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The Unwomanly Face of War

The Unwomanly Face of War

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Author: Svetlana Alexievich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The unforgettable oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second World War from the winner of the Nobel...
Hell's Angels

Hell's Angels

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Author: Hunter S Thompson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Hell's Angels was the result- a masterpiece of underground reportage whose free-wheeling, impressionistic style created the legend of...
The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine

The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine

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Author: Bishop of Caesarea Eusebius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Eusebius's account is the only surviving historical record of the Church during its crucial first 300 years....
The History of Alexander

The History of Alexander

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Author: Quintus Curtius Rufus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who led the Macedonian army to victory in Egypt, Syria, Persia and India,...
On the Origin of Species

On the Origin of Species

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Author: Damien Hirst Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 Charles Darwin's seminal formulation of the theory of Evolution, On the Origin of Species continues to be as controversial...
Ten Days That Shook the World

Ten Days That Shook the World

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Author: John Reed Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The first-person chronicle of a lengendary journalist at the flashpoint of the Russian Revolution Ten Days That Shook the...
Conversations With Stalin

Conversations With Stalin

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Author: Milovan Djilas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Written in 1961, after Djilas had served time in prison for his views, and featuring portraits of the leading...
Shah of Shahs

Shah of Shahs

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Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Shah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran, and is a compelling meditation on the...
The Voyage of the Beagle

The Voyage of the Beagle

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Author: Charles Darwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The Voyage of the Beagle is Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current...
The History of the Kings of Britain

The History of the Kings of Britain

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Author: Geoffrey Monmouth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Completed in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britain traces the story of the realm from its supposed...
Reading Lolita in Tehran

Reading Lolita in Tehran

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Author: Azar Nafisi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'That room, for all of us, became a place of transgression. What a wonderland it was!' Every Thursday morning...
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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Author: David Womersley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 Spanning thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, DECLINE & FALL...
Eichmann in Jerusalem

Eichmann in Jerusalem

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Author: Hannah Arendt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Hannah Arendt's authoritative and controversial report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a...
Chronicles of the Crusades

Chronicles of the Crusades

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Author: Joinville and Villehardouin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The Conquest of Constantinopleby Geoffrey of Villehardouin andThe Life of Saint Louisby John of Joinville are eye-witness accounts...
Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources

Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources

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Author: Asser Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Asser's Life of King Alfred, written in 893, is a revealing account of one of the greatest of medieval kings....
The Jewish War

The Jewish War

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Author: Josephus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Josephus' account of a war marked by treachery and atrocity is a superbly detailed and evocative record of the Jewish...
Magna Carta

Magna Carta

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Author: Prof David Carpenter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 Magna Carta, forced on King John in 1215 by rebellion, is one of the most famous documents in...
A Short History of the World

A Short History of the World

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Author: H. G. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of the First World War, A Short History of...
The Early History of Rome

The Early History of Rome

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Author: Livy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 In Livy's epic history of Rome he unashamedly praised his country's virtues and urged against its excesses, in order to...
A History of My Times

A History of My Times

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Author: Xenophon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Xenophon's History recounts nearly fifty turbulent years of warfare in Greece between 411 and 362 BC. Continuing the story of...
On Sparta

On Sparta

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Author: Plutarch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Plutarch's vivid and engaging portraits of the Spartans and their customs are a major source of our knowledge about the...
History of the Peloponnesian War

History of the Peloponnesian War

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Author: Thucydides Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens...
The Later Roman Empire: (a.D. 354-378)

The Later Roman Empire: (a.D. 354-378)

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Author: Ammianus Marcellinus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Ammianus Marcellinus was the last great Roman historian, and his writings rank alongside those of Livy and Tacitus. The...
An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings

An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings

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Author: Thomas Malthus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The provocative historical work on social economy, demography and population control Malthus' life's work on human population and its...
The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe

The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe

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Author: Arthur Koestler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 Passionate, provocative and lyrically told, The Sleepwalkers is the remarkable story of how man grew to understand the universe....
Selected Prose

Selected Prose

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Author: John Donne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 This selection of the best of his prose works, including his sermons, displays all the verbal dexterity, fascination with...
Ancien Regime and the Revolution

Ancien Regime and the Revolution

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Author: Alexis de Tocqueville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 With this book, Alexis de Tocqueville envisioned a multi-volume philosophic study of the origins of modern France that...
Chronicles

Chronicles

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Author: Jean Froissart Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The Chronicles of Froissart (1337-1410) are one of the greatest contemporary records of fourteenth-century England and France. Depicting the...
Catiline's War, The Jugurthine War, Histories

Catiline's War, The Jugurthine War, Histories

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Author: Sallust Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The earliest Roman historian with complete works to his name, Sallust (86-c. 35 BC) was a senator of the Roman...
Agricola and Germania

Agricola and Germania

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Author: Tacitus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Agricolais both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and respected...
The Rise of Rome

The Rise of Rome

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Author: Plutarch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 832 These new and revised translations capture Plutarch's elegant prose and narrative flair. In his introduction, Jeffrey Tatum discusses the purpose...