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  • Holocaust: The Nazis' Wartime Jewish Atrocities

    Stephen Wynn
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    The Holocaust is without doubt one of the most abhorrent and despicable events not only of the Second World War, but of the twentieth century. What...

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  • India Conquered: Britain's Raj and the Chaos of Empire

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    'The product of many years of detailed archival research, Wilson's book is without question the best one-volume history of the Raj currently in pri...

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  • Intercept: The Secret History of Computers and Spies

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    INTERCEPT is the previously untold - and previously highly classified - story of the melding of technology and espionage. Gordon Corera's compellin...

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  • Into the laager: Afrikaners living on the edge

    Kajsa Norman
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  • Island on the Edge of the World: The Story of St Kilda (Paperback)

    Charles MacLean
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    A classic work of social history and a moving account of the destruction of a remote Scottish community. For more than two thousand years the pe...

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  • Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond

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    The first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i-Noor, arguably the most celebrated and mythologised jewel in the world. On 29 Marc...

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  • Made in Sweden: 25 ideas that created a country

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    What are the real Swedish Values? Who is the real Swedish Model? In recent times, we have come to favour all things Scandi - their food, furnishin...

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  • Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 (Paperback)

    Frank Dikotter
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    Winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2011 Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to dea...

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  • Milk: A 10,000-Year History

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    Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic and culinary story of milk and al...

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  • PRISONERS OF HISTORY PB

    LOWE, KEITH
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    A Spectator Book of the Year 2020 A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 A Mail on Sunday Book ...

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  • Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

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    More than twenty years ago, the longtime NPR correspondent Anne Garrels began to visit the region of Chelyabinsk, an aging military-industrial cent...

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  • Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (Paperback)

    Anne Applebaum
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    Winner of the Duff Cooper and Lionel Gelber prizes In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately depri...

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  • Revolutions (Paperback)

    Peter Furtado
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    Revolutions - peaceful or violent, radical or reactionary - have shaped the political landscape of the world we live in today. But what led revolut...

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  • Superstition: White Rabbits and Black Cats - The History of Common Folk Beliefs

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    Ever wondered why we touch wood, salute magpies, skip over cracks and throw salt over our shoulders? Then Sally Coulthard has the answer as she get...

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  • Survivor: A portrait of the survivors of the Holocaust

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    'A masterpiece and deeply moving' - Alain de Botton'A wonderful piece of work' - Lynn Barber"...something really to behold, a substantial project o...

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  • Syria's Secret Library: The true story of how a besieged Syrian town found hope

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    'Hugely inspiring . . . A unique tribute to the power of books and the unquenchable human spirit' MICHAEL PALIN'An inspiring read - humanity at its...

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  • Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s

    Simon Hall
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    Rising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro's visit to New York. 'With its ...

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  • The Book Thieves: The Nazi Looting of Europe's Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary Inheritance

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  • The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

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    DAILY MAIL, GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017Winner of the 2018 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science WritingShortlisted for the 20...

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  • Children of Ash and Elm

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    A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'As brilliant a history of the Vikings as one could possibly hope to read' Tom HollandThe 'Viking Age' is traditionall...

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  • The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

    Masha Gessen
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    In The Future is History Masha Gessen follows the lives of four Russians, born as the Soviet Union crumbled, at what promised to be the dawn of dem...

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  • The Holocaust: A New History

    Laurence Rees
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    THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER AND THE FIRST AUTHORITATIVE ACCOUNT FOR 30 YEARS.'By far the clearest book ever written about the Holocaust, and...

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  • The Library Book

    Susan Orlean , Simon & Schuster
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    A New York Times Book of the Year, 2018 A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK A dazzling love letter to a beloved institution - o...

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  • The Light of Truth

    Ida Wells
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    In this collection, Wells's anti-lynching crusade comes alive. Through brilliant social analysis, she exposed lynching as part of a larger framewor...

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