Charlotte was the first
- wildly beautiful, wildly frustrated- who married her soldier husband solely to escape from the claustrophobic
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David Rohl continues his quest to reach the historical kernel lying at the heart of some of the greatest unsolved problems & mysteries of Old World history & archaeology. He reveals what really happened in seven famous myths & legends bequeathed to us by the ancients & shows us that the passage of time has not wiped away all the evidence, & it is possible to reach the reality behind the legends. LEGEND reveals the historical truth which lies at the heart of the Book of Genesis: * The Garden of Eden is finally found * Heroes from the Book of Genesis are indentified in ancient records * The true site of Noah's Ark is located in Kurdistan * Paradise is discovered on a desert island in the Persian Gulf * The mysterious origins of the first pharaohs are revealed ...

It is eighteenth century London & John Lempriere, a young scholar, is writing a dictionary of classical mythology in an attempt to exorcise the demons raised by his father's bizarre & violent death. While tending to his father's business affairs, Lempriere discovers a 150-year-old conspiracy that has kept his family from its share of the fabulously wealthy East India Company, Bust as John begins to untangle the years of mystery & deceit, people begin to die, in ways that mirror the very myths he is researching... ...

The past twenty years has seen the emergence of an industry standard model of presentation
- the slide show. Yet research has shown
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This remarkably ambitious book tells the story of the great social & political catastrophe that enveloped Europe between 1914 & 1945. In a period of almost continuous upheaval society was transformed by two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust & the rise & fall of the
Third Reich.

Combining a powerful narrative with profound analysis, acclaimed historian Robert Gellately argues that these tragedies are inextricably linked & that to consider them as discrete events is to misunderstand their genesis & character. Central, of course, to the catastrophe were the dictators Lenin, Stalin, & Hitler & this book makes unprecedented use of recently opened Russian & German sources to explain how their pursuit of utopian
- & dreadfully flawed
- ideals led only to dystopian nightmare.

In a groundbreaking work Robert Gellately makes clear that most comparative studies of the Soviet & Nazi dictatorships are undermined by neglecting the key importance of Lenins role. The author rejects the myth of the 'good' Lenin & demonstrates his centrality in the unfolding drama. The book
provides a powerful social-historical account of all three dictatorships & carefully documents their similarities & differences. It traces the escalation of conflicts between Communism & Nazism & shows how the vicious rivalry between Stalin & Hitler led inescapably to a war of annihilation & genocide. The reverberations of this gargantuan struggle are felt everywhere to this day.







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This remarkably ambitious book tells the story of the great social & political catastrophe that enveloped Europe between 1914 & 1945. In a period of almost continuous upheaval society was transformed by two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust & the rise & fall of the
Third Reich.

Combining a powerful narrative with profound analysis, acclaimed historian Robert Gellately argues that these tragedies are inextricably linked & that to consider them as discrete events is to misunderstand their genesis & character. Central, of course, to the catastrophe were the dictators Lenin, Stalin, & Hitler & this book makes unprecedented use of recently opened Russian & German sources to explain how their pursuit of utopian
- & dreadfully flawed
- ideals led only to dystopian nightmare.

In a groundbreaking work Robert Gellately makes clear that most comparative studies of the Soviet & Nazi dictatorships are undermined by neglecting the key importance of Lenins role. The author rejects the myth of the 'good' Lenin & demonstrates his centrality in the unfolding drama. The book
provides a powerful social-historical account of all three dictatorships & carefully documents their similarities & differences. It traces the escalation of conflicts between Communism & Nazism & shows how the vicious rivalry between Stalin & Hitler led inescapably to a war of annihilation & genocide. The reverberations of this gargantuan struggle are felt everywhere to this day.







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Stephen Jay Gould's writing remains the modern standard by which popular science writing is judged. Ever since the last 1970s, his monthly essay in Natural History & his full-length books have bridged the yawning gap between science & the wider culture. This fascinating new collection of essays contains some of Gould's bestw riting on a variety of subjects ranging from Leonardo da Vinci & Martin Luther to fossils & the history of science. As always, these essays brillantly display his gift for colloquial & vivid explanation, & include fascinating oddities from the natural world & the printed word. ...