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Protestantism and restore Catholicism happened when millions of British exploration of the differences impartial account of the rise, fall and in mid-sixteenth-century England, servicemen returned home after the “a compelling narrative packed with between the brain’s left and right rebirth of Croatia from its medieval written by a leading authority on the war. Drawing on their personal anecdote, strange characters and all hemispheres, and their effect on origins to today’s tentative peace. history of Christianity. letters and diaries, and on manner of weird and wonderful society, history and culture. Marcus Tanner describes the turbulence newspapers, reports, novels and details about Georgian home life.” “Fires of Faith is a dazzling exercise “a giant in his field shows convincingly and drama of Croatia’s past and— films, Alan Allport illuminates the —Dan Cruickshank, Country Life in historical reappraisal, after which that the degeneracy of the West springs drawing on his own experience and darker side of the homecoming “Few academic historians manage to the reign of Mary Tudor will never from our failure to manage the binary interviews with many of the leading experience for veterans, their families be so funny without compromising look quite the same again.”—Peter division of our brains.” figures in Croatia’s conflict—explains and British society at large. the seriousness of their work. She did Marshall, Times Literary Supplement —David Cox, Evening Standard its violent history since Tito’s death in “A highly impressive debut, it 10 years ago in The Gentleman’s “Duffy makes a convincing and “This is a very remarkable book… 1980. This third edition updates the demonstrating great scholarship and Daughter and she has done it again strongly argued case for a McGilchrist…looks at the relation account and follows Croatia’s progress. an ability to balance the humane here. It was worth the wait.”— reexamination of the burnings… between our two brain-hemispheres “Readable and stimulating…Long- detail of fractured lives with a wider Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian [A] scrupulous and searching book.” …not just as an interesting overdue corrective to the onesidedly perspective of the political and “We see the Georgians at home as —Diane Purkiss, The Independent neurological problem but as a negative view long entertained about social context…certainly the most we have never seen them before in crucial shaping factor in our culture Croatia by the educated British “Marred as they are by the executions insightful text on the 1940s to have this ground-breaking book…both …splendidly thought-provoking… public.”—Times Higher Education by burning, the reforming instincts appeared this year.”—Ian Cawood, scholarly and terrifically good fun.” I couldn’t put it down.” of Mary’s abbreviated reign can now, Times Literary Supplement “[Tanner] bring[s] to bear wide —Frances Wilson, The Sunday Times thanks to Professor Duffy’s brilliant —Mary Midgley, The Guardian knowledge of Yugoslavia and… “Allport’s wonderfully insightful “Vickery is that rare thing an mastery of the details be, if not “A beautifully written, erudite, experience of Europe’s worst war study asks us to rethink the academic historian who writes like a forgiven, at least understood.”— fascinating and adventurous book. It since 1945. [He] gives a good conventional chronology…It is not novelist…an enthralling slice of Christopher Howse, goes from the microstructure of the historical survey and an account of only refreshingly free of jargon but domestic history.”—Jane Shilling, The Daily Telegraph brain to great epochs of Western the war’s causes.”—The Economist remarkably moving. If all academic The Daily Mail civilisation, confidently and readably. “A fascinating piece of revisionist history were written this way, “a much-needed introduction to One turns its five hundred pages…as history.”—The Sunday Times popular historians would be out of this southern Slavic country, whose if it were an adventure story.” a job.”—Dominic Sandbrook, past and present defy simple —A. C. 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Michael Hunter offers the story of maverick doctor Thomas and sheer force of will electrified at the devastating conclusion that programme and controversial role in a complete and intimate account of Beddoes and his brilliant circle of those around her and struck terror nearly 390,000 troops died in vain. the Middle East—but there is much the extraordinary Boyle—a pioneer colleagues, whose radical experiments into the hearts of the English soldiers “This is a detailed account, with more to the story of this ancient land of the modern experimental method, in the late eighteenth century— and leaders. excellent photos, of a failed military than can be gleaned from the news. the champion of a novel mechanical fuelled by their discovery of the “An utterly convincing portrait. expedition that took the lives of This authoritative and comprehensive view of nature, and a penetrating unexpected effects of inhaling [Taylor’s] Joan is still a saint and a 46,000 Allied soldiers and left history of Iran, written by Homa thinker regarding philosophical and nitrous oxide—influenced modern heroine but much more down to another 86,000 wounded.” Katouzian, an acclaimed expert, covers theological issues related to science. drug culture, the development of earth than might be expected: a —Fergus Mulligan, Irish Times the entire history of the area from the “A comprehensive account of Boyle’s anaesthetic surgery, the birth of the woman of action, courageous and foundation of the ancient Persian “a near-definitive analysis of the life that incorporates all the latest romantic movement and more. resourceful.”—Michael Kerrigan, empire to today’s Iranian state. campaign…It is military history of research…Hunter meticulously “Fascinating, exciting, entertaining The Scotsman the highest order.”—Mark Lasswell, “Maybe the broadest and best investigates every scrap of evidence.” …Jay’s description of the wild highs “The Joan that emerges…is no Wall Street Journal overview available in English of a —Patricia Fara, induced by nitrous oxide is a tour cardboard saint or patriotic country which we need urgently to BBC History Magazine “Prior has consulted the archives to de force, and so is his account of figurehead but a living, breathing understand better.