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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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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.

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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

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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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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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The last great, untold story of WWII highly compelling Daily Mail

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Combining both personal and political experience, this is a brilliantly illuminating and profound portrait of Burma.

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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.

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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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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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The first of two volumes in John Erickson's history of the Soviet-German war.

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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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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.

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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

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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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A compelling and persuasive account of how the Romantic Movement permanently changed the way we see things and express ourselves.

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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.

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The Rosetta Stone has been in the British Museum for 200 years and is the single most visited object in the entire collection.

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A new history of the development of the Dutch fleet in the early 20th century, and the role these warships played in World War II, from the defense of Rotterdam to the Battle of the Java Sea and beyond.

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This illustrated study explores, in detail, the RAF's first concentrated air campaign of World War II against one of the hardest and most important targets in Germany -- the industrial heartland of the Ruhr that kept Hitler's war machine running.

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In 1900 just over a thousand British civil servants ruled a population of nearly 300 million people spread over a territory now covered by India, Pakistan, Burma and Bangladesh.

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The story of the surviving Russian Imperial Family as they head into a life of exile aboard the HMS Marlborough.