books about: imperial     books:       The Light Bearer92 reviews Donna Gillespie Berkley Trade, 2006 Epic Masterpiece I'll never completely digest the fact that this is her first book! Beautiful prose, characters that spring to life and roam in your mind, surprisingly insightful details of the ancient days, plots refreshingly free of cliche, battle & gladiatorial scenes that take your breath away and bring you to the spot, as if you are watching the whole event close-up, seeing, hearing and feeling each ...             Imperial Glory7 reviews J. David Markham Greenhill Books, 2003 A Must Buy! Occasionally a new book is released that is so important to the study of the Napoleonic era that it immediately falls into the "must have" category for both Napoleonic scholars and enthusiasts. Imperial Glory is such a book. David Markham has assembled for the first time, all of the bulletins written by Napoleon between 1805 and 1812. Many of them have never been translated into English before, ...             Romanov Autumn: Stories from the Last Century of Imperial Russia (Taschen Specials)13 reviews Charlotte Zeepvat The History Press, 2000 a fascinating exploration through a complex family This book goes way beyond the normal stories of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsaritsa Alexandra Feodorovna. Charlotte Zeepvat leads us through the personalities in the Romanov family, and what part they played in imperial Russia and its downfall. Through these biographies the reader can understand the slide from a united family to the rival factions that partly brought about the Revolution and its ...             Imperial Presidency8 reviews Arthur M., Jr. Schlesinger Warner Books, 1974 Back and Improved...At Last! The year before George W. Bush took office as president I attended a professional conference where a graduate student offered a paper that posed the question whether Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.'s "Imperial Presidency" was still valid. Quite a debate ensued. Today, in the wake of the Bush Doctrine of preemptive war, and its application in Iraq, I am compelled to offer that this revised volume, ...             Star Wars Imperial Sourcebook, 2nd Edition (Star Wars RPG)7 reviews Greg Gorden West End Games, 1993 Good resource. This book is best used in conjunction with the Rebel Handbook and the Star Wars Sourcebook. Between the three of them most information is covered. (maybe this one DOESN'T cover TIE stats, but there's a nice chart in the Sourcebook that has all the different starcraft lined up.) Good flavor. Excellent illustrations, in words and in pictures. I recommend this book the the serious Star Wars fan.             The Last Grand Duchess: Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, 1 June 1882-24 November 196010 reviews Ian Vorres Key Porter Books, 2001 A book to be savored I normally race through books like a speed demon, but this was so enjoyable I read it s-l-o-w-l-y - and several times. Olga was a woman raised in the lap of luxury in the Russian court but was able and willing to work at hard physical labor on farms in Denmark and Canada for decades without apparent bitterness at what many might consider her "fall" from high status. At the very end of her life ...             Ms. Frizzle's Adventures: Imperial China (From the Creator of the Magic School Bus) (Magic School Bus, The)7 reviews JOANNA COLE Scholastic Press, 2005 Go, Ms Frizzle, go! In a perfect world, all teachers would be like Ms Frizzle--innovative, creative, fun, entertaining, challenging, and totally free-spirited! Ms Frizzle has no rules, no plan like NCLB to follow. She is free to take her students on the best learning expeditions! And such a small class! But this is not a perfect world. This is a fantasy, but what a great fantasy: "Ms Frizzle's Adventures: ...             On Thin Ice6 reviews Brian F. McNabb Imperial Swamp Press, 2005 Summer reading I had to read a book this summer and read this one. I did a book report. It has funny things in it. I liked the story about the gangs and pets best. I don't like reading but this was not boring.             Regimental Beer Steins of the Imperial German and Royal Bavarian Armies and the Imperial German Navy, 1890 to ...6 reviews R. Ron Heiligenstein R.R. Heiligenstein, 1997 A Novice Regimental Stein collector who has benefited Regimental stein collectors whether new or well versed will benefit greatly from this book. Mr. Heiligenstein has laid the information out in a logical and orderly fashion. Making it extremely easy to use. The manner at which Mr. Heiligenstein has chronologically presented the history of the regiments, and the principals involved was fantastic. The person purchasing this book will quickly be ...             The Summer Day is Done9 reviews R.T. Stevens Warner Books, 1977 30 years and no sigh of quiting I first got this book 30 years ago and I came to Amazon recently just to replace my worn out copy! I'm not into romantic novels. But I enjoy reading about the Romanovs and thought, well this will be fun. And it is. Okay it's fluff. But it's very well written fluff and you have to respect that; good writing is good writing. It takes you expertly away to another time and place. Olga Nikolaevna ...             One Thousand Shall Fall5 reviews Murray Peden Imperial War Museum, 1983 The autobiography of a Canadian pilot in Bomber Command A one-of-a-kind story of a Canadian Pilot in Bomber Command in WW2. Peden takes us through his early enlistment process, the trying time of duty in the BCATP, operational training and finally, mission by mission, through his entire tour as a pilot in first, Stirlings, and later, B-17s. His tale is honest and frank, sharing the fears, triumphs and tragedies of his time with that turbulent and ...             The Last Emperors: A Social History of Qing Imperial Institutions5 reviews Great Book For those Interested in the Manchu Monarchy I had been taught in my high school history that "Manchus conquered China on horseback but eventually they were assimilated by the Chinese, becoming more Chinese than the Chinese". After reading E.Rawski's book, I'm beginning to question what my history teachers taught me. E.Rawski's concentrated research on the Manchu royal family shows that the Manchus, particularly the elite did not lose ...             Imperial Unity And Christian Divisions: The Church from 450-680 A.D. (Church in History, Vol 2)5 reviews John Meyendorff St Vladimirs Seminary Pr, 1989 Things you never knew... Fr. John Meyendorff, professor of church history and patristics, has produced in Imperial Unity and Christian Divisions, the second volume in a series on church history published by the Seminary Press of St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, a unique and sweeping view of the early development of the Christian church, which gives insight into the nature of later Christendom, as well as new ...             The British Army in the Twentieth Century (Imperial War Museum)4 reviews Field M. Carver Not Avail, 2003 A complete work from a gifted soldier and writer. When reviewing another title about the history of the Royal Navy I said, and quite rightly so, you needed far more than 279 pages for such a long history. In this book, Michael Carver has included everything, and I do mean "everything," that happened to the British Army during the 20th Century. There are no shortcuts or brief overviews here. Michael Carver was 24 years old at the beginning of ...             The Roman Emperors: A Biographical Guide to the Rulers of Imperial Rome 31 BC-AD 4765 reviews Michael Grant Charles Scribner's Sons, 1985 A Must Have! The incomparable Michael Grant delivers again with this erudite anthology of concise yet richly rewarding bios of the rulers of Imperial Rome, from Augustus thru the end of the Western Empire. Each Imperial bio is structured roughly the same, covering family background, methodology of accession, overview of reign, a general judgment of the character of both the Emperor and his time in power, ...             Bar-Kokhba: The Rediscovery of the Legendary Hero of the Last Jewish Revolt Against Imperial Rome5 reviews Yigael Yadin Littlehampton Book Services (LBS), 1971 The Story of the 2nd Jewish Revolt "Bar-Kokhba," by the famed Israeli archaeologist Yigael Yadin is a gripping account of the search in the 1960s for the remains of the nearly forgotten Bar Kokhba revolt of AD 132-135. Bar Kokhba rebelled against Roman authoraties, and was initially successful in securing "the redemption of Israel." He was declared the Messiah by his followers, but he was eventually defeated by the Roman army ...             Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia4 reviews Benjamin Nathans University of California Press, 2002 Book Prize Winner Beyond the Pale: The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia won the 2003 Wayne S. Vucinich book prize awarded annually by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) for the most outstanding monograph in Russian, Eurasian, or East European studies in any discipline of the humanities. The book prize selection committee wrote the following about this volume: ...             The Foe Within: Fantasies of Treason And the End of Imperial Russia5 reviews William C. Fuller Cornell University Press, 2006 Interesting insights into pre-revolutionary Russia I really enjoyed this book, since I have always considered the period immediately preceding and following the Russian revolution very interesting. The author's theory is that the widely held belief that Russia was riddled with spies during World War I undermined the validity of the imperial government in the eyes of most Russians and eventually brought down the Russian government. The feeling ...             Potemkin: Catherine the Great's Imperial Partner5 reviews Simon Sebag Montefiore Vintage, 2005 Why Catherine was Great Frequently historians have chosen to focus on the more on the love affairs of Catherine the Great rather than on what she actually did to achieve greatness. After all of the things that Catherine is famous for are also things that won the Empresses Anna and Elizabeth notorious reputations. Catherine was great because she was a great ruler, not because she came to power with the aid of an army of ...             Chronicle of the Russian Tsars: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial Russia4 reviews David Warnes Thames & Hudson, 1999 One of the best Czar books ever I love this book it has so much info about the Czar.Ilove the maps time lines and charts one of the best Czar books I ever read.              search for books 450-680, adventures, alexandrovna, bar-kokhba, bavarian, biographical, catherine, christian, chronicle, creator, divisions, emperors, encounter, fantasies, highness, history, imperial, institutions, legendary, november, potemkin, presidency, rediscovery, regimental, reign-by-reign, romanov, sourcebook, specials, thousand, twentieth books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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