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By: Jonathan Freedland
ISBN: 9781529369069
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
UK Publication Date: 25th May 2023
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The astonishing, forgotten story of the hero who escaped from Auschwitz to reveal the truth of the Holocaust.
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By: Stanley Burstein
ISBN: 9781647920401
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2022
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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"An anthology of key selections from the writings of the most important ancient Greek historians: Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Aristotle, Polybius, Memnon, and Plutarch. Maps, editorial annotations, and an index are also provided"--
(Paperback)
By: John M. Headley
ISBN: 9780691171487
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Orlando Figes
ISBN: 9780141979434
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
UK Publication Date: 9th April 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Tim Flannery
ISBN: 9781921922435
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
Publisher: Text Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Virginia Postrel
ISBN: 9781541617629
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Basic Books
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From Paleolithic flax to 3D knitting, an "expansive" global history that highlights "how textiles truly changed the world" (Wall Street Journal)
(Paperback, Revised edition)
By: Noah Feldman
ISBN: 9780691156248
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Tells the story behind the popular call for the establishment of the shari'a - the law of the traditional Islamic state - in the modern Muslim world. This book gives us the sweeping history of the traditional Islamic constitution - its noble beginnings, its downfall, and the renewed promise it could hold for Muslims and Westerners alike.
(Paperback)
By: Eugene Rogan
ISBN: 9780141999074
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 28th July 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Adrian Goldsworthy
ISBN: 9780753826928
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2010
UK Publication Date: 4th February 2010
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A sweeping narrative of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.
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By: Dr Owen Rees
ISBN: 9781526653734
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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What was it like to live on the edges of ancient empires, at the boundaries of the known world In this bold revisionist history of the ancient world, Owen Rees shifts our focus from the centres of Greece and Rome to the lively, long-ignored societies on the borders.
(Hardback)
By: Joseph Wheelan
ISBN: 9781472859792
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 10th October 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A history of the legendary extraction of the Fifth and Seventh Marines from a Chinese trap, told for the first time using Chinese sources.
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By: Robert Hughes
ISBN: 9780099448549
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2003
UK Publication Date: 2nd January 2003
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was the origin of Australia.
(Hardback)
By: Danny Keenan
ISBN: 9781991016287
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
Publisher: Massey University Press
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The battle for Maori lands and livelihoods in the second half of the nineteenth century.
(Hardback, 2nd New edition)
By: John Dunmore
ISBN: 9781991163004
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
Publisher: Heritage Press Ltd
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Remarkable story of Frances dreams of discovering the imagined Southern Continent, de Survilles remarkable stay amongst the Maori of Doubtless Bay, and the terrible price the adventure extracted.
(Paperback)
By: Keith Lowe
ISBN: 9780241966488
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Elliot Ackerman
ISBN: 9780008532710
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
UK Publication Date: 17th August 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A Times Political Book of the Year 2022
A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate endgame, and the wars echoing legacy.
The Fighter of Auschwitz: The incredible true story of Leen Sanders who boxed to help others survive
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By: Erik Brouwer
ISBN: 9781788404303
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 17th August 2023
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
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The incredible story of Leen Sanders, a Dutch boxer who was spared to entertain the Nazi guards at Auschwitz and helped others survive.
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By: Nicholas Buccola
ISBN: 9780691210773
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Paperback reprint. Originally published: 2019.
(Hardback)
By: Katherine Harvey
ISBN: 9781789144895
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
UK Publication Date: 11th October 2021
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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(Paperback)
By: Martin Middlebrook
ISBN: 9780141981604
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
UK Publication Date: 31st March 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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On 1 July, 1916, a continuous line of British soldiers climbed out from the trenches of the Somme into No Man's Land and began to walk slowly towards dug-in German troops armed with machine-guns and defended by thick barbed wire. This is an account of the blackest day in the history of the British army.
(Paperback)
By: Rob Mundle
ISBN: 9780733335440
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: ABC Books
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The First Ghosts: A rich history of ancient ghosts and ghost stories from the British Museum curator
(Paperback)
By: Irving Finkel
ISBN: 9781529303292
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2022
UK Publication Date: 15th September 2022
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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Dr Irving Finkel, curator at the British Museum, explores why the belief in ghosts is what makes us human.
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By: Max Adams
ISBN: 9781788543484
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
UK Publication Date: 11th November 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An investigation of the obscure centuries that followed the departure of the Romans from Britain.
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By: Sian Rees
ISBN: 9780733624636
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2010
Publisher: Hachette Australia
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A new edition of the No 1 Australian bestseller.
