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By: Angus Konstam
ISBN: 9781472845962
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 19th August 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In the early months and years of World War II, it was Germany's cruisers and battleships that most ravaged the Atlantic Convoys. This is the history of those raids, and how the success of 1941's Operation Berlin led directly to the Kriegsmarine sending into the Atlantic its greatest battleship - the mighty, ill-fated Bismarck.
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By: Harriet Swain
ISBN: 9780099468462
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2006
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Drawing on examples ranging from ancient Greece to Tony Blair's Britain, this title addresses 20 of questions that have asked over the centuries about the course of human events. It takes ride over continents and across centuries in search of answers that are sometimes surprising, often controversial, and of great relevance to how we live today.
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By: Douglas C. Dildy
ISBN: 9781472824516
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 17th February 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A rigorous new analysis of America's legendary "Big Week" air campaign which enabled the Allies to gain air superiority before D-Day.
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By: Bill Yenne
ISBN: 9780425272244
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2014
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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(Hardback)
By: Matthew Dallek
ISBN: 9781541673564
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 13th April 2023
Publisher: Basic Books
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How the John Birch Society, a fringe reactionary group, popularized conspiracy and radicalized modern conservatism
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By: Maurice Walsh
ISBN: 9780571243013
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2016
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A new history of the Irish revolution, placing it in context of the global revolutions of the age.
(Hardback)
By: Joseph Wheelan
ISBN: 9781472849502
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 13th October 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The hard-hitting narrative of the Pacific War's "forgotten battle" of Peleliu -- a story of intelligence failings and impossible bravery.
By: David Long
ISBN: 9781472109316
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A charming gift book of the strangest and most intriguing stories of London.
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By: David Olusoga
ISBN: 9781529065602
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 10th June 2021
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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An updated edition with new material of the acclaimed re-examination of a shared history, telling the rich and revealing story of the long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa and the Caribbean.
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By: Maria Smilios
ISBN: 9780349009261
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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An Oprah Book title telling the true story of 300 black nurses who changed the course of history.
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By: Martin Bernal
ISBN: 9780099887805
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1993
UK Publication Date: 21st November 1991
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A challenge to the whole basis of thinking on the subject of classical civilization. The author argues that it has its roots in Afroasiatic cultures, and that these influences have been systematically ignored, suppressed or denied since the 18th century.
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By: Jack Johnson
ISBN: 9781098394462
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Paperback)
By: Catherine Bailey
ISBN: 9780141019239
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
UK Publication Date: 6th March 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Wentworth in Yorkshire was surrounded by 70 collieries employing tens of thousands of men. It is the finest and largest Georgian house in Britain and belonged to the Fitzwilliam family. This title tells the story of its demise: family feuds, forbidden love, class war, and a tragic and violent death played their part.
(Paperback)
By: Timothy Snyder
ISBN: 9781784701482
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
UK Publication Date: 17th March 2016
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE
We have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats.
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By: Gretchen Gerzina
ISBN: 9781399804905
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2023
UK Publication Date: 14th September 2023
Publisher: John Murray Press
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A powerful history of the forgotten lives of black Georgian Britain
(Hardback)
By: Gretchen Gerzina
ISBN: 9781399804882
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 29th September 2022
Publisher: John Murray Press
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A powerful history of the forgotten lives of black Georgian Britain
(Hardback)
By: Nigel West
ISBN: 9780233006246
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 14th May 2020
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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A compelling anthology of spies, soldiers, mercenaries and assassins, Black Ops tells the secret history of 20th- and 21st-century warfare.
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By: Tony Geraghty
ISBN: 9781605982892
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2012
Publisher: Pegasus Books
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A hard-hitting history of special-forces operations over the past fifty years in the United States, United Kingdom, and Israel.
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By: Richard Wright
ISBN: 9780061449451
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Includes three books originally published 1954-1957.
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By: Cornel West
ISBN: 9780807018101
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Beacon Press
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(Paperback, Revised edition)
By: Neal Ascherson
ISBN: 9781784700911
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
UK Publication Date: 4th June 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Black Sea is a homage to an ocean and its shores and a meditation on Eurasian history, from the earliest times to the present. the growth of Russian power across the grasslands, and the centuries of war between Ottoman and Russian Empires around the Black Sea.
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By: Miranda Kaufmann
ISBN: 9781786073969
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
UK Publication Date: 6th September 2018
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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A transformative history in Tudor times there were Africans living and working in Britain, and they were free
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By: Keshia N. Abraham
ISBN: 9780715654453
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 15th September 2022
Publisher: Duckworth Books
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Black Victorians shows how Black lives were visible, present and influential - not temporary presences but established and rooted; and how paradox and ambivalence characterised the Victorian view of race.
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By: Tom Renouf
ISBN: 9780349123363
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2012
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 2012
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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* A personal story of the Second World War brought to life against the backdrop of the Black Watch - Scotland's best-known regiment
