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By: Bruce Marshall
ISBN: 9780304356973
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2001
UK Publication Date: 7th December 2000
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The story of the capture of one of Britain's top SOE agents in World War Two, his refusal to crack under torture, and his final imprisonment in a concentration camp.
(Hardback)
By: Tore Skeie
ISBN: 9781782276470
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: Pushkin Press
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A thrilling work of popular history that gives a new perspective on the Viking-Anglo Saxon conflicts and brings the bloody period vividly to life.
(Paperback)
By: Nan Sloane
ISBN: 9781350340824
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Marcus Binney
ISBN: 9780340818404
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2003
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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Thirty-seven young women volunteered for extremely dangerous undercover work in occupied France during the Second World War. This is their story.
By: Andrew Holt
ISBN: 9781440854613
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Anthony Read
ISBN: 9781844138326
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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While the Western leaders in Paris were drafting a peace treaty that would punish German militarism and 'make the world safe for democracy', the world itself was fighting a new war, against terrorism. This book chronicles and examines the battle with Bolshevism, insurgency and fear during the most revolutionary year since 1789.
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By: Thomas Pakenham
ISBN: 9780349112527
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2000
UK Publication Date: 6th April 2000
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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This classic account of the great Irish rebellion of 1798 remains the only full-scale history of that tragic event. As relevant today as it was when first published in 1969, THE YEAR OF LIBERTY is now reissued with the addition of a chronology and a glossary of terms.
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By: Peter Finn
ISBN: 9780099581345
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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May it make its way around the world. Pasternak knew his novel would never be published in the Soviet Union as the authorities regarded it as seditious, so, instead, he allowed it to be published in translation all over the world - a highly dangerous act.
(Hardback)
By: Tom Holland
ISBN: 9780718188269
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
UK Publication Date: 7th February 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Adrian Sykes
ISBN: 9780956238733
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
Publisher: Everyman
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(Paperback)
By: Tim Clayton
ISBN: 9780349142388
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
UK Publication Date: 2nd July 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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This Dark Business tells the riveting story of the British government's determination to destroy Napoleon Bonaparte by any means possible.
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By: Christopher Lee
ISBN: 9781845299941
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2001
UK Publication Date: 19th January 2012
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Fully updated volume charting 2000 years of British history from best-selling author Christopher Lee
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By: Susan Brigden
ISBN: 9780571235858
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2014
UK Publication Date: 3rd April 2014
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The award-winning biography of Thomas Wyatt, revealing the fascinating story of his life in Henry VIII's court.
(Hardback)
By: Estelle Paranque
ISBN: 9781529149562
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2024
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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(Hardback)
By: Harry Sidebottom
ISBN: 9781529154009
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
UK Publication Date: 28th August 2025
Publisher: Cornerstone
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(Paperback)
By: Dr Christopher Duffy
ISBN: 9780753822029
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2007
UK Publication Date: 21st June 2007
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The key battle of the First World War from the German point of view
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By: Mr Richard Hayman
ISBN: 9781784424282
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
UK Publication Date: 18th February 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A beautifully illustrated guide to timber-framed buildings and how they have been constructed from medieval times to the nineteenth century.
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By: Richard Morris
ISBN: 9781780222448
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2013
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A personal and lyrical rediscovery of the history of England through archaeology and the imagination.
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By: Charles Spencer
ISBN: 9780008153663
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 4th October 2018
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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How did the most wanted man in the country outwit the greatest manhunt in British history
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By: Alistair Horne
ISBN: 9780141030654
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2007
UK Publication Date: 28th June 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In 1940 Hitler sent his troops to execute the Fall of France. A six-week battle with lightning 'blitzkrieg' warfare and combined operations techniques, the offensive ended the Phony War and sent the French forces reeling as their government fled from occupied Paris. This book tells the story of the crises of the rivalry between France and Germany.
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By: Annabel Venning
ISBN: 9781473679320
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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The miraculous story of the Walkers, six siblings who survived Blitz, battle and internment and whose incredible experiences tell a new social history of WW2, told by historian and Walker descendant Annabel Venning.
(Hardback)
By: Rachel Vorona Cote
ISBN: 9780751580525
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
UK Publication Date: 23rd April 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Lacing cultural criticism, Victorian literature, and storytelling together, Too Much explores how culture corsets women's bodies, souls, and sexualities - and how we might finally undo the strings.
(Paperback)
By: Dominic Lieven
ISBN: 9780141399744
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
UK Publication Date: 31st March 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Based on a study in Russian and many other foreign archives, this title explains why this suicidal decision was made and explores the world of the men who made it, thereby consigning their entire class to death or exile and making their country the victim of a uniquely terrible political experiment under Lenin and Stalin.
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By: Nigel Jones
ISBN: 9780099537656
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2012
UK Publication Date: 7th June 2012
Publisher: Cornerstone
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No building has been more intimately involved in the story of Britain than the Tower of London - a mighty, brooding stronghold in the very heart of the capital. This title presents the story of the Tower of London as an ancient structure and as a living symbol of the nation.
