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By: Alistair Moffat
ISBN: 9781838854386
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 8th February 2024
Publisher: Canongate Books
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A walking tour of the border region where England and Scotland meet by the award-winning Scottish writer, meditating on the conflict and union of their relationship through history and in the future
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By: Anne Applebaum
ISBN: 9780141979229
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2015
UK Publication Date: 5th March 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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As Europe's borderlands emerged from Soviet rule, the author travelled from the Baltic to the Black Sea, through Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and the Carpathian mountains. Rich in vivid characters and stories of tragedy and survival, this book illuminates the soul of a place, and the secret history of its people.
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By: Prit Buttar
ISBN: 9781472807496
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
UK Publication Date: 20th March 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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From an expert on the Eastern Front of World War II, this book chronicles the cataclysmic experience of the region that includes modern-day Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia.
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By: Moudhy Al-Rashid
ISBN: 9781529392128
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
UK Publication Date: 20th February 2025
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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A fresh and fascinating new history of ancient Mesopotamia and the birth of history.
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By: Jonathan Foyle
ISBN: 9781785512605
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
Publisher: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd
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Dr Jonathan Foyle traces the importance of St John as both the founder and inspiration for the continuing development of Beverley Minster, one of the most spectacular and impressive of English non-cathedral churches.
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By: David Hirst
ISBN: 9780571237425
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2011
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2011
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A magisterial history of Lebanon from one of the greatest commentators on the Middle East
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By: Dick Winters
ISBN: 9780091941581
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
UK Publication Date: 21st July 2011
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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Dick Winters gives real insight into leadership under the most difficult conditions - every man in the company had been injured by the time they reached Germany - and tells the real story of the Allies' final defeat of Hitler, from the point of view of someone who was really there.
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By: Elisenda Vila Llonch
ISBN: 9780714125411
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2013
UK Publication Date: 21st October 2013
Publisher: British Museum Press
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Drawing on the spectacular collections of the Museum del Oro in Bogota and the British Museum, this beautiful book features over 100 masterpieces fashioned exquisitely in gold and its alloy tumbaga, including small votive figures, decorative nose rings and earrings, vessels, pectorals and masks.
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By: Stephen L. Moore
ISBN: 9780593475843
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 3rd December 2024
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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By: Eileen Rivers
ISBN: 9780306903076
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
Publisher: Hachette Books
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A riveting account of four women who fought shoulder-to-shoulder with men in Iraq and Afghanistan and worked with local women to restore their lives and village communities
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By: Andrew Rader
ISBN: 9781471186509
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 12th November 2020
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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Brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader provides a stunning history of human exploration and assesses where our desire to explore could take us next.
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By: Adam Shoalts
ISBN: 9780735236851
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 13th August 2020
Publisher: Prentice Hall Press
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By: Katja Hoyer
ISBN: 9780241553787
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Howard Goodall
ISBN: 9780099283546
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2001
UK Publication Date: 8th February 2001
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The dramatic story of five key turning points in a thousand years of Western music - discoveries that changed the course of history.
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By: Giles Milton
ISBN: 9780340748824
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2001
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2001
Publisher: John Murray Press
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Bestselling author of NATHANIEL'S NUTMEG, Giles Milton takes us on another fascinating and extraordinary historical adventure.
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By: Angus Konstam
ISBN: 9781472845962
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 19th August 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In the early months and years of World War II, it was Germany's cruisers and battleships that most ravaged the Atlantic Convoys. This is the history of those raids, and how the success of 1941's Operation Berlin led directly to the Kriegsmarine sending into the Atlantic its greatest battleship - the mighty, ill-fated Bismarck.
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By: Harriet Swain
ISBN: 9780099468462
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2006
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Drawing on examples ranging from ancient Greece to Tony Blair's Britain, this title addresses 20 of questions that have asked over the centuries about the course of human events. It takes ride over continents and across centuries in search of answers that are sometimes surprising, often controversial, and of great relevance to how we live today.
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By: Douglas C. Dildy
ISBN: 9781472824516
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 17th February 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A rigorous new analysis of America's legendary "Big Week" air campaign which enabled the Allies to gain air superiority before D-Day.
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By: Bill Yenne
ISBN: 9780425272244
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2014
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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(Hardback)
By: Matthew Dallek
ISBN: 9781541673564
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 13th April 2023
Publisher: Basic Books
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How the John Birch Society, a fringe reactionary group, popularized conspiracy and radicalized modern conservatism
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By: Maurice Walsh
ISBN: 9780571243013
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2016
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A new history of the Irish revolution, placing it in context of the global revolutions of the age.
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By: Joseph Wheelan
ISBN: 9781472849502
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 13th October 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The hard-hitting narrative of the Pacific War's "forgotten battle" of Peleliu -- a story of intelligence failings and impossible bravery.
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By: David Long
ISBN: 9781472109316
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
UK Publication Date: 17th October 2013
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A charming gift book of the strangest and most intriguing stories of London.
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By: David Olusoga
ISBN: 9781529065602
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
UK Publication Date: 10th June 2021
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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An updated edition with new material of the acclaimed re-examination of a shared history, telling the rich and revealing story of the long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa and the Caribbean.
