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By: James Crossland
ISBN: 9781526160676
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The rise of devils chronicles the emergence of terrorism in the late nineteenth century. This era simmered with political rage and social inequalities, which drove nationalists, nihilists, anarchists and republicans to extreme measures, while an outrage-hungry press peddled hysteria, conspiracy theories and, sometimes, fake news in response.
(Paperback)
By: Anthony Everitt
ISBN: 9781801108195
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
UK Publication Date: 11th November 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A complete account of the ascent of Rome from agrarian backwater to capital of the world's greatest empire.
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By: Alexandra Harris
ISBN: 9780571350520
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
UK Publication Date: 21st March 2024
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A luminous feat of time travel chronicling lives in a Sussex landscape from the prize-winning author of Romantic Moderns and Weatherland.
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By: Mary S. Lovell
ISBN: 9780349139890
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2017
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A portrait of high society in the twentieth century, told through the stories of the guests of Maxine Elliott and Prince Aly Khan at the Chteau de l'Horizon in Cannes.
(Paperback)
By: George Orwell
ISBN: 9780141395456
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
UK Publication Date: 2nd January 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s. This title provides descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment and more.
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By: Christopher Hadley
ISBN: 9780008602475
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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An absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year Sunday Telegraph On nearly every page a random passage takes ones breath away The Times
Have you ever heard the march of legions on a lonely country road
(Paperback)
By: Catherine Fletcher
ISBN: 9781847928047
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
ISBN: 9781474600873
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2017
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The internationally bestselling epic history of Russia's imperial dynasty
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By: Eleanor Herman
ISBN: 9780715653142
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
UK Publication Date: 22nd August 2019
Publisher: Duckworth Books
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The story of poison is the story of power...The Royal Art of Poisonis a hugely entertaining work of popular history that traces the use of poison as a political - and cosmetic - tool in the royal courts of Western Europe from the Middle Ages to the Kremlin today.
(Paperback)
By: Malcolm Gaskill
ISBN: 9780141991481
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Christian Raffensperger
ISBN: 9781789147155
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 1st July 2023
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A new, family-based history of the region known as Kyivan Rus.
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By: Douglas Smith
ISBN: 9781509882915
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2020
UK Publication Date: 28th May 2020
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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Douglas Smith's The Russian Job tells the captivating story of how American volunteers saved millions of people from starvation in Bolshevik Russia.
(Hardback)
By: Victor Sebestyen
ISBN: 9781800244719
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 8th June 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An illustrated account of one of the most pivotal events in modern history the Russian revolution of 1917.
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By: Serhii Plokhy
ISBN: 9781802061789
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: James Romm
ISBN: 9781501198021
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
UK Publication Date: 4th August 2022
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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(Paperback, New in Paperback)
By: John Goodlad
ISBN: 9781780278285
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2023
UK Publication Date: 3rd August 2023
Publisher: Birlinn General
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This book tells the extraordinary story of Shetlands most enduring export. It ranges from the wild waters of the North Atlantic and the remote ice filled fjords of west Greenland to the Basque country, from the fishing grounds of Iceland to the Jewish shtetls of Poland and from the mountains of Faroe to the flat coastline of the Netherlands.
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By: Richard Collier
ISBN: 9781529176827
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 25th August 2022
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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By: Leigh Neville
ISBN: 9781472814036
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2016
UK Publication Date: 15th December 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Highly-trained and immensely skilled, the SAS are widely regarded as one of the best Special Forces units in the world. This book sheds light on the SAS's involvement in the Troubles of Northern Ireland, their operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and the widespread use of the SAS in counter terrorism and counterinsurgency operations since 9/11.
(Paperback)
By: James Holland
ISBN: 9781787636699
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: James Holland
ISBN: 9781804991404
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 23rd May 2024
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Deborah Cadbury
ISBN: 9781529365795
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
UK Publication Date: 27th April 2023
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The extraordinary true story of progressive schoolteacher, Anna Essinger, the woman who defied Hitler, smuggling her school and its pupils from Nazi Germany to the safety of England.
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By: T. M. Devine
ISBN: 9780141985930
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
UK Publication Date: 30th May 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback, New in Paperback)
By: R. Andrew McDonald
ISBN: 9781910900376
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 20th May 2021
Publisher: John Donald Publishers Ltd
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This book represents the first ever overview of both Manx and Hebridean dynasties that dominated Man and the Isles from the late eleventh to the mid-thirteenth centuries.
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By: John Henry Phillips
ISBN: 9781472146175
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2024
UK Publication Date: 7th December 2023
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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