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By: Stuart Tootal
ISBN: 9781848542587
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2010
Publisher: John Murray Press
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A compelling and human portrait of modern war.
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By: Terry Deary
ISBN: 9781780226378
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2016
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2015
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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From the author of HORRIBLE HISTORIES comes the third volume in Terry Deary's gritty and humorous history series for adults.
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By: Terry Deary
ISBN: 9781780226354
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
UK Publication Date: 22nd May 2014
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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From the internationally bestselling author of Horrible Histories, the first volume in a new series for adults.
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By: Terry Deary
ISBN: 9781780226361
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2015
UK Publication Date: 21st May 2015
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The terrible truth behind the history of our railways by Terry Deary, creater of Horrible Histories. Strictly for grown-ups!
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By: Ian Thomson
ISBN: 9781789548778
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A biography of the great epic poem.
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By: John Prebble
ISBN: 9780712668538
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2002
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2002
Publisher: Vintage
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Three hundred years ago the Parliament of Scotland, in one of its last acts before the nation lost its political identity, defied the King and the persistent hostility of the English to establish a noble trading company, to settle a colony, and to recover its people from a century of despair, privation, famine and decay.
(Hardback)
By: Sheila Rowbotham
ISBN: 9781839763892
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
UK Publication Date: 9th November 2021
Publisher: Verso Books
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A personal history of life, love and women's liberation
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By: James G. Blight
ISBN: 9781538101995
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Dark Beyond Darkness is the first book to take readers deeply inside the experience and calculations of leaders during the Cuban Missile Crisis and to connect that crisis to the nuclear risk today, whether from war between superpowers, climate catastrophe following a regional nuclear war or a nuclear conflict sparked by an accident.
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By: Paul Strathern
ISBN: 9781838958558
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2024
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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A sweeping history of the Age of Reason, which shows how, although it was a time of progress in many areas, it was also an era of brutality and intolerance, by the author of The Borgias and The Florentines.
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By: W. Scott Poole
ISBN: 9781640096127
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2023
Publisher: Counterpoint
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(Hardback)
By: W. Scott Poole
ISBN: 9781640094369
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2022
Publisher: Counterpoint
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"With Dark Carnivals, author W. Scott Poole, an expert in horror and its impact on American history, reveals how the horror genre as a way of seeing the world has become one of the most incisive critiques of America and its history and influence around the globe"--
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By: Mark Mazower
ISBN: 9780140241594
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2008
UK Publication Date: 24th June 1999
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The end of First World War saw old empires swept away and opportunity to build a better society from the ruins. This title overturns the myth of Europe as a safe haven of democracy to redefine our view of twentieth century. It tells the story of a century of division, charting struggles of rival ideologies to create a new world order for mankind.
(Hardback)
By: Stephen Greenblatt
ISBN: 9781847927132
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2025
UK Publication Date: 11th September 2025
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Matthew H. Hersch
ISBN: 9780262546720
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: E. Amy Buller
ISBN: 9781911350194
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2017
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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Darkness Over Germany delivers a stark warning from history of how a man with little political experience rose up as a voice of the people, a voice for the disenfranchised who were suffering the injustices of social inequality and unemployment.
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By: Bob Alford
ISBN: 9781472816870
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A highly illustrated account of the Japanese aerial assault on the port of Darwin in February 1942--the first attack ever mounted by a foreign power on Australia.
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By: Ulises A. Mejias
ISBN: 9780753560204
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2024
UK Publication Date: 8th February 2024
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Jean Sasson
ISBN: 9780553816938
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2004
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2004
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Readers of Princess Sultana's extraordinary story, PRINCESS, were gripped by her powerful indictment of women's lives behind the veil within the royal family of Saudi Arabia. Now, the princess turns the spotlight on her two teenage daughters, Maha and Amani.
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By: James Buchan
ISBN: 9781848540675
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2013
UK Publication Date: 26th September 2013
Publisher: John Murray Press
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An insider's view of one of the events that shaped the modern world.
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By: Hywel Williams
ISBN: 9780857383396
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2011
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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The 50 defining events of world history.
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By: Simon Schama
ISBN: 9781847087324
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
Publisher: Granta Books
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Simon Schama sets out to tell the history of two certainties, of two deaths. In discussing the 'speculations' surrounding them, he finds himself involved in a history he cannot classify -the unpredictable history of stories.
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By: Jeremy Duns
ISBN: 9781849839297
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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By: Toby Harnden
ISBN: 9781849164238
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2012
UK Publication Date: 27th October 2011
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE 2012. The inside story of one of the most notorious tours of duty of the current Afghan War.
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By: Zarghuna Kargar
ISBN: 9780099542186
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2012
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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'A poignant celebration of human resilience' Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner
Dear Zari gives voice to the secret lives of women across Afghanistan and allows them to tell their stories in their own words: from the child bride given as payment to end a family feud;
