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Lieven, D. C. B.

Summary: "A dazzling account of the men (and occasional woman) who led the world's empires, a book that probes the essence of leadership and power through the centuries and around the world. From the rise of Sargon of Akkad, who in the third millennium BCE ruled what is now Iraq and Syria, to the collapse of the great European empires in the twentieth century, the empire has been the dominant form of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 352.23 LIE

Lieven, D. C. B.

Summary: In his major new history of the Russian conflict immortalized by Tolstoy in "War and Peace," Lieven provides an examination of the period from the Russian perspective, demonstrating that Napoleon's defeat in 1812 by the Russian army was just the beginning of what would be the longest military campaign in European history.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.27 LIE

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