Berlin : From Frontline Town to the Bridge of Europe by RAINER HILDEBRANDT
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The Borgias: History's Most Notorious Dynasty by Mary Hollingsworth
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The Borgias have become a byword for pride, lust, cruelty, avarice, splendour and venomous intrigue. An inspiration for many works of fiction, most famously Mario Puzo's The Godfather, they have aroused abomination and fascination in almost equal measure, while their patronage of the arts created some o ...Show more
A Venetian Affair by Andrea Di Robilant
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The true story of forbidden love in eighteenth-century Venice between an Italian noble and the brilliant, illegitimate daughter of an English baronet. In 1754 Andrea Memmo, the dashing and gifted scion of a distinguished catholic family, fell in love with illegitimate English beauty, Giustiniana Wynne. ...Show more
COMRADE PAVLIK : THE RISE AND FALL OF A SOVIET BOY HERO by CATRIONA KELLY
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Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag by Orlando Figes
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
Almost everything we know about the terrible experience of the Gulag has been based on survivor memoirs, in many cases written decades later. For obvious reasons there is very little authentic, contemporary material. "Just Send Me Word" is a uniquely powerful and moving experience. It is the story of th ...Show more
The Book Of Roads And Kingdoms by Richard Fidler
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Category: HISTORY
A lost imperial city, full of wonder and marvels. An empire that was the largest the world had ever seen, established with astonishing speed. A people obsessed with travel, knowledge and adventure. Winner of the Indie Book Awards 2023 Non Fiction Book of the Year Shortlisted for the BookPeople Non Fic ...Show more
Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics Under Hitler by Philip Ball
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
Serving the Reich tells the story of physics under Hitler. While some scientists tried to create an Aryan physics that excluded any 'Jewish ideas', many others made compromises and concessions as they continued to work under the Nazi regime. Among them were three world-renowned physicists: Max Planck, p ...Show more
String Figures : A Study of Cat's-Cradle in Many Lands by Caroline Furness Jayne
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THE ROYAL CHARTERS OF GRANTHAM 1463-1688 by G H MARTIN (ed)
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Rome - A Cultural History by Robert Hughes
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Rome - as a city, as an empire, as an enduring idea - is in many ways the origin of everything Robert Hughes has spent his life thinking and writing about with such dazzling irreverence and exacting rigour. In this magisterial book he traces the city's history from its mythic foundation with Romulus and ...Show more
EGYPT : HOW A LOST CIVILIZATION WAS REDISCOVERED by Joyce A Tyldesley
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