The Wanganui Story by M.J. G. Smart and A. P. Bates
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Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History by Otto English
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Category: HISTORY | Reading Level: near fine
From the author of Fake History, Otto English, comes a shocking yet hilarious look at ten of the greatest liars from our past, examining these previously unquestioned idols and exposing what they were trying to hide. Was Che Guevara really a revolutionary hero? Should Mother Teresa be honoured as a sai ...Show more
Kitty's Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich by Nigel Jones
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Category: HISTORY
Sex, surveillance and the most sinister Nazi of them all in wartime Berlin There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final Solution Salon Kitty was the most notorious brothel in the decade ...Show more
GREVILLE'S ENGLAND : SELECTIONS FROM THE DIARIES OF CHARLES GREVILLE 1818-1860 by CHRISTOPHER HIBBERT (ed)
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Iron Curtain : The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56 by Anne Applebaum
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Gulag" comes a major new work of historical and moral reckoning: the story of life behind the Iron Curtain. Once the Nazis were defeated in 1945, the people of Central and Eastern Europe expected to recover the lives they had led before 1939. Instead, they foun ...Show more
God's Fury, England's Fire: A New History of the English Civil Wars by Michael Braddick
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The sequence of civil wars that ripped England apart in the seventeenth century was the single most traumatic event in this country between the medieval Black Death and the two world wars. Indeed, it is likely that a greater percentage of the population were killed in the civil wars than in the First Wo ...Show more
Blondel's Song : The Capture, Imprisonment and Ransom of Richard the Lionheart by David Boyle
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On his way back from the crusades, one of England's most famous and romantic medieval kings was shipwrecked and stranded near Venice. Trying to make his way home in disguise, he was arrested and imprisoned and effectively disappeared. He didn't return home for another fifteen months, and at enormous cos ...Show more
Italian Venice: A History by R. J. B. Bosworth
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In this elegant book Richard Bosworth explores Venice - not the glorious Venice of the Venetian Republic, but from the fall of the Republic in 1797 and the Risorgimento up through the present day. Bosworth looks at the glamour and squalour of the belle epoque and the dark underbelly of modernization, th ...Show more
The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam by G. W. Bowersock
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Emblems of Antiquity Ser.
Just prior to the rise of Islam, in the sixth century AD, southern Arabia was embroiled in a holy war between Christian Ethiopians and Jewish Arabs. The Jewish kingdom, composed of ethnic Arabs who had converted to Judaism more than a century before, had launched a bloody pogrom against Christians in th ...Show more
A History of the World in Twelve Maps by Jerry Brotton
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
Jerry Brotton is the presenter of the acclaimed BBC4 series "Maps: Power, Plunder and Possession". Here he tells the story of our world through maps. Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, world ...Show more
The Fateful Year : England 1914 by Mark Bostridge
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The Fateful Year by Mark Bostridge is the story of England in 1914. War with Germany, so often imagined and predicted, finally broke out when people were least prepared for it. Here, among a crowded cast of unforgettable characters, are suffragettes, armed with axes, destroying works of art, schoolchild ...Show more