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Baker & TaylorChronicles the fascinating life and travels of the English adventurer, writer, linguist, secret agent, crusader, and romantic hero
"The folk memory of Britain in the years before the Great War is of a powerful, contented, orderly and thriving country. She commanded a vast empire. She bestrode international commerce. Her citizens were living longer, profiting from civil...
Baker & TaylorA lucid account of the epic story of the Ottoman empire, from its origins in the thirteenth century through its destruction on the battlefields of World War I, takes readers into the one of the largest and most influential empires in...
Grand Central PubThe thrilling and definitive history of World War I in the Middle East By 1914 the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and they pulled the Middle East along with them into one of the most destructive conflicts in...
When Tom, a young chimney sweep, falls into a river and drowns, he is transformed from a twelve-year-old boy who has known nothing but brutality and poverty into a 'water-baby'. In an underwater world surrounded by fairies, insects and water...