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  • Going Home: A Walk Through Fifty Years of Occupation

    Raja Shehadeh
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    Winner of the Moore Prize 2020 In Going Home, Orwell Prize winning author Raja Shehadeh travels Ramallah and records the changing face of the city...

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  • Great State: China and the World

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    China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate current borders with the Ascendancy of the Yuan dynasty in the 13th cen...

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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

    Alfredo Corchado
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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

    R.W. Johnson
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  • How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

    Clint Smith
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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)

    Siona O'Connell
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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

    Petrovna Metelerkamp
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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

    F.A. Mouton
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  • King of Heists: The Sensational Bank Robbery of 1878 That Shocked America

    J. North Conway
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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)

    John Laband
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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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