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By: Peter Hopkirk
ISBN: 9780719564512
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2006
UK Publication Date: 27th March 2006
Publisher: John Murray Press
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'Hopkirk has made the extraordinary field of Central-Asian espionage his own ... an enthralling story' Observer
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By: Plutarch
ISBN: 9780140449433
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2005
UK Publication Date: 26th May 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the rise and fall of this remarkable Greek city-state between the sixth and third centuries BC.
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By: Lois Lowry
ISBN: 9780358668077
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Apr 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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From two-time Newbery medalist and living legend Lois Lowry comes a moving account of the lives lost in two of WWII's most infamous events: Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima. With evocative black-and-white illustrations by SCBWI Golden Kite Award winner Kenard Pak. Now in paperback.
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By: Clare Hammond
ISBN: 9780241623893
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Dan Snow
ISBN: 9781473691308
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2019
Publisher: John Murray Press
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3000 years of the most important stories from the past in 365 days -- from the Ides of March to D-Day, from Britain's favourite historian
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By: John Marincola
ISBN: 9780141393575
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 7th December 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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This anthology of writings from the ancient world explores how history should be written and what responsibility the historian bears. It ranges from longer pieces, such as the complete essays 'On Thucydides' by Dionysus, 'On the Malice of Herodotus' by Plutarch and the witty 'How to Write History' by Lucian, to key shorter writings by Polybius, Cicero, Xenophon and Pliny the Younger.
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By: James Bluemel
ISBN: 9781785944574
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
UK Publication Date: 18th March 2021
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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By: Matthew Parker
ISBN: 9781408708590
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The story of the British Empire at its maximum territorial extent, including a wider range of voices of the colonised than have ever been recorded before
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By: Helen Beaglehole
ISBN: 9780995143197
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
Publisher: Massey University Press
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The many coves of the Marlborough Sounds are some of the most beautiful places in New Zealand. History has played out here in complex ways - Maori and Pakeha, land and sea, boom and bust, locals and tourists.
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By: Michael Frank
ISBN: 9781800815377
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
UK Publication Date: 26th January 2023
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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From the sun-soaked, vibrant Juderia of Rhodes to the horrors of the Nazi camps, Stella Levi's life - told to the author over a series of Saturdays - is a joyful and devastating story of extraordinary resilience
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By: Tom Segev
ISBN: 9780349112862
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2001
UK Publication Date: 4th October 2001
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Great Britain ruled Palestine from 1917 to 1948. The British presence replaced 500 years of Turkish control and led to the State of Israel, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1998. The British brought Palestine into the twentieth century.
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By: Eduardo Galeano
ISBN: 9781921640049
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2009
Publisher: Scribe Publications
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The various facets of Latin American history organised according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. Galeano traces these veins through the body of the entire continent, up to the Rio Grande and throughout the Caribbean, and all the way to their open ends where they empty into the coffers of wealth in the United States and Europe.
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By: Hasia R. Diner
ISBN: 9781250243928
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 18th September 2024
Publisher: St Martin's Press
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By: Ian W. Shaw
ISBN: 9780733642241
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
Publisher: Hachette Australia
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The dramatic and heart-warming story of the last-minute evacuation of hundreds of orphaned babies from South Vietnam in the dying days of the Vietnam War and of the brave Australian nurses who made it happen.
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By: Peter Taylor
ISBN: 9781526659644
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 28th March 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Robin Cross
ISBN: 9781681778600
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: Pegasus Books
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A dramatic and expertly rendered narrative of the Allied liberation of the South of France during Operation Dragoon in 1944.
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By: Paul Grace
ISBN: 9780733650543
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
Publisher: Hachette Australia
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By: PATRICK BISHOP
ISBN: 9780241985991
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 21st July 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Gary Followill
ISBN: 9781922896681
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
Publisher: Big Sky Publishing
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By: Marshall Michel III
ISBN: 9781472827609
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 20th September 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The Linebacker II campaign of 1972 saw America's fearsome but irreplaceable B-52s finally sent into action above the Vietnamese capital Hanoi in an attempt to bomb the Vietnamese to the negotiating table.
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By: Eric Bogosian
ISBN: 9780316292108
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
UK Publication Date: 28th February 2017
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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A nail-bitingly suspenseful account of the conspiracy of assassins that hunted down Turkish officials following the Armenian Genocide.
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By: Annie Jacobsen
ISBN: 9780316221030
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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By: Max Hastings
ISBN: 9780008364984
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 12th May 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The Sunday Times bestseller One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hastings DAILY MAIL
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By: Ian Howie-Willis
ISBN: 9781922896148
Publication Date: Nov 2023
Publisher: Big Sky Publishing
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