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Preston, Diana

Summary: The story of the world's best-remembered celebrity couple, set against the political backdrop of their time. In 30 BCE, the 39-year-old queen of Egypt, Cleopatra, took her own life rather than be paraded in chains through Rome by her conqueror, the future first emperor Augustus. A few days earlier, her lover of eleven years, Mark Antony, had himself committed suicide. Historian Diana Preston...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Pub. Co. 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 932.021092 PRE

Preston, Diana

Summary: "While some of the last battles of WWII were being fought, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin-the so-called "Big Three"-met from February 4-11, 1945, in the Crimean resort town ofYalta. Over eight days of bargaining, bombast, and intermittent bonhomie, while Soviet soldiers and NKVD men patrolled the grounds of the three...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 PRE

Preston, Diana

Summary: "When twenty-two-year-old aspiring geologist Charles Darwin boarded the HMS Beagle in 1831 with his microscopes and specimen bottles-invited by ship's captain Robert FitzRoy who wanted a travel companion at least as much as a ship's naturalist-he hardly thought he was embarking on what would become perhaps the most important and epoch-changing voyage in scientific history. Nonetheless, over the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.092 PRE

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.092 PRE

Preston, Diana

Summary: "In six weeks during April and May 1915, as World War I escalated, Germany forever altered the way war would be fought. On April 22, at Ypres, German canisters spewed poison gas at French and Canadian soldiers in their trenches; on May 7, the German submarine U-20, without warning, torpedoed the passenger liner Lusitania, killing 1,198 civilians; and on May 31, a German Zeppelin began the first...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4 PRE

Preston, Diana

Summary: Examines the sinking of the Lusitania on May 17, 1915 by a German torpedo which killed 1200 civilians.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.45 PRE

Preston, Diana

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Walker 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.03 PRE

Preston, Diana

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2002

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.45 PRE

Preston, Diana

Summary: Preston presents betrayals, escapes, and survival at sea in her account of the mutiny of the Bounty and the flight of convicts from the Australian penal colony.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PRE

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