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Revolutions
Peter Furtado
Revolutions hold a distinct place in the popular imagination. This may be because their rhetoric,...
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A Brief History of the English Civil Wars
Professor John Miller
Miller provides a clear and comprehensible narrative, a coherent and accurate synthesis, intended as a...
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The Great War in Portraits
Paul Moorhouse
In viewing the Great War through the portraits of those involved, Paul Moorhouse looks at...
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Hollywood Double Agent: The True Tale of Boris Morros, Film Producer Turned Cold War Spy
Jonathan Gill
The Cold War and the Golden Age of Hollywood meet in this story of the...
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A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons
Geoffrey Hindley
Starting AD 400 (around the time of their invasion of England) and running through to...
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A Brief History of the Tudor Age
Jasper Ridley
From the arrival of Henry Tudor and his army, at Milford in 1485, to the...
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Viva la Revolucion
Eric Hobsbawm
In his autobiography Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life, published in 2002 when he was...
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The Gravediggers
Hauke Friederichs
November 1932. With the German economy in ruins and street battles raging between political factions,...
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The Trojan War
Barry Strauss (Cornell University USA)
The Trojan War is one of history's most famous conflicts, a ten-year-long war waged over...
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A Bookshop in Berlin
Francoise Frenkel
A PEOPLE BOOK OF THE WEEK WINNER OF THE JQ-WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE "A haunting tribute...
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American Ulysses
Ronald C. White, Jr.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER . From the author ofA. Lincoln, a major new biography of...
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Zinky Boys
Svetlana Alexievich
From 1979 to 1989 a million Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan...
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Wonderland
Steven Johnson
"A house of wonders itself. . . . Wonderland inspires grins and well-what-d'ya-knows" -The New...
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Walls
David Frye
"A lively popular history of an oft-overlooked element in the development of human society" (Library...
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Venice
Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd at his most magical and magisterial-a glittering, evocative, fascinating, story-filled portrait of Venice,...
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Tolstoy's False Disciple
Alexandra Popoff
On the snowy morning of February 8, 1897, the Petersburg secret police were following Tolstoy's...
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Tocqueville and His America
Arthur Kaledin
Arthur Kaledin's groundbreaking book on Alexis de Tocqueville offers an original combination of biography, character...
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Thinking the Twentieth Century
Tony Judt
"Ideas crackle" in this triumphant final book of Tony Judt, taking readers on "a wild...
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The Zhivago Affair
Peter Finn
The Zhivago Affair is the dramatic, never-before-told story-drawing on newly declassified files-of how a forbidden...
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The Unnamable Present
Roberto Calasso
A decisive key to help grasp some of the essential points of what is happening...
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The Stonemason
Andrew Ziminski
A stonemason's story of the building of Britain: part archaeological history, part deeply personal insight...
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The Spy in Moscow Station
Eric Haseltine
The thrilling, true story of the race to find a leak in the United States...
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The Shadow King
Jo Marchant
More than 3,000 years ago, King Tutankhamun's desiccated body was lovingly wrapped and sent into...
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The Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe
What is it, I wondered, that makes a man willing to sit on top of...
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The Magic Lantern
Timothy Garton Ash
The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that define a historic moment, written...
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The Island at the Center of the World
Russell Shorto
In a riveting, groundbreaking narrative, Russell Shorto tells the story of New Netherland, the Dutch...
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The Greek Myths
Robin Waterfield
The Greek Myths contains some of the most thrilling, romantic and unforgettable stories in all...