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The Rape of Nanking
Iris Chang
In December 1937, the Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking. Within weeks,...
Second Hand
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The Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
'The greatest historian that ever lived' Such was Macaulay's verdict on Thucydides (c. 460-400 BC)...
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The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt
Ian Shaw (, Lecturer in Egyptian Archaeology at the University of Liverpool)
The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt uniquely covers 700,000 years of ancient Egypt from the...
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The Medici
Mary Hollingsworth
'This forensic study of the Renaissance banking dynasty conjures up a world of art, literature,...
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The Last of the Tsars
Robert Service
A riveting account of the last eighteen months of Tsar Nicholas II's life and reign...
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The Land Where Lemons Grow
Helena Attlee
A delightful book about Italy's unexpected history, told through its citrus fruits The story of...
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The Golden Rhinoceros
Francois-Xavier Fauvelle
An unforgettable journey into the forgotten history of medieval Africa From the birth of Islam...
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The Fatal Shore
Robert Hughes
'An extraordinarily vivid yet authentic account of the birthpangs of a nation. A work of...
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The Egyptian Myths
Garry J. Shaw
Which gods created the world according to the ancient Egyptians? How did they explain the...
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The Black History Book
DK
An accessible guide to the key milestones in Black history, culture, and society across the...
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The Balkans, 1804-2012
Misha Glenny
In this celebrated, landmark history of the Balkans, Misha Glenny investigates the roots of the...
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The Annals of Imperial Rome
Tacitus
Tacitus' Annals of Imperial Rome recount the major historical events from the years shortly before...
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SPQR
Professor Mary Beard
Ancient Rome matters. Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which...
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Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? This bestselling history...
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Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
A series of special editions of the best popular science books to explore the patterns...
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Prison Letters
Nelson Mandela
First published to mark the centenary of Nelson Mandela's birth, The Prison Letters of Nelson...
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Powers and Thrones
Dan Jones
The instant Sunday Times bestseller A Times, New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year...
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Pompeii
Professor Mary Beard
Pompeii explodes a number of myths - from the very date of the eruption, probably...
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One Summer
Bill Bryson
Let our favourite writer of narrative non-fiction take you back to a summer when America...
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Night
Elie Wiesel
First time in Modern Classics Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child,...
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Midnight in Chernobyl
Adam Higginbotham
The definitive, dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original...
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Madhouse at the End of the Earth
Julian Sancton
A new classic of extreme endurance - Into Thin Air meets The Perfect Storm in...
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Kings of Shanghai
Jonathan Kaufman
'A masterpiece of research, The Last Kings of Shanghai is a vivid and fascinating story...
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King Leopold's Ghost
Adam Hochschild
With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver In the late nineteenth century, when the...
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Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
Daniel Gordis
Israel is a tiny state, and yet since its creation, it has captured the world's...
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Hunting Game
Louisa Lombard (Yale University, Connecticut)
Northeastern Central African Republic - a vast space bordering Chad, Darfur, and South Sudan -...
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Walter Rodney
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa is an ambitious masterwork of political economy, detailing the impact of...
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Hiroshima
John Hersey
A landmark work of nonfiction and the definitive account of nuclear devastation The explosion over...