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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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Viva la Revolucion
Eric Hobsbawm
In his autobiography Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life, published in 2002 when he was...
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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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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 Young Alexander
Alex Rowson
'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written...
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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 Strategy of Victory
Thomas Fleming
Led by the Continental Congress, the Americans almost lost their war for independence because their...
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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 Stable Boy of Auschwitz
Dexter Ford
The instant Sunday Times and Amazon charts bestseller "I found myself in the Auschwitz stables,...
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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 Silent Day
Max Arthur
On 6 June 1944 Britain woke up to a profound silence. Overnight, 160,000 Allied troops...
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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 Munich Art Hoard
Catherine Hickley
In February 2012, in a Munich flat belonging to an elderly recluse, German customs authorities...
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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 History of the World in Bite-Sized Chunks
Emma Marriott
History is a rich, varied and fascinating subject, so it's rare to find the whole...
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The Greek Myths
Robin Waterfield
The Greek Myths contains some of the most thrilling, romantic and unforgettable stories in all...
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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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The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot
Blaine Harden
Blaine Harden, New York Times-bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, tells the riveting story...
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The Ghost Ships of Archangel
William Geroux
An extraordinary story of survival and alliance during World War II- the icy journey of...
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The Face
Debra N. Mancoff
The face is not only central to identity, but is also the primary vehicle for...
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The Englishman's Daughter
Ben Macintyre
A "remarkable" (The New York Times Book Review) account of four British soldiers forced into...
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The Confidence Men
Margalit Fox
Imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp during the First World War, two British officers,...
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The Black Book
Sybil Oldfield
In 1939, the Gestapo created a list of names: the Britons whose removal would be...
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The Betrayal of Anne Frank
Rosemary Sullivan
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Hums with living history, human warmth and indignation' New York Times Less...
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The Art of Survival
Libby Murphy
An astute literary and cultural history of World War I in France that offers a...