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By: Francois Bizot
ISBN: 9780099449195
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2004
UK Publication Date: 5th February 2004
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In 1971, the young French scholar Francois Bizot was captured by the Khmer Rouge. Accused of being an agent of American imperialism, he was chained and imprisoned. Four years later, the Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh. Francois Bizot became the official intermediary between the ruthless conqueror and the refugees behind the French embassy gate.
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By: Stephen Turnbull
ISBN: 9781472813848
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2016
UK Publication Date: 28th July 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An illustrated account of The Gempei War - a conflict that defined the age and the ethos of the samurai. It examines the events of the five-year long conflict, revealing the changes that the war inflicted on Japanese culture and the establishment of many of the traditions of the samurai.
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By: Winston Groom
ISBN: 9781426216916
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: National Geographic Society
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Following up on his 2013 national bestseller, The Aviators,Winston Groom returns to tell the intertwined and uniquely American tales ofGeorge Patton, Douglas MacArthur, and George Marshall--from the World WarI battle that shaped them to their greatest victory: leading the allies to victoryin World War II.
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By: Robert Lyman
ISBN: 9781472132840
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
UK Publication Date: 17th October 2019
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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By: Helen Lewis
ISBN: 9781787333246
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 19th June 2025
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Gitta Sereny
ISBN: 9780140292633
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2001
UK Publication Date: 6th September 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Gitta Sereny is one of the world's most respected journalists and historians. This book gathers together her writing on Germany. It amounts to a portrait of the country and its people, how they have come to terms with their Nazi past, both collectively and in specific instances - and how the burden of their guilt has altered the national identity.
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By: Nicholas Stargardt
ISBN: 9780099539872
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2016
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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WINNER OF THE 2016 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE
The Second World War was a German war like no other.
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By: Peter Millar
ISBN: 9781911350583
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2021
UK Publication Date: 10th December 2020
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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A personal history of Germany and its position in Europe by award winning journalist and author told through nine cities
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By: Frank McDonough
ISBN: 9781444778076
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 8th September 2016
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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A profound account and analysis of the Gestapo.
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By: Steven Johnson
ISBN: 9780141029368
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2008
UK Publication Date: 31st January 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Tells the story of the terrifying cholera epidemic that engulfed London in 1854, and the two unlikely heroes - anesthetist Doctor John Snow and affable clergyman Reverend Henry Whitehead - who defeated the disease through a combination of local knowledge, scientific research and map-making.
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By: Maj. Gen. Mari K. Eder
ISBN: 9781728271798
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc
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By: M.C. Bishop
ISBN: 9781472815859
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
UK Publication Date: 17th November 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This fully illustrated study draws upon the latest research to tell the enthralling story of the Roman short sword at war, and will appeal to Roman historians, reenactors, and wargamers.
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By: Mark Lardas
ISBN: 9781472834843
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A highly illustrated account of the first and largest fleet action between the navies of Great Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.
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By: Edward Vallance
ISBN: 9780349117331
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2007
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2007
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The definitive popular account of the landmark event in British history by an acclaimed young historian.
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By: Jonathan Mahler
ISBN: 9781529155082
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
UK Publication Date: 14th August 2025
Publisher: Cornerstone
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By: Hugh Thomas
ISBN: 9780141034492
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2012
UK Publication Date: 24th November 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Beginning with the return of the remnants of Magellan's circumnavigation in 1522 and ending with Charles' death in 1558, the author brings to life the periods of the Renaissance, revealing how the Spaniards were able to conquer Guatemala, Yucatan, Columbia, Venezuela, Peru and Chile and why Cabeza de Vaca walked from Florida to Mexico.
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By: Dan Goldberg
ISBN: 9780807021583
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2020
Publisher: Beacon Press
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"This is the story of the thirteen black men who broke one of the military's most rigid racial barriers and integrated the officer corps of the United States Navy."--
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By: Tim Cook
ISBN: 9780735248229
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2025
Publisher: Prentice Hall Press
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(Hardback)
By: Tim Cook
ISBN: 9780735248205
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 17th September 2024
Publisher: Prentice Hall Press
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By: Catrine Clay
ISBN: 9781474607896
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2021
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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Award-winning historian Catrine Clay tells the gripping stories of six ordinary Germans who witnessed the rise of Nazism in Germany from within, and dared to resist it.
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By: Rodolphe Kasser
ISBN: 9781426200427
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2006
Publisher: National Geographic Society
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When the bound papyrus pages of this Judas gospel finally reached scholars who could unlock its meaning, they were astounded.
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By: David Clay Large
ISBN: 9781442222366
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In this irresistible tour through the grand spas of Central Europe, noted historian David Clay Large traces their history from classical antiquity to the present. He vividly shows that they were not only centers of healing but hotbeds of artistic creation, nests of social intrigue, and gilded venues for high-level politicking.
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By: Mike Rendell
ISBN: 9781784424954
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 17th March 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An introduction to the raucous yet educational 'gap year' tours of Europe taken by wealthy British graduates in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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By: Hauke Friederichs
ISBN: 9781788160735
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 6th May 2021
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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A thrilling day-by-day account of the final months of the Weimar Republic, documenting the collapse of democracy in Germany and Hitler's frightening rise to power.
