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(Hardback)
By: Samantha Bresnahan
ISBN: 9781541702578
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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An intergenerational story of war, forgiveness, and memory told through stolen and returned family heirlooms.
(Paperback)
By: DR David Reynolds
ISBN: 9780141019642
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Forces us to reconsider much received wisdom about the war and illuminates an unjustly neglected period of his life the Second Wilderness Years of 1945-51, when Churchill, now over seventy, wrote himself into history, politicked himself back into Downing Street and delivered some of the most important speeches of his career.
(Paperback)
By: Sophie Wahnich
ISBN: 9781784782023
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Verso Books
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Provocative reassessment of the Great Terror as a price worth paying
(Paperback)
By: Geert Mak
ISBN: 9780099516736
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
UK Publication Date: 6th March 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Geert Mak spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent, tracing the history of Europe from Verdun to Berlin, St Petersburg to Auschwitz, Kiev to Srebrenica.
(Paperback)
By: Sergio Miller
ISBN: 9781472838476
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
UK Publication Date: 4th February 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This is the first title of a highly detailed yet accessible two-volume history of America's involvement in Vietnam, drawing on cutting-edge research and top secret material to tell the full story from the end of World War II through to the Fall of Saigon in 1975.
(Paperback)
By: Lis Harris
ISBN: 9780807002445
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
Publisher: Beacon Press
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(Hardback)
By: Lis Harris
ISBN: 9780807029688
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
Publisher: Beacon Press
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(Paperback)
By: Melvyn Bragg
ISBN: 9780340977521
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2010
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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Published to tie-in with the new series of the popular BBC Radio 4 programme, IN OUR TIME guides us through the most significant moments in our history.
(Paperback)
By: Oscar Wilde
ISBN: 9781784784812
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
Publisher: Verso Books
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The works of Wilde's annus mirabilis of 1891 in one volume, with an introduction by renowned British playwright.
(Hardback, Main)
By: John Kampfner
ISBN: 9781838954819
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2023
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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The new book from Sunday Times bestselling author John Kampfner: a sweeping history of Berlin, city of haven and hell, disaster and reinvention
(Paperback)
By: Giorgio van Straten
ISBN: 9781782273745
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Pushkin Press
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The gripping and elegiac stories of eight lost books, and the mysterious circumstances behind their disappearances.
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By: Michael Wood
ISBN: 9780563522768
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2005
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2005
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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'With In Search of the Dark Ages, Michael Wood wrote the book for history on TV.' The Times
'Michael Wood is the maker of some of the best TV documentaries ever made on history and archaeology.' Times Literary Supplement
(Paperback)
By: Michael Wood
ISBN: 9781785948206
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
UK Publication Date: 9th February 2023
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Michael Wood
ISBN: 9780563522652
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2005
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2005
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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Detailing the rediscovery in Moscow of the so-called jewels of Helen and the re-excavation of the site of Troy begun in 1988, which continues to yield new evidence about the historical city, In Search of the Trojan War takes a fresh look at some of the most excited discoveries in archaeology.
(Hardback)
By: Daniel H. Weiss
ISBN: 9781541773905
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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Through the story of the brief, brave life of a promising poet, the president and CEO of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art evokes the turmoil and tragedy of the Vietnam War era
(Paperback)
By: Pervez Musharraf
ISBN: 9781416527787
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2008
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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(Hardback)
By: Jeffrey Veidlinger
ISBN: 9781509867448
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2022
UK Publication Date: 11th November 2021
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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In the Midst of Civilized Europe is an extensively researched account of a forgotten history.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Selina O'Grady
ISBN: 9781843547013
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2020
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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An original and groundbreaking history of religious tolerance that offers an essential guide to understanding Islam and the West today and the role of religion in the modern world.
(Hardback)
By: Dan Jones
ISBN: 9781838934828
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 29th October 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An illustrated portrait of English society in the year of Magna Carta, from best-selling author Dan Jones.
(Paperback)
By: Mitch Landrieu
ISBN: 9780525559467
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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A passionate, personal, urgent book from the man who sparked a national debate.
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By: Alfred W. McCoy
ISBN: 9781786074911
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
UK Publication Date: 7th February 2019
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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The essential guide to how American foreign policy shaped the world and where it's left us
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By: Peter Matthiessen
ISBN: 9780140144567
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1992
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In June, 1975, a shoot-out between FBI and American Indians erupted near Wounded Knee. The confrontation ended with the death of three men and four Indians were charged with murder. This book suggests that one of them, Leonard Peltier, may be innocent.
(Paperback)
By: Richard Lloyd Parry
ISBN: 9780099481454
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2006
UK Publication Date: 6th April 2006
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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** Richard Lloyd Parry is the winner of the 2018 Rathbones Folio Prize **
In the last years of the twentieth century, Richard Lloyd Parry found himself in the vast island nation of Indonesia, one of the most alluring, mysterious and violent countries in the world.
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By: Joan Druett
ISBN: 9781565124356
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2004
Publisher: Workman Publishing
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Druett relates a true account of one of the bloodiest mutinies and murders of the nineteenth century--the seizure of a Massachusetts whaleship by three Pacific Island natives.
