle of Lepanto 1571

Crescent and Cross: The Battle of Lepanto 1571

Hugh Bicheno

"Unlikely to be surpassed."--Literary Review Here is the first major history in decades--and the first-ever original study in English--off an epic encounter between the Christian and Islamic worlds.
Battle Royal: The Wars of the Roses: 1440-1462

Battle Royal: The Wars of the Roses: 1440-1462

Hugh Bicheno

The enthralling story of the dynastic wars fought between the houses of Lancaster and York, the first of a dynamic two-volume history of the Wars of the Roses.
Rebels and Redcoats: The American Revolutionary War

Rebels and Redcoats: The American Revolutionary War

Hugh Bicheno

Onedefinition ofimmaturity is an inability tograsp that one's birth did not transformthe world, thusthefollowing from the website of the Sons ofthe American Revolution, with reference tothe skirmish at Lexington on 19 April 1775 extravagantly ...
Blood Royal: The Wars of Lancaster and York, 1462–1485

Blood Royal: The Wars of Lancaster and York, 1462–1485

Hugh Bicheno

THE REAL GAME OF THRONES CONTINUES... Blood Royal is the second volume of a magisterial new interpretation of the savage struggle for supreme power between and within the Plantagenet houses of Lancaster and York from 1450 until 1485.
Battle Royal: The Wars of Lancaster and York, 1450-1464

Battle Royal: The Wars of Lancaster and York, 1450-1464

Hugh Bicheno

The first volume of an enthralling two-part history of the dynastic wars fought between the houses of Lancaster and York, Battle Royal traces the conflict from its roots in the 1440s to the early 1460s – a period marked by the rise and ...
The Chronicle of Hugh of Flavigny: Reform and the ...

The Chronicle of Hugh of Flavigny: Reform and the ...

Dr Patrick Healy

Chapter 3 The Life and Career of Hugh of Flavigny Hugh of Flavigny was born in 1064 or 1065 in the region around Verdun in the German duchy of Upper Lotharingia. We only know his date of birth indirectly and from the fact that he was aged ...
The Hugh Hewitt's Little Red Book: Winning in the Age of Trump

The Hugh Hewitt's Little Red Book: Winning in the Age of Trump

Hugh Hewitt

Hugh Hewitt, “the nearly professorial power-baron of conservative media” (Bloomberg News), shares his handbook for how a united GOP government can solve problems and guarantee political success in “an agenda that departs—sometimes ...
The Saga of Hugh Glass: Pirate, Pawnee, and Mountain Man

The Saga of Hugh Glass: Pirate, Pawnee, and Mountain Man

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Before his most fabulous adventure (celebrated by John G. Neihardt in The Song of Hugh Glass and by Frederick Manfred in Lord Grizzly), Hugh Glass was captured by the buccaneer Jean Lafitte and turned pirate himself until his first chance ...
Anatomies: A Cultural History of the Human Body

Anatomies: A Cultural History of the Human Body

Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Copyright © by Hugh Aldersey-Williams First American Edition First published in Great Britain in by Viking, an imprint of ... Production manager: Devon Zahn Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Aldersey-Williams, Hugh.
Clydesdale Stud Book

Clydesdale Stud Book

Clydesdale Horse Society of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Johnston, Hugh G., C duthel, Inverness, 33,006, p. 122. Johnston, Hugh, Low Knockrioch, Campbeltown, 39,978. P Johnston, Hugh, Whitesands, Dumfries, 39,255. Johnstone, Isaac, Blindcrake, Cookermouth, 35,648, p. 12 . Johnston, James ...
The comedians: Hugh Hood and Rudy Wiebe

The comedians: Hugh Hood and Rudy Wiebe

Patricia A. Morley

Pierre Cloutier, "An Interview with Hugh Hood," Journal of Canadian Fiction , Vol. II, No. 1 (Winter, 1973), 52. 6. Ibid. See also Marilyn Beker, "Hugh Hood — 'reality is only what you believe,' " p. 42: "I positively worship Turgenev and Proust." 7.
The Didascalicon of Hugh of St. Victor: A Medieval Guide to ...

The Didascalicon of Hugh of St. Victor: A Medieval Guide to ...

Hugh (of Saint-Victor)

This is the first complete translation into English of Hugh of Saint Victor's Didascalicon.
Hugh O'Flaherty: His Wartime Adventures

Hugh O'Flaherty: His Wartime Adventures

Alison Walsh

A Kerryman who loved sport, Hugh O'Flaherty was cheerful and full of energy.
Robert Brownjohn: Sex and Typography : 1925-1970, Life and Work

Robert Brownjohn: Sex and Typography : 1925-1970, Life and Work

Emily King

... RichardWattis Peter Cook David Puttnam James Garrett George Dixon Robert Edward Tara Brown Gerard McCarten David Cammell Hugh Hudson Mid- to late 1960s Hugh Hudson David Cammell Hugh Hudson Jon Bradshaw But of course  ...
A New General Biographical Dictionary

A New General Biographical Dictionary

Hugh James Rose

Hugh James Rose, Henry John Rose, Thomas Wright. NEW GENERAL BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, PROJECTED AND PARTLY ARRANGED BT THS LATE KEY. HUGH JAMES ROSE, B.D. PRINCIPAL OP KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON.
Leisure in the Industrial Revolution: C. 1780-c. 1880

Leisure in the Industrial Revolution: C. 1780-c. 1880

Emeritus Professor of Social History Hugh Cunningham

C. 1780-c. 1880 Emeritus Professor of Social History Hugh Cunningham, Hugh Cunningham. Leisureinthe Industrial Revolution c. 1780-c. 1880 Hugh Cunningham CROOM HELM LONDON © 1980 Hugh Cunningham Croom Helm Ltd, 2-10 ...
The Stages of Life: Personalities and Patterns in Human ...

The Stages of Life: Personalities and Patterns in Human ...

Hugh Crago

Throughout the book, Hugh Crago relates both ‘nature’ and ‘nurture’ to the challenges individuals must face from early childhood through to old age.
Hugh Glass: Grizzly Survivor

Hugh Glass: Grizzly Survivor

James D. McLaird

The story of Hugh Glass has provided fertile ground for articles, books and film, but the real man remains much of a mystery.
The Committed Enterprise: How to Make Vision and Values Work

The Committed Enterprise: How to Make Vision and Values Work

J. Hugh Davidson

The extent and range of Hugh Davidson's research has allowed him to synthesize a set of lasting attributes that underlie continued success.
The Committed Enterprise: How to Make Vision and Values Work

The Committed Enterprise: How to Make Vision and Values Work

J. Hugh Davidson

The extent and range of Hugh Davidson's research has allowed him to synthesize a set of lasting attributes that underlie continued success.
The Fourth Way: The Conservative Playbook for a Lasting GOP ...

The Fourth Way: The Conservative Playbook for a Lasting GOP ...

Hugh Hewitt

Hugh Hewitt interviewed candidate Trump fifteen times on his nationally syndicated show during the 2016 campaign and participated as a panelist in four primary debates.
Sandymount in Old Photographs

Sandymount in Old Photographs

Hugh Oram

Yet despite that comparatively recent start, it has become a very distinctive place, with a strong village atmosphere.Local historian and author Hugh Oram explores its history in this collection of over 200 archive images.
Doctor Hugh: My life with animals

Doctor Hugh: My life with animals

Anne Crawford

Doctor Hugh is packed with engaging anecdotes about pets he has treated and owners he has told off from his days practicing as a young country vet and then in his busy suburban practice in Balwyn.
Robert Hugh Benson: Life and Works

Robert Hugh Benson: Life and Works

Janet Grayson

Robert Hugh Benson is a new biography of Edwardian England's most famous priest-novelist.
In the Vineyard of the Text: A Commentary to Hugh's Didascalicon

In the Vineyard of the Text: A Commentary to Hugh's Didascalicon

Ivan Illich

Examining the Didascalicon of Hugh of St. Victor, Illich celebrates the culture of the book from the twelfth century to the present.

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