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Following on from the success of A N. Wilson's THE VICTORIANS, Roy Hattersley's major new appraisal of Edwardian Britain is his finest book to date

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An investigation into the real historical figure of King David and the real location of the Temple of Solomon

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One Day: Saturday 13 July 1985, nearly two billion people woke up with one purpose. Nearly a third of humanity knew where they were going to be that day. This book tells the story of the Eighties through that day at Wembley, sweeping backwards to the end of the Seventies, and forward to the start of the Nineties.

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This is the book that made Simon Schamas reputation when first published in 1987. A historical masterpiece, it is an epic account of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age of Rembrandt and van Diemen.

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After the deposition of Haile Selassie in 1974, which ended the ancient rule of the Abyssinian monarchy, Ryszard Kapuscinski travelled to Ethiopia and sought out surviving courtiers to tell their stories. This work depicts the lavish, corrupt world they had known - from the rituals, hierarchies and intrigues at court to the vagaries of a ruler.

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Describes the archaeological discovery of thousands of life-sized terracotta warrior statues in northern China in 1974, and discusses the emperor who had them created and placed near his tomb.

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In 1500 BC, Earth passed through the comet 12P/Pons-Brook's tail. This book chronicles the shifts in social demeanour and religious philosophy that swept the world in the wake of 12P/Pons-Brooks. It contends that debris in the comet's tail contaminated the atmosphere with a chemical known to cause aggressive behaviour.

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Charting the decline of the French intellectual, from the Dreyfus Affair to Islamophobia

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In almost every major war there comes a point where defeat looms for one side and its rulers cut a deal with the victors, if only in an attempt to save their own skins. This title offers an account of the final months of the Nazi war machine, from the failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in July 1944 to the German surrender in May 1945.

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An intimate, riveting portrait of modern Turkey, combining memoir, politics and history.

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In 1683, two empires - the Ottoman, based in Constantinople, and the Habsburg dynasty in Vienna - came face to face in the culmination of a 250-year power struggle: the Great Siege of Vienna.

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Almost a quarter of a million lives were lost as King and Parliament battled for their religious and political ideals in the English Civil War. This title offers a narrative based on the first-hand accounts of those who witnessed these traumatic events.

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A remarkable popular history of the English Civil War, from the perspectives of those involved in this most significant turning point in British history.

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A lavishly presented atlas of the English Civil Wars, the conflicts that ravaged the countryside of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland from 1639 to 1651.

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A brilliant appraisal of the Civil War and its long-term consequences, by an acclaimed historian.

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A frank, salacious and often shocking portrait of an institution

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In this book, Norman Hampson follows through certain dominant themes in the Enlightenment, and describes the contemporary social and political climate, in which ideas could travel from the salons of Paris to the court of Catherine the Great - but less easily from a master to his servant.

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The astonishing, forgotten story of the hero who escaped from Auschwitz to reveal the truth of the Holocaust.

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The astonishing, forgotten story of the hero who escaped from Auschwitz to reveal the truth of the Holocaust.

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July 1918. A band of Allied Royal Flying Corps airmen are determined to escape Germany's harshest POW camp. Their plan will become the most ambitious mass breakout attempt of the Great War.