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  • Miracula

    Weird and Wonderful Stories of Ancient Greece and Rome

    by Paul Chrystal ...
    Both humorous and shocking, Miracula is filled with astonishing facts and stories drawn from ancient Greece and Rome that have rarely been retold in English. It explores ‘the incredible’ as presented by little-known classical writers like Callimachus and Phlegon of Tralles. However, it offers much more: familiar authors such as Herodotus and Cicero often couldn’t resist relating sensational, ... Read more

    $22.59 USD

  • The Seaforth Highlanders

    Aiding the King, 1881-1961

    by Paul Chrystal ...
    Formed in 1881 through the amalgamation of two line infantry regiments, 72nd Regiment and 78th (Highland) Regiment, the Seaforth Highlanders fought in various late colonial wars in Africa (invasion of Egypt, Mahdist War, 2nd Boer War) and India (Hazara Campaigns and Chitral Expedition, Northwest Frontier) as well as serving in the Far East.In the First World War its battalions saw service in the ... Read more

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  • The Romans

    A People’s History

    by Paul Chrystal ...
    The Romans loom large in the imagination, credited with roads, aqueducts, politics, plumbing and empire – yet these familiar achievements tell only part of the story. The Romans: A People’s History turns away from generals and emperors to focus instead on the millions of ordinary men and women whose voices rarely made it into history. Drawing on inscriptions, literature, household objects, mosaics ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

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  • Rome: Republic into Empire

    The Civil Wars of the First Century BCE

    by Paul Chrystal ...
    "A fast-paced narrative history of the dying years of the Republic, and one grounded in the characters, events, and voices of the period." — Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewRome: Republic into Empire looks at the political and social reasons why Rome repeatedly descended into civil war in the early 1st century BCE and why these conflicts continued for most of the century; it describes and examines the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Factory Girls

    The Working Lives of Women & Children

    by Paul Chrystal ...
    Ever since there have been factories women and children have, more often than not, worked in those factories. What is perhaps less well known is that women also worked underground in coal mines and overground scaling the inside of chimneys. Young children were also put to work in factories and coalmines; they were deployed inside chimneys, often half-starved so that they could shin up ever ... Read more

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  • Emperors of Rome: The Monsters

    From Tiberius to Theodora, AD 14–548

    by Paul Chrystal ...
    Series series History of Terror
    As with everything else, there were good and bad Roman emperors. The good, like Trajan (98117), Hadrian (117138), Antoninus Pius (138161) and Marcus Aurelius (161180) were largely civilized and civilizing. The bad, on the other hand, were sometimes nothing less than monsters, exhibiting varying degrees of corruption, cruelty, depravity and insanity. It is a sobering thought that these ogres were ... Read more

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  • Women at War in the Classical World

    by Paul Chrystal ...
    A look at how warfare affected—and was affected by—women in ancient times.Although the conduct of war was generally monopolized by men in the Greco-Roman world, there were plenty of exceptions, with women directly involved in its direction and even as combatants—Artemisia, Olympias, Cleopatra, and Agrippina the Elder being famous examples. And both Greeks and Romans encountered women among their ... Read more

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  • The History of Sweets

    by Paul Chrystal ...
    A chronicle of confectionaries throughout the centuries—from honeycombs to Haribo . "There is much to get your teeth into within these pages." — Best of British MagazineWe all remember sweets—objects of pure delight and the endless cause of squabbles, fights even, hoarding and swapping; a chance to gorge, suck, crunch, and chew. But they're by no means just a nostalgic thing of days past, and it ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bridgerton Revisited

    Women, Fashion & Society in the Regency Period

    by Paul Chrystal ...
    Regency England takes center stage, tracing aristocratic manners and lavish fashion, then exposing poverty, abuse, and exploitation.Bridgerton Revisited is the first book to place the hugely successful Netflix production Bridgerton in its historical context, the Regency Period of English history which ran from around 17295 until 1837.This eagerly anticipated book is in three parts: Part One ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

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  • Bioterrorism & Biological Warfare

    Disease as a Weapon of War

    by Paul Chrystal ...
    A timely examination of the use of disease and germs as a weapon of mass destruction (WMD) and the threat bioterrorism poses in an increasingly unpredictable and volatile future. This important, disturbing and timely book focuses on on the use of disease and germs as a weapon of mass destruction (WMD) and the threat bioterrorism poses in an increasingly unpredictable and volatile future for the ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • War in Roman Myth and Legend

    by Paul Chrystal ...
    An enlightening look at the importance of war gods and their myths to the ancient Romans.This book redresses the relative lack of work published on the role of war in classical myth and legend. At the same time it debunks the popular view that the Romans had little mythology of their own and idly borrowed and adapted Greek myth to suit their own ends. While this is true to some extent, War in ... Read more

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  • World-Changing Women

    150 Women who Rewrote the Histories of Ancient Egypt, Israel, Greece and Rome

    by Paul Chrystal ...
    Highlights 150 influential women from pre-classical civilizations, ancient Egypt, and Israel, reshaping history by defying patriarchal norms.Countless books have been written about prominent women in Greece and Rome, so we know all about Medea, Sappho, Lucretia, Boudica and Cleopatra and their significant actions and achievements. This book extends the invaluable story of women in early history to ... Read more

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