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By: Peter Englund
ISBN: 9781846683435
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
UK Publication Date: 6th September 2012
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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Four devastating years told by twenty eyewitnesses - including Australians and New Zealanders - showing what it was like to live through the First World War.
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By: Catherine Fletcher
ISBN: 9781784707941
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2021
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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*A THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020*
'Brilliant and gripping, here is the full true Renaissance in a history of compelling originality and freshness' Simon Sebag Montefiore
The Italian Renaissance shaped Western culture - but it was far stranger and darker than many of us realise.
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By: Marie Vassiltchikov
ISBN: 9780712665803
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 1999
UK Publication Date: 7th October 1999
Publisher: Vintage
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Marie 'Missie' Vassiltchikov as a White Russian emigree caught with her family in Hitler's Germany at the outbreak of the war. She was part of the cosmopolitan set who managed to maintain a trance-like normality until as late as 1941. Before long, however, Missie became sickened by the nature of Nazi-rule.
(Paperback)
By: Frederick Taylor
ISBN: 9781526614278
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
UK Publication Date: 31st October 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Sean McMeekin
ISBN: 9780141047652
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2011
UK Publication Date: 28th April 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Explores one of the unresearched subjects of the First World War: the German bid for world power - and the destruction of the British Empire - through the harnessing of the Ottoman Empire.
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By: Michael Burleigh
ISBN: 9781509847921
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A gripping tour d'horizon of the state of the world as it is in 2017 from an acclaimed historian.
(Hardback)
By: David Rooney
ISBN: 9781784745080
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 12th June 2025
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Hardback)
By: Peter Kramer
ISBN: 9780851707860
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A study of the Hollywood mainstream addresses the questions which are asked about the world's most profitable film industry. Who are the decision makers Why do they make the films they do and what are the habits of film audiences To provide answers, the book looks at key films from 1977 to 1997.
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By: John J Miller
ISBN: 9780061744525
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Peter Thonemann
ISBN: 9780140274851
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2011
UK Publication Date: 26th May 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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This comprehensive, readable survey of the Classical past is ambitious in scope: it ranges from the Aegean world of the second millenium BC to Augustine's City of God . More than that, it considers not only how the ancient world is remembered today but also how the Greeks and Romans perceived and felt the influence of their own past.
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By: Willard M. Oliver
ISBN: 9781442265035
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The Birth of the FBI traces the roots of the struggle between President Roosevelt and Congressman Tawney in the creation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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By: Richard Overy
ISBN: 9780141983851
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2019
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Maria Smilios
ISBN: 9780349009254
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2023
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The true story of 300 black nurses who changed the course of history
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By: Maria Smilios
ISBN: 9780349009285
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2024
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The true story of 300 black nurses who changed the course of history
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By: Henry Louis Gates
ISBN: 9781984880352
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
UK Publication Date: 20th January 2022
Publisher: Penguin Adult
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By: John Hatcher
ISBN: 9780753823071
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2009
UK Publication Date: 9th July 2009
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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How the people of a typical English village lived and died in the worst epidemic in history.
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By: Richard Aldrich
ISBN: 9780007555475
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
UK Publication Date: 20th April 2017
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The Black Door explores the evolving relationship between successive British prime ministers and the intelligence agencies, from Asquiths Secret Service Bureau to Camerons National Security Council.
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By: Michael Burlingame
ISBN: 9781643138138
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 3rd February 2022
Publisher: Pegasus Books
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Frederick Douglass called the martyred president "emphatically the black man's president as well as thefirst who rose above the prejudice of his times andcountry. This narrative history of Lincolns personal interchange with Black people over the course his career reveals a side of the sixteenth president that, until now, has not been fully explored or understood.
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By: Victoria Schofield
ISBN: 9781784979973
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The heroic and inspiring story of the fortunes of the Black Watch whose soldiers have distinguished themselves in theatres of war across the world.
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By: Victoria Schofield
ISBN: 9781784979980
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 6th January 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The heroic and inspiring story of the fortunes of the Black Watch whose soldiers have distinguished themselves in theatres of war across the world.
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By: Sarah Wise
ISBN: 9781844133314
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
UK Publication Date: 4th June 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In 1887 Government inspectors were sent to investigate the Old Nichol, a notorious slum on the boundary of Bethnal Green parish. The author recovers Old Nichol from the ruins of history and lays bare the social and political conditions that created and sustained this black hole which lay at the very heart of the Empire.
(Hardback)
By: Dr Jonathan Healey
ISBN: 9781526621658
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Julian Hale
ISBN: 9781472857880
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 17th August 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An illustrated history of how the Luftwaffe intended 'the Blitz' to knock Britain out of the war, emphasising the German point of view and detailing how Britain's defences and civilians responded.
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By: Juliet Gardiner
ISBN: 9780007386611
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2011
UK Publication Date: 31st March 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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From the author of Wartime comes an outstanding history of the most sustained onslaught ever endured by Britain's civilian population the Blitz.
