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By: Peter Hart
ISBN: 9781800810730
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
UK Publication Date: 6th February 2025
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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The gripping story of the siege of Khartoum and Britain's extraordinarily bloody 1882 campaign in Egypt and Sudan
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By: Rachel Lance
ISBN: 9781835010747
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
Publisher: Bedford Square Publishers
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The untold story of the D-Day scientists who changed special operations forever.
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By: Anne De Courcy
ISBN: 9781474608213
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2020
UK Publication Date: 11th June 2020
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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Bestselling social historian Anne de Courcy reveals the glamour and grit of the Second World War on the French Riviera
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By: David Dufty
ISBN: 9781761471353
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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The construction of the Overland Telegraph in 1870 is an extraordinary feat of engineering and a wild gamble that nearly went terribly wrong.
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By: Max Hastings
ISBN: 9780008280567
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
UK Publication Date: 14th May 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A masterly history of the Dambusters raid from bestselling and critically acclaimed Max Hastings.
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By: Victoria Kelley
ISBN: 9781526163851
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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From around 1850, Londons street markets grew in number and scale, giving working-class Londoners a site for shopping, entertainment and sociability. Cheap Street is the first major study of this subject, analysing the street markets as a component of Londons lively informal economy, and providing new insights into urban and consumer geographies.
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By: Giles Milton
ISBN: 9781529393170
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2022
UK Publication Date: 14th April 2022
Publisher: John Murray Press
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A compulsive page-turner about the battle for Berlin and control of the Western world in the aftermath of the Second World War from 'the master of narrative history'.
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By: Leslie B. Jones
ISBN: 9781785512919
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2021
Publisher: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd
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This richly illustrated book explores Cheekwood, a 55-acre destination in Nashville, Tennessee, one of the finest American Country Place Era estates in the nation.
(Hardback)
By: Tahir Kamran
ISBN: 9781789149135
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 1st July 2024
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A sweeping journey through the ebbs and flows of Pakistans history.
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By: Serhii Plokhy
ISBN: 9780241723593
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Serhii Plokhy
ISBN: 9780141988351
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
UK Publication Date: 31st January 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Graham Hutchings
ISBN: 9781350336636
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Frank Diktter
ISBN: 9781526634306
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 17th August 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Liang Hong
ISBN: 9781839765568
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: Verso Books
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An unforgettable portrait of the tectonic shifts happening in rural China-told through the microcosm of one small town
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By: Van Der Zijpp Bridget
ISBN: 9781776560530
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press
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China's new role as an important diplomatic and economic partner of the island countries of the Pacific has attracted increasing attention, and some controversy, in recent years. Based on a conference held at the National University of Samoa in Apia in February 2015, this volume discusses this topic.
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By: John Keay
ISBN: 9780007221783
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
UK Publication Date: 25th June 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Three thousand years of Chinese history in an accessible and authoritative single volume.
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By: Shuxia Chen
ISBN: 9780909952242
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
Publisher: Power Publications
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Chinese belt toggles, known as zhuizi, are small carved ornaments that offer a rare glimpse into everyday life in early modern China.
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By: Peter Heather
ISBN: 9780241215913
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Peter E. Davies
ISBN: 9781472860545
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 18th July 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In 1960, SAC's B-52s began a nonstop, eight-year, nuclear-armed patrol. Fully illustrated, this study explains how one of the Cold War's most challenging operations was conceived and flown.
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By: Joinville and Villehardouin
ISBN: 9780140449983
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2008
UK Publication Date: 30th October 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In the first years of the thirteenth century Villehardouin served as an envoy in the Fourth Crusade. Half a century later, Joinville accompanied the French king, Louis IX, on crusade to Egypt and the Near East. This book offers narratives of these campaigns and provides insights into the characters and beliefs of the crusaders.
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By: Giles Milton
ISBN: 9781444798982
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
UK Publication Date: 6th April 2017
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The incredible story of the secret underground operations of the Second World War.
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By: Nicholas Rankin
ISBN: 9780571221967
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
UK Publication Date: 7th May 2009
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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More devious than Enigma, more cunning than James Bond, these are true stories of how the British elevated the art of deception and disguise against the Nazis.
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By: Leo McKinstry
ISBN: 9781529319378
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 23rd May 2024
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The remarkable story of the unsung RAF wing who rescued Britain from Hitler's U-boats and made Allied victory possible.
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By: Colin McEvedy
ISBN: 9781846144288
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
UK Publication Date: 28th February 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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