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Empire of Secrets: British Intelligence, the Cold War and the Twilight of Empire

History General

Including Empire of Secrets: British Intelligence, the Cold War and the Twilight of Empire — Calder Walton

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Biafran War: The Struggle for Modern Nigeria

History 1919 - 1989

Including The Biafran War: The Struggle for Modern Nigeria — Michael Gould, with Frederick Forsyth

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Albion’s Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth Century England

History 1777 - 1918

Including Albion’s Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth Century England — Douglas Hay, Peter Linebaugh and E.P. Thompson

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Ancien Regime: History of France, 1610-1774

History 1453 - 1776

Including The " Ancien Regime: History of France, 1610-1774 — Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (College de France France)

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History of King Richard III

History 633 - 1452 AD

Including The History of King Richard III — Sir Thomas More, foreword by Wendy Beckett

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Short History of the Crimean War

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A Short History of the Crimean War

Trudi Tate

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The Crimean War (1853-1856) was the first modern war. A vicious struggle between imperial Russia and an alliance of... See details

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1990: Russians Remember a Turning Point

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1990: Russians Remember a Turning Point

edited by Irina Prokhorova, translated by Arch Tait

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1990 was a year of embryonic change in Russia: Article 6 of the constitution was abolished, and with it the Party&r... See details

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Deserter: The Last Untold Story of the Second World War

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Deserter: The Last Untold Story of the Second World War

Charles Glass

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The extraordinary story of the deserters of the Second World War. What made them run? And what happened after they ... See details

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Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century

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Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century

Eric Hobsbawm

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Born almost a hundred years ago in Vienna – the cultural heart of a bourgeois Mitteleurope – Eric Hobsb... See details

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History of the World: From the Dawn of Humanity to the Modern Age

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The History of the World: From the Dawn of Humanity to the Modern Age

Frank Welsh

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In a narrative beginning almost 1.5 million years ago with the emergence of Homo erectus, Frank Welsh takes the rea... See details

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Last Highlander: Scotland’s Most Notorious Clan-Chief, Rebel and Double-Agent

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The Last Highlander: Scotland’s Most Notorious Clan-Chief, Rebel and Double-Agent

Sarah Fraser

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Fans of C.J. Sansom must read this Saltire Society Literary Awards Scottish First Book of the Year – a great ... See details

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Mod: A Very British Style

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Mod: A Very British Style

Richard Weight

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Tells the story of Britain’s biggest and most influential youth cult. This title charts the origins of Mod in... See details

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Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century

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The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century

John Brewer

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‘If you want to understand how British culture reinvented itself in the eighteenth century, read The Pleasure... See details

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FDR and the Jews

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FDR and the Jews

Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman

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A contentious debate lingers over whether Franklin Delano Roosevelt turned his back on the Jews of Hitler’s E... See details

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Undivided Past: History Beyond Our Differences

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The Undivided Past: History Beyond Our Differences

David Cannadine

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Shows how so much of the writing of history has been driven by a fatal desire to dramatize differences – to c... See details

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Last Trains: Dr Beeching and the Death of Rural England

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Last Trains: Dr Beeching and the Death of Rural England

Charles Loft

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Last Trains examines why and how the railway system contracted, exposing the political failures that bankrupted the... See details

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Gallipoli

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Gallipoli

Peter Hart

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An account of an epic tragedy, the battle of Gallipoli. It explains that from the initial landings – which en... See details

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Mass Observers: A History, 1937-1949

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The Mass Observers: A History, 1937-1949

James Hinton

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The first full-scale history of Mass-Observation, the independent social research organisation which set out to doc... See details

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Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady

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Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady

Kate Summerscale

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From the number one bestselling, multi-award-winning author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher See details

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