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By: Peter Watson
ISBN: 9781471164514
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
UK Publication Date: 8th August 2019
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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This scintillating narrative of spies and science shows how the atomic bomb was the unnecessary product of mistrust and deceit between America and Britain--resulting in a threat of nuclear war that still haunts us today.
(Hardback)
By: Ed Morales
ISBN: 9781568588995
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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The tragedy of US involvement in Puerto Rico, tracing the decades of economic and political exploitation that led to the debt crisis, hobbled the hurricane recovery efforts, and forced the island into a state of despair.
(Paperback)
By: Kurt Andersen
ISBN: 9781785038679
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
UK Publication Date: 7th June 2018
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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By: Jan Morris
ISBN: 9780571290703
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
UK Publication Date: 4th October 2012
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Third in Jan Morris's classic Pax Britannica Trilogy.
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By: Christopher Duggan
ISBN: 9780099539896
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2013
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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He examines the extraordinary hold the Duce had on Italy and how he came to embody fascism.
By making use of rarely examined sources, such as letters and diaries, newspaper reports, secret police files, popular songs and radio broadcasts, Duggan explores how ordinary people experienced fascism on a daily basis;
(Paperback)
By: George Goodwin
ISBN: 9780753828175
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
UK Publication Date: 16th February 2012
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A gripping account of the Wars of the Roses battle of Towton - the most brutal day in English history.
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By: Ronan Fanning
ISBN: 9780571297405
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
UK Publication Date: 12th December 2013
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Fatal Path by Ronan Fanning is a powerful new history of Ireland, covering the decade of the Great War and the Easter Rising.
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By: Ruth Scurr
ISBN: 9780099458982
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2007
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2007
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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'A truly remarkable writer, one of the most gifted non-fiction authors alive' Simon Schama, Financial Times
Robespierre was only thirty-six when he died, sent to the guillotine where he had sent thousands ahead of him.
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By: George Goodwin
ISBN: 9781780221366
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
UK Publication Date: 17th July 2014
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The relationship of England and Scotland became defined by events on 9 September 1513 in a battle of great size, bloodshed and finality - the Battle of Flodden.
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By: Ian Kershaw
ISBN: 9780141014180
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
UK Publication Date: 28th February 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Offers an insight into a series of momentous political decisions that shaped course of Second World War. This title re-creates the ten critical decisions taken between May 1940, when Britain chose not to surrender, and December 1941, when Hitler decided to destroy Europe's Jews, showing how these choices would recast the entire course of history.
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By: Professor Joanna Bourke
ISBN: 9781844081561
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2006
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A history of the twentieth century through those British and American people who experienced the fears of their time - by Wolfson History Prize-winner Joanna Bourke
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By: Glenn Adamson
ISBN: 9781526615527
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2020
UK Publication Date: 14th November 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Thomas E. Ricks
ISBN: 9780141028507
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2007
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Cutting through the headlines and spin, this book gives us a true picture of the reality on the ground, through the words of the people there - from commanders to intelligence officers, army doctors to ordinary soldiers. It provides eye-witness accounts that contradict the official stories and figures.
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By: Edwin C. Bearss
ISBN: 9781426200939
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2007
Publisher: National Geographic Society
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A must for every Civil War buff, this major work will stand as an important reference and enduring legacy of a great historian for generations to come.
(Hardback)
By: Srinath Raghavan
ISBN: 9780465030194
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2018
Publisher: Basic Books
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The two-hundred-year history of the United States' involvement in South Asia--the key to understanding contemporary American policy in the region
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By: Hugh Williams
ISBN: 9780007313907
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2009
UK Publication Date: 25th June 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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What are the 50 key events you need to understand to grasp British history
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By: Tim Cook
ISBN: 9780143189558
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2017
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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"First published in Allen Lane hardcover by Penguin Canada, 2015"--Title page verso.
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By: Allan Mallinson
ISBN: 9780857503800
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2019
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2019
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Looking at the First World War month by month reveals its complexity while preserving a sense of time. The month is a more digestible gauge.
Based on the Allan Mallinsons monthly commentaries in The Times throughout the centenary, Fight to the Finish is a new and original portrait of The War to End War.
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By: Lt John E. Norvell
ISBN: 9781098397333
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
Publisher: BookBaby
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By: PATRICK BISHOP
ISBN: 9780006532040
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2004
UK Publication Date: 30th April 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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In the summer of 1940, the future of Britain and the free world depended on the morale and skill of the young men of Fighter Command. This is their story.
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By: Robert Gildea
ISBN: 9780571280360
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2016
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2016
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, Fighters in the Shadows tells the story of the French Resistance - as it was, rather than how some choose to remember it.
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By: Stephen L. Moore
ISBN: 9780593475867
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2025
UK Publication Date: 18th November 2025
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Laura Dawes
ISBN: 9781474601986
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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An extraordinary, forgotten story of medical triumph against the odds - 'Spirited and readable' Sunday Express
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By: Kate Adie
ISBN: 9781444759693
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
UK Publication Date: 10th April 2014
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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Bestselling author and award-winning former BBC Chief News Correspondent Kate Adie reveals the ways in which women's lives changed during World War One and what the impact has been for women in its centenary year.
