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History

Caught in the Revolution
Helen Rappaport

Pax Romana
Adrian Goldsworthy

Four Princes
John Julius Norwich

HB $59.99
Caught in the Revolution is Helen
Rappaport's masterful telling of the
outbreak of the Russian Revolution
through the eye-witness accounts of
foreign nationals who saw the drama
unfold. Among this disparate group
were journalists, businessmen,
bankers, governesses, volunteer
nurses and expatriate socialites. Helen
draws upon this rich trove of material
to carry us right up to the action—to
see, feel and hear the Revolution as it
happened.

HB $55.00
Acclaimed historian Adrian
Goldsworthy tells the story of the
creation of the Roman Empire in this
ground-breaking and comprehensive
history of the Roman Peace. Pax
Romana takes the reader on a journey
from the bloody conquests of an
aggressive Republic through the age
of Caesar and Augustus to the golden
age of peace and prosperity under
diligent emperors like Marcus Aurelius,
offering a balanced reappraisal of life
in the Roman Empire.

PB $32.99
Four great princes—Henry VIII of
England, Francis I of France, Charles V
of Spain and Suleiman the
Magnificent—were born within a
single decade. Each looms large in his
country's history and, in this book,
John Julius Norwich broadens the
scope and shows how, against the rich
background of the Renaissance and
destruction of the Reformation, their
wary obsession with one another laid
the foundations for modern Europe.

Victory at Villers-Bretonneux
Peter FitzSimons

Victoria the Queen

Passchendaele
Paul Ham

HB $49.99
In his trademark blend of vibrant
storytelling and dedicated research,
best-selling author Peter FitzSimons
has now turned his eye on the
Australian victory at VillersBretonneux. During April of 1918,
Australian soldiers are sent to hold off
the Germans at Villers-Bretonneux.
And not for nothing does the primary
school at Villers-Bretonneux have
above every blackboard, to this day,
'N’oublions jamais, l’Australie.' Never
forget Australia.

Julia Baird
HB $49.99
When Alexandrina Victoria was
crowned Queen in 1837, she was 18
years old and barely five feet tall. By
the time of her Diamond Jubilee
Procession in 1897, she reigned over a
fourth of the inhabitable part of the
world, had 400 million subjects, and
had given birth to nine children.
Suffrage, anti-poverty and anti-slavery
movements can all be traced to her
monumental reign. Victoria is truly the
woman who made the modern world.

HB $45.00
Passchendaele tells the story of
ordinary men in the grip of a political
and military power struggle that
determined their fate and has
foreshadowed the destiny of the
world for a century. It lays down a
powerful challenge to the idea of war
as an inevitable expression of human
will, and examines the culpability of
governments and military
commanders in a catastrophe that
destroyed the best part of a
generation.