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The Penguin History of Modern Spain: 1898 to the Present ...

Nigel Townson

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In 1600 Adams was the first English man to step on Japanese shores - one of only nine survivors of a Dutch trading expedition. He became the shogun's advisor and ship builder, and a samurai.... read more

In the Service of the Shogun: The Real Story of William Adams ...

Frederik Cryns

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A substantial and excellent biography, by the editor of his letters and diaries.

Christopher Isherwood Inside Out

Katherine Bucknell

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From the author of the excellent Invisible Agents, about women and espionage in C17th Britain.

Spycraft: Tricks and Tools of the Dangerous Trade from Elizabeth I to ...

Nadine Akkerman

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A fresh perspective that includes a chapter on the Indian Ocean and trade from the East.

An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independenc ...

Zeinab Badawi

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A fascinating look at the way 29 European internal borders were made and have shifted; while some of these reflect the faultlines of old horrors, they also offer new hope. Perceptive and ext... read more

Borderlines: A History of Europe, Told From the Edges ...

Lewis Baston

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1199-1399. So: John, Henry 3; Edwards 1,2,3; Dick 2. From a brace of Cambridge dons.

Arise, England: Six Kings and the Making of the English State ...

Caroline Burt

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From Late Antiquity to the C19th, with an epilogue taking us (almost) to the present. From the Atlantic to the Pacific.

A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Moderni ...

Michael A. Cook

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The 60 years following the Portuguese arrival in the Moluccas in 1511 saw an epic global struggle for the sources and distribution of this new geyser of wealth. Told with verve and authority... read more

Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World ...

Roger Crowley

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A bracing reminder of the effects of 2 million Russian soldiers proceeding westwards.

Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won The War

Jonathan Dimbleby

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The story of one of the most tumultuous moments in British history, which analyses how James I's rule was haunted by Elizabethan political norms and values.

From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I ...

Susan Doran

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For 2,000 years Roman roads have been channels of conquest, trade and art. A brilliant exploration.

The Roads To Rome: A History

Catherine Fletcher

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A thoughtful, engaging study of Italy's political development after WW2.

Italy Reborn: From Fascism to Democracy

Mark Gilbert

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A compelling and important investigation of Burma's colonial past and a portrait of contemporary Myanmar and its people.

On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar ...

Clare Hammond

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An account of the successful Commando raid in 1942 on a radar base in Normandy.

Operation Biting

Max Hastings

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The democratic experiment of 1918-1933, from defeat in WW1 to the rise of the Nazis. Jähner's description of living through this chaotic period is almost as thrilling as Hitchcock.

Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany

Harald Jähner

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A powerful, timely reminder that exiles and refugees are, and always have been, intrinsic to Britain.

This Land of Promise: A History of Refugees and Exiles in Britain ...

Matthew Lockwood

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VM was the author of The Map of Knowledge, a compelling account of the survival of the ancient classics in the Muslim world, and their re-emergence in the West. Now she turns her attention t... read more

Inside the Stargazer’s Palace: The Transformation of Science in ...

Violet Moller

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Crinolines and bikinis from bedroom to catwalk.

All the Rage: Pleasure, Pain, Power: Stories from the Frontline of Bea ...

Virginia Nicholson

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1870 was a cultural Golden Age, but it was also the background for the Dreyfus Affair and the violence of the Commune. This panorama is shown through the eyes of the age's personalities.

City of Light, City of Shadows: Paris in the Belle Epoque ...

Mike Rapport

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Following Cromwell's death, there were 10 changes of government in 2 years. Reece argues that there was still no great support for a return to the monarchy and yet, despite strong military b... read more

The Fall: Last Days of the English Republic

Henry Reece

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An account of a pivotal moment in the Middle East, when thousands of Christians were massacred by Ottoman forces - a harbinger for upheavals to come.

The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old ...

Eugene Rogan

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The author of The Bookseller of Kabul returns after 20 years to look at how three people manage their lives before/after the Taliban takeover.

The Afghans: Three Lives Through War, Love and Revolt ...

Asne Seierstad

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While the author's grandfather (Walter Runciman) tried to mediate between the new Czech Republic and the Sudeten Germans, her grandmother publicly favoured the Germans. This is a fascinating... read more

44 Days in Prague: The Runciman Mission and the Race to Save Europe ...

Ann Shukman

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Looks at the lives of 21 key statesmen during the demise of the Habsburg period.

Lost Fatherland: Europeans between Empire and Nation-States, 1867-1939 ...

Iryna Vushko

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As the great Gore Vidal cheerfully pointed out, the CIA was an instrument of US imperialism.

The CIA: An Imperial History

Hugh Wilford

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Crises compounded by the systemic tendency to make political mountains out of molehills.

Haywire: A Political History of Britain in the Twenty-First Century ...

Andrew Hindmoor

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A history of how the threat of climate change has been used to explain the world since antiquity

The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea

David N. Livingstone

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This fascinating account of a forgotten moment in history is part family memoir, part the telling of a Texan offshoot of the early Zionist movement, when 10,000 Jews set sail for Galveston b... read more

Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for the Promised Land ...

Rachel Cockerell

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A first edition, first impression of William Dalrymple's evocative and riveting portrayal of the last days of the Mughal empire and of Zafar, its last emperor. The book is in fine condition ... read more

The Last Mughal: The Fall of A Dynasty, 1857

William Dalrymple

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Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine ...

Anna Reid

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Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-39 ...

Florian Illies

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A Message from Ukraine

Volodymyr Zelensky

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The voices of some of those who lived through that terrible time.

Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution ...

Tania Branigan

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The final collapse of the empire that stretched from the Adriatic to the Indian Ocean, and the forging of modern Turkey.

The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire

Ryan Gingeras

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The Medici

Mary Hollingsworth

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