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Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Presents an illustrated biography Saladin, from his birth into a prominent Kurdish family in Tikrit, Mesopotamia, in 1138, through his wars to regain holy lands in and around Jerusalem, to his death in Damascus on March 4, 1193.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnet, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first when both were teenagers. She poisoned the second. Ultimately she dispensed with an ambitious sister as well; incest and assassination were family specialties. Cleopatra appears...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
Hatshepsut-the daughter of a general who usurped Egypt's throne and a mother with ties to the previous dynasty-was born into a privileged position in the royal household, and she was expected to bear the sons who would legitimize the reign of her father's family. Her failure to produce a male heir was ultimately the twist of fate that paved the way for her improbable rule as a cross-dressing king. At just over twenty, Hatshepsut ascended to the rank...
4) Saladin
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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