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Where “History Was Made” offers a rich selection of dramatic historical events and the locations that saw them happen. These events often inhabit the land for a long time to come and this illustrated volume tells both the extraordinary stories of these places and examines how the succeeding generation have commemorated and interpreted these events.
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Thermopylae 480 BC. The Rubicon 49 BC. Bethlehem 4 BC. Teutoburg Forest AD 9. Jerusalem AD 70. Rome 410. Yarmuk 636. Tours 732. Rome 800. Hastings 1066. Ain Jalut 1260. Constantinople 1453. The Bahamas 1492. Tenochtitlán 1521. Plymouth Hoe 1588. Jamestown 1607. Culloden 1746. Botany Bay 1770. Philadelphia 1776. The Bastille 1789. Waterloo 1815. Galapagos Islands 1835. Gettysburg 1863. Sarajevo 1914. Dublin 1916. Somme Valley 1916. Petrograd 1917. Guernica 1937. Pearl Harbor 1941. Stalingrad 1943. Auschwitz 1945. Hiroshima 1945. Dallas 1963. Chernobyl 1986. Berlin 1989. Lower Manhattan 2001.
Ben DuprS read Classics at Exeter College, Oxford before pursuing a career in reference publishing. He was Children?s Reference Publisher at Oxford University Press from 1992 until 2004 and, all told, has more than 20 years? experience of bringing complex and challenging concepts to the widest possible audience in an accessible but authoritative manner. Ben lives in North Oxford with his family.
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- PublisherQuercus Books
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1847242553
- ISBN 13 9781847242556
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages239
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Where History Was Made Landmarks of World History from Thermopylae to Ground Zero
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