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World history
After the Sheikhs
By Christopher Davidson
Hardback
Published 31-Oct-2012
| Our price: | £29.99 |
Noted Gulf expert Christopher Davidson contends that the collapse of these kings, emirs, and sultans is going to happen, and was always going to.
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Secret Life of Bletchley Park
By Sinclair McKay
Paperback
Published 01-Aug-2011
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The first oral history of one of the most fascinating aspects of the war effort.
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World History
By Ian Crofton
Hardback
Published 28-Apr-2011
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An essential guide to the things that shaped our world.
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Millions Like Us
By Virginia Nicholson
Paperback
Published 15-Mar-2012
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We tend to see the Second World War as a man's war, featuring Spitfire crews and brave deeds on the Normandy beaches. But in conditions of "Total War" millions of women demonstrated that they were cleverer, more broad-minded and altogether more complex than anyone had ever guessed. This title tells the story of the women's Second World War.
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Spy Who Loved
By Clare Mulley
Paperback
Published 11-Apr-2013
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The remarkable story of Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granville, George Medal, OBE and Croix de Guerre.
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Sisters
By Barbara Mortimer
Paperback
Published 28-Mar-2013
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On 3 September 1939, the Prime Minister declared that Britain was at war with Nazi Germany. Thousands of young women, many of them barely out of school, were sent headlong into gruelling training regimes that would see them become wartime nurses. This title features over 150 unpublished stories from the archives of the Royal College of Nursing.
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Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing and Dying
By Harald Welzer
Paperback
Published 20-Jun-2013
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A remarkable, controversial book about Germany's soldiers in the Second World War drawn from transcriptions of their secretly recorded conversations
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Buddhas of Bamiyan
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Hardback
Published 03-May-2012
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The Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan, carved in the sixth century AD, represented two aspects of the Buddha, universal and historical. In March 2001 the Taleban destroyed them. This title about the Buddhas is also about Bamiyan, a place that occupies one of the most strategic positions on earth and is also stunningly beautiful.
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Fortress Israel
By Patrick Tyler
Paperback
Published 02-May-2013
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A group portrait of the political class that has created Israel's identity and strategy since the birth of the nation, and a look inside the collective militaristic mindset that sustains it.
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Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon
By Stephanie Dalley
Hardback
Published 23-May-2013
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Where was the Hanging Garden of Babylon and what did it look? Why did the ancient Greeks and Romans consider it to be one of the Seven Wonders of the World? Renowned Babylonian expert Stephanie Dalley delves into the legends filled with myth and mystery to piece together the enigmatic history of this elusive world wonder.
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