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Chambers Dictionary of World History

From the Norman Conquest to the Normandy Campaign, this dictionary marks the milestones of over 1,000 years of world history.

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Eyewitness to History

Robert Fox

History as it really happened - Gripping accounts of great events spanning over 4,000 years. Our story begins with hieroglyphics and ends with the BlackBerry. Compiled and edited by esteemed journalist and historian Robert Fox.

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The Fatal Shore

Robert Hughes

Though a great nation has now flowered in the southern lands, the brutal colonisation of Australia was Georgian England's disgrace.

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Fifty Days that Changed the World

Hywel Williams

Fifty Days That Changed the World unravels the causes and consequences of the most significant days in history, revealing how each one left its imprint on the course of future events.

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The Folio Book of Historic Speeches

Compiled by Ian Pindar

A speech can start a revolution, inspire a people, change a belief and make plain the moving forces that shaped history.

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The Folio Book of Historical Mysteries

Edited and introduced by Ian Pindar

Discover the truth behind the past’s most intractable mysteries in this book of historical whodunits…

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The Gulag Archipelago

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Drawing on his own incarceration and exile, as well as on evidence from more than 200 fellow prisoners and Soviet archives, Solzhenitsyn reveals the entire apparatus of Soviet repression - the state within the state that ruled all-powerfully.

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A History of Africa

You can only truly understand Africa’s present by looking deep into her past. This unrivalled account is the most up–to–date and comprehensive single study available today.

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A History of the Arab Peoples

Albert Hourani

Eminent historian Albert Hourani distils a lifetime of learning into his remarkable history of the Arab peoples, from the 7th century - when the new religion of Islam began to spread from the Arabian Peninsula - to the present day.

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A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900

Andrew Roberts

Andrew Roberts has written a compelling history. Beginning where Churchill ended his Nobel Prize-winning history, he covers the struggles which have engulfed the English-speaking peoples since 1900.

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A History of Venice

John Julius Norwich

John Julius Norwich captures all Venice's brilliance, intrigue, tragedy, glory and disgrace, from the city's foundation in the 5th century AD as a watery refuge from barbarian invaders, to the Republic's dying agony under the heel of Napoleon in 1797.

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Homage to Catalonia

George Orwell

Chosen by John Simpson.
When civil war broke out in Spain, Orwell, like many other European socialists, was quick to join the fight against Fascism...

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Khubilai Khan

Morris Rossabi

Within a few decades of the thirteenth century, the Mongols carved out an empire five times the size of that of Alexander the Great. This acclaimed biography vividly portrays the life of Genghis Khan's grandson Khubilai Khan.

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Lost City of the Incas

Hiram Bingham

Nothing could have prepared the American explorer and historian Hiram Bingham for what awaited him in the awe-inspiring mountains of the Andes in the summer of 1911.

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The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam

Barbara W. Tuchman

Why do governments persistently pursue policies contrary to their own interests? In this dramatic historical study, Barbara Tuchman analyses why, time and again, the powers that be ignore the forces of reason and plunge into acts of self-destruction.

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