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By: Ronald C Rosbottom
ISBN: 9780062470027
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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The author of When Paris Went Dark returns to World War II to tell the remarkable story of the youngest members of the French Resistance and their war against the German occupiers and their collaborators
On June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a nearly deserted Paris.
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By: Joyce Marlow
ISBN: 9780349007748
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2015
UK Publication Date: 3rd September 2015
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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* A comprehensive anthology of the long and bloody history of women's struggle to get the vote. Here is the story in the voices of the women themselves.
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By: Andrea Stuart
ISBN: 9781846270727
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2013
Publisher: Granta Books
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An epic and intimate story of the crop that created nations, enriched empires, enslaved peoples -- and determined the destiny of one family over four centuries.
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By: Georgina Sturge
ISBN: 9780349129013
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A history of the UK told through statistics
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By: Georgina Sturge
ISBN: 9780349129020
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 10th April 2025
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A history of the UK told through how we have collected statistics about ourselves - and how we decide what (and who) counts
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By: Dan Jones
ISBN: 9780007213931
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2010
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Revolt and upheaval in medieval Britain by a brilliant new narrative historian, Summer of Blood breaks new ground in its portrayal of the personalities and politics of the bloody days of June 1381.
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By: Lyndal Roper
ISBN: 9781399818025
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
UK Publication Date: 13th February 2025
Publisher: John Murray Press
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A definitive history of the German Peasants' War, the greatest popular uprising in Western Europe before the French Revolution, by award-winning historian Lyndal Roper.
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By: Richard A. Serrano
ISBN: 9780807028353
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: Beacon Press
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(Hardback)
By: Richard A. Serrano
ISBN: 9780807060964
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
Publisher: Beacon Press
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(Paperback)
By: Franck Goddio
ISBN: 9780500292372
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2016
UK Publication Date: 16th May 2016
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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Beneath the waters of Abukir Bay, lie the submerged remains of the ancient Egyptian cities Canopus and Thonis-Heracleion, which sank over 1,000 years ago but were brought to the surface by in the 1990s. These ancient artefacts are to be exhibited in Britain in 2016. This book tells the story of these two ancient civilizations.
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By: Steven J. Zaloga
ISBN: 9781472826107
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
UK Publication Date: 27th December 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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One of military history's most exciting subjects--ultra-long-range guns of the 20th century, the pride of Kaiser Wilhelm, Adolf Hitler, and Saddam Hussein.
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By: Michael Schuman
ISBN: 9781541788343
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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This history of China as the Chinese would write it gives brilliant and unconventional insights for understanding China's role in the world, especially the drive to 'Make China Great Again.'
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By: Paul Schrag
ISBN: 9781591431220
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2011
Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
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Lewis and Clark found evidence that the American continent was visited and settled long before Columbus. The authors reveal that these discoveries threatened powerful interests in Washington--including the Smithsonian Institution--and culminated in Lewis's murder.
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By: Edward Glaeser
ISBN: 9781529364330
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
Publisher: John Murray Press
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Survival of the City is an essential guide to the past and future of our cities
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By: Edward Glaeser
ISBN: 9781529364323
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2021
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2021
Publisher: John Murray Press
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Survival of the City is an essential guide to the past and future of our cities
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By: Edward Glaeser
ISBN: 9781529364347
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2022
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2022
Publisher: John Murray Press
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Survival of the City is an essential guide to the past and future of our cities
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By: Jane Rogoyska
ISBN: 9780861543038
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2022
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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The extraordinary true story of one of the greatest mysteries of World War II
(Hardback)
By: Jane Rogoyska
ISBN: 9781786078926
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
UK Publication Date: 6th May 2021
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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The extraordinary true story of one of the greatest mysteries of World War II
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By: Brian MacArthur
ISBN: 9780349119373
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2006
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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* Magisterial history of the Japanese prisoner-of-war experience, a gut-wrenching narrative that resonates to this day.
(Paperback)
By: Elizabeth Rosner
ISBN: 9781640091078
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Counterpoint
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(Paperback)
By: Reg Twigg
ISBN: 9780241965115
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2014
UK Publication Date: 6th March 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Reg Twigg spends the next three years in hell, moving from jungle camp to jungle camp and building the Burma Railway for the all-conquering Japanese. He was a risk taker whose survival strategies sometimes bordered on genius.
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By: Hannah Durkin
ISBN: 9780008446512
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2024
UK Publication Date: 18th January 2024
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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This is an immersive and revelatory history of the survivors of the Clotilda, the last ship of the Atlantic slave trade, whose lives diverged and intersected in profound ways.
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By: David McKean
ISBN: 9781610392211
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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A stirring narrative history of the political manoeuvring and infighting that took place among the Founding Fathers, epitomized in the revolutionary life of Governor, Chief Justice, and last signer of the Declaration of Independence Thomas McKean.
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By: Joe Holley
ISBN: 9780316451154
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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One part Columbine, one part God Save Texas, Joe Holley's riveting, compassionate book examines the 2017 mass shooting at a church in a small Texas town, revealing the struggles and triumphs of these fellow Texans long after the satellite news trucks have gone.
