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(Hardback)

By: Colin Jones

ISBN: 9781786693952
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A magisterial overview of the creation, extension and adaptation of the palace of Versailles and its environs, and an exploration of the myth of Versailles from Louis XIV to the present day.


(Hardback)

By: Harald Jhner

ISBN: 9780753559963
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 20th June 2024
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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(Paperback)

By: Mr Stuart Owen

ISBN: 9781784423148
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The story of Lambretta and Vespa scooters in the UK and their social history.


(Paperback, New edition)

By: Joe Glenton

ISBN: 9781913462451
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
UK Publication Date: 9th November 2021
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
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One of Britains most radical veterans takes us on a guided tour through ex-military life at the heart of a dead empire.


(Hardback)

By: Christopher Lee

ISBN: 9781472124753
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Viceroys tells the important story of the British aristocracy sent to govern India during the reigns of five British monarchs and the role it played in the shaping of the modern British identity.


(Paperback)

By: Christopher Lee

ISBN: 9781472124746
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Viceroys tells the important story of the British aristocracy sent to govern India during the reigns of five British monarchs and the role it played in the shaping of the modern British identity.


(Paperback)

By: Michael Napier

ISBN: 9781472840752
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 23rd July 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This illustrated study charts the development and combat history of the Vickers Wellington units, the mainstay of the RAF heavy bomber force during the first half of World War II.


(Hardback)

By: Donald L. Miller

ISBN: 9781451641370
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2019
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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The astonishing story of the longest and most decisive military campaign of the Civil War in Vicksburg, Mississippi, which opened the Mississippi River, split the Confederacy, freed tens of thousands of slaves, and made Grant the most important general of the war.


(Hardback)

By: Prof. Youqin Wang

ISBN: 9780861542239
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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The very purpose of history is to gather up what is about to be lost for ever.


(Hardback)

By: C. Bloom

ISBN: 9780230313828
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2013
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Victoria's Madmen is the story of those who were outcasts by temperament and choice; the non-conformists of the Victorian Age. Clive Bloom's readable account of the dark underbelly of Victoria's Britain captures the unrest bubbling under the surface of strait-laced Victorian society.


(Hardback)

By: Fern Riddell

ISBN: 9781529199314
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
UK Publication Date: 31st July 2025
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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(Paperback)

By: Saul David

ISBN: 9780141005553
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2007
UK Publication Date: 29th March 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Explores the early part of Queen Victoria's reign, when the British Empire was well on the way to becoming the greatest empire the world had ever seen. This title shows how Britain ruthlessly exploited her position as the world's only superpower to expand her empire.


(Paperback)

By: Liza Picard

ISBN: 9780753820902
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2006
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2006
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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From rag-gatherers to royalty, from fish knives to Freemasons: everyday life in Victorian London.


(Paperback)

By: Gordon L. Rottman

ISBN: 9781472809476
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Even when Western Allied troops gained a foothold in Normandy, World War II in Europe was far from over. This book includes detailed description and colour pictures illustrate the means by which the Allied troops on the ground evolved to the point of winning the war on the Western Front.


(Hardback)

By: James Holland

ISBN: 9780718187293
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2022
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)

By: John Strausbaugh

ISBN: 9781455567478
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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A History of New York and New Yorkers during World War II


(Paperback)

By: Gordon L. Rottman

ISBN: 9781472842459
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 29th October 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Andrew Wiest

ISBN: 9781472807694
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Written by the bestselling author of The Boys of '67: Charlie Company's War in Vietnam, this title allows the reader a grunt's-eye-view of the conflict - from the steaming rice paddies and swamps of the Mekong Delta, to the triple-canopy rainforest of the Central Highlands and the forlorn Marine bases that dotted the DMZ.


(Paperback)

By: Christian G. Appy

ISBN: 9780091910129
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2007
UK Publication Date: 7th February 2008
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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Suitable for anyone with even a passing interest in one of the 20th century's defining conflicts, this title offers an accounts of 135 men and women that span the entire history of the Vietnam conflict from its murky origins in the 1940s to the chaotic fall of Saigon in 1975.


(Paperback)

By: Jesse Byock

ISBN: 9780140291155
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2001
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Medieval Iceland was unique amongst Western Europe, with no foreign policy, no defense forces, no king, no lords, no peasants and few battles. This book brings together findings in anthropology and ethnography interwoven with historical fact and masterful insights into the popular Icelandic sagas.


(Hardback)

By: Thomas Williams

ISBN: 9780008299866
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
UK Publication Date: 13th June 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Viking Britain author Thomas Williams returns with a brief history of the interaction between the Vikings and the British to tell the story of the occupation of London.


(Paperback)

By: Thomas Williams

ISBN: 9780008299897
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
UK Publication Date: 9th July 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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London was reborn in the fires of the Viking Age, transformed by immigrants and natives, kings and commoners, warriors and saints.


(Paperback)

By: Noah Tetzner

ISBN: 9781472848857
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
UK Publication Date: 28th April 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Fully illustrated, this absorbing study assesses the warriors fighting on both sides during the Vikings' attacks on the Frankish realm in the 9th century, as raiding escalated into full-scale siege warfare.


(Paperback)

By: Tony Allan

ISBN: 9781844838929
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
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