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By: Matthew Dennison
ISBN: 9781848876859
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2013
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2013
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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An unforgettable depiction of the Roman empire at the height of its power and reach, and an elegantly sensational retelling of the lives and times of the 'twelve Caesars'.
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By: Lawrence Paterson
ISBN: 9781472848253
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A unique perspective of the global history of U-boats during the entirety of the Second World War by Lawrence Paterson, one of the world's leading U-boat experts.
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By: Alexander Lee
ISBN: 9780099579472
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
UK Publication Date: 28th August 2014
Publisher: Cornerstone
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Featuring the beauties of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, combined with the dark and hidden side of the Renaissance, by an acclaimed historian and expert in the period.
Renowned as an age of artistic rebirth, the Renaissance is cloaked with an aura of beauty and brilliance.
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By: John Berger
ISBN: 9781805302995
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 29th February 2024
Publisher: Canongate Books
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A succinct, urgent and never-before seen collection of Berger's writing on mineworkers and miners' strikes celebrating both his acclaimed writing and deep-rooted politics
(Hardback)
By: PaulAndrew Hutton
ISBN: 9781524746131
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
UK Publication Date: 5th August 2025
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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By: Professor Nick Groom
ISBN: 9781786491480
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
UK Publication Date: 17th August 2017
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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The first history of the icon used by everyone from the royalty to pop stars, revised and updated.
(Hardback)
By: Dave Anthony
ISBN: 9780399578755
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
UK Publication Date: 27th April 2017
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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(Hardback)
By: John Nichol
ISBN: 9781398509443
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 26th September 2024
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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A moving account of how and why the tomb of the Unknown Warrior came about, by best-selling author and ex-serviceman John Nichol.
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By: Emma Sky
ISBN: 9781782392606
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2016
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2015. The riveting first-hand account of a young British woman who, initially a civilian volunteer helping rebuild Iraq after the 2003 invasion, soon found herself as a political advisor to the US military.
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By: George Packer
ISBN: 9781529111583
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2019
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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*WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION*
A Great American Novel in the guise of a Great Nonfiction Epic, The Unwinding asksdo we truly like the world we have made for ourselves The Times
America is in crisis.
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By: Jan Morris
ISBN: 9780140119947
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1990
UK Publication Date: 4th January 1990
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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For six centuries, the Republic of Venice was a maritime empire, its sovereign power extending throughout much of the eastern Mediterranean. This book reconstructs the whole of this glittering dominion in the form of a sea-voyage, travelling along the historic Venetian trade routes from Venice itself to Greece, Crete and Cyprus.
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By: Philipp Blom
ISBN: 9780753825983
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2009
UK Publication Date: 3rd September 2009
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A panorama of Europe, 1900-1914, describing the cultural, economic and political life before the First World War.
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By: David Potter
ISBN: 9780857382009
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2012
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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A history of Greek and Roman sport in the ancient world, and the genesis of the Olympic Games.
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By: Judith Flanders
ISBN: 9780007131891
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2004
UK Publication Date: 2nd August 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The bestselling social history of Victorian domestic life, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of 19th-century men and women.
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By: Tom Standage
ISBN: 9780753807033
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1999
UK Publication Date: 1st April 1999
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The history of the telegraph - the men and women who made it - and its relevance to the current Internet debate
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By: A.N. Wilson
ISBN: 9780099451860
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2003
UK Publication Date: 4th September 2003
Publisher: Cornerstone
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People, not abstract ideas, make history, and nowhere is this more revealed than in A. The 'global village' is a Victorian village and many of the ideas we take for granted, for good or ill, originated with these extraordinary, self-confident people. Wilson shows us remarkable people in the very act of creating the Victorian age.
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By: Jeremy Paxman
ISBN: 9781846077449
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
UK Publication Date: 4th February 2010
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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A portrait of the Victorian world that takes readers on a journey through the birth of modern Britain. Using the paintings of the era as a starting point, it tells us stories of urban life, family, faith, industry and empire that helped define the Victorian spirit and imagination.
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By: Andrew Wiest
ISBN: 9781472851123
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 20th January 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Updated and revised, with all new images throughout, this is a concise study of the Vietnam War, the most important event of the "American Century."
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By: Geoffrey Wawro
ISBN: 9781541606081
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
Publisher: Basic Books
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The first comprehensive military history of the war in Vietnam
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By: Geoffrey C. Ward
ISBN: 9781785039089
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
UK Publication Date: 19th September 2019
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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(Hardback)
By: Geoffrey C. Ward
ISBN: 9780307700254
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
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"A comprehensive look at the Vietnam War"--
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By: Ren Chartrand
ISBN: 9781472813213
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
UK Publication Date: 22nd September 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Bursting with full color illustrations, this is a handy, complete guide to the Vikings, from the lives they led at home to their voyages of plunder across Europe and into America.
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By: Else Roesdahl
ISBN: 9780141984766
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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First publised in Denmark under the title Vikingernes verden by Gyldendal Copenhagen 1987. This translation first published by Allen Lane in 1991.
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By: Jayne Carroll
ISBN: 9780714128313
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
UK Publication Date: 21st April 2014
Publisher: British Museum Press
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Written by three authors specializing in a range of disciplines, and drawing on the superb collection of the British Museum, together with finds, sites and monuments, The Vikings in Britain and Ireland is a well-illustrated introduction to the culture, daily life and times of the Vikings, and their legacy which is still visible today.
