I Wish I'd Been There by Byron Hollinshead
'What is the moment in history that you would like to have witnessed and why?' This is the thought-provoking question that Theodore Rabb and Byron Hollinshead posed to twenty of our finest historians. Their answers can be found in this fascinating and thoroughly readable book, which trains a lens on crucial moments of our past and brings them to vivid life. 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.
Byron Hollinshead is president of American Historical Publications. Previously, he was president of American Heritage Publishing Company and Oxford University Press, Inc., and was publisher of MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History. He is the co-author of the book I Wish I'd Been There. Theodore Rabb is Professor of Renaissance and Early Modern History at Princeton University and the author of many acclaimed works of history. He is the editor of I Wish I'd Been There: Twenty Great Moments in History by Twenty Great Historians with Byron Hollinshead.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780230528017 |
| ISBN 10 | 0230528015 |
| Title | I Wish I'd Been There |
| Author | Byron Hollinshead |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2008-03-21 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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