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#1 In November 1380, the fifth Parliament was convened to address the crisis facing England. The French, seeing a power vacuum at the head of English government, knew they had the upper hand. England's enemies scorned the notion that the young king's government might be capable of reaching a fair and balanced settlement to the Hundred Years War.
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Book Preview: #1 The game the rest of the world knows as jai alai was invented in the French Basque town of St. Pée-sur-Nivelle. The Basques, as they often did, went in a completely different direction than the French. They were the first Europeans to use a rubber ball, and the added bounce of wrapping rubber rather than string led them to play the ball off walls.
#2 The gâteau...
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#1 The year that Napoleon was finally defeated was also the year that Otto von Bismarck was born: 1815. His childhood was heavily influenced by the stories of the struggle against the French. When Napoleon's army inflicted a humiliating defeat on Prussia in the twin battles of Jena and Auerstedt in 1806, it subjugated all Prussians to French overlordship.
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#1 The Battle of Britain, which was the British attempt to stop Hitler from taking over Europe, has become a symbol of courage and defiance against a more powerful and warlike enemy. But today, it has lost none of its luster.
#2 The Battle of Britain has come in for its share of revisionary history and debunking, though it has not been the subject of the same harsh criticism...
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#1 In August of 1961, Joachim was on vacation in the Berlin area with his best friend, Manfred. They heard the announcement that the border between East and West Berlin had been closed. It meant that the city had been split in half, and that everything would be cut off from each other.
#2 As the campsite buzzed with rumors, Joachim felt a long way from home. He and his...
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#1 The Middle East is a powder keg. It has been the scene of repeated belligerent encounters since men learned to bear arms. The first battle of recorded time took place in what is now Israel in 1469 BC.
#2 The Battle of El Alamein was not like the other battles in the desert war. It was a battle of deliberate attrition, conducted in a way that a veteran of World...
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#1 The town of St. Andrews, Scotland, owes its origins to a divine mission. In the ninth century, a Scottish king looked up and saw St. Andrew's diagonal cross in the sky above, and took it as a sign to march outnumbered against the Angles.
#2 I was wondering which one was supposed to move first: the ball or the club. Something terrifying and miraculous can happen over...
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#1 On May 9, 1940, Hitler had a meeting at his headquarters in Berlin to discuss the upcoming campaign against France and Britain. The meeting was supposed to last a month but did not last a day longer.
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#1 The Scottish Reformation was the work of one man, John Knox, and he was able to turn the Scots into God's chosen people and turn Scotland into the New Jerusalem. He imposed the Calvinist Sabbath on Scottish society, and banned all traditional forms of collective fun.
#2 The Kirk, which was the main church in Scotland, turned its back on secular values and embraced God alone. It...
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#1 The past is a collection of fragments that cannot be pieced together to form a coherent sequence. But through the accumulation of these fragments, it is now possible to furnish the set on which the lost drama was performed.
#2 The First Kingdom is a chronicle of how Anglo-Saxon kings were chosen by God to bring about a single, universal church and people. It is difficult...
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#1 I was able to interview the commanding officer of the Intelligence and Reconnaissance platoon, Lyle Bouck Jr. He was a true American officer and gentleman, and he handed over years of careful documentation and press clippings.
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#1 The cockerels began their morning chorus and people began to wake up. The vast majority of people lived a rural life and kept their own chickens and pigs in the yard out the back. Cattle and sheep grazed on town commons.
#2 Tudor beds were usually made of straw, and people would sleep on them in their clothes if they had to. They were not very comfortable, and they...
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#1 The Battle of the Bulge was the last large German offensive of World War II, and the German Reich was already finished. But General George S. Patton wrote a remark in his war diary on January 4, 1945, that the war could still be lost.
#2 The Nazi atom bomb is the hidden logic behind the operational plans of both sides late in the war, and it is very likely the hidden...
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#1 King Henry II was a man who made an impression. He was physically not much to look at, but his character made him unforgettable. He had near-boundless energy. He was able to spend almost his whole life moving about his lands, and he enjoyed the fact that his physical exertions prevented him from getting fat.
#2 Henry II's reign in England was marked by his love of...
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Book Preview: #1 Elizabeth's birth was greeted with indifference by the unruly Protestant population of Scotland. The Scottish aristocracy was hopelessly, almost comically fractured by geography, ancestry, religion, and politics.
#2 The infant Elizabeth was sent to Linlithgow Palace, about fifteen miles west of Edinburgh, to be raised by guardians. She had a governess and two...
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Book Preview: #1 I wanted to see the Northern Lights, and I had long harbored a half-formed desire to live what life was like in a remote and forbidding place. But now as I picked my way through the grey, late-December slush of Oslo, I was beginning to have my doubts.
#2 In 1972, I went to Europe for the first time. I flew from New York to Luxembourg, with a refuelling stop en route...
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#1 The archaeologist John Pendlebury was one of the members of MI(R) sent to Greece and Albania in 1940. He was a romantic who had been interested in Greece since his time as curator at Knossos in the mid-1930s.
#2 During the summer of 1940, Britain prepared for invasion, as the first skirmishes took place in the Western Desert. The Greek dictator, General Ioannis Metaxas,...
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#1 When Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, feverish diplomatic efforts were engaged to obviate the treaty obligations that would force Britain and France to come to her defense. The French had increased their already large army to about 2. 5 million men. They pushed past their own Maginot Line in eastern France and moved cautiously a few kilometers into Germany,...
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#1 I have been mudlarking for years, searching for treasure in the Thames near London Bridge. I am obsessed with the river's ebb and flow, and I know where the river allows me access early and where I can stay for the longest time before I am gently but firmly shooed away.
#2 I have been studying the tide tables for so long that they have become second nature. I never...
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#1 Death was never far from the mind of Colonel Rudolph-Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, as he was constantly on the run from the Gestapo. He had tried to kill Hitler on March 21, 1943, and was now en route to a meeting at Army Group B Headquarters.
#2 Colonel Rudolph von Gersdorff was a conspirator against Hitler. He was born in 1905 in the town of Lubin, Silesia....
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