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It is only from studying the past that we can learn about the present and so great history books are essential reading for anyone with an interest in the modern world. From the traditions of the Ancient World, expertly recounted by Mary Beard and Tom Holland, to reflections on the twentieth-century by the likes of Andrew Marr and David Kynaston – not to mention pioneering works by David Olusoga on Black British history – here are books that illuminate previous centuries and help us to understand our shared past.

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Our Best History Books

Pandora's Jar
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Pandora's Jar
Natalie Haynes
£20.00   £17.99
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The Shortest History of England
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The Shortest History of England
James Hawes
£12.99   £6.49
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The White Ship
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The White Ship
Charles Spencer
£25.00   £12.50
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The Madman's Library
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The Madman's Library
Edward Brooke-Hitching
£25.00   £12.50
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The Haunting of Alma Fielding
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The Haunting of Alma Fielding
Kate Summerscale
£18.99   £9.49
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The Anarchy
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The Anarchy
William Dalrymple
£10.99   £8.99
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Behind the Enigma
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Behind the Enigma
John Ferris
£30.00   £15.00
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War
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War
Professor Margaret MacMillan
£20.00   £10.00
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The Ratline
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The Ratline
Philippe Sands
£20.00   £10.00
Hardback
The Good Germans
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The Good Germans
Catrine Clay
£20.00   £10.00
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Dictators
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Dictators
Frank Dikotter
£10.99   £8.99
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Elizabethans
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Elizabethans
Andrew Marr
£20.00   £10.00
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Gladius
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Gladius
Guy de la Bedoyere
£25.00   £21.99
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Lancaster
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Lancaster
John Nichol
£20.00   £10.00
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Dominion
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Dominion
Tom Holland
£12.99   £9.99
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JFK
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JFK
Fredrik Logevall
£30.00   £15.00
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Burning the Books
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Burning the Books
Richard Ovenden
£20.00   £10.00
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Our Best New History Hardbacks

Thebes
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Thebes
Paul Cartledge
£25.00
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The Glamour Boys
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The Glamour Boys
Chris Bryant
£25.00   £22.99
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The Interest
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The Interest
Michael Taylor
£20.00   £17.99
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The Lost Homestead
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The Lost Homestead
Marina Wheeler
£25.00   £22.99
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Empireland
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Empireland
Sathnam Sanghera
£18.99
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Queens of the Crusades
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Queens of the Crusades
Alison Weir
£25.00   £21.99
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Blood and Iron
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Blood and Iron
Katja Hoyer
£14.99
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Britain Alone
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Britain Alone
Philip Stephens
£25.00   £22.99
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The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz
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The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz
Thomas Geve
£18.99   £16.99
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At Close Range
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At Close Range
Peter Hart
£25.00   £21.99
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Culloden
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Culloden
Paul O'Keeffe
£25.00
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Land
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Land
Simon Winchester
£25.00   £22.99
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Goering?s Man in Paris
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Goering?s Man in Paris
Jonathan Petropoulos
£25.00
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Peace, Poverty and Betrayal
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Peace, Poverty and Betrayal
Roderick Matthews
£25.00
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Passing
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Passing
Lipika Pelham
£25.00
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The Volga
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The Volga
Janet M. Hartley
£25.00   £22.99
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The Language of Thieves
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The Language of Thieves
Martin Puchner
£16.99
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Our Best New History Paperbacks

A Cheesemonger's History of The British Isles
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A Cheesemonger's History of The British Isles
Ned Palmer
£9.99   £7.99
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Square Haunting
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Square Haunting
Francesca Wade
£10.99   £8.99
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The Elite
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The Elite
Ranulph Fiennes
£9.99   £7.99
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The Sisters of Auschwitz
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The Sisters of Auschwitz
Roxane van Iperen
£8.99   £7.49
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A Game of Birds and Wolves
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A Game of Birds and Wolves
Simon Parkin
£10.99   £8.99
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The Crew
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The Crew
David Price
£9.99   £7.99
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Spitfire Women of World War II
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Spitfire Women of World War II
Giles Whittell
£9.99
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Love in the Blitz
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Love in the Blitz
Eileen Alexander
£9.99
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The Sphinx
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The Sphinx
Hugo Vickers
£10.99   £8.99
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The Nine Hundred
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The Nine Hundred
Heather Dune Macadam
£9.99
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Last Stop Auschwitz
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Last Stop Auschwitz
Eddy de Wind
£8.99   £7.49
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Franci's War
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Franci's War
Franci Rabinek Epstein
£8.99   £7.99
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Places and Names
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Places and Names
Elliot Ackerman
£9.99
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Heroes of the Holocaust
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Heroes of the Holocaust
Lyn Smith
£7.99
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Bodies Politic
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Bodies Politic
Roy Porter
£12.99
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The Fatherland and the Jews
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The Fatherland and the Jews
Alfred Wiener
£12.99
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The Colonizer and the Colonized
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The Colonizer and the Colonized
Albert Memmi
£9.99
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Coming Soon in Hardback

Operation Pedestal
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Operation Pedestal
Max Hastings
£25.00
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Letters to Camondo
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Letters to Camondo
Edmund de Waal
£14.99
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Princes of the Renaissance
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Princes of the Renaissance
Mary Hollingsworth
£35.00   £30.00
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Powers and Thrones
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Powers and Thrones
Dan Jones
£25.00
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The Lost Cafe Schindler
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The Lost Cafe Schindler
Meriel Schindler
£20.00   £17.99
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The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames
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The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames
Justine Cowan
£20.00   £17.99
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The Warrior and the Prophet
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The Warrior and the Prophet
Peter Cozzens
£25.00
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On This Day She
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On This Day She
Tania Hershman
£20.00
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Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic
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Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic
Peter Furtado
£20.00
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The Wood Age
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The Wood Age
Roland Ennos
£20.00
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River Kings
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River Kings
Cat Jarman
£25.00
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The Quiet Americans
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The Quiet Americans
Scott Anderson
£20.00
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Three Mothers
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Three Mothers
Anna Malaika Tubbs
£18.99
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The Handshake
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The Handshake
Ella Al-Shamahi
£9.99
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The Auschwitz Photographer
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The Auschwitz Photographer
Luca Crippa
£14.99
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Victoire
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Victoire
Roland Philipps
£20.00
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The Western Front
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The Western Front
Nick Lloyd
£25.00
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The Barbizon
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The Barbizon
Paulina Bren
£25.00
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The Year 1000
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The Year 1000
Valerie Hansen
£9.99
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Lancaster
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Lancaster
John Nichol
£9.99
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Strange Antics
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Strange Antics
Clement Knox
£9.99
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Dead Famous
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Dead Famous
Greg Jenner
£9.99
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Love in the Blitz
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Love in the Blitz
Eileen Alexander
£9.99
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Ladies Can't Climb Ladders
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Ladies Can't Climb Ladders
Jane Robinson
£9.99
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The Stonemason
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The Stonemason
Andrew Ziminski
£10.99
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Britain's War
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Britain's War
Daniel Todman
£16.99
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Endell Street
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Endell Street
Wendy Moore
£9.99
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Digging Up Britain
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Digging Up Britain
Mike Pitts
£12.99
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The Mediterranean in History
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The Mediterranean in History
David Abulafia
£12.99
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Bodies Politic
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Bodies Politic
Roy Porter
£12.99
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The Splendid and the Vile
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The Splendid and the Vile
Erik Larson
£9.99
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A People Betrayed
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A People Betrayed
Paul Preston
£12.99
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Maiden Voyages
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Maiden Voyages
Sian Evans
£10.99
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A History of Ancient Greece in 50 Lives
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A History of Ancient Greece in 50 Lives
David Stuttard
£10.99
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The Beauty and the Terror
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The Beauty and the Terror
Catherine Fletcher
£12.99
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History of Writing
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History of Writing
Steven Roger Fischer
£9.99
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Black & British

Natives
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Natives
Akala
£8.99   £7.49
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The Brutish Museums
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The Brutish Museums
Dan Hicks
£20.00
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Homecoming
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Homecoming
Colin Grant
£9.99
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Don't Touch My Hair
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Don't Touch My Hair
Emma Dabiri
£9.99
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Brit(ish)
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Brit(ish)
Afua Hirsch
£9.99
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Safe
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Safe
Derek Owusu
£9.99   £8.49
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Dreaming in a Nightmare
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Dreaming in a Nightmare
Jeremiah Emmanuel
£12.99   £10.99
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Black, Listed
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Black, Listed
Jeffrey Boakye
£8.99
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100 Great Black Britons
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100 Great Black Britons
Patrick Vernon
£20.00   £17.99
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Black Britain
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Black Britain
Paul Gilroy
£19.99
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Black Tudors
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Black Tudors
Miranda Kaufmann
£10.99
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Lovers and Strangers
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Lovers and Strangers
Clair Wills
£10.99
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Staying Power
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Staying Power
Peter Fryer
£16.99
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There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack
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There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack
Paul Gilroy
£14.99
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Voices of the Windrush Generation
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Voices of the Windrush Generation
David Matthews
£8.99
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Heart Of The Race
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Heart Of The Race
Beverley Bryan
£11.99
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Our Best Military History Books

War
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War
Professor Margaret MacMillan
£20.00   £10.00
Hardback
Lancaster
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Lancaster
John Nichol
£20.00   £10.00
Hardback
Behind the Enigma
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Behind the Enigma
John Ferris
£30.00   £15.00
Hardback
Agent Sonya
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Agent Sonya
Ben Macintyre
£25.00   £12.50
Hardback
Gladius
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Gladius
Guy de la Bedoyere
£25.00   £21.99
Hardback
The Second World War
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The Second World War
Antony Beevor
£14.99
Paperback
World War One
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World War One
Norman Stone
£8.99
Paperback
The Battle of Britain
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The Battle of Britain
James Holland
£12.99
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The War of the World
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The War of the World
Niall Ferguson
£18.99
Paperback
Codebreaking Sisters
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Codebreaking Sisters
Patricia Owtram
£8.99   £7.49
Paperback
Black Poppies
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Black Poppies
Stephen Bourne
£12.99
Paperback
Chastise
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Chastise
Max Hastings
£9.99   £7.99
Paperback
Spitfire
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Spitfire
John Nichol
£8.99
Paperback
Dresden
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Dresden
Sinclair McKay
£8.99
Paperback
A Woman of No Importance
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A Woman of No Importance
Sonia Purnell
£9.99   £7.99
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First to Fight
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First to Fight
Roger Moorhouse
£10.99
Paperback
Arnhem
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Arnhem
Antony Beevor
£10.99
Paperback
The Art of War
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The Art of War
Sun-tzu
£6.99
Paperback
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Our Best British History Books

100 Great Black Britons
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100 Great Black Britons
Patrick Vernon
£20.00   £17.99
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Endell Street
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Endell Street
Wendy Moore
£17.99   £15.99
Hardback
The Shortest History of England
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The Shortest History of England
James Hawes
£12.99   £6.49
Hardback
Britain at Bay
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Britain at Bay
Alan Allport
£25.00   £22.99
Hardback
In the Reign of King John
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In the Reign of King John
Dan Jones
£25.00   £12.50
Hardback
British Summer Time Begins
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British Summer Time Begins
Ysenda Maxtone Graham
£18.99   £16.99
Hardback
The White Ship
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The White Ship
Charles Spencer
£25.00   £12.50
Hardback
Black and British
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Black and British
David Olusoga
£12.99
Paperback
Chastise
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Chastise
Max Hastings
£9.99   £7.99
Paperback
Black Tudors
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Black Tudors
Miranda Kaufmann
£10.99
Paperback
Battle of Britain
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Battle of Britain
Simon Pearson
£20.00   £17.99
Hardback
Spitfire
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Spitfire
John Nichol
£8.99
Paperback
The World's War
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The World's War
David Olusoga
£10.99
Paperback
Lancaster
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Lancaster
John Nichol
£20.00   £10.00
Hardback
Staying Power
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Staying Power
Peter Fryer
£16.99
Paperback
Seashaken Houses
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Seashaken Houses
Tom Nancollas
£9.99
Paperback
A Raid Over Berlin
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A Raid Over Berlin
John Martin
£8.99   £6.99
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Mother Country
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Mother Country
Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
£9.99
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Our Best World History Books

The Story of China
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The Story of China
Michael Wood
£30.00   £26.99
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A World Beneath the Sands
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A World Beneath the Sands
Toby Wilkinson
£25.00   £22.99
Hardback
The World Aflame
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The World Aflame
Dan Jones
£25.00   £22.00
Hardback
Waves Across the South
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Waves Across the South
Sujit Sivasundaram
£25.00   £21.99
Hardback
The Craft
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The Craft
John Dickie
£25.00
Hardback
Revolutionary Iran
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Revolutionary Iran
Michael Axworthy
£12.99
Paperback
Maoism
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Maoism
Julia Lovell
£12.99
Paperback
Sapiens
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Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
£10.99   £8.99
Paperback
The Silk Roads
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The Silk Roads
Peter Frankopan
£12.99   £9.99
Paperback
The New Silk Roads
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The New Silk Roads
Peter Frankopan
£9.99   £8.49
Paperback
A Little History of the World
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A Little History of the World
E. H. Gombrich
£9.99
Paperback
The Square and the Tower
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The Square and the Tower
Niall Ferguson
£12.99
Paperback
The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu
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The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu
Charlie English
£9.99
Paperback
Koh-i-Noor
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Koh-i-Noor
William Dalrymple
£9.99
Paperback
Histories of Nations
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Histories of Nations
Peter Furtado
£9.99
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Our Best European History Books

The International Brigades
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The International Brigades
Giles Tremlett
£30.00   £15.00
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The Ratline
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The Ratline
Philippe Sands
£20.00   £10.00
Hardback
African Europeans
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African Europeans
Olivette Otele
£20.00   £17.99
Hardback
A People Betrayed
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A People Betrayed
Paul Preston
£30.00   £25.00
Hardback
Pandora's Jar
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Pandora's Jar
Natalie Haynes
£20.00   £17.99
Hardback
The Good Germans
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The Good Germans
Catrine Clay
£20.00   £10.00
Hardback
The Last Assassin
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The Last Assassin
Peter Stothard
£20.00   £10.00
Hardback
A Short History of Europe
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A Short History of Europe
Simon Jenkins
£10.99
Paperback
Reckonings
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Reckonings
Mary Fulbrook
£25.00
Hardback
Last Witnesses
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Last Witnesses
Svetlana Alexievich
£12.99
Paperback
Chernobyl
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Chernobyl
Serhii Plokhy
£9.99   £8.49
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Chernobyl Prayer
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Chernobyl Prayer
Svetlana Alexievich
£9.99
Paperback
France
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France
John Julius Norwich
£12.99
Paperback
A Certain Idea of France
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A Certain Idea of France
Julian Jackson
£16.99
Paperback
The Race to Save the Romanovs
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The Race to Save the Romanovs
Helen Rappaport
£9.99
Paperback
Travellers in the Third Reich
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Travellers in the Third Reich
Julia Boyd
£10.99
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Red Famine
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Red Famine
Anne Applebaum
£12.99
Paperback
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Our Best Ancient History Books

A World Beneath the Sands
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A World Beneath the Sands
Toby Wilkinson
£25.00   £22.99
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Infamy
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Infamy
Dr. Jerry Toner
£16.99
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Cities of the Classical World
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Cities of the Classical World
Colin McEvedy
£12.99
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SPQR
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SPQR
Professor Mary Beard
£10.99   £9.99
Paperback
The Darkening Age
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The Darkening Age
Catherine Nixey
£9.99
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The Great Empires of Asia
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The Great Empires of Asia
Jim Masselos
£9.99
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Praetorian
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Praetorian
Guy de la Bedoyere
£10.99
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Pax Romana
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Pax Romana
Adrian Goldsworthy
£10.99
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The Odyssey
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The Odyssey
Homer
£13.99
Paperback
Rubicon
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Rubicon
Tom Holland
£12.99
Paperback
The Classical World
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The Classical World
Robin Lane Fox
£14.99
Paperback
Meditations
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Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
£7.99
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The Story of Egypt
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The Story of Egypt
Joann Fletcher
£12.99
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The Mighty Dead
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The Mighty Dead
Adam Nicolson
£9.99
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The Spartans
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The Spartans
Paul Cartledge
£10.99
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Babylon
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Babylon
Paul Kriwaczek
£11.99
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The Ancient Paths
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The Ancient Paths
Graham Robb
£10.99
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Luxury Editions & Gift Books

Pandora's Jar
Added to basket
Pandora's Jar
Natalie Haynes
£20.00   £17.99
Hardback
The Madman's Library
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The Madman's Library
Edward Brooke-Hitching
£25.00   £12.50
Hardback
The Story of China
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The Story of China
Michael Wood
£30.00   £26.99
Hardback
The Greek and Roman Myths
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The Greek and Roman Myths
Philip Matyszak
£14.95
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Murder Maps
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Murder Maps
Drew Gray
£25.00
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The Book in the Cathedral
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The Book in the Cathedral
Christopher de Hamel
£9.99
Hardback
Spirit of Place
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Spirit of Place
Susan Owens
£25.00   £21.99
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The Art of War
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The Art of War
Tzu Sun
£12.99
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Battles that Changed History
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Battles that Changed History
DK
£20.00
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World War II: Infographics
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World War II: Infographics
Jean Lopez
£29.95
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Himalaya
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Himalaya
Ed Douglas
£25.00   £22.99
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Civilization
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Civilization
DK
£30.00
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Treasures of World History
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Treasures of World History
Peter Snow
£30.00
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History of Britain and Ireland
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History of Britain and Ireland
DK
£25.00
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Ben Macintyre on Agent Sonya

Ben Macintyre on Agent Sonya

Author Ben Macintyre discusses his new book Agent Sonya, and the extraordinary life of the most remarkable female spy in history, Ursula Kuczysnki.

Abdulrazak Gurnah on the Conflagration of the First World War in Africa

Abdulrazak Gurnah on the Conflagration of the First World War in Africa

The award-winning novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah discusses the historical background of his new novel Afterlives.

James Holland on the Battle for Sicily

James Holland on the Battle for Sicily

James Holland, military historian and author of Sicily '43, discusses the thirty eight day battle for Sicily and it's vital importance to the direction of World War II.