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Who Was King Edward the Confessor?

England's Penultimate Saxon Ruler
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French Revolution, the origins of political order and a bit of fiction
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1066: The Year Anglo-Saxon England Fell (#2)
The year of the Three Battles
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1066: The Year Anglo-Saxon England Fell(#1)
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The Coup of Napoleon Bonaparte Explained
The ingredients and logic behind an extra-legal power grab
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Forging the Revolution: The People of Paris and the Politics of 1789–1795 (#2)
Civil war, the Reign of Terror and the Thermidorean Reaction
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Forging the Revolution: The People of Paris and the Politics of 1789–1795 (#1)
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