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By: Adrian Tinniswood
ISBN: 9781784872144
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
UK Publication Date: 18th August 2016
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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2 SEPTEMBER 1666: 350 YEARS SINCE THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON
In the early hours of 2 September 1666 a small fire broke out in a bakery in Pudding Lane.
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By: Gregory Feifer
ISBN: 9780061143199
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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The Soviet war in Afghanistan was a grueling debacle that has striking lessons for the 21st century. This title examines the conflict from the perspective of the soldiers on the ground. It depicts the invasion of a volatile country that no power has ever successfully conquered.
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By: Cecil Woodham-Smith
ISBN: 9780140145151
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1991
UK Publication Date: 30th May 1991
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America. The impact on Anglo-Irish relations was incalculable, the immediate human cost almost inconceivable. This book provides a definitive account.
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By: John Kelly
ISBN: 9780007150700
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2006
UK Publication Date: 3rd January 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A compelling history of the Black Death that scoured Europe in the mid 14th-century killing twenty-five million people. It was one of the worst human disasters in history.
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By: Christian Keller
ISBN: 9781643136042
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
Publisher: Pegasus Books
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The story of the unique relationship between Lee and Jackson, two leaders who chiseled a strategic path forward against the odds and almost triumphed.
(Hardback)
By: Kennie Ting
ISBN: 9789811889738
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: Talisman Publishing
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(Hardback)
By: Jan Karski
ISBN: 9781442226647
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Scott Creighton
ISBN: 9781591437895
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2016
Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
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Reveals how the only hard evidence that dates the Great Pyramid -the quarry marks discovered by Colonel Vyse in 1837 -was forged
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By: Winston S. Churchill
ISBN: 9781780229126
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2015
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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Sir Winston Churchill's magnificent re-telling of the story of America reissued to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his death.
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By: Peter Hernon
ISBN: 9780062433879
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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(Hardback)
By: Peter Hernon
ISBN: 9780062433862
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Juliet Nicolson
ISBN: 9780719562570
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
UK Publication Date: 27th May 2010
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The story of life after the Great War: a turning point in history
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By: Nell McShane Wulfhart
ISBN: 9780385546454
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2022
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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"The empowering story of a group of spirited stewardesses who fought for their rights in the cabin and revolutionized the workplace for all American women"--
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By: Robert Conquest
ISBN: 9781847925688
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 1st November 2018
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Michael Wood
ISBN: 9781845299279
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2009
UK Publication Date: 23rd April 2009
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Leading historians select and describe the 20 most significant events in British History.
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By: John Man
ISBN: 9780553817683
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2009
UK Publication Date: 29th January 2009
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Mutual hostility inspired centuries of attacks, counter-attacks and Wall-building, until the northward spread of China in the 20th century made the Wall redundant.
For this riveting account, John Man travelled the Wall from the far western deserts to the Pacific, exploring the grandest sections and many 'wild' ones.
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By: Isobel Charman
ISBN: 9780099591252
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
UK Publication Date: 21st May 2015
Publisher: Cornerstone
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During the First World War three quarters of a million British people died a figure so huge that it feels impossible to give it a human context.
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By: The Imperial War Museum
ISBN: 9780224096553
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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As we mark the centenary of the end of World War One, this astonishing book collects over five hundred remarkable photographs and rarely seen material of the war from the Imperial War Museum archives
The Great War was the first conflict to be documented in photographs.
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By: Chris Hedges
ISBN: 9781644212936
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 24th November 2022
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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By: Rick Beyer
ISBN: 9780060760182
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Historical storyteller Beyer is back with another collection of fascinating, little-known stories from history--100 tales about presidents and the White House to astonish, bewilder, and stupefy. 100 photos.
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By: Rick Beyer
ISBN: 9780060014018
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2003
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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A collection of historical facts includes the Pilgrims' decision to land in Plymouth because they ran out of beer, the invention of the stethoscope by a modest French doctor, and the development of the first fax machine in 1863.
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By: H. Kitto
ISBN: 9780140135213
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 1991
UK Publication Date: 28th February 1991
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The Greeks were extraordinary not least because they evolved "a totally new conception of what human life was for". Elaborating on that claim, the author explores the life, culture and history of classical Greece.
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By: Robert Kee
ISBN: 9780140291650
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2000
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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THE GREEN FLAG stands as the most comprehensive and illuminating history of Irish Nationalism yet published. For many years available as three separate volumes (THE MOST DISTRESSFUL COUNTRY, THE BOLD FENIAN MEN and OURSELVES ALONE), this outstanding history is now available as a single volume.
By: Randall M. Miller
ISBN: 9780313336997
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The four volumes cover the following periods: The War of Independence and Antebellum Expansion and Reform, 1763-1861, The Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Industrialization of America, 1861-1900, The Emergence of Modern America, World War I, and the Great Depression, 1900-1940 and Wartime, Postwar, and Contemporary America, 1940-Present.
