History

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  Uncrowned Queen

  Nicola Tallis

  As the battle for royal supremacy raged between the houses of Lancaster and York, Margaret...

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  Our Daily Bread

  Predrag Matvejevic

  Our Daily Bread charmingly weaves together the customs, rituals, anecdotes, legends and sayings that tell...

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  Great Sites of the Ancient World

  Paul G. Bahn

  From deserts to hidden corners of busy cities, quiet mountain tops to caves submerged deep...

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  The White Rabbit

  Bruce Marshall

  The harrowing, and inspiring, story of the capture of one of Britain’s top SOE agents...

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  MI9

  Helen Fry

  A thrilling history of MI9-the WWII organization that engineered the escape of Allied forces from...

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  Horror: A Literary History

  Xavier Aldana Reyes

  Horror: A Literary History is the book horror readers and students need. It will hold...

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  The Official History of Britain

  Boris Starling

  A wonderfully written and entertaining book which places Britain under the microscope and asks who...

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  Post Wall, Post Square

  Kristina Spohr

  This landmark global study makes us rethink what happened when the Cold War ended and...

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  Blitz Spirit: Voices of Britain Living Through Crisis, 1939-1945

  Becky Brown

  Throughout the Second World War hundreds of people kept diaries of their private daily lives...

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  Atlas: A World of Maps from the British Library

  Tom Harper

  From the publication in 1595 of the first ‘atlas’ by the Flemish cartographer Gerhard Mercator,...

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  The Art of War

  Sun Tzu

  For two and a half thousand years The Art of War has been the core...

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  A World Beneath the Sands

  Toby Wilkinson

  What could be more exciting, more exotic or more intrepid than digging in the sands...

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