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Roads to Ruin

Roads to Ruin

Roads to Ruin

Comer Plummer III

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Lulu Press
Año de edición:
2015
Materia
Historia
ISBN:
9781483436777
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This book recounts the sixteenth century struggle of a nascent Moroccan kingdom for survival between its powerful neighbors, peaking with a defining moment in world history, the Battle of the Three Kings on the plain of Ksar el-Kébir.

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