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Voices From the Past: A year of great quotations - and the stories from history that inspired them
W.B. MarshOriginal price R 340.00 - Original price R 340.00Original price R 340.00R 340.00R 340.00 - R 340.00Current price R 340.00In a treasure trove for history buffs, W.B. Marsh fleshes out the context behind famous quotations associated with each day of the year, sending us...
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Warriors, Witches, Women: Mythology's Fiercest Females
Kate HodgesOriginal price R 495.00 - Original price R 495.00Original price R 495.00R 495.00R 495.00 - R 495.00Current price R 495.00Meet mythology's fifty fiercest females in this modern retelling of the world's greatest legends. From feminist fairies to bloodsucking temptresses...
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WE NEED SNOWFLAKES TPB
Wordsworth BooksOriginal price R 355.01 - Original price R 355.01Original price R 355.01R 355.01R 355.01 - R 355.01Current price R 355.01Is today's youth over sensitive, mollycoddled and intellectually pathetic?Does the scourge of political correctness threaten the very fabric of our...
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When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt
Kara CooneyOriginal price R 290.00 - Original price R 290.00Original price R 290.00R 290.00R 290.00 - R 290.00Current price R 290.00This riveting narrative explores the lives of six remarkable female pharaohs, from Hatshepsut to Cleopatra--women who ruled with real power--and sh...
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Women with Silver Wings HB
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Written in History: Letters that Changed the World
Wordsworth BooksOriginal price R 280.00 - Original price R 280.00Original price R 280.00R 280.00R 280.00 - R 280.00Current price R 280.00INCLUDES NEW MATERIAL WRITTEN IN HISTORY celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian ...
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The Coming Civil War
Njabulo Charles ShobedeOriginal price R 249.00 - Original price R 249.00Original price R 249.00R 249.00R 249.00 - R 249.00Current price R 249.00Original price R 249.00 - Original price R 249.00Original price R 249.00R 249.00R 249.00 - R 249.00Current price R 249.00Save 0% Save % -
Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World (Trade Paperback)
Irene VallejoOriginal price R 470.00 - Original price R 470.00Original price R 470.00R 470.00R 470.00 - R 470.00Current price R 470.00'A fascinating and profound, yet delightfully personal take on books in the ancient world, with many illuminating insights into more modern literat...
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Tutankhamun: Pharaoh, Icon, Enigma: Lost for three thousand years, misunderstood for a century (Trade Paperback)
Joyce TyldesleyOriginal price R 355.01 - Original price R 355.01Original price R 355.01R 355.01R 355.01 - R 355.01Current price R 355.01Pharaoh. Icon. Enigma. Lost for three thousand years, misunderstood for a century. A hundred years ago, a team of archaeologists in the Val...
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Between Starshine and Clay: Conversations from the African Diaspora
Footnote Press LtdOriginal price R 310.01 - Original price R 310.01Original price R 310.01R 310.01R 310.01 - R 310.01Current price R 310.01WITH A FOREWORD FROM BERNARDINE EVARISTO Conversations with some of the most extraordinary Black minds of our age, discussing race, decolonisation...
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To The Bitter End: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45
Orion Publishing CoOriginal price R 250.00 - Original price R 250.00Original price R 250.00R 250.00R 250.00 - R 250.00Current price R 250.00The international bestselling record of a German Jew in Nazi Germany.'Deserves to stand beside the diary of Anne Frank as a day-to-day description ...
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The Lesser Evil: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959
Orion Publishing CoOriginal price R 250.00 - Original price R 250.00Original price R 250.00R 250.00R 250.00 - R 250.00Current price R 250.00The superb, bestselling diaries of Victor Klemperer, a Jew in Dresden who survived the war - hailed as one of the 20th century's most important chr...
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Ongekende ellende rampe wat Suid-Afrika geruk het
Protea BoekhuisOriginal price R 275.00 - Original price R 275.00Original price R 275.00R 275.00R 275.00 - R 275.00Current price R 275.00Chris Schoeman neem nog Suid-Afrikaanse rampe oor die eeu heen opnuut onder die loep, maar sluit dié keer ’n heel paar minder bekende voorvalle in ...
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Exploring the World: Two centuries of remarkable adventurers and their journeys
Alexander MaitlandOriginal price R 355.01 - Original price R 355.01Original price R 355.01R 355.01R 355.01 - R 355.01Current price R 355.01For nearly two hundred years the Society has been awarding gold medals to those individuals who have contributed most to our geographical knowledge...
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A Short History of War
Yale University PressOriginal price R 375.00 - Original price R 375.00Original price R 375.00R 375.00R 375.00 - R 375.00Current price R 375.00An engaging, accessible introduction to war, from ancient times to the present and into the future "Forty short chapters . . . describe war from t...
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The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynOriginal price R 405.00 - Original price R 405.00Original price R 405.00R 405.00R 405.00 - R 405.00Current price R 405.00The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and ...
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A History of Words for Children
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How Iceland Changed the World: The Big History of a Small Island
Wordsworth BooksOriginal price R 275.00 - Original price R 275.00Original price R 275.00R 275.00R 275.00 - R 275.00Current price R 275.00'[A] joyously peculiar book' - The New York Times 'A fascinating insight into Icelandic culture and a fresh perspective on her global influence....
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War: How Conflict Shaped Us
Profile Books LtdOriginal price R 275.00 - Original price R 275.00Original price R 275.00R 275.00R 275.00 - R 275.00Current price R 275.00New York Times 10 Best Book of 2020 Sunday Times best book for Autumn 2020 Guardian critics' pick for Autumn 2020 Wall Street Journal notable book ...
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1 Recce: Through Stealth Our Strength
Tafelberg Publishers LtdOriginal price R 340.00 - Original price R 340.00Original price R 340.00R 340.00R 340.00 - R 340.00Current price R 340.00The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale has been a source of fierce contestation and emotion for decades, but up to now little was known about the Recces’ pr...
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Letters to Camondo HB
Edmund De WaalOriginal price R 350.00 - Original price R 350.00Original price R 350.00R 350.00R 350.00 - R 350.00Current price R 350.0063 rue de Monceau, Paris Dear friend, As you may have guessed by now, I am not in your house by accident. I know your street rather well. Cou...
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Bailie's Party: The Old World, 1757?1819: Book 1
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Bailie's Party: The New Land, 1820-1834: Book 2
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Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver BurkemanOriginal price R 295.00 - Original price R 295.00Original price R 295.00R 295.00R 295.00 - R 295.00Current price R 295.00**The instant Sunday Times bestseller** **A FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR** Battling an overfilled inbox? You...
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Die Anglo-Boereoorlog in Kleur: Konvensionele Oorlog, 1899-1901 (Trade Paperback)
Tinus Le RouxOriginal price R 400.00 - Original price R 400.00Original price R 400.00R 400.00R 400.00 - R 400.00Current price R 400.00Tonele en rolspelers uit die Anglo-Boereoorlog kry nuwe lewe in hierdie unieke versameling foto’s wat lewensgetrou ingekleur is. Dit bring vars per...
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Before Bletchley Park: The Codebreakers of the First World War
The History Press LtdOriginal price R 395.00 - Original price R 395.00Original price R 395.00R 395.00R 395.00 - R 395.00Current price R 395.00The story of Bletchley Park's codebreaking operations in the Second World War is now well known, but its counterparts in the First World War - Room...
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The Road Less Travelled
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The Long Obedience: The Political Career of Zach de Beer, 1953-1994
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A Brief History of the Atlantic
Little, Brown Book GroupOriginal price R 310.01 - Original price R 310.01Original price R 310.01R 310.01R 310.01 - R 310.01Current price R 310.01The Atlantic has borne witness to major historic events that have drastically shaped humanity with each crossing of its path. In this broad and rea...
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Brave Companions: Portraits in History
Simon & SchusterOriginal price R 609.99 - Original price R 609.99Original price R 609.99R 609.99R 609.99 - R 609.99Current price R 609.99Master historian David McCullough's classic book about some of history's most daring and accomplished figures from Alexander von Humboldt to Charle...
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A History of the Classical World : The Story of Ancient Greece and Rome
Elizabeth WyseOriginal price R 275.00 - Original price R 275.00Original price R 275.00R 275.00R 275.00 - R 275.00Current price R 275.00Original price R 275.00 - Original price R 275.00Original price R 275.00R 275.00R 275.00 - R 275.00Current price R 275.00Save 0% Save % -
Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
Orion Publishing CoOriginal price R 470.00 - Original price R 470.00Original price R 470.00R 470.00R 470.00 - R 470.00Current price R 470.00'A huge, fizzing omnium-gatherum of a book . . . marvellous' Daily Telegraph'Witty, wise and elegant . . . a classic of history itself' The Spectat...
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The Mathews Men: Seven Brothers and the War Against Hitler's U-boats
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Burning Steel: A Tank Regiment at War, 1939-45
Profile Books LtdOriginal price R 415.00 - Original price R 415.00Original price R 415.00R 415.00R 415.00 - R 415.00Current price R 415.00This is the story of a tank regiment: the 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry in the Second World War. Raw and visceral personal recollections from the me...
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Pagans: The Visual Culture of Pagan Myths, Legends and Rituals
Thames & Hudson LtdOriginal price R 775.00 - Original price R 775.00Original price R 775.00R 775.00R 775.00 - R 775.00Current price R 775.00A clear, concise and detailed historical analysis of the eclectic and beautiful visual and material culture of paganism. The book begins with an i...
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Apartheid: An Illustrated History
Jonathan Ball Publishers SaOriginal price R 330.00 - Original price R 330.00Original price R 330.00R 330.00R 330.00 - R 330.00Current price R 330.00The thing that looms largest in South Africa’s future is South Africa’s past – most especially the nearly five decades of division and conflict at ...
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