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The account of what happened in Rwanda on 22nd April 1995 when a group of Australian UN peacekeepers were forced to watch helplessly while over 4,000 men, women and children were slaughtered at the hands of the Rwandan Patriotic Army. Stresses the weaknesses of the UN charter and what happens when 'good men do nothing'.

(Hardback)

(, New edition)

A lifetime's scholarship enabled John Morris to recreate a past hitherto hidden in myth and mystery. In this reissued edition, he describes the Arthurian age as "the starting point of future British history", for it saw the transition from Roman Britain to Great Britain.

Tells a story of thirteen modern Empires, that is full of suspense, cruelty, conflict, heroism, great explorations and extraordinary feats of endurance, with a profusion of illustrations drawn from a wide range of vivid sources.

(Hardback)

The history of the Holy Roman Empire was always intertwined with that of Europe as a whole. Following a chronological pattern, this book examines a variety of themes in the Empire and demonstrates that many of the divisions and struggles in modern Europe have their roots in the Holy Roman Empire.

(Paperback)

A vivid portrait of the ancient world that illuminates the stories of the women so often pushed to history's sidelines

(Hardback)

The moving story of the unlikely friendship that developed between then 25 year old archaeologist John Henry Phillips and D-Day survivor Patrick Thomas, and their search for the wreck of Patrick's landing-craft command vessel off the coast of France: the final resting place of at least 35 of his shipmates.

(Hardback)

Songs, speeches, and sermons provide a revealing window into the sufferings of slaves a century ago, and this groundbreaking work collects some of the most revealing of such documents from the 1700s through the 1850s.

(Paperback)

'The story of the first all-out struggle in Asia between Communism and the West, vividly told in an exciting and engrossing book' Sunday Express

The island of Cephallonia is now familiar as the setting of the novel, "Captain Corelli's Mandolin". This book explores the turbulent history of the island, focusing on the World War II years of Italian occupation, as well as telling the behind-the-scenes story of how the film version was made.

An account of an adventure which provided evidence that South Americans could have had trading contacts with Africa 1000 BC, using reed boats to navigate their way across the Atlantic. This is a recreation of that epic journey, uncovering many archaeological sites along the way.

On 15 June 1215, rebel barons forced King John to meet them . They did not trust the King, so he was not allowed to leave until his seal was attached to the charter in front of him. This was Magna Carta. This book aims to explore what it was like to be alive in the that year. It describes matters of state and domestic life of the medieval world.

(, New edition)

Lyn Macdonald's account of the First World War during 1915.

(, Main)

On June 6 1944 - 'D-Day' - Allied troops landed in France, opening a way to eventual victory. In this reappraisal of the Second World War, the author suggests that the Allied invasion could have been launched successfully in the previous year, reducing considerably the scale of the war's human tragedy.

(Paperback)

30-Second Ancient China unlocks the secrets of its Bronze Age glories and offers summaries of everything.

4.6 billion years of the story of life on Earth, in 52,000 words. Brief, brilliant and entirely gripping.

(Paperback)

One momentous year in Russia through the eyes of ordinary folk

Sweeping over the last 10,000 years of human history, this work addresses some of the most fascinating questions about our past. Michael Cook explores the great forces that have shaped our past - natural disasters, human ingenuity, availability of resources - and along the way zooms in on some of the details of history.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

On August 24, AD 79, the Roman city of Pompeii was buried by the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The very debris and ash that so suddenly and violently ended life in Pompeii also encased the city in a virtual time capsule. This title takes us back in time to experience life and death in a cosmopolitan city.

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In the First World War, Australian reactions to death were defined by distance, a circumstance that impelled mourners towards communal responses to their loss. It drove them to create and sustain links with the graves that most knew they would never see. This book deals with this topic.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

This new edition of the most influential book about pirates ever written presents twenty action-packed biographies of the likes of Blackbeard and Captain Kidd along with the celebrated female pirates Mary Reed and Anne Bonny. A classic from 1724 brought back to life with extra material from the Library collections.