World History
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A Brief History of Spain
Jeremy Black
Read more ▸ Order ▸Despite being relatively brief, this very readable history covers environmental, political, social, economic, cultural and...
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Chinese Thought: From Confucius to Cook Ding
Roel Sterckx
Read more ▸ Order ▸An engrossing history of ancient Chinese philosophy and culture from an eminent Cambridge expert
We are...
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King Leopold’s Ghost
Adam Hochschild
Read more ▸ Order ▸In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart...
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Living the Cold War: Memoirs of a British Diplomat
Sir Christopher Mallaby
Read more ▸ Order ▸The centrepiece of this memoir by Sir Christopher Mallaby, former British Ambassador in Germany and...
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History of Japan
J.G. Caiger
Read more ▸ Order ▸In this newly revised edition of their classic work, Mason and Caiger trace the enthralling...
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Fallout
Fred Pearce
Read more ▸ Order ▸Staff Pick
This tour through the sites and legacy of nuclear power is not exactly picaresque...
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Samurai Tales
Romulus Hillsborough
Read more ▸ Order ▸Samurai Tales is about the legendary men from the samurai class who fought for the...
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A Man on the Moon
Andrew Chaikin
Read more ▸ Order ▸Staff Pick
This chronicle of the Apollo missions is a genuine epic. Exhaustive but never exhausting,...
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The Billion Dollar Spy
David E. Hoffman
Read more ▸ Order ▸Rodric Braithwaite, British Ambassador in Moscow, 1988-1992 `One of the best spy stories to come...
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The New Silk Roads
Peter Frankopan
Read more ▸ Order ▸When The Silk Roads was published in 2015, it became an instant classic. A major...
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Exterminate All The Brutes
Sven Lindqvist
Read more ▸ Order ▸Over twenty years ago, Sven Lindqvist, one of the great pioneers of a new kind...
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Speeches of Note
Shaun Usher
Read more ▸ Order ▸Seventy-five extraordinary ways to step into someone else’s shoes!
From the author of the international bestseller,...