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By: Douglas Brinkley
ISBN: 9780062005977
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2012
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Ray Mears
ISBN: 9780340830161
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2004
UK Publication Date: 24th May 2004
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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Ray Mears shows how the success of a vital World War II mission depended on survival skills.
(Hardback)
By: Dominic Sandbrook
ISBN: 9781526668646
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 19th September 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The second book from the creators of the smash-hit number 1 podcast takes us on a dizzying AZ through the past from the Aztecs to zigzags.
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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;
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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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By: Christopher Lloyd
ISBN: 9781408876381
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The author of What on Earth Happened offers a radical new look at the story of Earth, seen through the prism of the living things that have had the greatest impacts on the planet.
(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.
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By: Philipp Blom
ISBN: 9780753825983
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2009
UK Publication Date: 3rd September 2009
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A panorama of Europe, 1900-1914, describing the cultural, economic and political life before the First World War.
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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.
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By: Niall Ferguson
ISBN: 9780141013824
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2012
UK Publication Date: 26th March 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The beginning of the twentieth century saw human civilization at its most enlightened, well-educated, globalized and wealthy. What turned it into a bloodbath This title reveals the story of history's most savage century as a continual war that raged for 100 years. He reveals how economic boom-and-bust, decaying empires and, more.
(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: Kathleen L. Lodwick
ISBN: 9780934223737
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2003
Publisher: Associated University Presses
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Rev. George D. Byers, Presbyterian missionary at Kachek, Hainan island, China, was murdered by bandits in 1924. Based on American and British consular archives and those of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and members of the Hainan mission, this is the story of how Mrs. Byers and Mrs. Mabel Roys got the government and their church to take action.
(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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(Paperback)
By: Laurence Rees
ISBN: 9780091917593
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2022
UK Publication Date: 5th June 2008
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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How could Nazi killers shoot Jewish women and children at close range
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By: Dorothy Armstrong
ISBN: 9781399614221
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
UK Publication Date: 27th February 2025
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A spellbinding look at the history of the world through the stories of twelve carpets
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By: Wolfgang Schivelbusch
ISBN: 9780312427436
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2008
Publisher: Picador USA
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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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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.
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By: James F. Pontuso
ISBN: 9780742522565
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2004
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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