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A new political history of modern Britain - entertaining, instructive and thought-provoking.

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Britain's Rottenest Years is not just a bad news story. It is a fantastically readable leapfrog through British history which takes us, via the interesting bits, from the misery of the Roman invasion of AD60 (when 50,000 Roman thugs invaded) to the Thatcherite year of discontent of 1981.

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A runaway bestseller in France, But You Did Not Come Back is the breathtaking, deeply moving and critically acclaimed memoir of a survivor of the Holocaust.

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This account of the Great Fire of London explores its history and consequences, from the first small blaze to the long work of rebuilding. It also describes the human story of the fire and its aftermath - the panic and terror, the hunt for scapegoats and the rebirth of a city.

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A vivid and original account of warfare in the Middle Ages and the cruelty and atrocity that accompanied it.

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"The Gallic campaigns firmly established Julius Caesar (100 B.C.--44 B.C.) as one of the greatest commanders of all time. After success there, Caesar turned his loyal army back toward Rome. Crossing the"

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A humorous look at the famous (and not so famous) Scots who have shaped the modern world.

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A revelatory new biography of Mary, Queen of Scots and her two decades of imprisonment, featuring fascinating new insights from more than fifty newly decoded letters, lost for 400 years.

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Linda Colley uses these tales of ordinary individuals trapped in extraordinary encounters to re-evaluate the character and diversity of the British Empire. She shows how British attitudes to Islam, slavery, race, and American Revolutionaries look different once the captive's perspective is admitted.

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Be it ever so grand or ever so humble, a castle was first and foremost a home.

To understand castles who built them, who lived in them, and why is to understand the forces that shaped medieval Britain.

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The real and imagined legacy of the ancient Celts has shaped modern identities across the British Isles and retains a powerful hold over the popular imagination. Drawing on the scholarship, the authors explore how the Celts have been defined differently from ancient times to the modern day, by people with different perspectives and agendas.

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Published to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Checkpoint Charlie is a vivid and poignant exploration of the history surrounding the Berlin Wall through the lens of interwoven first-person experiences.

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When Henry VIII died in 1547, he left three highly intelligent children to succeed him in turn, to be followed, if their lines failed, by the descendants of his sister, Mary Tudor.

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A darkly humorous and horrifying history of some of the strangest dictators that Europe has ever seen.

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'A page-turning book about the history of British foreign policy' INDEPENDENT

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Offers a study of 16th and 17th century Europe and the fundamental changes which led to the collapse of Christendom and established the geographical and political frameworks of Western Europe as we know it. This book features a rich tapestry that fosters a deeper understanding of Europe's identity.

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The remarkable life story of Christine Granville - Churchill's 'favourite spy' and one of the most successful women agents of the Second World War

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For anyone who has ever had too much of Christmas or felt left out of the festive cheer, Christmas Day contains a lifeline of humour and sanity in a world run seasonally mad. This is a piercingly honest, sad and funny poem about two men spending Christmas Day together.

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Using a series of translations from primary sources including runic inscriptions, literary works, rare historical accounts and eye-witness reports, this book brings the Viking world to life.

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A bracing narrative of wartime India and the tremendous famine that resulted when Churchill sacrificed the lives of four million Bengalis to win World War II

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* How Winston Churchill's long-held passion for military history drove innovation and strategy in World War Two, resulting in the defeat of Hitler and the axis powers
* Subtitle: Code Breakers, Boffins and Innovators: the Mavericks Churchill Led to Victory