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By: John Reeves
ISBN: 9781538110393
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Defeated on the battlefield, Robert E. Lee soon faced the wrath of vengeful northerners, including indictment for treason just weeks after the Civil War ended. This book tells the forgotten story of Lees indictment and the slow process by which his memory was transformed from traitor to American icon.
(Paperback)
By: Robert Dallek
ISBN: 9780061628672
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2012
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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A reinterpretation of the postwar years. It examines what drove Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, De Gaulle, and Truman, among others, the leaders of some of the most powerful and populous nations around the globe, to rely on traditional power politics in spite of the catastrophic violence they had endured.
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By: Graham Phillips
ISBN: 9781591431817
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
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One mans journey to uncover the final resting place of the historical King Arthur.
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By: Frank Joseph
ISBN: 9781591430063
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2003
Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
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(Paperback)
By: Daniel Mendelsohn
ISBN: 9780007550128
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2014
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A writer's search for his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original and riveting epic, brilliantly exploring the nature of time and memory.
(Hardback)
By: Stuart A. Reid
ISBN: 9781524748814
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
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"A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller-about the US-sanctioned plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader of the newly independent Congo"--
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By: Stuart A. Reid
ISBN: 9781984899149
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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By: Rob Young
ISBN: 9780571284603
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 18th August 2022
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A riveting journey into the psyche of Britain through its golden age of television and film; a cross-genre feast of moving pictures, from classics to occult hidden gems, The Magic Box is the nation's visual self-portrait in technicolour detail.
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By: Nancy Goldstone
ISBN: 9781780220291
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2013
UK Publication Date: 3rd January 2013
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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An exceptionally dramatic life of Joan of Arc and her previously unchronicled mentor, Yolande of Aragon.
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By: Judith Flanders
ISBN: 9781848878006
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 3rd September 2015
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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The 500-year story of how, and why, our homes have come to be what they are, from the bestselling author of The Victorian City and The Victorian House.
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By: Allan Mallinson
ISBN: 9780553815405
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2011
UK Publication Date: 12th May 2011
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Edgehill, 1642: Surveying the disastrous scene in the aftermath of the first battle of the English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell realizes that war can no longer be made in the old, feudal way: there has to be system and discipline, and therefore - eventually - a standing professional army.
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By: Nicholas Crane
ISBN: 9780753826676
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2017
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2017
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The history of 12,000 years of the British landscape, from the Ice Age to the twenty-first century, by prizewinning author Nicholas Crane, co-presenter of COAST.
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By: Francis Pryor
ISBN: 9780141040592
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2011
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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From our suburban streets which still trace the boundaries of long vanished farms to the Norfolk Broads, formed when medieval peat pits flooded - evidence of man's effect on Britain is everywhere. This title includes over 250 maps and photographs that changes the way you see your surroundings.
(Hardback)
By: Philip Bowring
ISBN: 9781350296817
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: D'arcy Jenish
ISBN: 9780385663274
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Theodore H White
ISBN: 9780061900648
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Theodore H White
ISBN: 9780061900679
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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"Hardcover edition of this book was published in 1973 by Atheneum House, Inc." -- verso page.
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By: Jon E. Lewis
ISBN: 9781841195933
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2004
UK Publication Date: 26th February 2004
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Truth, tragedy and magic, the story of America's original inhabitants
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By: Gillian Tindall
ISBN: 9780712667579
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2003
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2003
Publisher: Vintage
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Yet its populous river, its timbered streets, fashionable ladies, old St Paul's, the devestation of the Fire, the palace of Whitehall and the meadows of Islington live on for us in his etchings.
Drawing on numerous sources, Gillian Tindall creates a montage of Hollar's life and times and of the illustrious lives that touched his.
(Hardback)
By: Joseph Kessel
ISBN: 9781783966936
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 9th March 2023
Publisher: Elliott & Thompson Limited
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The incredible story of Felix Kersten who used his influence over Henrich Himmler to save thousands of lives during the Second World War
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By: Stuart Tootal
ISBN: 9781848546790
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2014
Publisher: John Murray Press
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D-Day as it has never been told before.
(Hardback)
By: Neha Dixit
ISBN: 9781804442272
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
Publisher: Footnote Press Ltd
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A searing account of urbanlife in modern India, told through the eyes of an ordinary working class Muslim woman, Syeda X.
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By: John Keegan
ISBN: 9781844137381
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2004
UK Publication Date: 3rd June 2004
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The Mask of Command is about generals: who they are, what they do and how they affect the world we live in. Grant and the false heroic of Hitler - John Keegan propounds the view of heroism in warfare as inextricable linked with the political imperative of the age and place.
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By: Mark Danner
ISBN: 9781862077850
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2005
Publisher: Granta Books
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The story of the 1989 massacre of civilians in El Salvadore by US-trained soldiers.
