Category: History

Dignity A History by Remy Debes
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Overview: The first volume dedicated solely to the history of dignity with essays from prominent scholars with humanities

Challenges existing platitudes about the history of dignity

Includes several Reflections, written by top scholars in classics, history, art, and law examining representations of dignity

Takes on Kant’s concept of dignity, Roman notions of dignitas, and Christian teachings about the doctrine of ‘imago Dei’

Part of the Oxford Philosophical Concepts series – The History of Philosophy’s Most Important Ideas
Genre: Non-Fiction > Faith, Beliefs & Philosophy

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1812: Napoleon in Moscow by Paul Britten Austin
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Overview: At the gates of Moscow, Napoleon’s Grand Army prepares to enter in triumphal procession. But what it finds is a city abandoned by its inhabitants – save only the men who emerge to fan the flames as incendiary fuses hidden throughout the empty buildings of Moscow set the city alight. For three days Moscow burned, while looters dodged the fires to plunder and pillage. And so begins 1812: Napoleon in Moscow, Paul Britten Austin’s atmospheric second volume in his acclaimed trilogy on Napoleon’s catastrophic invasion of Russia.

Drawing on eyewitness accounts this study recreates this disastrous military campaign in all its death and glory.

1812: Napoleon in Moscow follows on from the brilliant 1812: The March on Moscow, which took Napoleon’s army across Europe to the great city. Paul Britten Austin brings this next phase of the epic campaign to life with characteristic verve. Drawing on hundreds of eyewitness accounts by French and allied soldiers of Napoleon’s army, this brilliant study recreates this disastrous military campaign in all its death and glory.
Genre: Non-Fiction, History

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Uncrowned Emperor: The Life and Times of Otto von Habsburg by Gordon Brook-Shepherd
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Overview: The Austro-Hungarian Empire dominated central Europe until 1918, when the last Habsburg Emperor, Karl, fled into exile. Karl’s death in 1921 made his nine-year-old son Otto head of the Habsburg family, a position he has now held for over eighty years. Born heir presumptive to an empire that stretched from the Tyrol to Transylvania, and from Poland to Sarajevo, Otto von Habsburg’s life has both affected and been reflected in some of the most dramatic and historic events of the twentieth century. As a four year old in 1916 he walked in the funeral procession of the Emperor Franz Josef. Otto von Habsburg later became the focus of royalist loyalty, a Habsburg restoration attracting considerable political support until the Second World War. Refusing any contact with Hitler (whose code name for the Anschluss was Operation Otto), he fled first to France then America, where he formed a friendship with F.D. Roosevelt. Never living in the past, he later became a highly respected Member of the European Parliament.
Genre: Non-Fiction, History

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Portraits of Old Russia: Imagined Lives of Ordinary People, 1300-1745 by Donald Ostrowski, Marshall T. Poe
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Overview: This book introduces readers to a little-known place and time in world history – early modern Russia, from its beginnings as Muscovy, in the fourteenth century, through the reign of Peter I (1689-1725) – by portraying the lives of representative individuals from the major levels of the society of that era. The portraits, written by professional historians, are imaginative reconstructions or composites of individual lives, rather than biographies. The portraits are arranged into socio-political categories, and include members of ruling families, government servitors, clerks, military personnel, church prelates, monks, provincial landowners, townspeople and artisans, Siberian explorers and traders, free peasants, serfs, slaves and holy fools. Using these portraits, the book brings old Russian society to life in an interesting way.
Genre: Non-Fiction, History

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RHNS Averof: Thunder in the Aegean by John Carr
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Overview: Built at Livorno in 1910, the 10,000-ton RHNS Averof had the distinction of being the flagship, and by far the biggest warship, of the Royal Hellenic Navy until 1951. More than a century after its construction, she is still afloat, one of just three armoured cruisers still in existence in the world. Originally intended for the Italian navy, the ship was bought by Greece and soon saw her first action in the Balkan Wars. In the Battle of Cape Helles (3 Dec 1912) Averof inflicted heavy casualties on the Turkish fleet, following it up with a victory in the Battle of Lemnos (5 Jan 1913). In the 1920s the ship underwent a major refit in France, which included modernizing her armament by replacing her obsolete torpedo tubes with more anti-aircraft guns. When the Germans overran Greece in World War Two, Averof made a dramatic escape to Alexandria, dodging attacks by the Luftwaffe, despite Admiralty orders that she be scuttled. In 1941 she escorted a convoy to India, being the first Greek vessel to enter Indian waters since the time of Alexander the Great, and continued to serve on escort duties throughout the war. In 1945 Averof was laid up on the island of Poros and neglected until 1984 when the Greek Admiralty decided to resurrect the ship. After years of slow refitting and preservation, the ship is now moored at Phaleron on the coast of Athens as a floating naval museum. As well as giving full technical specifications and operational history, including details of her restoration, John Carr draws on first-hand accounts of the officers and men to relate the long and remarkable career of this fine ship.
Genre: Non-Fiction, History

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