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Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War.

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The Histories of Herodotus, completed in the second half of the 5th century BC, is generally regarded as the first work of history and the first great masterpiece of non-fiction writing. This book offers a translation of Herodotus' Histories.

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Charts world history from the dawn of civilisation to the modern culture we live in today. From the origins of homo-sapiens to the release of Nelson Mandela, from the French Revolution to the Space Race, this book presents an exploration of the human timeline up to and including modern Islam, the world wide web, and the global financial crisis.

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The mad, bad and dangerous to know bits of history, by @The HistoryGossip's Katie Smith.

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Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who led the Macedonian army to victory in Egypt, Syria, Persia and India, was perhaps the most successful conqueror the world has ever seen. Yet although no other individual has attracted so much speculation across the centuries, Alexander himself remains an enigma.

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Challenging our understanding of social struggles as movements, Mehmet Dsemeci traces a 300-year counter-history of struggle predicated on disruption.

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Gibbon's "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" (the first volume was originally published in 1776), is one of the most famous texts in the English language. David Womersley's annotated edition returns to manuscript and original sources.

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Decline and Fall spans thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks. David Womersley's selection and commentary enables the reader to acquire a general sense of the progress and argument of the whole work and displays the variety of Gibbon's achievement.

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Gibbon's "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" (the second and third volumes were originally published in 1781), is one of the most famous texts in the English language. David Womersley's annotated edition returns to manuscript and original sources.

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Traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the coming of the Saxons some two thousand years later. This title portrays legendary and semi-legendary figures such as Lear, Cymbeline, Merlin the magician and the most famous of all British heroes, King Arthur.

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In a narrative beginning almost 1.5 million years ago with the emergence of Homo erectus, Frank Welsh takes the reader from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, from the Industrial Revolution to the age of terrorism.

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The astounding story of the quest to find the living descendants of the most monstrous tyrant in history - Adolf Hitler

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The second volume in a new narrative of the rise and catastrophic fall of the Nazi regime by a respected expert on the Third Reich.

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A fine introduction to the culture and art of the Hittites, a vibrant civilization that flourished in central Anatolia from the 17th to the 13th century BC.

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The first dedicated study of the cat-and-mouse struggle between aBritish cryptographer at Bletchley Park, and an Austrian SS major responsible for the masskillings of thousands of Russian and Polish Jews. The account of how Nigel de Grey crackedthe Enigma-coded signals of SS Major Hermann Hoefle is one of the greatest untoldstories of the Second World War.

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Controversial indictment of those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for personal and political gain

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In The Home Front Steven Loveridge and James Watson offer a compelling account of how a small and developing country confronted the complex questions and brutal realities of a world war.

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In this lively collection, renowned writers including Paul Daley, Mark McKenna, Peter Stanley, Carolyn Holbrook, Mark Dapin, Carmen Lawrence, Frank Bongiorno and Larissa Behrendt explore not only the militarisation of Australian history but the alternative narratives swamped under the khaki wash Indigenous history, frontier conflict, multiculturalism, the myth of egalitarianism, and economics.

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