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1 Man Walks into a Pub: A Sociable History of Beer (Paperback)

by Pete Brown

Format: Paperback 400 pages
Published: 04/06/2004

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In MAN WALKS INTO A PUB, Pete Brown takes us on a well-lubricated pub-crawl through the amazing story of beer, from the first sacred sip of ancient... Read more

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2 The Discovery of France (Paperback)

by Graham Robb

Format: Paperback 454 pages
Published: 04/07/2008

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3 The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century (Paperback)

by Ian Mortimer

Format: Paperback 368 pages
Published: 01/10/2009

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Explains what life was like in the most immediate way, through taking readers, to the middle ages, and showing various things from the horrors of... Read more

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4 Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town (Paperback)

by Mary Beard

Format: Paperback 368 pages
Published: 04/11/2010

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'The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive... Read more

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5 Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story That Changed the Course of World War II (Paperback)

by Ben Macintyre

Format: Paperback 432 pages
Published: 06/09/2010

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From the bestselling author of Agent Zigzag. The thrilling true story of the greatest and most successful wartime deception ever attempted A... Read more

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6 Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now - as Told by Those Who Love it, Hate it, Live it, Left it and Long for it (Paperback)

by Craig Taylor

Format: Paperback 448 pages
Published: 05/07/2012

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An extraordinary group portrait of London today: a book as rich, dynamic, lively, and diverse as the city itself. Read more

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7 Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: The Most Notorious Double Agent of World War II (Paperback)

by Ben Macintyre

Format: Paperback 384 pages
Published: 02/08/2010

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'If you're looking for a good spy thriller, I definitely recommend this' Daily Express The thrilling real-life story of a double agent... Read more

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8 Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics (Paperback)

by Jonathan Wilson

Format: Paperback 384 pages
Published: 28/05/2009

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Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, this is the first-ever comprehensive global history of football tactics by the highly... Read more

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9 Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (Paperback)

by Timothy Snyder

Format: Paperback 544 pages
Published: 01/09/2011

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In the middle of Europe, in the middle of the twentieth century, the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in the bloodlands... Read more

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10 The Railway Man (Paperback)

by Eric Lomax

Format: Paperback 256 pages
Published: 03/01/1998

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During the second world war the author was forced to work on the notorius Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude... Read more

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