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Rites of peace
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Adam Zamoyski |
Traces the epic events following Napoleon's exile in 1814 and the subsequent Treaty of Paris, examining how the eight-month Viennese carnival brought thousands of aristocrats to the Austrian capital … |
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The age of deception
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Mohamed El Baradei |
For the first time, the director of the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency and "man in the middle" of the planet's most explosive confrontations speaks out--on his dealings with America, negotia… |
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Amarna diplomacy
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Cohen, Raymond,Raymond Westbrook |
"In 1887, a peasant woman stumbled across a 3,000-year-old trove of cuneiform tablets in the ruins at Amarna, in Upper Egypt. The find, mostly letters from foreign kings to the Egyptian court, was pa… |
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Les jours sombres
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Fey Von Hassell |
L'histoire de cette Allemande, fille d'un ambassadeur en Italie, militant anti-naziste exécuté pour avoir comploté l'assassinat d'Hitler. A la mort de celui-ci, elle fut arrêtée, déportée au camp de … |
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Envoy to the Terror
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Melanie Randolph Miller |
The story of Gouverneur Morris, the brilliant and unconventional Founding Father from New York, is a forgotten jewel in the crown of early American national history. Although he was an important cont… |
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