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The Who's Who Of

Clive Gifford

4 books in this series

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  An in-depth study of the key figures that shaped crucial periods in modern history.

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  Panel features accompanying each biography provide background information on the key events and movements the person was involved in.

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  A cross-curricular spread introduces personalities from the era who have had great cultural or scientific influence.

Sample Spread From Series

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  The Cold War

  Contents:
  

  • The Cold War
  • Senator Joseph McCarthy
  • Ethel Rosenberg
  • Sergei Korolev
  • Gary Powers
  • Fidel Castro
  • Vo Nguyen Giap
  • Yuri Andropov
  • Anwar el-Sadat
  • Lech Walesa
  • Aldrich Ames
  • Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Cold War movies
  • Timeline: Cold War
  • Glossary
  • Further information
  • Index

  
  

  ISBN 978 0 7502 5746 6

  
  

  225x276mm - 32 pages

  
  

  £12.99 HB

  
  
   

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  Industrial Revolution

  Contents:
  

  • The Industrial Revolution
  • James Hargreaves
  • Richard Arkwright
  • Abraham Darby
  • Samuel Slater
  • James Brindley
  • James Watt
  • George Stephenson
  • Eli Whitney
  • Adams Smith
  • Robert Owen
  • Anthony Ashley-Cooper
  • Romanticism
  • Timeline: The Industrial Revolution
  • Glossary
  • Further information
  • Index

  
  

  ISBN 978 0 7502 5745 9

  
  

  224x276mm - 32 pages

  
  

  £12.99 HB

  
  
   

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  World War I

  Contents:
  

  • Introduction
  • Gavrilo Princip
  • Edith Cavell
  • Walther Schwieger
  • Albert Jacka
  • Manfred von Richthofen
  • Douglas Haig
  • Flora Sandes
  • T.E. Lawrence
  • Vladimir Lenin
  • Erich Ludendorff
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • The War Poets
  • Read it, see it, hear it
  • Glossary
  • Index

  
  

  ISBN 978 0 7502 5743 5

  
  

  225x277mm - 32 pages

  
  

  £12.99 HB

  
  
   

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  World War II

  Contents:
  

  • Introduction; The Holocaust
  • Adolf Hitler
  • Winston Churchill
  • Hermann Göring
  • Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
  • General Georgy Zhukov
  • Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan
  • General Bernahrd Montgomery
  • Raoul Wallenberg
  • Jacqueline Cochran
  • Juan Pujol
  • Robert J. Oppenheimer
  • World War II Propaganda
  • Read it, see it, hear it
  • Glossary
  • Index

  
  

  ISBN 978 0 7502 5744 2

  
  

  221x277mm - 32 pages

  
  

  £12.99 HB