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The first history of the icon used by everyone from the royalty to pop stars, revised and updated.

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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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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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*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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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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A panorama of Europe, 1900-1914, describing the cultural, economic and political life before the First World War.

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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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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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The history of the telegraph - the men and women who made it - and its relevance to the current Internet debate

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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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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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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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The first comprehensive military history of the war in Vietnam

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"A comprehensive look at the Vietnam War"--

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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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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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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.

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At a villa on the shore of the Wannsee, a lake in suburban Berlin, on 20th January 1942 one of the most terrible meetings in human history convened. Chaired by Reinhard Heydrich and organized and minuted by Adolf Eichmann, it brought together representatives of all the principal Nazi agencies in eastern Europe.

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"Since it's appearance in The New Yorker, on July 15, 1967, Jonathan Schell's THE VILLAGE OF BEN SUC has come to be regarded as a classic of American reporting. It is a rigorously factual account of the destruction by the United States Army, of a South Vietnamese village and of what happened to the 3500 in habitants"--

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A reissue of Patrick Wright's 1995 classic about the military takeover of the village of Tyneham, with a new introduction taking in Brexit and a new wave of British nationalism.

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Cultural commentator John Strausbaugh's The Village is the first complete history of Greenwich Village, the prodigiously influential and infamous New York City neighborhood.

From the Dutch settlers and Washington Square patricians, to the Triangle Shirtwaist fire and Prohibition-era speakeasies;

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Joyce Marlow presents a collection of women's writing on the Great War drawn from diaries, newspapers, letters and memoirs from across Europe and the States. Starting with material from 1914, she outlines the pre-war campaigns for suffrage and then the demand from women eager to be counted amongst those in action.