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By: Michael Jones
ISBN: 9780719569722
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2010
UK Publication Date: 10th June 2010
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The thrilling history of the turning point of the Second World War, when Hitler's armies were halted on the Eastern Front.
(Hardback)
By: Matthew Continetti
ISBN: 9781541600508
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 28th April 2022
Publisher: Basic Books
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A magisterial intellectual history of the last century of American conservatism
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By: Matthew Continetti
ISBN: 9781541600515
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
Publisher: Basic Books
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A "superb" (New York Times) intellectual history of the last century of American conservatism
(Paperback)
By: Paul Kennedy
ISBN: 9780141983820
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
UK Publication Date: 26th January 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Archie Brown
ISBN: 9781845950675
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
UK Publication Date: 1st April 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Mackenzie Prize for Best Political Science Book of the Year 2010
The relentless rise of Communism was the most momentous political development of the first half of the twentieth century.
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By: Dr James Le Fanu
ISBN: 9780349123752
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2012
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2011
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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* A fascinating survey of the key moments of post-war medical discovery - fully revised and updated for this new edition
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By: Christopher Hibbert
ISBN: 9780140050905
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2001
UK Publication Date: 27th September 1979
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of wealth, power and influence. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its bloody political scene was dominated by mercantile families, the most famous of which were the Medici. This book charts the family's huge influence on the political, economic and cultural history of Florence.
(Hardback)
By: David S. Heidler
ISBN: 9780465097562
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2018
Publisher: Basic Books
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The story of Andrew Jackson's improbable ascent to the White House, centered on the handlers and propagandists who made it possible
(Paperback, Main)
By: Alexandra Harris
ISBN: 9780571350537
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 13th March 2025
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A luminous feat of time travel chronicling lives in a Sussex landscape from the prize-winning author of Romantic Moderns and Weatherland.
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By: John Toland
ISBN: 9780812968583
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2003
UK Publication Date: 27th May 2003
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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In his foreword, Toland calls "The Rising Sun" "a factual saga of people caught up in the flood of the most overwhelming war of mankind, told as it happened--muddled, ennobling, disgraceful, frustrating, full of paradox."
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By: Bruce Henderson
ISBN: 9780008180508
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
UK Publication Date: 12th July 2018
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The last great, untold story of WWII highly compelling Daily Mail
(Paperback, Main)
By: Thant Myint-U
ISBN: 9780571217595
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2008
UK Publication Date: 3rd January 2008
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Combining both personal and political experience, this is a brilliantly illuminating and profound portrait of Burma.
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By: Max Arthur
ISBN: 9780753827208
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2011
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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How the men and women of Britain found 'the road home' after the Great War. From the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author of THE LOST POST.
(Hardback)
By: Philip Zelikow
ISBN: 9781541750951
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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A revelatory new history that explores the tantalizing and almost-realized possibility that the First World War could have ended in 1916, saving millions of lives and utterly changing the course of history.
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By: Philip Zelikow
ISBN: 9781541750968
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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During a pivotal few months in the middle of the First World War all sides-Germany, Britain, and America-believed the war could be concluded. Peace at the end of 1916 would have saved millions of lives and changed the course of history utterly.
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By: Prof John Erickson
ISBN: 9780304365418
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2003
UK Publication Date: 27th February 2003
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The first of two volumes in John Erickson's history of the Soviet-German war.
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By: Andrew Wheatcroft
ISBN: 9781845951306
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2009
UK Publication Date: 3rd September 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Hailed on publication as a thought-provoking, authoritative analysis of the true beginnings of the Second World War, this revised edition of The Road to War is essential reading for anyone interested in this momentous period of history. Taking each major nation in turn, the book tells the story of their road to war;
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By: George Orwell
ISBN: 9780156767507
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1972
UK Publication Date: 10th May 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Before he authored the dystopian 1984 and the allegorical Animal Farm, George Orwell was a journalist, reporting on England's working class an investigation that led him to examine democratic socialism.
(Hardback)
By: Christopher Hadley
ISBN: 9780008356699
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
UK Publication Date: 19th January 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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An absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year Sunday Telegraph On nearly every page a random passage takes ones breath away The Times
Have you ever heard the march of legions on a lonely country road
(Hardback)
By: Madeline Potter
ISBN: 9781847927675
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
UK Publication Date: 22nd May 2025
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Cassius Dio
ISBN: 9780140444483
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1987
UK Publication Date: 26th February 1987
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of Rome (27 BC AD 14), brought peace and prosperity to his city after decades of savage civil war.
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By: Prof. Tim Blanning
ISBN: 9780753828656
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2011
UK Publication Date: 27th October 2011
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A compelling and persuasive account of how the Romantic Movement permanently changed the way we see things and express ourselves.
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By: Richard Loveys
ISBN: 9781784423391
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
UK Publication Date: 21st March 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Lyn MacDonald
ISBN: 9780241952405
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
UK Publication Date: 26th September 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Walking straight out of Edwardian drawing rooms into the manifest horrors of the First World War, the volunteer nurses rose magnificently to the occasion. In leaking tents they fought another war, a war against agony and death. This book captures a panorama of hardship, disillusion and despair, and also of endurance and supreme courage.
