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  • Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56 by

    At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge swathe of territory in Eastern Europe ...

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  • The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England by

    This brilliant new book explores the lives of eight generations of the greatest kings and queens that this country has ever seen, and the worst ...

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  • A History of Ancient Egypt: Volume 1 From the First Farmers to the Great Pyramid by

    The extraordinary history of Ancient Egyptian civilization - from its earliest origins to the creation of its greatest monument

    This extraordinary book draws on a lifetime ...

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  • A Very Short History of the World by

    An updated edition of Geoffrey Blainey's bestselling account of human history, A Very Short History of the World, featuring new material on China and ...

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  • Annals by

    Compelling new translation of the Annals, by Cynthia Damon

    Tacitus' Annals recounts the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus ...

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  • The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began by

    A riveting, exemplary tale of the great cultural "swerve" known as the Renaissance.

    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2012

    Almost six hundred years ...

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  • Egyptian Hieroglyphs for Complete Beginners: The Revolutionary New Approach to Reading the Monuments by
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  • The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by

    A brilliantly readable, beautifully illustrated general history of ancient Egypt, from the builders of the first pyramids to Cleopatra.

    'A sophisticated and complete account' The ...

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  • The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World by

    Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ...

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  • The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000 by

    'Awe-inspiring ... stunning ... no review can really do this book justice- it is a superlative work' Dominic Sandbrook, Daily Telegraph

    'The Penguin History of Europe series ...

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  • The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by

    The civil war that tore Spain apart between 1936 and 1939 and attracted liberals and socialists from across the world to support the cause against ...

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  • The Twelve Caesars by

    A revised edition of Robert Graves' classic translation (9780140449211), with completely fresh editorial material

    As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, the scholar Suetonius had ...

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  • The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by

    In a narrative of blood and mass killing, Fisk tells the story of the growing hatred of the West by millions of Muslims, the West ...

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  • The Cold War by

    The first truly commercial one-volume history of the Cold War

    In 1950, when Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh and Kim Il-Sung met in ...

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  • The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome by

    A comprehensive and enthralling introduction to the Classical World, ideal for those whose interest in the subject has been speaked by the recent BBC series ...

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