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By: Jessie Childs
ISBN: 9781784702090
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 18th May 2023
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Yaroslav Trofimov
ISBN: 9780141034065
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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20 November, 1979: as morning prayers began, hundreds of hardline Islamist gunmen, armed with rifles smuggled in coffins, stormed the Grand Mosque in Mecca. This work takes us through one of the momentous events in history, interviewing many participants in the siege and reveals the truth about the first operation of modern global jihad.
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By: Graham Hancock
ISBN: 9780099416357
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2001
UK Publication Date: 14th January 1993
Publisher: Cornerstone
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The book that shatters the greatest secret of the last 3000 years.A Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant.'Graham Hancock's obsession has led him to give up nine years of his life to tracking down the exact location of the Ark of the Covenant... The obsession is well worth sharing. The excitment is nail biting.' Sunday Express
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By: Max Arthur
ISBN: 9781444787528
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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A unique landmark oral history of D-Day on the Home Front, 6 June 1944, told through the voices of those who experienced it first-hand.
(Hardback)
By: Professor Peter Frankopan
ISBN: 9781408839973
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 27th August 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Leanda de Lisle
ISBN: 9780007219063
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2010
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The dramatic untold story of the Grey sisters, heirs to the Tudor throne. 'Leanda de Lisle brings the story of nine days' queen, Lady Jane Grey and her forgotten sisters, the rivals of Elizabeth I, to vivid life in her fascinating biography' Philippa Gregory
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By: George Stephanopoulos
ISBN: 9781538740767
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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(Paperback)
By: Marcus Rediker
ISBN: 9780719563034
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2008
UK Publication Date: 18th September 2008
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The human drama of the slave trade told from a new perspective, from the decks of the slave ship
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By: Hugh Thomas
ISBN: 9780753820568
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2006
UK Publication Date: 5th January 2006
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The rise and fall of the business of slave trading - by a bestselling historian
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By: Jonathan Lyons
ISBN: 9781608195725
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A spellbinding, rich history of the American Enlightenment--think "1776" meets "The Metaphysical Club." Benjamin Franklin and his contemporaries brought the Enlightenment to AmericaNan intellectual revolution that laid the foundation for the political one that followed.
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By: Mark Stille
ISBN: 9781472824479
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
UK Publication Date: 23rd August 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A highly illustrated study of the Solomons campaign in 1943-44 from Guadalcanal, as the US forces advanced through the island chain, to the vital Japanese base at Rabaul.
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By: Peter Hart
ISBN: 9780304367351
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2006
UK Publication Date: 15th June 2006
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A major new history of the most infamous battle of the First World War, as described by the men who fought it.
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By: Jon Meacham
ISBN: 9780399589812
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2018
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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(Paperback)
By: W.E.B. Du Bois
ISBN: 9781598530544
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2009
Publisher: The Library of America
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Originally published: Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1903.
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By: Ian Johnson
ISBN: 9780141986081
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2018
UK Publication Date: 25th January 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Ian Christe
ISBN: 9780380811274
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Presents the evolution of heavy metal music as seen by its top metal bands, including photo spreads with accounts of legendary events and analyses of how this musical genre continues to shape each generation.
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By: Robert Hutchinson
ISBN: 9781780220888
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2014
UK Publication Date: 17th April 2014
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A dramatic blow-by-blow account of the defeat of the Spanish Armada by the English fleet - a tale of daring and disaster on the high seas by one of our best narrative historians.
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By: Hugh Thomas
ISBN: 9780141011615
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2003
UK Publication Date: 3rd April 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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What was it that roused left-wing sympathizers from all over the world to fight against Franco between 1936 and 1939 This title presents the objective and unbiased analysis of a passionate struggle where fascism and democracy, communism and Catholicism were at stake - and which was as much an international war as a Spanish one.
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By: Alejandro de Quesada
ISBN: 9781782007821
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
UK Publication Date: 20th May 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The Spanish Civil War, 1936-39, was the curtain-raiser to World War II, and the major international event of the 1930s. Featuring specially commissioned full-color artwork, this book depicts the fighting men of the Nationalist forces that strove to take control of Spain alongside their German and Italian allies.
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By: Paul Preston
ISBN: 9780007232079
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
UK Publication Date: 30th June 2016
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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UPDATED EDITION
A rousing and full-blooded account of the Spanish Civil War and the rise to prominence of General Franco.
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By: Paul Preston
ISBN: 9780006386957
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2013
UK Publication Date: 31st January 2013
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Selected as the Sunday Times History Book of the Year for 2012, this is a meticulous work of scholarship from the foremost historian of 20th-century Spain.
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By: Barry Strauss
ISBN: 9780753826980
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2010
UK Publication Date: 18th March 2010
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The story of the most famous revolt of the ancient world, and its legendary leader, Spartacus the Gladiator.
(Paperback, Unabridged edition)
By: Paul Cartledge
ISBN: 9781447237204
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
UK Publication Date: 29th August 2013
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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The definitive account of the extraordinary people of Sparta, from the world's leading expert.
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By: Nusrat Rabbee
ISBN: 9781732099319
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: BookBaby
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