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By: Andrew Rader
ISBN: 9781471186509
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 12th November 2020
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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Brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader provides a stunning history of human exploration and assesses where our desire to explore could take us next.
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By: Adam Shoalts
ISBN: 9780735236851
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
Publisher: Prentice Hall Press
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By: Martin Bernal
ISBN: 9780099887805
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1993
UK Publication Date: 21st November 1991
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A challenge to the whole basis of thinking on the subject of classical civilization. The author argues that it has its roots in Afroasiatic cultures, and that these influences have been systematically ignored, suppressed or denied since the 18th century.
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By: Peter Hart
ISBN: 9780304367191
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2006
UK Publication Date: 9th March 2006
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The story of the decimation of the Royal Flying Corps over Arras in 1917
(Hardback, Reissue)
By: David McCullough
ISBN: 9781668003541
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 27th October 2022
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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A hardcover reissue of a classic David McCullough book, featuring some of history's most daring and accomplished figures.
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By: Joanna Trollope
ISBN: 9781845950187
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2007
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In Britannia's Daughters, bestselling novelist Joanna Trollope examines the contribution of women in building and sustaining the British Empire. They people this book as they peopled the Empire - their astonishing courage and endurance, their remarkable personal stories vividly and enthrallingly recaptured.
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By: Linda Colley
ISBN: 9780712665285
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2003
UK Publication Date: 4th September 2003
Publisher: Vintage
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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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By: Robert K Massie
ISBN: 9780099523789
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2008
UK Publication Date: 22nd November 2007
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In August 1914 the two greatest navies in the world confronted each other across the North Sea. Castles of Steel is a book about leadership and command, bravery and timidity, genius and folly, qualities which are of course displayed magnificently by Robert K.
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By: Frances Gies
ISBN: 9780060925819
Readership/Audience: Adult Education
Publication Date: Aug 1995
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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By: Peter Phillips
ISBN: 9781583227725
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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Breaking the news - the years 25 most important under-reported news stories. The alternative media is back!
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By: Eduardo Galeano
ISBN: 9780141975986
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2014
UK Publication Date: 25th September 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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From Abdul Kassem Ismail, the tenth-century Persian who never went anywhere without his library, this title takes aim at the pretensions of official history and illuminates moments and heroes that we have all but forgotten.
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By: Roy Jenkins
ISBN: 9781509867967
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2017
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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An exhaustive biographical portrait of one of the most enigmatic and important figures of the twentieth century.
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By: James Crowden
ISBN: 9780008393571
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 18th August 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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(Hardback)
By: James Crowden
ISBN: 9780008393588
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 19th August 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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(Paperback)
By: Jeremy Isaacs
ISBN: 9780349120805
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2008
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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*A comprehensive and accessible account of a crucial period in recent world history
*Originally published as a tie-in to the critically acclaimed CNN and BBC series
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By: Gerald Astor
ISBN: 9780440236955
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2002
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
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On December 8, 1941, one day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Air Force struck the Philippines in the first blow of a devastating invasion. With an undersupplied patchwork army at his command, General Douglas MacArthur led a valiant defense of the Philippines.
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By: Jonathan Fenby
ISBN: 9781471155031
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
UK Publication Date: 11th July 2019
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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One year shaped the world we know today. This is the page-turning story of the pivotal changes which were forged in 1948.
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By: Edward Stourton
ISBN: 9780552777896
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2014
UK Publication Date: 27th February 2014
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Drawing on interviews with the few remaining survivors and the families of those who were there, Edward Stourtons vivid history of this little-known aspect of the Second World War is shocking, dramatic and intensely moving.
(Paperback, Main)
By: David Olusoga
ISBN: 9781781259986
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
UK Publication Date: 1st April 2021
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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Oscar Wilde said 'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.' Was he right In Civilisations, David Olusoga travels the world to piece together the shared histories that link nations.
(Hardback)
By: DK
ISBN: 9780241508923
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2022
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
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By: James Holland
ISBN: 9780552163415
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
UK Publication Date: 9th May 2013
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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The night of May 16th, 1943. Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, each with a huge 9,000lb cylindrical bomb strapped underneath it. Their mission: to destroy three dams deep within the German heartland, which provide the lifeblood to the industries supplying the Third Reich's war machine.
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By: Hywel Williams
ISBN: 9780857383396
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2011
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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The 50 defining events of world history.
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By: Jack R. Censer
ISBN: 9781472589637
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Bill Fawcett
ISBN: 9780062069061
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2013
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Includes a collection of essays that illuminate those problems we've faced over and over and the common threads that have stumped us for centuries. With more than 35 chapters of the Groundhog Days of world history, both infamous and obscure, this book is full of trivia, history, and looks at the world's repeated mistakes.
