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Understanding Ravenna - available now from Fonthill Media

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Understanding Ravenna

Understanding Ravenna recounts the city’s unique experience as the capital both of the late western Roman Empire and of its successor Gothic Kingdom. It shows the central role played by its bishops as the early Christian Church detached itself from the crumbling imperial government.

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Defending Gloucestershire and Bristol The Military Landscape from Pre-history to the Present

Defending Bedfordshire: The Military Landscape from Pre-history to the Present

Defending Northamptonshire: The Military Landscape from Pre-history to the Present

The Imperial Families of Ancient Rome

Reportage from Ancient Greece and Rome

Understanding Ravenna

Wars and Battles of Ancient Greece

Roman Record Keeping & Communications

Defending Leicestershire and Rutland

When in Rome: Social Life in Ancient Rome

Warfare in New Kingdom Egypt

Women in Ancient Greece

Hypatia: Mathematician, Philosopher, Myth

Defending Norfolk: The Military Landscape from Prehistory to the Present

A Book of Cats: Literary, Legendary and Historical

Roman Women: The Women who influenced the History of Rome

Everyday Life of a Soldier on Hadrian's Wall

Wars and Battles of the Roman Republic

Legions in Crisis: Transformation of the Roman Soldier AD 192–284

The Children of Richard III - available from Fonthill Media

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The Children of Richard III

The first book to give a comprehensive account of all the children of Richard III, his only legitimate child, Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales, his illegitimate children John of Gloucester, and Katherine, who became countess of Huntingdon also other possible children, particularly Richard Plantagenet of Eastwell.

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Ralegh's Pirate Colony in America - available now from Fonthill Media

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Ralegh's Pirate Colony in America: The Lost Settlement of Roanoke 1584-1590

The lost colony of Roanoke Island, North Carolina, was England's first experiment in civilian empire building and the first attempt at peaceful co-existence between Native Americans and the English. It disappeared without trace, defeating intense efforts to find it.

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Union Pacific Railroad Heritage

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Heritage

Abandoned Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: California Revealed

Schenectady: Trolley Hub of Eastern New York

CSX Transportation Railroad Heritage

Hyalyn: America’s Finest Porcelain

North Carolina’s Moravian Potters: The Art and Mystery of Pottery-Making in Wachovia

Vietnam War Army Helicopter Nose Art (Volume 2)

New Jersey’s Trolley Heritage

Chicago's South Shore Line

Detroit's Streetcar Heritage

Philadelphia’s Streetcar Heritage

NASA Langley Research Center: The First Century To the Moon and Beyond

Lightning Strikes: The Lockheed P-38

Howard Hughes and the Creation of Modern Hollywood

Gettysburg's Most Hellish Battleground: The Devil’s Den, July 2, 1863

America's Bloody Hill of Destiny: A New Look at the Struggle for Little Round Top

Casino Sidemen: Reno Showroom Musicians of the 1950s-1990s

Gambling on a Dream: The Classic Las Vegas Strip 1930-1955

U-Boats in New England: Submarine Patrols, Survivors and Saboteurs 1942-45

Ralegh's Pirate Colony in America: The Lost Settlement of Roanoke 1584-1590

America at Night

Blacks in Gray Uniforms: A New Look at the South's Most Forgotten Combat Troops 1861-1865

A Man Called Plenty Horses: The Last Warrior of the Great Plains War

They Drank to That: Bars, Beer and the Beat of Hamtramck

The Poe Shrine: Building the World's Finest Edgar Allen Poe Collection

Baltimore Streetcar Memories

Château Higginson: Social Life in Boston’s Back Bay, 1870-1920

Undarkened Skies: The American Aircraft Building Programme of the First World War

America's Pioneer Jewish Congregations: Architecture, Community and History

Thud Pilot: A Pilot’s Account of Early F-105 Combat in Vietnam

A Guide to the Gold Rush Country of California

Christmas Traditions in Boston

The Nevada They Knew: Robert Caples and Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Naval Air Station Oceana

Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad

Virginia Beach Through the 20th Century

Crescenta Valley History: Hidden In Plain Sight

Seaside Heights Before and After Hurricane Sandy and the Fire

Along the Lines of Devotion The Bloodstained Field of Gettysburg on July 1, 1863

A Guide to Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Hingham Volume I

Lower Georgia Street–California's Forgotten Barbary Coast

U-Boats off Bermuda: Patrol Summaries and Merchant Ship Survivors Landed in Bermuda 1940-1944

Kinnickinnic Avenue: The Heart of Bay View, WI

A Crowded Hour: Milwaukee during the Great War, 1917–1918

Reading Railroad Heritage

These Ghostly Archives: The Unearthing of Sylvia Plath

Florida Valor: The Medal of Honor and the Sunshine State

It's Just Dirt: The Historic Art Potteries of North Carolona's Seagrove Region (paperback)

Pioneering Sebastian and Roseland

A History of Savoy: Gatekeeper of the Alps

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A History of Savoy: Gatekeeper of the Alps

For seven centuries, Savoy and its Alps were an independent state between France and Italy. Its rulers controlled the passage of armies, merchants and pilgrims over the mountain passes. Annexed to France in 1860, Savoy became its most prosperous region with fifteen million tourists visiting its Alps every year, to walk, climb, parapente or ski.

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Ena and Bee: Queen Victoria’s Spanish Granddaughters

The Prussian Princesses: The Sisters of Kaiser Wilhelm II

A History of Savoy: Gatekeeper of the Alps

Queen Victoria and the European Empires (paperback)

The Wandering Princess: Princess Hélène of France, Duchess of Aosta (1871-1951)

Alfred: Queen Victoria’s Second Son

The End of the Habsburgs: The Decline and Fall of the Austrian Monarchy

The End of the German Monarchy: The Decline and Fall of the Hohenzollerns

Anna Amalia, Grand-Duchess: Patron of Goethe and Schiller

Kaiser Bill! A New Look at Imperial Germany's Last Emperor, Wilhelm II 1859-1941

Queen Victoria and the European Empires (hardback)

Lady Anne Clifford 1590-1676

Reflections from a Roman Lake: Trevignano Romano - A Biography of an Adoptive Home

Evelina: A Victorian Heroine in Venice

The Two Duchesses: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire

Brought Up of Nought: A History of the Woodvile Family

The Reign of King Henry VI

Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire: The Face Without a Frown

The Children of Richard III

Shakespeare’s Missing Years

St George and the Dragons: The Making of English Identity

The Earls of Essex: A Tale of Noble Misfortune

If the Kaiser Comes: Defence Against a German Invasion of Britain in the First World War

King James and the History of Homosexuality

The Life and Reign of Edward the Fourth: King of England and France and Lord of Ireland (Volume 2)

The Life and Reign of Edward the Fourth: King of England and France and Lord of Ireland (Volume 1)

Henry VI, Margaret of Anjou and the Wars of the Roses: From Contemporary Chronicles, Letters and Records

William Shakespeare, the Wars of the Roses and the Historians

Henry VIII: The Evolution of a Reputation

The Daughters of George III

Jasper: The Tudor Kingmaker

Knight Errant: Lord Craven and the Court of the Winter Queen

Edward IV: From Contemporary Chronicles, Letters & Records

A Spencer Love Affair: Eighteen Century Theatricals at Blenheim Palace

Richard III: From Contemporary Chronicles, Letters and Records

Dearest Bess: The Life and Times of Lady Elizabeth Foster

The Wandering Princess: Princess Hélène of France, Duchess of Aosta (1871-1951)

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The Wandering Princess: Princess Hélène of France, Duchess of Aosta (1871-1951)

The adventuresome life of a strong-willed princess who hunted in Africa, nursed during the First World War and travelled the world.

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The End of the German Monarchy: The Decline and Fall of the Hohenzollerns

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The End of the German Monarchy: The Decline and Fall of the Hohenzollerns

An account of the German monarchy from the years of empire to defeat in war and its hopes of restoration.

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Shakespeare’s Missing Years - available now from Fonthill Media

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Shakespeare’s Missing Years

A new work that adds significant detail to knowledge of the playwright’s early life, much of which is new and original.

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Wars and Battles of Ancient Greece

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Wars and Battles of Ancient Greece

This is the thrilling story and detailed survey of Greece’s endless battling and warring in the Mediterranean region.

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The Prussian Princesses: The Sisters of Kaiser Wilhelm II

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The Prussian Princesses: The Sisters of Kaiser Wilhelm II

The first proper biographies of the three younger sisters of Kaiser Wilhelm II, each whose lives were wrecked by tragedy.

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St George and the Dragons: The Making of English Identity

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St George and the Dragons: The Making of English Identity

How the story of St George grew and changed in England, and now as English identity changes, he is an inclusive multicultural symbol of unity and peace.

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Chitral 1895: An Episode of the Great Game - published by Fonthill Media

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Chitral 1895: An Episode of the Great Game

The story of the siege and subsequent relief of Chitral in 1895; an episode of Britain’s ‘Great Game’ with Russia.

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Women in Ancient Greece

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Women in Ancient Greece

The first book to examine the social and political effects that women – both the virtuous and scheming – had on Greece.

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The Life and Reign of Edward the Fourth: King of England and France and Lord of Ireland (Volume 2)

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The Life and Reign of Edward the Fourth: King of England and France and Lord of Ireland (Volume 2)

Edward IV, (1442-1483) was King of England from March 1461 until October 1470, and again from April 1471 until his death in April 1483. In a turbulent world, Edward Duke of York—with good title to the throne—overthrew the corrupt government of the weak and feeble-minded Henry VI, setting the foundation stones for a strong and prosperous England.

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The Life and Reign of Edward the Fourth: King of England and France and Lord of Ireland (Volume 1)

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The Life and Reign of Edward the Fourth: King of England and France and Lord of Ireland (Volume 1)

Edward IV, (1442-1483) was King of England from March 1461 until October 1470, and again from April 1471 until his death in April 1483. In a turbulent world, Edward Duke of York—with good title to the throne—overthrew the corrupt government of the weak and feeble-minded Henry VI, setting the foundation stones for a strong and prosperous England.

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Henry VIII: The Evolution of a Reputation

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Henry VIII: The Evolution of a Reputation

A richly-illustrated survey of the evolution of Henry VIII’s reputation over half a millennium.

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Texans at Antietam: A Terrible Clash of Arms, September 16-17, 1862

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Texans at Antietam: A Terrible Clash of Arms, September 16-17, 1862

Hood’s Texas Brigade soldiers and Texans who fought at the battle of Antietam (Sharpburg) give their reminiscences about the battle in newspaper articles, diaries, interviews and speeches.

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Along the Lines of Devotion The Bloodstained Field of Gettysburg on July 1, 1863 - available from America Through Time

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Along the Lines of Devotion The Bloodstained Field of Gettysburg on July 1, 1863

A comprehensive narrative describing the campaign and opening battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, June 9-July 1, 1863.

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A Man Called Plenty Horses: The Last Warrior of the Great Plains War - published by America Through Time

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A Man Called Plenty Horses: The Last Warrior of the Great Plains War

This is the story of the civil trials of Plenty Horses for the murder of the last white man to die in the Great Plains War, trials that legally and dramatically agonized over justifying criminal acts committed during warfare.

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The End of the Habsburgs: The Decline and Fall of the Austrian Monarchy

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The End of the Habsburgs: The Decline and Fall of the Austrian Monarchy

A comprehensive study of the Habsburg monarchy that witnessed the fall of empires and a post-war Europe.

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Ena and Bee: Queen Victoria’s Spanish Granddaughters

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Ena and Bee: Queen Victoria’s Spanish Granddaughters

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Ena and Bee: Queen Victoria’s Spanish Granddaughters

The Prussian Princesses: The Sisters of Kaiser Wilhelm II

A History of Savoy: Gatekeeper of the Alps

Queen Victoria and the European Empires (paperback)

The Wandering Princess: Princess Hélène of France, Duchess of Aosta (1871-1951)

Alfred: Queen Victoria’s Second Son

The End of the Habsburgs: The Decline and Fall of the Austrian Monarchy

The End of the German Monarchy: The Decline and Fall of the Hohenzollerns

Anna Amalia, Grand-Duchess: Patron of Goethe and Schiller

Kaiser Bill! A New Look at Imperial Germany's Last Emperor, Wilhelm II 1859-1941

Queen Victoria and the European Empires (hardback)

Lady Anne Clifford 1590-1676

Reflections from a Roman Lake: Trevignano Romano - A Biography of an Adoptive Home

Evelina: A Victorian Heroine in Venice

The Two Duchesses: Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire

Brought Up of Nought: A History of the Woodvile Family

The Reign of King Henry VI

Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire: The Face Without a Frown

The Children of Richard III

Shakespeare’s Missing Years

St George and the Dragons: The Making of English Identity

The Earls of Essex: A Tale of Noble Misfortune

If the Kaiser Comes: Defence Against a German Invasion of Britain in the First World War

King James and the History of Homosexuality

The Life and Reign of Edward the Fourth: King of England and France and Lord of Ireland (Volume 2)

The Life and Reign of Edward the Fourth: King of England and France and Lord of Ireland (Volume 1)

Henry VI, Margaret of Anjou and the Wars of the Roses: From Contemporary Chronicles, Letters and Records

William Shakespeare, the Wars of the Roses and the Historians

Henry VIII: The Evolution of a Reputation

The Daughters of George III

Jasper: The Tudor Kingmaker

Knight Errant: Lord Craven and the Court of the Winter Queen

Edward IV: From Contemporary Chronicles, Letters & Records

A Spencer Love Affair: Eighteen Century Theatricals at Blenheim Palace

Richard III: From Contemporary Chronicles, Letters and Records

Dearest Bess: The Life and Times of Lady Elizabeth Foster

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