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Strange People

Author: Frank Edwards
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1966

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Elements of the Celtic Tradition

Author: Caitlin Matthews
Publication Date: 19890500

The mysterious inner world of the Celts continues to intrigue and delight us. The richness of the myths and legends of the ...

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The Woman Writer
The History of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists

Author: Sylvia Kent
Publication Date: 1 November 2009

Since its creation in 1894 by Joseph Snell Wood, the Society of Women Writers & Journalists has attracted the company of many famous women writers, journalists, poets and playwrights. This title reveals the long and fascinating history of the Society.

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The Weaker Vessel

Author: Antonia Fraser
Publication Date: 1 August 2002

Antonia Fraser's bestselling account of the lives of women in seventeenth-century England.

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Bluestockings
The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education

Author: Jane Robinson
Publication Date: 29 April 2010

In 1869, when five women enrolled at university for the first time in British history, the average female brain was thought to be 150 grams lighter than a man's. Doctors warned that if women studied too hard their wombs would wither and die. This title tells the story of the fight for female education in Britain.

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Why the West Rules - for Now
The Patterns of History and What They Reveal About the Future

Author: Ian Morris
Publication Date: 4 August 2011

Why does the West rule? This title answers this provocative question, drawing on 15,000 years of history and archaeology, and the methods of social science.

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The Sacred Willow
Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family

Author: Duong Van Mai Elliott
Publication Date: 1 May 1999

Charting the lives of four generations of her family, the author traces her family's journey through tumultuous change, exploring different strands of Vietnamese history. It begins with her great-grandfather who rose from rural poverty to become an influential mandarin.

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Dambusters
A Landmark Oral History

Author: Max Arthur
Publication Date: 7 May 2009

On the night of 16-17 May 1943, nineteen Lancaster bombers from 617 Squadron headed for Germany. Their mission, for which they had been trained under a cloak of absolute secrecy, was to destroy the dams of the Ruhr Valley and in doing so cripple the Nazi industrial war effort. This book features the voices of the 'Dambusters'.

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Terry Jones' Medieval Lives

Author: Terry Jones
Publication Date: 5 May 2005

Your guide to this most misrepresented and misunderstood period. Medieval Britain as you have never seen it before, a vibrant society teeming with individuality, intrigue and innovation.

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The Roman World

Author: John Boardman
Publication Date: 1905611

Part of the Oxford History of the Classical World series, and written by a team of specialist scholars, this work traces the...

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In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great
A Journey from Greece to Asia

Author: Michael Wood
Publication Date: 30 November 1997

Between 334 and 324 BC, Alexander the Great's march across Asia opened up contacts between Europe and Asia. Michael Wood recreates this 20,000-mile trek from Greece to India, basing his account on Greek and Roman texts and sees the trek in terms of colonialism, orientalism and racism.

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We Were Young and at War
The First-hand Story of Young Lives Lived and Lost in World War Two

Author: Sarah Wallis
Publication Date: 3 September 2009

Never before have the diaries and letters of young people from all sides of World War Two been woven together to provide an ...

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The Description of Britain

Author: William Caxton
Publication Date: 1989

The English are accused of gluttony, the Welsh of telling tall stories, the Scots of being wild and alien and the Irish of b...

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Gladstone, Disraeli and Later Victorian Politics

Author: Paul Adelman
Publication Date: 19701130

An introductory survey of the two main Victorian political parties, this text covers the rise of the Liberal party under Gladstone until the period of Conservative domination under Salisbury in the late-19th century.

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victorian social reform

Author: e c midwinter
Publication Date: 1968

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The English Republic 1649-1660

Author: Toby Barnard
Publication Date: 1982

The book begins by introducing the complicated events leading to the execution of Charles I in 1649 and then offers a detail...

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Peter Pan's First XI
The Extraordinary Story of J.M. Barrie's Cricket Team

Author: Kevin Telfer
Publication Date: 13 May 2010

The story of possibly the most extraordinary cricket team ever to have taken the field.

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At Home
A Short History of Private Life

Author: Bill Bryson
Publication Date: 27 May 2010

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Country Camera, 1844-1914
Rural Life as Depicted in Photographs from the Early Days of Photography to the Outbreak of the First World War

Author: Gordon Winter
Publication Date: 19731025

In this irresistible book Gordon Winter has collected together over 150 photographs depicting, as no written record could, ...

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Paddle to the Amazon
The Ultimate 12,000 Mile Canoe Adventure

Author: Don Starkell
Publication Date: 19890511

Edited by Charles Wilkins, an account of the longest recorded journey by canoe, telling of how the author and his teenage son travelled from Winnipeg, Canada to Belem in Brazil. First published in 1989.

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Geisha
The Secret History of a Vanishing World

Author: Lesley Downer
Publication Date: 14 June 2001

Contrary to popular opinion, geisha are not prostitutes but literally "arts people". Their accomplishments include singing, dancing or playing a musical instrument and they are masters of the art of conversation. The real secret history of the geisha is explored here.

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Double Cross
The True Story of the D-Day Spies

Author: Ben Macintyre
Publication Date: 30 August 2012

From the Number One bestselling author of Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat, comes a new true story of Second World War deception

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The Sunlight on the Garden
A Family in Love, War and Madness

Author: Elizabeth Speller
Publication Date: 2 April 2007

Inspired by the stories, re-inventions and half-truths in her family's past, the author sets out to trace the criss-crossing lines of her family history.

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Not a Good Day to Die
The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda

Author: Sean Naylor
Publication Date: 1 June 2006

At dawn on March 2, 2002, over 200 soldiers of the 101st Airborne and 10th Mountain Divisions flew into Afghanistan's Shahikot valley and into the mouth of a buzz-saw. This book portrays the fight for Afghanistan's most hostile battleground, and details the failures of military intelligence and planning that left victory hanging by a thread.

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True North
In Praise of England's Better Half

Author: Martin Wainwright
Publication Date: 2 June 2006

Abysmal weather, slag heaps, funny accents and, the detritus of an industrial revolution well past its sell-by date. These, all too often, are the gloomy perceptions of 'the north'. With an insider's sensitivity and a journalist's enquiring mind, this title dispels these and other myths.

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Quest for Arthur's Britain

Author:  
Publication Date: 19710520

The book begins with the Arthurian legend, and goes on in various chapters to examine "the Arthurian fact". The au...

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London Bridge in America
The Tall Story of a Transatlantic Crossing

Author: Travis Elborough
Publication Date: 7 February 2013

In 1968 the world's largest antique went to America. But how do you transport a 130-year-old bridge 3,000 miles? And why did Robert P McCulloch, a multimillionaire oil baron and chainsaw-manufacturing king, buy it? Why did he ship it to waterless patch of the Arizonan desert? Did he even get the right bridge? This title deals with these questions.

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Peace, Print and Protestantism, 1450-1558

Author: C S L Davis
Publication Date: 19770317

A re-interpretation of the period of history between the years 1450-1558.

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London
The Biography

Author: Peter Ackroyd
Publication Date: 4 August 2001

Describes London from the time of the Druids to the beginning of the twenty-first century, noting magnificence in both epochs. This title includes chapters on the history of silence and the history of light, the history of childhood and the history of suicide, the history of Cockney speech and the history of drink.

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Molasses to Acid

Author: Alan Wilkinson
Publication Date: 1997420

Saltend's First 75 Years Distilled...

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Headlong into Pennilessness
Lessons in Life from 1950s' Sheffield

Author: Michael Glover
Publication Date: 18 November 2011

Young Michael Glover grew up never knowing his father. Sid Glover didn't die on the battlefield, but the man who returned fr...

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Romance and Legend of Chivalry

Author: A R Moncrieff
Publication Date: 1994

Survey of the legends of medieval Europe....

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Tales of Normansfield
The Langdon Down Legacy

Author: Andrew Merriman
Publication Date: 19 March 2007

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All the Countries We've Ever Invaded
And the Few We Never Got Round To

Author: Stuart Laycock
Publication Date: 1 September 2012

Out of 193 countries that are currently UN member states, we've invaded or fought conflicts in the territory of 171. That's ...

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At Home
A Short History of Private Life

Author: Bill Bryson
Publication Date: 27 May 2010

Presents the history of the way we live.

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1434
The Year a Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance

Author: Gavin Menzies
Publication Date: 1 July 2008

In his bestselling book 1421:The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies revealed that it was the Chinese that discovered America, not Columbus. Now he presents further astonishing evidence that it was also Chinese advances in science, art, and technology that formed the basis of the European Renaissance and our modern world.

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The Nottinghamshire Heritage

Author: Christopher Weir
Publication Date: 1 January 1991

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Nottingham

Author: Douglas Whitworth
Publication Date: 1 June 1995

Nottingham 1897-1947

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The Origins of the First World War

Author: Gordon Martel
Publication Date: 17 December 2003

In this volume, the author examines the policies and issues that brought Europe to war in 1914. The text of this new edition has been rewritten and extended to provide a historiographically current interpretation. The reading guide has also been revised, and new plates illustrate key themes in the text.

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Sheep Bell and Ploughshare

Author: Marjorie Reeves
Publication Date: 1978

This is an account of life in the Wiltshire village of Bratton, an account gathered from the domestic bric-a-brac and famil...

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Hope and Glory Britain 1900 - 1990

Author: Peter Clarke
Publication Date: 199711

Clarke challenges the commonly held view of Britain in the twentieth century as a nation in decline. He examines the politic...

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Necropolis
London and Its Dead

Author: Catharine Arnold
Publication Date: 5 March 2007

A vivid historical narrative of how London has dealt with its dead from pagan burial rites through the Black Death to the Blitz and the death of Diana.

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Violet to Vita
Letters of Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West

Author: Violet Trefusis
Publication Date: 19900405

The tempestuous affair between Violet Trefusis and Vita Sackville-West is revealed in this collection of letters. "Fie...

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Prehistoric Stone Circles

Author: Aubrey Burl
Publication Date: 1988

This book explains the history and the facts known about them, and shows how we are gradually coming to an understanding of the significance these gaunt, grey circles had to their builders.

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Greyfriars Bobby

Author: Eleanor Atkinson
Publication Date: 1 August 2004

For 14 years the little Skye terrier returned every night to the shepherd's grave in Greyfriars Churchyard, Edinburgh - so dearly had he loved his master.

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The Wars of the Roses
England's First Civil War

Author: Trevor Royle
Publication Date: 5 August 2010

* The first major single history of the Wars of the Roses for decades, written by renowned popular and military historian, Trevor Royle, out now in paperback

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Lenin and the Russian Revolution

Author: Christopher Hill
Publication Date: 19710527

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Boris Godunov The Tragic Tsar

Author: Ian Grey
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1973

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In the Wake of the Plague
The Black Death and the World it Made

Author: Norman F. Cantor
Publication Date: 4 February 2002

A sweeping social history of the world's greatest medical disaster and its impact, from a renowned historian.

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with wings like eagles
The Untold History of the Battle of Britain

Author: Michael korda
Publication Date: 25 June 2010

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Pocket History Of Scotland

Author: david ross
Publication Date: 2002

This original concisely written history of Scotland charts the long, painful, sometimes tragic, often inspiring process that...

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Home
The Story of Everyone Who Ever Lived in Our House

Author: Julie Myerson
Publication Date: 1 January 2005

Ever thought about all the people who lived in your house before you? Julie Myerson did, and set out to learn as much as she could about their fascinating lives.

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Jack Tar
Life in Nelson's Navy

Author: Roy Adkins
Publication Date: 3 September 2009

* A unique and thrilling narrative which uncovers the lives of the heroes of Nelson's navy

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Top Ten Fairy Stories

Author: Michael Coleman
Publication Date:

Want to know which scary fairy story has had the number one slot for hundreds of years? Could it be Rumplestiltskin - a hideous little man who meets avery nasty end. Find out how in the coroner's report ... Call the first witness!! THe little Sea Maid - young mermaid falls for handsome prince - with spine-chilling results. Boo and hiss ( and get your hankies out) as the Sea Witch tells her evil st...

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Ancien Regime

Author: William Doyle
Publication Date: 19860425

A concise and accessible guide to the hidden complexities of an apparently straightforward historical category, both in the history of France and Europe as a whole. This edition incorporates material which has widened and advanced the historical debate since the book was first published.

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Love Among the Butterflies
Travels and Adventures of a Victorian Lady

Author: Margaret Fountaine
Publication Date: 19820624

The diaries of a Victorian adventuress.

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Dead Famous Elizabeth I and her Conquests

Author: Margaret Simpson
Publication Date: 1905623

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A 1950s Childhood
From Tin Baths to Bread and Dripping

Author: Paul Feeney
Publication Date: 1 September 2009

A nostalgic look at what it was like to grow up in the 1950s This is a paperback, not a hardback book.

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Royal Poxes and Potions
Royal Doctors and Their Secrets

Author: Raymond Lamont-Brown
Publication Date: 15 November 2009

Looks at the relationship between monarchs and their doctors and reveals the complex and influential position that they held. This title includes topics ranging from the instigation of the royal doctor in medieval times and up to the present day, and the tales of secrets, murder, medical incompetence and revolutionary operations.

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Geoffrey Guy's War
Memoirs of a Spitfire Pilot 1941-46

Author: Geoffrey Guy
Publication Date: 13 October 2011

Geoffrey's memoir opens in May 1940, when he was eighteen years old and his grammar school in Kent was being evacuated to St...

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Last of the Few
18 Battle of Britain Pilots Tell Their Extraordinary Stories

Author: Dilip Sarkar
Publication Date: 17 February 2011

Spitfire and Hurricane fighter pilots recount their experiences of combat during the Battle of Britain.

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Madams

Author: Fergus Linnane
Publication Date: 2 February 2007

An entertaining romp through the history of London's brothels and the women who offered their services

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Changing Times
Being Young in Britain in the '60s

Author: Alison Pressley
Publication Date: 21 September 2000

Nineteen sixty saw JFK voted in as the youngest President of the United States, 1961 saw the first man in space, Harold Wilson became the new Labour Prime Minister in 1964, and 1965 saw the death of Winston Churchill. This work includes reminiscences of the Swinging Sixties.

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Exploring Prehistoric Europe

Author: Chris Scarre
Publication Date: 1998

Part travel guide, part survey of Europes pre-history. A book by the TV history and archaeology presenter Chris Scarre about...

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The Rare and the Beautiful
The Lives of the Garmans

Author: Cressida Connolly
Publication Date: 1 August 2005

The compelling biography of the beautiful, talented Garman sisters and the glittering, romantic era in which they lived.

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The The Romanization of Roman Britain

Author: F 1860 Haverfield
Publication Date: 8 September 2010

This is a copy of the 1912 edition without illustrations. One of the earliest and best known names in both British and Roman archeology, this book is referred to by many more recent sources....

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Your Medieval World Homework Helper

Author:  
Publication Date: 22 June 2006

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Your Mesapotamia Homework Helper

Author:  
Publication Date: 15 July 2004

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Illustrated Family Encyclopedia Of Aboriginal Australians To Arctic Ocean Volume 1

Author: Dorling Kindersley
Publication Date: 2004

Visual reference for the 21st century. For easy access to information,colourful photographs and illustrations,extensive c...

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Victorian People
A Reassessment of Persons and Themes 1851-1867 - 1851-67

Author: Asa Briggs
Publication Date: 27 September 1990

Looking at the people, ideas and events between the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Second Reform Act of 1867, Asa Briggs provides an assessment of Victorian achievements; and in doing so conjures up an enviable picture of the progress and independence of the last century.

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Tales of the Cornish Wreckers

Author: John Vivian
Publication Date: 1 September 1989

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Tales of the Cornish Smugglers

Author: John Vivian
Publication Date: 2 February 2012

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Hertfordshire A to Z

Author: Pamela Shields
Publication Date: 10 November 2005

Home to many 'firsts', such as the English Pope, the Garden City and the New Town, Hertfordshire was also home to many famous people, from King Offa to Laurence Olivier, George Orwell, Graham Greene and Henry Moore. Suitable for residents, visitors and tourists, this title offers an introduction to the county.

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The Sweethearts
Tales of Love, Laughter and Hardship from the Yorkshire Rowntree's Girls

Author: Lynn Russell
Publication Date: 11 April 2013

Whether in wartime or peace, tales of love, laughter and hardship from the girls in the Rowntrees factory in Yorkshire

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The Sisters
The Saga of the Mitford Family

Author: Mary S. Lovell
Publication Date: 30 June 2002

The Mitford girls were probably the most spectacular sister act of the twentieth century." "Vogue" This is the story of a cl...

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Forgotten Voices of Burma
The Second World War's Forgotten Conflict

Author: Julian Thompson
Publication Date: 16 September 2010

The Fourteenth Army in Burma became one of the largest and most diverse armies of the Second World War. British, West African, Ghurkha and Indian regiments fought alongside one another and became comrades. Taken from Imperial War Museum's Sound Archive - this title tells stories of this epic conflict.

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the discovery of time

Author: Stephen, June toulmin
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1967

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Anastasia
Life of Anna Anderson

Author: Peter Kurth
Publication Date: 19850627

First published by Cape in 1983 and now reissued, a biography of 'Anna Anderson', who claimed all her life to be Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia, the youngest daughter of the Tsar, who was thought to have been executed with the rest of her family in 1917.

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Yorkshire Airfields in the Second World War

Author: Patrick Otter
Publication Date: 5 November 1998

Presents an illustrated account of Yorkshire's airfields during the Second World War, the planes and the pilots who flew them and the local civilians who worked alongside them.

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History of Modern France
v.2

Author: Alfred Cobban
Publication Date: 19700924

Alfred Cobban latterly expanded A history of modern France into three volumes and added some completely new material. This ...

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The Assault on Jerusalem

Author: Steven Runciman
Publication Date: 6 May 2005

One of the greatest historical writers of the twentieth century, Steven Runciman was famous for throwing light on some very dark ages: his definitive A History of the Crusades, first published by Penguin in 1965, transformed the common view of the Holy Wars through its impartial and penetrating approach.

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The Black Hole
Money, Myth and Empire

Author: Jan Dalley
Publication Date: 26 July 2007

A story of the propagation of a myth that arose as the British Empire came into being: a myth about the barbarism of a people, the colonials sought to rule, and how that myth - based on improbable exaggeration and half-truth - helped justify the march of empire for two hundred years.

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The Forgotten Dead
Why 946 American Servicemen Died Off the Coast of Devon in 1944 - And the Man Who Discovered Their True Story

Author: Ken Small
Publication Date: 19890900

During a rehearsal for the D-day landings held in April 1944, a series of fatal blunders led to the deaths of nearly 1000 American servicemen off the Devon coast. This story explains how and why the tragedy happened, and explores the elaborate cover-up that later took place.

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Empire
The British Imperial Experience, from 1765 to the Present

Author: Denis Judd
Publication Date: 17 March 1997

An evaluation of the British Imperial experience and a wide-ranging detailed analysis of the impact of the Empire upon both the rulers and the ruled.

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Around the World in Eighty Days

Author: Jules Verne
Publication Date: 19900125

Written in 1873 this book is full of excitement. Mr Phileas Fogg claims he can go round the world in eighty days. He will lose twenty thousand pounds if he does not succeed. He meets all kind of difficulties and dangers!.

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1940
The World in Flames

Author: Richard Collier
Publication Date: 19800828

1940, week by week, hour by hour. In his brilliant reconstruction Richard Collier brings this momentous year to life, pro...

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The murder of Allende

Author: Robinson Rojas Sandford
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1975

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waterloo
A Near Run Thing

Author: David howarth
Publication Date: 19721000

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Mysteries from Forgotten Worlds

Author: Charles Berlitz
Publication Date: 17 May 1990

Lost civilizations Atlantis Stonehenge That sort of thing A bit like von Daniken, a good read. ...

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A Cat Called Birmingham

Author: Chris Pascoe
Publication Date: 12 September 2005

In the long history of mankind's relationship with felines, one cat stands head and shoulders below the rest. Highly inflammable, the glass-jawed Birmingham lurches from one catastrophe to the next. This book paints an intimate portrait of the author's calamitous relationship with a cat wholly unsuited to being feline.

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War and Peas

Author: John Lippiett
Publication Date: 23 April 2007

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What If?
Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been

Author: Robert Cowley
Publication Date: 6 April 2001

'Anyone interested in military history or indeed history in general will find it fascinating to read.' The Spectator

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twentieth century history

Author: tony howarth
Publication Date: 1979

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Politics and the Soviet Union

Author: Mary McAuley
Publication Date: 19771200

A first class background for modern history...

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Hope and Memory
Reflections on the Twentieth Century

Author: Tzvetan Todorov
Publication Date: 13 January 2005

Tzvetan Todorov's book examines the history of the past century by analyzing its spectacular political conflicts and by offering moving profiles of individuals who, at great personal cost, resisted the strictures of the communist and Nazi regimes. .

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London Calling

Author: Barry Miles
Publication Date: 1 February 2011

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Wolverine is Eating My Leg

Author: Tim Cahill
Publication Date: 19940707

Following JAGUARS RIPPED MY FLESH, Cahill's second volume of travel adventures. Includes an account of his visit to the scene of the Jonestown Massacre in Guyana. First published in 1990.

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The Routledge Dictionary of Modern British History

Author: John Plowright
Publication Date: 22 June 2006

Covering the Romantic age to the twenty-first century, this color text is meant for A-level students and first year undergraduates, as well as those interested in the history of the United Kingdom. It includes: Prime Ministers; protest movements; 'the Troubles' and the journey towards a fragile peace in Northern Ireland; and military conflicts.

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Phoenix Squadron
HMS "Ark Royal", Britain's Last Topguns and the Untold Story of Their Most Dramatic Mission

Author: Rowland White
Publication Date: 1 April 2010

January 1972: the tiny outpost of British Honduras is threatened with imminent invasion by battle-hardened, US-trained Guatemalan paratroops. Britain's response must be immediate. But there is only one deterrent the government can offer: HMS Ark Royal, once the Navy's most powerful warship, now a white elephant on the verge of being scrapped.

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Who Do You Think You Are?

Author: Dan Waddell
Publication Date: 11 October 2004

Combines both stats and pub facts, with emotions as people discover the heroes and villains in their family's past. This book emphasizes the human and emotional side, and equips you with the basic tools to start and maintain your quest as well as includes the celebrity stories. It also includes a section on books and websites.

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