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Contributors include Tom Holland, John Elliott, John Julius Norwich, Margaret MacMillan and John Keegan and with these - and other - peerless scholars as their guides, readers will be transported to the death of Alexander the Great, Christmas 800CE when Charlemagne was crowned Holy Roman Emperor, Hannibal's legendary crossing of the Alps, Runnymede where King John was forced to sign Magna Carta, the Spanish Armada, the Battle of the Nile, Paris 1919, the German surrender in 1945 and the end of the First Gulf War.Imaginatively executed and vividly written, the result is a pageant of character and event that will attract and delight readers of history.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49591951425809,"sku":"GOR002727402","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49593551814929,"sku":"GOR012909739","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0230528015.jpg?v=1751438764"},{"product_id":"i-wish-i-d-been-there-book-byron-hollinshead-9780330451581","title":"I Wish I'd Been There","description":"Twenty of our finest historians recreate key moments in European history and imagine what it would have been like to witness them first-hand","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49611078664465,"sku":"GOR003674296","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51463044497681,"sku":"GOR012536474","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0330451588.jpg?v=1751454177"},{"product_id":"i-wish-i-d-been-there-r-book-byron-hollinshead-9780307277640","title":"I Wish I'd Been There (R)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat is the scene or incident in European history that you would like to have witnessed-and why?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith lively and detailed accounts of some of the most dramatic events in history, some of our finest historical writers now turn their attention to Europe in this companion volume to \u003ci\u003eI Wish I'd Been There: Twenty Historians Bring to Life the Dramatic Events that Changed America. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGuided by peerless scholars such as Paul Kennedy, John Keegan, Ross King, Freeman Dyson, and Katherine Duncan-Jones, readers will be transported to the signing of Magna Carta, the Versailles Conference, the German surrender in WI on Luneburg Heath, and other key turning points in the drama of European history. 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