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    I turn to face myself and see that I am missing

    Ben Norman Davies

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    This book is an exploration; from when I first heard about the passing of my father at 16 to my Beat Generation influence throughout my 20's to my travels…

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    Europe: A History

    Norman Davies

    This bestselling masterwork chronicles the entire history of Europe, from the Ice Age to the Information Age, in one fascinating and information-packed volume. A magisterial work, sweeping in its analysis…

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    Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe

    Norman Davies

    Europe’s history is littered with kingdoms, duchies, empires and republics which have now disappeared but which were once fixtures on the map of their age. What happened to the once-great…

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    God’s Playground: A History of Poland

    Norman Davies

    The most comprehensive survey of Polish history available in English, God’s Playground demonstrates Poland’s importance in European history from medieval times to the present.

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    Europe East and West

    Norman Davies

    Spanning more than fifteen years of his remarkable career, this highly accessible collection addresses many of the issues that continue to dominate the political and cultural climate of Europe today…

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    Jailbirds and Stool Pigeons: Crime Stories of the West

    Norman Davis

    Jailbirds and Stool Pigeons is a story of human weakness. Featuring true crime stories of the Pacific Northwest from the 1880s to 1935, this book is full of flawed characters…

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    Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations

    Norman Davies

    First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin. – T.p. verso.

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    George II (Penguin Monarchs): Not Just a British Monarch

    Norman Davies

    George II, the King-Elector, was as German as he was British - as explained by one of the world’s most celebrated historians

    George II, King of Great Britain and Ireland…

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    Rising ‘44: The Battle for Warsaw

    Norman Davies

    In a brilliant narrative of one of the most dramatic episodes in twentieth-century history, Davies spotlights sixty-three days in 1944 when the Wehrmacht crushed the Polish Resistance in Warsaw, slaughtered…

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    Stonecypher’s Gold

    Norman Davis

    Private detective Wolfe Stark investigates shenanigans in North Georgia as rumors of a gold discovery drive land prices to astronomical levels. He finds romance, solves a murder, exposes a land…

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    No Simple Victory: World War II in Europe, 1939-1945

    Norman Davies

    If history really belongs to the victor, what happens when more than one side declares victory? Thats the conundrum Davies unravels in this absorbing, clear-eyed reappraisal of World War II…

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    God’s Playground: A History of Poland

    Norman Davies

    This edition of Norman Davies’s classic study of the history of Poland has been revised and fully updated with two new chapters to bring the story to the end of…

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    God’s Playground: A History of Poland

    Norman Davies

    This edition of Norman Davies’s classic study of the history of Poland has been revised and fully updated with two new chapters to bring the story to the end of…

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    The Paston Letters: A Selection in Modern Spelling

    The Pastons of Norfolk left behind them an incomparable picture of life in fifteenth-century England in the earliest great collection of family letters in English. The letters span three generations…

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    Beneath Another Sky: A Global Journey into History

    Norman Davies

    Where have the people in any particular place actually come from? What are the historical complexities in any particular place? This evocative historical journey around the world shows us.

    After…

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    White Eagle, Red Star: The Polish-Soviet War, 1919-20

    Norman Davies

    This volume gives a full account of the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-20, when the Red Army was crushed by a devasting Polish attack. The author draws on documentary material and…

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    Rising ‘44: The Battle for Warsaw

    Norman Davies

    The story of the Warsaw Rising from the the leading British authority on the history of Poland.

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    Europe: A History

    Norman Davies

    Europe - and the question of whether to stay in or leave - has dominated British politics for the last three years. Discover the most ambitious history of the continent…

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    Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century Part II

    The Paston family papers provide an incomparable picture of life in fifteenth-century England, and richly illustrate the resources of the language at an important period. This is a reissue, with…

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    Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century Part I

    The Paston family papers provide an incomparable picture of life in fifteenth-century England, and richly illustrate the resources of the language at an important period. This is a reissue, with…

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    God’s Playground: A History of Poland

    Norman Davies

    The most comprehensive survey of Polish history available in English, God’s Playground demonstrates Poland’s importance in European history from medieval times to the present.

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    A Chaucer Glossary

    Norman Davis,etc.

    This Glossary, designed as a practical aid to the reading of Chaucer, is intended to be serviceable with any of the widely read editions. Its primary aim is to explain…

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    Middle English Studies: Presented to Norman Davis in Honour of his Seventieth Brithday

    Middle English Studies Presented to Norman Davis in Honour of his Seventieth Brithday

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    Recovered Land

    Alicia Nitecki

    Part memoir, part history, this collection of essays records the author’s travels to places in Poland and Germany where she lived as a young child during World War II as…

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    Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations

    Norman Davies

    First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin. – T.p. verso.

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    Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations

    Norman Davies

    First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin. – T.p. verso.

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    Jews in Eastern Poland and the USSR, 1939-46

    This book deals with the impact on the Jews of the area of the Sovietization of Eastern Poland. Polish resentment at alleged Jewish collaboration with the Soviets between 1939 and…

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    Forgotten Holocaust, Third Edition

    Richard Lukas,Norman Davies

    Forgotten Holocaust has become a classic of World War II literature. As Norman Davies noted, Dr. Richard Lukas has rendered a valuable service, by showing that no one can properly…

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    The Sword of the Lord

    Norman D Davis

    British Colonel Patrick Ferguson and an American buckskin army had a date with destiny at Kings Mountain, North Carolina on October 7, 1780. This novel is about the men and…

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    Submaray

    Norman D Davis

    The Coast Guard and Drug Enforcement Agency had repeatedly warned the public to exercise caution when on the water that summer; boat thieves and drug runners were increasingly a problem…

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    Redcoat-bluecoat

    Norman D Davis

    Disillusioned with Cornwallis’s scorched earth policy in South Carolina, and to win the love of the passionately patriotic Media Gant DeVoe, Tory Sergeant Buck McCalister turns his coat and becomes…

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    Trail of Hope: The Anders Army, an Odyssey Across Three Continents

    Norman Davies

    In this remarkable work, renowned historian Professor Norman Davies draws from years of meticulous research to recount the compelling story of the Polish II Corps or Anders Army, and their…

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    Trail of Hope: The Anders Army, an Odyssey Across Three Continents

    Norman Davies

    In this remarkable work, renowned historian Professor Norman Davies draws from years of meticulous research to recount the compelling story of the Polish II Corps or Anders Army, and their…

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    Trail of Hope: The Anders Army, an Odyssey Across Three Continents

    Norman Davies

    In this remarkable work, renowned historian Professor Norman Davies draws from years of meticulous research to recount the compelling story of the Polish II Corps or Anders Army, and their…

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    Sweet’s Anglo-Saxon Primer

    Henry Sweet

    Sweet’s Anglo-Saxon Primer

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    From the Vikings to the Normans

    Wendy Davies

    This text discusses the period 800-1100 AD, offering an integrated treatment of the whole of the British Isles. It offers a number of challenges to accepted orthodoxies about the nature…

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    From the Vikings to the Normans

    This text discusses the period 800-1100 AD, offering an integrated treatment of the whole of the British Isles. It offers a number of challenges to accepted orthodoxies about the nature…

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    The Labyrinth of Dangerous Hours: A Memoir of the Second World War

    Lilka Trzcinska-Croydon

    As many as 150,000 Polish political prisoners were taken during the war, half of whom died in the camps. This memoir is a testament to their struggle.

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    Non-Cycle Plays and Fragments

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    Wee Davie and the Gold Thread (1903)

    Norman MacLeod

    Wee Davie And The Gold Thread is a children's book written by Norman Macleod and first published in 1903. The story follows the adventures of a young Scottish boy named…

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    Microcosm: A Portrait of a Central European City

    Norman Davies,Roger Moorehouse

    In order to present a portrait of Central Europe, the authors of this volume have made a case study of one of the most colourful cities, the former German Breslau…

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    The Book of Llandaf and the Norman Church in Wales

    John Reuben Davies

    The post-Norman ecclesiastical and political transformation of south-east Wales, recorded in early C12 manuscript.

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    England Under the Normans and Angevins, 1066-1272

    H W C Davis

    This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.

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    England Under the Normans and Angevins: 1066-1272

    H W C Davis

    An Excellent Standard History Of England Under The Norman’s And Angevins, Beginning With The Norman Conquest In 1066, And Culminating With England In Montfort’s Day. Prof. Davis Has Used The…

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    Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland’s Present

    Norman Davies (School of Slavonic and East European Studies, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London)

    The image of Poland has once again been impressed on European consciousness. Norman Davies provides a key to understanding the modern Polish crisis in this lucid and authoritative description of…

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    The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery

    Witold Pilecki

    September 1940. With calm deliberation, Polish Army officer Witold Pilecki walked into a Nazi German street roundup in Warsaw… and became Auschwitz Prisoner No. 4859.

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    Early Middle English Verse and Prose. 1155-1300

    With a glossary by: Davis, Norman;

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