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  • Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation

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    SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE'The best history of Greece around... Beautifully written and packed with insights about the culture...

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  • Gresham's Law: The Life and World of Queen Elizabeth I's Banker

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    Thomas Gresham was arguably the first true wizard of global finance. He rose through the mercantile worlds of London and Antwerp to become the hidd...

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  • Histories of the Unexpected: The Vikings

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    Histories of the Unexpected not only presents a new way of thinking about the past, but also reveals the world around us as never before.Traditiona...

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  • Histories of the Unexpected: The Tudors

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    Histories of the Unexpected not only presents a new way of thinking about the past, but also reveals the world around us as never before.Traditiona...

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  • Hitler's Forgotten Children: The Shocking True Story of the Nazi Kidnapping Conspiracy

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    'More than 70 years ago I was a "gift" for Adolf Hitler. I was stolen as a baby to be part of one of the most terrible of all Nazi experiments: Leb...

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  • Homelands: Four Friends, Two Countries, and the Fate of the Great Mexican-American Migration

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  • Hoogty: Die Opbloei Van 'N Koloniale Kultuur Aan Die Kaap: Deel 7

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  • How Churchill Waged War: The Most Challenging Decisions of the Second World War

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    When Winston Churchill accepted the position of Prime Minister in May 1940, he insisted in also becoming Minister of Defence. He was not going to p...

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  • How long will South Africa survive?: The current crises

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  • How long will South Africa survive?: The looming crisis

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  • How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

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    Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks - those that are honest ...

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    Impossible Return: Cape Town's Forced Removals (Paperback)

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    Anger, hurt, loss, rejection … these feelings are familiar to the families who, in the early 1970s, were forced from their homes in Harfield Villag...

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  • India in the Persianate Age

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    SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE'Remarkable ... this brilliant book stands as an important monument to an almost forgotten world' Wil...

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  • Ingrid Jonker

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  • Interest TPB

    Taylor, Michael
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    For two hundred years, the abolition of slavery in Britain has been a cause for self-congratulation - but no longer. In 1807, Parliament outlawed t...

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  • Iron in the soul: The leaders of the official parliamentary opposition in South Africa, 1910-1993

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  • King of Heists: The Sensational Bank Robbery of 1878 That Shocked America

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    King of Heists is a spellbinding and unprecedented account of the greatest bank robbery in American history, which took place on October 27, 1878, ...

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  • King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa

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    Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, King Leopold's Ghost is the true and haunting account of Leopold's brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruine...

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  • KREMLIN WINTER PB

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    'One of our most accomplished, erudite and prolific historians of modern Russia.' Rodric Braithwaite, New StatesmanVladimir Putin has dominated Rus...

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  • The Land Wars (Trade Paperback)

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    Perhaps the most explosive issue in South Africa today is the question of land ownership. The central theme in this country’s colonial history is t...

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  • Legacy

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    'I was riveted: this is a fascinating social history.' NIGELLA LAWSON'Five stars... history on a scale at once intimate and grand.' TELEGRAPHA pano...

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  • Light Ages

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    The Middle Ages were a time of wonder. They gave us the first universities, the first eyeglasses and the first mechanical clocks as medieval thinke...

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  • Lost London 1870-1945

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  • Lotharingia: A Personal History of France, Germany and the Countries In-Between

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    A Sunday Times History Book of the Year 2019Shortlisted for The Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award'No Briton has written better than Win...

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  • Marikana Unresolved: The Massacre, Culpability and Consequences

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    Between 11 and 16 August 2012, the Lonmin platinum mine at Marikana witnessed a tragedy in which 34 miners were killed, more than 70 injured and ap...

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    Masked Raiders: Irish Banditry in Southern Africa, 1890-1899 (Paperback)

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    Masked Raiders follows the wild exploits of legendary brigands like the McKeone brothers and ‘One Armed Jack’ McLoughlin, who ravaged the subcontin...

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    Maverick Africans: The Shaping of the Afrikaners (Paperback)

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    Hermann Giliomee, pre-eminent South African historian, dissects the forces that shaped the Afrikaners into an unusual ‘maverick African’ nation.   ...

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  • Memory Against Forgetting (Hardcover)

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    Renowned South African photographer Ranjith Kally captured iconic scenes throughout his career, such as his portrait Umkumbane, which has come to s...

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  • MONEY FOR NOTHING PB

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    A Financial Times Economics Book of the Year A brilliant narrative of early capitalism's most famous scandal, a speculative frenzy that nearly bank...

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  • Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia

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  • Oliver Tambo

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  • Paper Tiger: Inside the Real China

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    In PAPER TIGER the Chinese journalist and intellectual Xu Zhiyuan paints a portrait of the world's second-largest economy via a thoughtful and wide...

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  • People's War: New Light on the Struggle for South Africa

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  • Queens of the Conquest: The extraordinary women who changed the course of English history 1066 - 1167

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    Full of passion and betrayal, murder and war, the first volume of an epic new series from bestselling historian Alison Weir, bringing five of Engla...

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  • Ramaphosa's turn: Can Cyril save South Africa

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  • Revolution: A History of England Volume IV

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    Revolution, the fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England begins in 1688 with a revolution and ends in 1815 with a famous vic...

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