John Julius Norwich, Author . Doubleday $32.50 (368p) ISBN 978-0-385-50904-6
By the end of the 19th century, Venice—conquered by Napoleon, handed over to the Austrians, plundered by the departing French troops, ruled by the Hapsburgs, and plundered again by the Austrians when they left in the 1860s—had lost...
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John Julius Norwich, Author Knopf Publishing Group $49.95 (528p) ISBN 978-0-679-41650-0
With this volume, Norwich completes his magisterial narrative history of Byzantium. As in the earlier volumes (Byzantium: The Early Centuries, LJ 3/1/89; and Byzantium: The Apogee, LJ 1/92), he seeks to rectify the negative impressions perpetuated...
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John Julius Norwich, Author Alfred A. Knopf $40 (432p) ISBN 978-0-679-45088-7
In 1995, the third and concluding volume of Lord Norwich's magnificent chronicle of Byzantium was published to wide acclaim; now the author has condensed his sprawling narrative into a single volume of locomotive power and magisterial concision....
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Norwich, Author, John Julius Norwich, Author Scribner Book Company $30 (432p) ISBN 978-0-684-81434-6
This is a painstakingly sensible book, suitable for die-hard Shakespeare lovers. The author of the massive, three-part Byzantium turns here to the equally byzantine world of late medieval England, providing a complex context for the bard's nine...
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John Julius Norwich. Atlantic Monthly, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2663-4
Norwich (Sicily: An Island at the Crossroads of History), a British popular historian descended from royalty, regales readers with tales of the exploits, speculations on the psyches, and anecdotes from the eventful lives of the title’s four rulers....
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John Julius Norwich. Atlantic Monthly, $30 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2890-4
An author of many popular books on history (Four Princes: A History of Venice) and the son of a British ambassador to France, the late Norwich offers a brief overview of the country’s political and military history from Roman times through 1945,...
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