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The Glass Bathyscaphe

How Glass Changed the World

by Gerry Martin, Alan MacFarlane ...

A narrative history of glass from discovery, through antiquity, the Enlightenment, the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions to the present. It charts the history of the technology but also the enabling effects of glass on such aspects of civilization as experimental science, perspective, astronomy, zoology and all manner of scientific instrumentation - plus the central role of window-glass ... Read more

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A narrative history of glass from discovery, through antiquity, the Enlightenment, the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions to the present. It charts the history of the technology but also the enabling effects of glass on such aspects of civilization as experimental science, perspective, astronomy, zoology and all manner of scientific instrumentation - plus the central role of window-glass
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The First Crusade: Battle For The Holy City

by Gerry Hartwell ...

Narrated by Martin Sherrill ...

Unabridged

5 hours 38 min

In 1095, a sermon outside Clermont sent thousands of warriors, nobles, peasants, clergy, and fortune-seekers toward a city most of them had never seen. What began as a call to defend eastern Christians became a brutal march across continents, kingdoms, deserts, and battlefields.The First Crusade was not a simple clash of faiths. It was shaped by papal ambition, Byzantine desperation, Islamic ... Read more

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In 1095, a sermon outside Clermont sent thousands of warriors, nobles, peasants, clergy, and fortune-seekers toward a city most of them had never seen. What began as a call to defend eastern Christians became a brutal march across continents, kingdoms, deserts, and battlefields.The First Crusade was not a simple clash of faiths. It was shaped by papal ambition, Byzantine desperation, Islamic
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The Third Crusade: The Lionheart And The Sultan

by Gerry Hartwell ...

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Unabridged

5 hours 30 min

Jerusalem fell after Saladin united Egypt and Syria, destroyed the Christian army at Hattin, and swept through a kingdom already weakened by succession disputes and reckless leadership. The loss shocked Europe into assembling the largest royal response the crusading movement had yet produced.Three rulers took the cross, but one drowned before reaching the battlefield and another returned home amid ... Read more

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Jerusalem fell after Saladin united Egypt and Syria, destroyed the Christian army at Hattin, and swept through a kingdom already weakened by succession disputes and reckless leadership. The loss shocked Europe into assembling the largest royal response the crusading movement had yet produced.Three rulers took the cross, but one drowned before reaching the battlefield and another returned home amid
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The Eighth And Ninth Crusades: The Final Campaigns

by Gerry Hartwell ...

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4 hours 48 min

By the late thirteenth century, the crusading dream was no longer marching toward triumph. Jerusalem was gone, the Latin East had shrunk to a few desperate coastal strongholds, and the great armies of Europe were now trying to rescue a cause that had already begun to collapse beneath its own history.Louis IX of France carried the old ideal with saintly conviction, but piety could not fix bad ... Read more

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By the late thirteenth century, the crusading dream was no longer marching toward triumph. Jerusalem was gone, the Latin East had shrunk to a few desperate coastal strongholds, and the great armies of Europe were now trying to rescue a cause that had already begun to collapse beneath its own history.Louis IX of France carried the old ideal with saintly conviction, but piety could not fix bad
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The Second Crusade: Fall Of A Sacred Dream

by Gerry Hartwell ...

Narrated by Martin Sherrill ...

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5 hours 17 min

When Edessa fell in 1144, the shock ran through Latin Christendom like a warning bell from the edge of the world. The Crusader States, born in blood and miracle after the First Crusade, suddenly looked mortal.A pope gave the call, Bernard of Clairvaux gave it fire, and two kings—Louis VII of France and Conrad III of Germany—took the cross before crowds convinced that heaven itself had opened the ... Read more

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When Edessa fell in 1144, the shock ran through Latin Christendom like a warning bell from the edge of the world. The Crusader States, born in blood and miracle after the First Crusade, suddenly looked mortal.A pope gave the call, Bernard of Clairvaux gave it fire, and two kings—Louis VII of France and Conrad III of Germany—took the cross before crowds convinced that heaven itself had opened the
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The Fourth Crusade: The Bargain That Broke An Empire

by Gerry Hartwell ...

Narrated by Martin Sherrill ...

Unabridged

5 hours 46 min

The army was raised to recover Jerusalem, but before it could sail, an ambitious contract placed its fate in the hands of Venice. When fewer crusaders arrived than expected, the survivors inherited an enormous debt and discovered that the ships built for their holy mission would not move until someone paid.The first compromise sent them against a Christian city on the Adriatic. The next drew them ... Read more

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The army was raised to recover Jerusalem, but before it could sail, an ambitious contract placed its fate in the hands of Venice. When fewer crusaders arrived than expected, the survivors inherited an enormous debt and discovered that the ships built for their holy mission would not move until someone paid.The first compromise sent them against a Christian city on the Adriatic. The next drew them
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The Seventh Crusade: The King In Chains

by Gerry Hartwell ...

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5 hours 11 min

Louis IX of France did not stumble into crusade with loose promises and borrowed enthusiasm. He prepared like a king who believed heaven itself had placed the burden on his shoulders, gathering ships, money, supplies, nobles, and years of planning for one great strike at the heart of Muslim power.The target was Egypt, the same prize that had broken an earlier crusade and still held the key to ... Read more

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Louis IX of France did not stumble into crusade with loose promises and borrowed enthusiasm. He prepared like a king who believed heaven itself had placed the burden on his shoulders, gathering ships, money, supplies, nobles, and years of planning for one great strike at the heart of Muslim power.The target was Egypt, the same prize that had broken an earlier crusade and still held the key to
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The Sixth Crusade: The Power Of Diplomacy

by Gerry Hartwell ...

Narrated by Martin Sherrill ...

Unabridged

4 hours 25 min

Jerusalem had been lost for more than forty years, and armies had failed again and again to win it back. Then Frederick II, excommunicated by the pope and distrusted by nearly everyone, sailed east with a weapon the crusading world barely knew how to respect: negotiation.He was no ordinary crusader king. Raised in the strange, multilingual world of Sicily, surrounded by Latin, Greek, Arabic, ... Read more

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Jerusalem had been lost for more than forty years, and armies had failed again and again to win it back. Then Frederick II, excommunicated by the pope and distrusted by nearly everyone, sailed east with a weapon the crusading world barely knew how to respect: negotiation.He was no ordinary crusader king. Raised in the strange, multilingual world of Sicily, surrounded by Latin, Greek, Arabic,
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The Fifth Crusade: The Offer Refused

by Gerry Hartwell ...

Narrated by Martin Sherrill ...

Unabridged

7 hours 44 min

The crusaders had spent years assembling money, ships, soldiers, and papal authority for an assault designed to break Muslim power at its source. After an eighteen-month siege, they captured Damietta and stood closer to recovering Jerusalem than any Christian army had in decades.Then Sultan al-Kamil made an astonishing proposal. He offered Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Nazareth, other sacred sites, and ... Read more

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The crusaders had spent years assembling money, ships, soldiers, and papal authority for an assault designed to break Muslim power at its source. After an eighteen-month siege, they captured Damietta and stood closer to recovering Jerusalem than any Christian army had in decades.Then Sultan al-Kamil made an astonishing proposal. He offered Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Nazareth, other sacred sites, and
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The Forgotten Crusades: The Holy Wars That Shaped Medieval Europe

by Gerry Hartwell ...

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Unabridged

6 hours 24 min

The crusading age was never only a march to Jerusalem. While kings and knights fought for the Holy Land, other holy wars burned across Europe itself, aimed at pagans, heretics, rival rulers, and entire communities marked as enemies of Christendom.These campaigns reveal a darker and more complicated crusading world than the familiar stories of Richard, Saladin, and the walls of Acre. The same ... Read more

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The crusading age was never only a march to Jerusalem. While kings and knights fought for the Holy Land, other holy wars burned across Europe itself, aimed at pagans, heretics, rival rulers, and entire communities marked as enemies of Christendom.These campaigns reveal a darker and more complicated crusading world than the familiar stories of Richard, Saladin, and the walls of Acre. The same
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French Foreign Legion 1831–71

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Concluding his bestselling series on the French Foreign Legion, Martin Windrow explores the formation and development of the Legion during its 'first generation'.Raised in 1831, the Legion's formative years would see it fight continuous and savage campaigns in Algeria, aid the Spanish government in the Carlist War, join the British in the Crimean campaign and fight alongside the Swiss in the ... Read more

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Concluding his bestselling series on the French Foreign Legion, Martin Windrow explores the formation and development of the Legion during its 'first generation'.Raised in 1831, the Legion's formative years would see it fight continuous and savage campaigns in Algeria, aid the Spanish government in the Carlist War, join the British in the Crimean campaign and fight alongside the Swiss in the
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Waterloo Battlefield Guide

by David Buttery ...

Much of the material available to readers in the English language interested in the exploits of the troops of Hanover, Brunswick and Nassau is in the form of dry official reports, which stick to the basic facts and avoid all sentimentality and emotion. However, unbeknown to virtually anyone in the English-speaking world interested in the more human aspects of these 'foreign' troops fighting ... Read more

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Much of the material available to readers in the English language interested in the exploits of the troops of Hanover, Brunswick and Nassau is in the form of dry official reports, which stick to the basic facts and avoid all sentimentality and emotion. However, unbeknown to virtually anyone in the English-speaking world interested in the more human aspects of these 'foreign' troops fighting
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