Maralinga: The Chilling Expose of Our Secret Nuclear Shame and Betrayal of Our Troops and Country by Frank Walker
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Category: History
'Utterly gripping. It reads like a thriller.' JON FAINE This edition contains a new author note with shocking new material that has come to light as a result of the groundbreaking original publication. Investigative journalist Frank Walker's MARALINGA is a must-read true story of the abuse of our servic ...Show more
Richard III and the Princes in the Tower by Alison Weir
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Category: History
Includes a new foreword by the authorThe story of the death, in sinister circumstances, of the boy-king Edward V and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York, is one of the most fascinating murder mysteries in English history. It is a tale with profound moral and social consequences, rich in drama, int ...Show more
The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox by Alison Weir
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Category: History
'Alison Weir's sound scholarship and storyteller's gift for rich, telling detail constantly engages and enthrals the reader? The TimesThe captivating life of Margaret Douglas - a life of scandal, political intrigue and royal romance that spanned five Tudor reigns.Royal Tudor blood ran in her veins. Some ...Show more
Koh-I-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond by William Dalrymple
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Category: History | Reading Level: very good
The first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i Noor, arguably the most celebrated and mythologised jewel in the world. On 29 March 1849, the ten-year-old Maharajah of the Punjab was ushered into the magnificent Mirrored Hall at the centre of the great Fort in Lahore. There, in a public c ...Show more
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weaponry by Charles Wills; Berman Museum (Anniston, Ala.) Staff (Contribution by); Chuck Wills
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Category: History
A complete look at weapons--from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age, from spears to swords. When did hunting weapons begin to be used against humans instead of animals? What is the difference between the Plains Indian War Club and the Fijian War Club? What weapon is common to peoples in every part of the w ...Show more
Superstition and Science, 1450-1750 : Mystics, Sceptics, Truth-seekers and Charlatans by Derek Wilson
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Category: History
'O what a world of profit and delight Of power, of honour and omnipotence Is promised to the studious artisan.' Christopher Marlowe, Dr Faustus Between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, Europe changed out of all recognition and particularly transformative were the ardent quest for knowledge and the ...Show more
World History in Minutes: 200 Key Concepts Explained in an Instant by Tat Wood
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Category: History | Series: In Minutes
What happened to the Roman Empire? Why was the Magna Carta so important? What led to the First World War? Why did the USSR collapse? World History in Minutes provides succinct answers to these questions - and many more - in 200 simple and accessible essays. From the 100 Years War to the Gulf Wars, and f ...Show more
Messages from a Lost World: Europe on the Brink by Stefan Zweig
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Category: History
Stefan Zweig was a leading talisman of a united Europe of unfettered movement, of pro-active cultural exchange, humane decency and tolerance, all polar opposites of the Nationalist regimes he loathed, and which came to power in the 1930s. In these poignant essays and addresses, forged in the last years ...Show more
God - A Human History by Reza Aslan
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Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
In God, Reza Aslan sheds new light on mankind's relationship with the divine and challenges our perspective on faith and the birth of religion. From the origins of spiritual thought to the concept of an active, engaged, divine presence that underlies all creation, Aslan examines how the idea of god aros ...Show more
The Holocaust: An Unfinished History by Laurence Rees
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Category: History
Based on twenty-five years of meeting survivors and perpetrators, The Holocaust is a sweeping new history that combines first-person testimony with the latest academic research to investigate how history's greatest crime was made possible. Laurence Rees argues that a series of escalations compounded int ...Show more
The Harbour by Scott Bevan
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Category: History
In the bestselling tradition of Peter Ackroyd's The Thames, a celebration of one of the world's great waterwaysEveryone knows Sydney Harbour. At least, we think we do.Everyone can see the harbour, whether we have ever been to Sydney or not. By as little as a word or two, the harbour floats into our mind ...Show more
In The Restaurant by Christoph Ribbat
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Category: History
Restaurants have never been exclusively about food. Since the first 'restorative' establishments opened in eighteenth-century Paris, restaurants have been places to see and be seen, to show off style and distinction - and to feel at home among strangers. The impatient customers keep the staff on their t ...Show more