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By: Norman Stone
ISBN: 9780140267259
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2008
UK Publication Date: 30th July 1998
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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An account of the Russian Front in the First World War. It dispels the myths surrounding a still relatively little-known aspect of the war, showing how inefficiency rather than economic shortage led to Russia's desperate privations and eventual retreat.
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By: Roy Hattersley
ISBN: 9780349116624
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2006
UK Publication Date: 2nd March 2006
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Following on from the success of A N. Wilson's THE VICTORIANS, Roy Hattersley's major new appraisal of Edwardian Britain is his finest book to date
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By: Joann Fletcher
ISBN: 9781844838059
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
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By: Ahmed Osman
ISBN: 9781591433019
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
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An investigation into the real historical figure of King David and the real location of the Temple of Solomon
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By: Dylan Jones
ISBN: 9780099559085
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
UK Publication Date: 28th August 2014
Publisher: Cornerstone
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One Day: Saturday 13 July 1985, nearly two billion people woke up with one purpose. Nearly a third of humanity knew where they were going to be that day. This book tells the story of the Eighties through that day at Wembley, sweeping backwards to the end of the Seventies, and forward to the start of the Nineties.
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By: Simon Schama
ISBN: 9780006861362
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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This is the book that made Simon Schamas reputation when first published in 1987. A historical masterpiece, it is an epic account of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age of Rembrandt and van Diemen.
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By: Ryszard Kapuscinski
ISBN: 9780141188034
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2006
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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After the deposition of Haile Selassie in 1974, which ended the ancient rule of the Abyssinian monarchy, Ryszard Kapuscinski travelled to Ethiopia and sought out surviving courtiers to tell their stories. This work depicts the lavish, corrupt world they had known - from the rituals, hierarchies and intrigues at court to the vagaries of a ruler.
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By: Graham Phillips
ISBN: 9781591430698
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2007
Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
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In 1500 BC, Earth passed through the comet 12P/Pons-Brook's tail. This book chronicles the shifts in social demeanour and religious philosophy that swept the world in the wake of 12P/Pons-Brooks. It contends that debris in the comet's tail contaminated the atmosphere with a chemical known to cause aggressive behaviour.
(Hardback)
By: Shlomo Sand
ISBN: 9781786635082
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
Publisher: Verso Books
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Charting the decline of the French intellectual, from the Dreyfus Affair to Islamophobia
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By: Sami Kent
ISBN: 9781529099263
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 27th June 2024
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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An intimate, riveting portrait of modern Turkey, combining memoir, politics and history.
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By: Andrew Wheatcroft
ISBN: 9781844137411
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2009
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In 1683, two empires - the Ottoman, based in Constantinople, and the Habsburg dynasty in Vienna - came face to face in the culmination of a 250-year power struggle: the Great Siege of Vienna.
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By: Tristram Hunt
ISBN: 9780718192013
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2011
UK Publication Date: 27th January 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Almost a quarter of a million lives were lost as King and Parliament battled for their religious and political ideals in the English Civil War. This title offers a narrative based on the first-hand accounts of those who witnessed these traumatic events.
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By: Diane Purkiss
ISBN: 9780007150625
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2007
UK Publication Date: 5th February 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A remarkable popular history of the English Civil War, from the perspectives of those involved in this most significant turning point in British history.
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By: Colonel Nick Lipscombe
ISBN: 9781472829726
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A lavishly presented atlas of the English Civil Wars, the conflicts that ravaged the countryside of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland from 1639 to 1651.
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By: Blair Worden
ISBN: 9780753826911
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2010
UK Publication Date: 21st January 2010
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A brilliant appraisal of the Civil War and its long-term consequences, by an acclaimed historian.
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By: Dan Cruickshank
ISBN: 9781529152456
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2025
UK Publication Date: 13th November 2025
Publisher: Cornerstone
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By: Maureen Waller
ISBN: 9781848544017
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
Publisher: John Murray Press
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A frank, salacious and often shocking portrait of an institution
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By: Norman Hampson
ISBN: 9780140137453
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1990
UK Publication Date: 28th June 1990
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In this book, Norman Hampson follows through certain dominant themes in the Enlightenment, and describes the contemporary social and political climate, in which ideas could travel from the salons of Paris to the court of Catherine the Great - but less easily from a master to his servant.
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By: Jonathan Freedland
ISBN: 9781529369052
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The astonishing, forgotten story of the hero who escaped from Auschwitz to reveal the truth of the Holocaust.
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By: Jonathan Freedland
ISBN: 9781529369045
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 9th June 2022
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The astonishing, forgotten story of the hero who escaped from Auschwitz to reveal the truth of the Holocaust.
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By: Neal Bascomb
ISBN: 9781473686816
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
UK Publication Date: 11th July 2019
Publisher: John Murray Press
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July 1918. A band of Allied Royal Flying Corps airmen are determined to escape Germany's harshest POW camp. Their plan will become the most ambitious mass breakout attempt of the Great War.
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By: Bernard Bailyn
ISBN: 9781598535839
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: The Library of America
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By: Alexander Hamilton
ISBN: 9781598535365
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: The Library of America
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By: Raffaele DAmato
ISBN: 9781472828316
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 20th September 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An authoritative and beautifully illustrated study of the brilliant, warlike Bronze Age and Iron Age culture of north and central Italy, which at first dominated, and was later conquered by, Rome.
