Edition: 1st Schocken edition
Publication date: 1995-05-31
Dewey code: 834.912
RRP: £16.00
Price: £5.81
Review Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writing / Random House USA Inc:
Publication date: 2008-12-05
RRP: £60.00
Price: £36.25
Review Macmillan: The Official Biography / Macmillan:
Authors
- Judson Rosengrant
- Edvard Radzinsky
Publication date: 2000-12-31
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.70
Review Rasputin: The Last Word / Phoenix:
Publication date: 2007-02-01
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.40
Review Men That God Made Mad: A Journey Through Truth, Myth and Terror in Northern Ireland / Vintage:
Publication date: 2004-07-19
Dewey code: 940
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.15
Review Les Grandes Horizontales / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC:
Publication date: 2006-07-03
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.99
Review The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett / HarperPerennial:
Publication date: 2008-07-03
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.88
Review King's Mistress, Queen's Servant: Henrietta Howard / Pimlico:
Creator: John Yardley
Edition: Reprint
Publication date: 2005-04-28
Dewey code: 938.07
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.09
Review The History of Alexander (Classics) / Penguin Classics:
Publication date: 2008-09-27
RRP: £8.99
Price: £5.60
Review The Tangled Web: A Life of Sir Richard Burton / Matador:
Publication date: 2005-06-09
Dewey code: 941.0858092
RRP: £17.99
Price: £8.49
Review Porridge and Passion: An Autobiography / Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.:
Publication date: 2008-07-24
Dewey code: 355.354092
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.04
Review Sir John Hawkwood: Chivalry and the Art of War / Pen & Sword Military:
Creator: Martin Gilbert
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1996-04-15
Dewey code: 909
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.85
Review Inherit the Truth 1939-1945: The Documented Experiences of a Survivor of Auschwitz and Belsen / Giles de la Mare Publishers:
Publication date: 1991-01-01
Dewey code: 973.9230924
Price: £32.54
Review The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power (Years of Lyndon Johnson) / Alfred A Knopf:
Publication date: 2008-06-16
RRP: £25.00
Price: £4.90
Review Madame De Maintenon: The Secret Wife of Louis XIV / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC:
Edition: New edition
Publication date: 2001-09-03
Dewey code: 418
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.59
Review The Keys of Egypt: The Race to Read the Hieroglyphs / HarperCollins Publishers Ltd:Jean-François Champollion's biography is neatly interwoven with Napoleonic history and the functions of Egyptian hieroglyphs in The Keys of Egypt. A gifted bookseller's son born in Revolutionary France, Champollion was to become "gripped by energetic enthusiasm" for Egypt. By the age of 12, he was studying several ancient languages and amid a "wave of Egyptomania", he would beat rivals to discover the key to deciphering hieroglyphs. If this was a race, it was a marathon. The breakthrough came after "20 years of obsessive hard work", not through the quick fix solution often thought to have been provided by the Rosetta Stone. The Keys of Egypt details Champollion's life and work, which was hampered by politics, poverty and an almost hypochondriacal series of health problems. Its sources include letters and journals, the authors having undertaken researches in major libraries and museums. Chapters on Champollion's travels in Italy and Egypt include a good smattering of excerpts from his writings. Although no bibliography is given, there is a helpful passage on various levels of further reading. Highly instructive and fast-paced, The Keys of Egypt is perhaps less dramatic than it might be in portraying troubled times and ground-breaking discovery. [+]It is, however, a clearly expressed and wide-ranging book explaining the complexity of hieroglyphic interpretation and revealing the man whose achievements "meant the discovery of a whole new civilization". -Karen Tiley.
Publication date: 2008-08-01
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £12.99
Price: £10.19
Review Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero / Yale University Press:
Edition: New Ed
Publication date: 2008-07-04
Dewey code: 920
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.50
Review Joan of Arc: Maid, Myth and History / The History Press Ltd:
Creator: Patrick Leigh Fermor
Edition: First Edition
Publication date: 2007-05-10
Dewey code: 949.5907092
RRP: £25.00
Price: £5.23
Review The Rash Adventurer: A Life of John Pendlebury / Libri Publications Ltd:
Publication date: 2005-03-13
Dewey code: 973.099
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.99
Review The New Book of US Presidents / Perseus Books,U.S.:
Publication date: 2008-09-02
Dewey code: 941
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.52
Review Cromwell: An Honourable Enemy / Brandon / Mount Eagle Publications Ltd:
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