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By: Arrian
ISBN: 9780140442533
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1976
UK Publication Date: 29th July 1976
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Discusses Alexander's violent suppression of the Theban rebellion, his defeat of Persia and campaigns through Egypt and Babylon - establishing new cities and destroying others in his path. This title presents an objective portrait of a man of boundless ambition, who was exposed to the temptations of power.
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By: Mark Lardas
ISBN: 9781472849366
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 24th November 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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U-505 was the first enemy warship the US Navy captured at sea since 1812. This is a new account of how Captain Gallery planned and executed the raid on his own initiative, and how his success almost endangered the war against the U-boats.
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By: Peter FitzSimons
ISBN: 9780733641244
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
Publisher: Hachette Australia
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(Hardback)
By: Ian Stewart
ISBN: 9780691222516
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Simon Jenkins
ISBN: 9781788168816
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 30th March 2023
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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A short history of one of Ancient Britain's most enigmatic civilisations
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By: Neil Price
ISBN: 9780141984445
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: James Bradley
ISBN: 9780316196680
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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(Paperback)
By: Denis Byrne
ISBN: 9780522880229
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Lucas Jordan
ISBN: 9781742238098
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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(Hardback)
By: Leigh Eric Schmidt
ISBN: 9780691217253
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Ian Buruma
ISBN: 9781786494672
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2021
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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A brilliant and insightful history of the special relationship between the UK and the USA, which Ian Buruma argues is now under threat with the election of Donald Trump and Brexit.
The Churchills: A Family at the Heart of History - from the Duke of Marlborough to Winston Churchill
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By: Mary S. Lovell
ISBN: 9780349119786
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2012
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2012
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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*The story of one of the most famous of all British families - the Churchills
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By: Charlie English
ISBN: 9780008495138
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 13th March 2025
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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This is the astonishing story of the ten million books that US intelligence smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War.
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By: Hugh Wilford
ISBN: 9781399816854
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
Publisher: John Murray Press
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A celebrated British historian of US intelligence explores how the CIA was born in anti-imperialist idealism but swiftly became an instrument of a new covert empire both in America and overseas.
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By: Julius Caesar
ISBN: 9780140441871
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1977
UK Publication Date: 26th August 1976
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Recording the events of the author's life, who is a military leader, this title depicts his struggle with Pompey over the leadership of Republican Rome - a conflict that spanned the entire Roman world, from Gaul and Spain to Asia and Africa.
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By: Appian
ISBN: 9780140445091
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1989
UK Publication Date: 27th June 1996
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Covering the period from the rise of Tiberius Gracchus in 133 BC to the eve of the Battle of Actium, this book offers a narrative of this crucial phase of Roman history, making the conflict "within" the Roman state to the exclusion of other material and tracing the economic and social factors.
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By: Jacob Burckhardt
ISBN: 9780140445343
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1990
UK Publication Date: 28th June 1990
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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This 19th-century survey of the Renaissance propounds the view that it was at this time that man became aware of himself as a spiritual individual. This concept of the Renaissance has been much discussed, as has Burckhardt's cultural pessimism.
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By: Mark Daniels
ISBN: 9781789296556
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 12th September 2024
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
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An entertaining and accessible introduction to the fascinating world of Greek and Roman history, covering the people, events, art and mythology that have shaped the Western world.
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By: Mark Daniels
ISBN: 9781789297140
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 12th September 2024
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
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An entertaining and accessible introduction to the fascinating world of Greek and Roman history, covering the people, events, art and mythology that have shaped the Western world.
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By: Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
ISBN: 9781472295170
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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A remarkable insight into the real story of the seven Queen Cleopatras of Ancient Egypt
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By: Patrick Lindsay
ISBN: 9781742753126
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2011
Publisher: Random House Australia
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By: Ian Bradley
ISBN: 9781780277790
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2022
Publisher: Birlinn General
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'Coffin roads' are a marked feature of the landscape of the Scottish Highlands and islands many are now popular walking and cycling routes. This book journeys along eight coffin roads to discover and explore the distinctive traditions, beliefs and practices around dying, death and mourning in the communities which created and used them.
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By: Odd Arne Westad
ISBN: 9780141979915
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
UK Publication Date: 5th July 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Professor Robert Aldrich
ISBN: 9781350092402
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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