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NEWSLETTER #8: YOUR NEXT, EXCLUSIVE POWERS & THRONES EXTRACT IS HERE!!!

In the second excerpt from my new book - exclusively for newsletter subscribers - we discover how Charlemagne built the first medieval European Union...

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Dan Jones
Aug 06, 2021
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For thousands of years, politicians have dreamed of uniting Europe into one superstate. During the Middle Ages, one ruler managed to do it. His name was Charlemagne - and in this extract from my forthcoming book Powers & Thrones, I explain who he was and how he changed western history in ways that still affect us today...

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