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1843
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1859
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A Note on the Author
DIANA PRESTON is an Oxford University–educated historian and the author of Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima, which won the 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology; Cleopatra and Antony; Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy; The Boxer Rebellion; A First Rate Tragedy; and The Road to Culloden Moor. She is the coauthor, with her husband, Michael Preston, of A Pirate of Exquisite Mind and Taj Mahal.
By the Same Author
Before the Fallout: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima
The Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China’s War on Foreigners That Shook the World in the Summer of 1900
Cleopatra and Antony: Power, Love, and Politics in the Ancient World
A First Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole
Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy
The Road to Culloden Moor: Bonnie Prince Charlie and the ’45 Rebellion
With Michael Preston
A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier
Taj Mahal: Passion and Genius at the Heart of the Moghul Empire
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