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    The War Magician: The man who conjured victory in the desert

    Orion Publishing Co
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    The incredible true story of the greatest illusionist of modern times and the man who altered the course of the second world war.Soon to be a major...

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  • The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean (Paperback)

    David Abulafia
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    For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of civilization. David Abulafia's The Great Sea is the first...

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  • Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps (Paperback)

    Anne Applebaum
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    This landmark book uncovers for the first time in detail one of the greatest horrors of the twentieth century: the vast system of Soviet camps that...

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  • Dear Comrade President: Oliver Tambo and the Foundations of South Africa's Constitution (Trade Paperback)

    Penguin Random House South Africa
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    In his annual presidential address on 8 January 1986, ANC president Oliver Tambo called on South Africans to make apartheid ungovernable through ar...

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  • The Traitor of Colditz

    Welbeck Publishing Group
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    'A vastly entertaining tale, bursting with astonishing stories and extraordinary characters ... A fascinating read' Sunday TelegraphIT IS THE DEPTH...

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  • Cracking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of Jean-Francois Champollion

    Thames & Hudson Ltd
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    An updated edition of this acclaimed book, now with a new preface and published to tie in with the bicentenary of Champollion's breakthrough in 182...

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  • A Breed Apart: The Inside Story of a Recce's Special Forces Training Year (Paperback)

    Johan Raath
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    The South African Special Forces, or Recces, has always been known for their gruelling selection course that pushes soldiers to the ends of their p...

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  • A Russian on Commando: The Boer War Experiences of Yevgeny Avgustus (Paperback)

    Boris Gorelik
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    In January 1900, galvanised by the daring of the Boers in taking on imperial Britain, the young Russian officer Yevgeny Avgustus set off for the Tr...

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  • General Jan Smuts: And His First World War in Africa (1914-1917)

    Jonathan Ball Publishers Sa
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    Jan Smuts’s abilities as a general have been much denigrated by modern historians. However, he was no armchair soldier – the statesman courageously...

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  • Wedervaringe Van 'n Boere Gesin

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    Dit is ’n sensitiewe, getroue, amusante vertelling oor die unieke ervarings van ’n Vrystaatse boeregesin tydens die Anglo-Boereoorlog. Van die s...

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  • Adventures Of A Boer Family

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    This is a sensitive, faithful, amusing account of the unique experiences of a Free State farming family during the Anglo-Boer War. From the auth...

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  • BBC (Paperback)

    David Hendy
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    'A fascinating and informative account of the BBC's first 100 years' Daily Telegraph 'A dramatic tale of innovation and determination' Guardian In ...

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  • Innovation: The History of England Volume VI

    Pan Macmillan
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    'Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman' - Ian Thomson, Independent Innovation brings Peter Ackroyd's History of England to a triumphant cl...

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  • The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

    Pan Macmillan
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    'Steve Brusatte, the author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, brings mammals out from the shadow of their more showy predecessors in a beautif...

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  • SOUTH AFRICAS POST-APARTHEID MILITARY

    University Of Cape Town Press
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    This timely book examines how the South African National Defence Force has adapted to the new security, political and social environment since 1994...

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  • CLEOPATRA TPB

    Harpercollins Publishers Inc
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    "The political machinations, betrayal, and battles may appeal to those fans of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series interested in a ...

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  • ANCESTORS PB

    Simon & Schuster Ltd
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    An extraordinary exploration of the ancestry of Britain through seven burial sites. By using new advances in genetics and taking us through importa...

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  • SURVIVING KATYN PB

    Oneworld Publications
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    WINNER OF THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 'A gripping reconstruction... utterly compelling reading.' Adam Zam...

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  • The Great American History Fact-finder: The Who, What, Where, When and Why of American History

    Cengage Learning, Inc
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    Completely revised and expanded with 200 new entries, The Great American History Fact-Finder covers a wide spectrum of American history and culture...

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  • BARBIZON BPB

    John Murray Press
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    AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 WOMAN'S HOUR'Captivating . . . a brilliant many-layered social history of women's ambition and a rapidly changing New York' Obs...

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  • GLOSSY BPB

    Quercus Publishing
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    'Dame Anna Wintour might be one of the best-known and most successful journalists on the planet. But it wasn't always like that. When she started o...

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  • African Political Thought: An Intellectual History of the Quest for Freedom

    C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
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    African liberation is often seen in terms of heroism, but seldom in terms of thought. Even Sartre, in his preface to Frantz Fanon's seminal The Wre...

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  • The Miseducation of the Negro

    Lits
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    The Mis-Education of the Negro was originally published in 1933 by Dr. Carter G. Woodson. According to his thesis explained in the book, African-Am...

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  • Nuwe Geskiedenis van Suid-Afrika

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    Dié nuwe, opgedateerde uitgawe van die 2007-topverkoper Nuwe geskiedenis van Suid-Afrika sluit bydraes in deur gerekende nuwe skrywers, wat die sto...

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  • New History of South Africa

    Hermann Giliomee
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    This newly updated and expanded edition of the top-selling New History of South Africa presents the story of this turbulent country in a fresh, rea...

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  • Alice's Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook (Paperback)

    Karina Urbach
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    What happened to the books that were too valuable to burn? The story of a Jewish chef whose bestselling cookbook was expropriated under the Nazi...

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  • The Dawn of Everything - A New History of Humanity (Paperback)

    David Graeber, David Wengrow
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    'Pacey and potentially revolutionary' Sunday Times 'Iconoclastic and irreverent ... an exhilarating read' The Guardian 'This is not a book. T...

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    The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal (Trade Paperback)

    Simon Parkin
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    'Extraordinary yet previously untold true story...meticulously researched...it's also taut, compelling, and impossible to put down' Daily Express T...

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  • Macarthur's Spies: The Soldier, the Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in World War II

    Penguin Putnam Inc
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  • Stalin's Meteorologist: One Man's Untold Story of Love, Life and Death

    Vintage Publishing
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    Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2018The heartbreaking story of an innocent man in a Soviet gulag, told for the first time in E...

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  • Three Epic Battles That Saved Democracy

    Little, Brown Book Group
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    Praise for the author's A Brief Guide to the Greek Myths: 'Eminently sane, highly informative' PAUL CARTLEDGE, BBC History magazine In 2022 it ...

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  • Brief History Of Germany

    Jeremy Black,
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    The history of Germany is intricately woven. Threaded in time through its struggles and triumphs with religion, industrialisation, enlightenment, p...

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  • Musical Human (Paperback)

    Michael Spitzer,
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    A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Full of delightful nuggets' Guardian online 'Entertaining, informative and philosphical ... An essential read' All Abou...

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  • Persians (Trade Paperback)

    Headline Publishing Group
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      THE PERSIANS is a definitive new history of the Persian Empire, the world's first superpower.     The Great Kings of Persia ruled over th...

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  • A Century of South African Naval History: The South African Navy and its Predecessors

    Naledi
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    “The author builds on an impressive body of work that has spanned decades of research on the topic. This is now brought together in a seminal compe...

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  • Forgotten Cape Town - A Visual History 1850-1950

    Don Nelson,South Africa
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    This book is a wonderful review of images which are intended to capture the changing face of Cape Town from 1850 to 1950. Selected from thousands, ...

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