World History
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A Man on the Moon
Andrew Chaikin
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This chronicle of the Apollo missions is a genuine epic. Exhaustive but never exhausting,...
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The Spy Who Changed History
Svetlana Lokhova
Read more ▸ Order ▸On a sunny September day in 1931, a Soviet spy walked down the gangplank of...
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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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A History of Tokyo 1867-1989
Edward Seidensticker
Read more ▸ Order ▸From EDO to SHOWA: The Emergence of the World’s Greatest City.
Edward Seidensticker’s ‘A History of...
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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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Boom!
Bob Berman
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For a book about extreme, destructive forces, this is not as grim a prospect...
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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
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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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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...