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By: Philip Haythornthwaite
ISBN: 9781849086967
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2012
UK Publication Date: 20th September 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The battle of Borodino was one of the greatest encounters in European history, and one of the largest and most sanguinary in the Napoleonic Wars. This title covers the events of Napoleon's disastrous Russian campaign of 1812 in its entirety, with the set-piece battle of Borodino proving the focal point of the book.
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By: Mark Riddaway
ISBN: 9781529349733
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 10th November 2022
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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A short history of Britain's favourite food and drink; from strawberries to spaghetti, tomatoes to tea, and how we have enjoyed them over the centuries
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By: Roy Hattersley
ISBN: 9780349118949
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2009
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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* As with Hattersley's THE EDWARDIANS, this is a brilliant, masterly and richly detailed reassessment of the social and political landscape of a pivotal period - the interwar years
(Hardback)
By: Shelley Fraser Mickle
ISBN: 9781623545390
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S.
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(Hardback)
By: Steven Beaucher
ISBN: 9780262048071
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
UK Publication Date: 23rd February 2023
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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"Comprehensive history of public transportation infrastructure and the modes of transit that have moved Boston for nearly four centuries"--
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By: Michael Jones
ISBN: 9781848549081
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
UK Publication Date: 27th March 2014
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The historic battle upon which the future of England, as we know it, swung
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By: Christopher Gravett
ISBN: 9781472843418
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
UK Publication Date: 18th February 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A new study of the Battle of Bosworth, the climactic battle of the Wars of the Roses, based on a new interpretation of events following the discovery of the true location of the battlefield.
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By: Chris Skidmore
ISBN: 9780753828946
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
UK Publication Date: 5th June 2014
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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Richard III and Henry Tudor's legendary battle: one that changed the course of English history.
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By: Jim Downey
ISBN: 9780762472444
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Running Press,U.S.
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Brainstorms and Mindfarts delivers an informative, entertaining, and tongue-in-cheek guide to 100 of the best, worst, wackiest, brightest, and most bizarre inventions as submitted to the US Patent and Trademark Office, all the while letting you in on what the most successful and failed patents have in common and how great inventors view the world.
(Hardback, Reissue)
By: David McCullough
ISBN: 9781668003541
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 27th October 2022
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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A hardcover reissue of a classic David McCullough book, featuring some of history's most daring and accomplished figures.
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By: Sean B. Carroll
ISBN: 9780307952349
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
UK Publication Date: 23rd September 2014
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Katie Hickman
ISBN: 9780349008288
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 7th June 2023
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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(Hardback)
By: Katie Hickman
ISBN: 9780349008295
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 26th May 2022
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The extraordinary, dramatic story of the women of the American west: the women who crossed the plains and the mountains in covered wagons, the indigenous women living on the land, the women who came to work in the gold mining cities. Brave hearted women - an amazing cast of characters brought to life by this wonderful storyteller
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By: Heloisa M. Starling
ISBN: 9780141976198
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
UK Publication Date: 31st October 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Chris Renwick
ISBN: 9780141980355
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
UK Publication Date: 2nd August 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Taylor Downing
ISBN: 9780349141015
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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One hundred years on from the Battle of the Somme, Breakdown tells the unusual and little-known story of shell shock in one of the bloodiest battles ever fought by the British army.
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By: Peter B. Doran
ISBN: 9780143130000
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
UK Publication Date: 25th May 2017
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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The incredible tale of how ambitious oil rivals, Marcus Samuel, Jr. and Henri Deterding, joined forces to topple the Standard Oil empire.
(Hardback)
By: Jok Madut Jok
ISBN: 9781786070036
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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A leading expert on the Sudans analyses why so many attempts to bring peace to the region have failed and sets out what it will take to finally see an end to the violence
(Paperback, Third edition)
By: Michael D. Coe
ISBN: 9780500289556
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2012
UK Publication Date: 19th December 2011
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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Presents the inside story of one of the major intellectual breakthroughs of our time - the great decipherment of an ancient Maya script revised with the advanced developments. This title features 113 illustrations that provide details about the people and texts that have enabled us to read the Maya script.
(Hardback)
By: Bruce Henderson
ISBN: 9780525655817
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 30th September 2022
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-420) and index.
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By: D J Taylor
ISBN: 9780099474470
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
UK Publication Date: 2nd October 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The Bright Young People were one of the most extraordinary youth cults in British history. A pleasure-seeking band of bohemian party-givers and blue-blooded socialites, they romped through the 1920s gossip columns. This book chronicles England's 'lost generation' of the Jazz Age.
By: Rachelle Bergstein
ISBN: 9780062323781
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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By: Dale Maharidge
ISBN: 9781541742765
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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"A scrupulous and heartfelt analysis of what it was like to be 'a cog in the biggest battle in the Pacific." The New York Post, Required Reading
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By: Francis Pryor
ISBN: 9780007181872
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2005
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Leading archaeologist Francis Pryor retells the story of King Arthur, legendary king of the Britons, tracing it back to its Bronze Age origins.
