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By: Andrew Wheatcroft
ISBN: 9781845951306
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2009
UK Publication Date: 3rd September 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Hailed on publication as a thought-provoking, authoritative analysis of the true beginnings of the Second World War, this revised edition of The Road to War is essential reading for anyone interested in this momentous period of history. Taking each major nation in turn, the book tells the story of their road to war;
(Paperback)
By: John Keegan
ISBN: 9780712673488
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 1998
UK Publication Date: 6th November 1997
Publisher: Vintage
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In this history of World War II, the author explores both the technical and the human impact of the conflict. The text concentrates on five crucial battles with the aim of illuminating the war as a whole: Crete, Midway, Falaise, Berlin and Okinawa.
(Hardback)
By: Professor Peter Frankopan
ISBN: 9781408839973
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 27th August 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback, Revised edition)
By: Todd Gitlin
ISBN: 9780553372120
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1999
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
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The author, a student activist during the sixties, offers a personal perspective on the social and political changes of that decade.
(Hardback)
By: Nicols Wey Gmez
ISBN: 9780262232647
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2008
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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A radical revision of the geographical history of the discovery of the Americas that links Columbus's southbound route with colonialism, slavery, and today's divide between the industrialized North and the developing South.
(Paperback)
By: Tom Standage
ISBN: 9780753807033
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1999
UK Publication Date: 1st April 1999
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The history of the telegraph - the men and women who made it - and its relevance to the current Internet debate
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By: James Holland
ISBN: 9780552169158
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2017
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Examines the momentous turning points of 1941-1943: Hitler's invasion of Russia; America's entry into the conflict; the devastating Thousand Bomber Raids over Germany; the long struggle in the deserts of North Africa; and the defeat of the U-boats in the crucial Battle of the Atlantic.
(Hardback)
By: Nat Hentoff
ISBN: 9781583226216
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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Hentoff details the most serious rights rollbacks in American history, and heralds the gathering of a new, nationwide resistance.
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By: Lady Antonia Fraser
ISBN: 9781842126356
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2003
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2002
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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An account of the lives of women in seventeenth-century England.
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By: Diana Giovinazzo
ISBN: 9781538717417
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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For readers who loved the larger-than-life heroines of Circe and My Dear Hamilton, this mesmerizing debut novel combines rigorous historical research, exhilarating adventure, and an unforgettable love story for the ages.
(Hardback)
By: Roland Ennos
ISBN: 9780008318833
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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When our ancestors came down from the trees, they brought the trees with them and remade the world.
A stunning book on the incalculable debt humanity owes wood John Carey, The Sunday Times
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By: Winston Churchill
ISBN: 9780141442051
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2007
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Winston Churchill's superlative account of the prelude to and events of the First World War is a defining work of twentieth-century history. With personal insights, this book serves as a testament to the author's role in the Great War's conduct and outcome and demonstrates his brilliance as a historian.
(Hardback)
By: Guy Stagg
ISBN: 9781398533509
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
UK Publication Date: 3rd July 2025
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: DK
ISBN: 9780241515754
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2022
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Alex Kershaw
ISBN: 9780099539131
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2011
Publisher: Cornerstone
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New York Times bestselling author Alex Kershaw has written the first full biography of one of the most remarkable men to have outwitted Hitler - Raoul Wallenberg, the young Swedish diplomat who almost single-handedly saved the lives of countless Hungarian Jews, at unimaginable risk and great cost to himself.
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By: Norman Ohler
ISBN: 9781838953584
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
UK Publication Date: 11th April 2024
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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A brilliant and original investigation into the medical origins of LSD and how the Nazis and the CIA turned it into a weapon, by the author of Blitzed.
(Hardback)
By: Marcus Rediker
ISBN: 9780807018873
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
Publisher: Beacon Press
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(Paperback)
By: Tim Cook
ISBN: 9780735233188
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: Prentice Hall Press
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A bold new telling of the defining battle of the Great War, and how it came to signify and solidify Canada's national identity.
(Paperback)
By: Richard Bessel
ISBN: 9781471147920
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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By: Niall Ferguson
ISBN: 9780241952252
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2011
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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What if Britain had stayed out of the First World War What if Germany had invaded Britain in 1940 What if Nazi Germany had defeated the Soviet Union How would England look if there had been no Cromwell What if there had been no American Revolution And what if John F Kennedy had lived This book deals with these questions.
(Hardback)
By: Andrew North
ISBN: 9781804182352
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2024
Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd
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A definitive account of the region whose fate defined the first two decades of the 21st century.
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By: Andrew North
ISBN: 9781804186893
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
UK Publication Date: 6th March 2025
Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd
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A definitive account of the region whose fate defined the first two decades of the 21st century.
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By: James Reston
ISBN: 9780571210626
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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James Reston tells the epic story of the battle for the Holy Land .
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By: Adam Zamoyski
ISBN: 9780007225538
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2014
UK Publication Date: 13th March 2014
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The dramatic and little-known story of how, in the summer of 1920, Lenin came within a hair's breadth of shattering the painstakingly constructed Versailles peace settlement and spreading Bolshevism to western Europe.
