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By: David McCullough
ISBN: 9781668003541
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 27th October 2022
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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A hardcover reissue of a classic David McCullough book, featuring some of history's most daring and accomplished figures.
(Paperback)
By: Katie Hickman
ISBN: 9780349008288
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 7th June 2023
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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(Hardback)
By: Katie Hickman
ISBN: 9780349008295
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 26th May 2022
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The extraordinary, dramatic story of the women of the American west: the women who crossed the plains and the mountains in covered wagons, the indigenous women living on the land, the women who came to work in the gold mining cities. Brave hearted women - an amazing cast of characters brought to life by this wonderful storyteller
(Paperback)
By: Heloisa M. Starling
ISBN: 9780141976198
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
UK Publication Date: 31st October 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Chris Renwick
ISBN: 9780141980355
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
UK Publication Date: 2nd August 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Taylor Downing
ISBN: 9780349141015
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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One hundred years on from the Battle of the Somme, Breakdown tells the unusual and little-known story of shell shock in one of the bloodiest battles ever fought by the British army.
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By: Peter B. Doran
ISBN: 9780143130000
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
UK Publication Date: 25th May 2017
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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The incredible tale of how ambitious oil rivals, Marcus Samuel, Jr. and Henri Deterding, joined forces to topple the Standard Oil empire.
(Hardback)
By: Jok Madut Jok
ISBN: 9781786070036
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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A leading expert on the Sudans analyses why so many attempts to bring peace to the region have failed and sets out what it will take to finally see an end to the violence
(Paperback)
By: D J Taylor
ISBN: 9780099474470
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
UK Publication Date: 2nd October 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The Bright Young People were one of the most extraordinary youth cults in British history. A pleasure-seeking band of bohemian party-givers and blue-blooded socialites, they romped through the 1920s gossip columns. This book chronicles England's 'lost generation' of the Jazz Age.
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By: Dale Maharidge
ISBN: 9781541742765
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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"A scrupulous and heartfelt analysis of what it was like to be 'a cog in the biggest battle in the Pacific." The New York Post, Required Reading
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By: Francis Pryor
ISBN: 9780007181872
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2005
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Leading archaeologist Francis Pryor retells the story of King Arthur, legendary king of the Britons, tracing it back to its Bronze Age origins.
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By: Robin Fleming
ISBN: 9780140148237
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2011
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Brings together the research and imaginative engagement to bring us as close as we can hope to get to the tumultuous centuries between the departure of the Roman legions and the arrival of Norman invaders nearly seven centuries later.
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By: Roger Knight
ISBN: 9780141038940
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
UK Publication Date: 26th June 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Looks beyond the familiar exploits of the army and navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. This book shows the degree to which, because of the magnitude and intensity of hostilities, the capacities of the whole British population were involved: industrialists, farmers, shipbuilders, gunsmiths and gunpowder manufacturers.
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By: Francis Pryor
ISBN: 9780007126934
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2004
UK Publication Date: 6th September 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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An authoritative and radical rethinking of the history of Ancient Britain and Ancient Ireland, based on remarkable new archaeological finds.
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By: Oliver Tearle
ISBN: 9781473666030
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 1st November 2018
Publisher: John Murray Press
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A fascinating literary tour of Britain from the author of The Secret Library
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By: Francis Pryor
ISBN: 9780007203628
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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As in Britain B.C. and Britain A.D. (also accompanied by Channel 4 series), eminent archaeologist Francis Pryor challenges familiar historical views of the Middle Ages by examining fresh evidence from the ground.
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By: David Marquand
ISBN: 9780753826065
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2010
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A new political history of modern Britain - entertaining, instructive and thought-provoking.
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By: Richard Gott
ISBN: 9781839764226
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Verso Books
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A magisterial history of the foundation of the British Empire, and the forgotten story of native resistance.
(Paperback)
By: Brendan Simms
ISBN: 9780141983905
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Derek Wilson
ISBN: 9781906021580
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2009
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
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Britain's Rottenest Years is not just a bad news story. It is a fantastically readable leapfrog through British history which takes us, via the interesting bits, from the misery of the Roman invasion of AD60 (when 50,000 Roman thugs invaded) to the Thatcherite year of discontent of 1981.
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By: Alison Weir
ISBN: 9780099539735
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2009
UK Publication Date: 18th December 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Fascinating and authoritative of Britain's royal families from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I to Queen Victoria, by leading popular historian Alison Weir
'George III is alleged to have married secretly, on 17th April, 1759, a Quakeress called Hannah Lightfoot.
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By: David Edgerton
ISBN: 9780141026107
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2012
UK Publication Date: 29th March 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The familiar image of the British in the Second World War is that of the plucky underdog taking on German might. This title shows the conflict in a new light, with Britain as a very wealthy country, formidable in arms, ruthless in pursuit of its interests and sitting at the heart of a global production system.
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By: Daniel Todman
ISBN: 9780141982823
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
UK Publication Date: 25th March 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Nic Fields
ISBN: 9781472842077
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 17th September 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A highly illustrated account of how the Roman legions crossed the sea to conquer Britannia in AD 43.
