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(Hardback)
By: Audrey Osler
ISBN: 9780349014623
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2023
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A story of migration, identity and belonging, drawing on over three centuries of the stories of people from Audrey Osler's mixed-heritage family to give: 'we British people an understanding of our past and of the complexities and contradictions of empire.'
(Paperback, Main)
By: Thant Myint-U
ISBN: 9780571239641
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
UK Publication Date: 6th September 2012
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Part travelogue, part history, part investigation: a vivid, searching, and timely book about a remote region that is suddenly becoming a geopolitical centre of the world.
(Hardback)
By: Randall Peffer
ISBN: 9780425276365
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Joan Didion
ISBN: 9780007178872
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2004
UK Publication Date: 6th September 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A memoir of land, family and perseverance from one of the most influential writers in America.
(Paperback)
By: John Lewis-Stempel
ISBN: 9781780224916
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
UK Publication Date: 14th September 2017
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The natural history of the Western Front during the First World War by the award-winning author of Meadowland.
(Paperback)
By: Robert Forczyk
ISBN: 9781472816788
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
UK Publication Date: 22nd September 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The Crimean Peninsula was the setting for the destruction of a number of armies in World War II, both Soviet and German, and this study, now available in paperback, will reveal the pattern of conquest in the region.
(Paperback)
By: Rick Atkinson
ISBN: 9781426204562
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
Publisher: National Geographic Society
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This lovely volume is both a fitting tribute and a stirring reminder of the values we Americans hold dear.
(Hardback)
By: David Smith
ISBN: 9781472827951
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Thomas Harding
ISBN: 9781474621069
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
UK Publication Date: 5th January 2023
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The story of the slave uprising that took place in the British colony of Demerara - now Guyana - in the Caribbean in 1823, and its momentous consequences
(Paperback)
By: Norman Davies
ISBN: 9780712606943
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2004
UK Publication Date: 27th November 2003
Publisher: Vintage
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This volume gives a full account of the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-20, when the Red Army was crushed by a devasting Polish attack. The author draws on documentary material and shows how this episode largely determined the course of European history for the next 20 years.
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By: Dominic Sandbrook
ISBN: 9780349118208
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2008
UK Publication Date: 11th October 2007
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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* The sequel to NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD, this completes Dominic Sandbrook's groundbreaking history of Britain in the 1960s
(Paperback)
By: Leanda de Lisle
ISBN: 9780099555278
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
UK Publication Date: 10th January 2019
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Robert Twigger
ISBN: 9781780228402
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2017
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A sweeping biography of the Himalayas by the acclaimed author of RED NILE and ANGRY WHITE PYJAMAS
(Hardback, Main)
By: Fintan O'Toole
ISBN: 9780571218400
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2005
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A dramatic, exciting and tragic book about the Irish adventurer who held the fate of America and the British Empire in his hands
(Paperback)
By: Andreas Malm
ISBN: 9781839761744
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Verso Books
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Rising temperatures and the rise of the far right. What disasters happen when they meet
(Paperback)
By: Gavin Menzies
ISBN: 9780062236784
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2014
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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"Hardcover edition ... was published in 2013."--Title page verso.
(Paperback)
By: Dan Waddell
ISBN: 9781785943423
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
UK Publication Date: 11th January 2018
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Peter Conradi
ISBN: 9780861545520
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 25th August 2022
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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How did we get from the end of the Cold War to Trump and Putin
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By: Guy Shrubsole
ISBN: 9780008321710
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 19th March 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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'A formidable, brave and important book' Robert Macfarlane
Who owns England
Behind this simple question lies this country's oldest and best-kept secret. This is the history of how England's elite came to own our land, and an inspiring manifesto for how to open up our countryside once more.
(Paperback)
By: Caroline Ellwood
ISBN: 9781909717718
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Hodder Education
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Today, more than ever, students and teachers should be better able to address questions of perspective with more original sources at their fingertips. Whose History raises and addresses important questions about how history is perceived, not only through aspects of historiography but by teachers deciding how and what to teach in this modern world.
(Paperback)
By: Harold Nicolson
ISBN: 9780141048963
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2010
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Gives an account of why Britain went to war with Germany. In simple terms, this book describes the stages of Adolf Hitler's ruthless pursuit for power, identifies his methods of deception and false diplomacy, and details his terrifying use of force that rendered peaceful negotiation increasingly difficult, and finally impossible.
(Hardback)
By: Anthony James Joes
ISBN: 9781498503891
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book examines the administration of President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam and the U.S. involvement in his assassination. Joes analyzes why and how South Vietnam survived all Communist attempts to overthrow it until the U.S. Congress allowed the predominantly anti-Communist population to be conquered by the North.
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By: Dr Richard Overy
ISBN: 9781845950651
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2006
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2006
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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'Outstanding...Overy has written a masterpiece of analytical history, posing and answering one of the great questions of the century' Niall Ferguson, Sunday Times
The Allied victory in 1945 though comprehensive was far from inevitable.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Victor Davis Hanson
ISBN: 9780571216406
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
UK Publication Date: 4th November 2002
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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This is a brilliant history of the rise to dominance of the West, exploring the links between cultural values and military success.
