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The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
Anne Frank, it has been said, gave a face and a name to the horror of the Holocaust. This is her story. It relates how Anne, her f...
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Killing Rommel
Steven Pressfield
Autumn 1942. Hitler's legions have swept across Europe, France has fallen, Churchill and the English stand isolated on their islan...
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The Voyage of the Armada
David Howarth
In May of 1588, on the order of Spain's King Philip, 30,000 soldiersand sailors armed with arquebus and musket set out to sea. A l...
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Genghis Khan
Jack Weatherford
Apart from its inapt title, Genghis Khan dies rather early on in this account and many of the battles are led by his numerous offs...
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Compass
Alan Gurney
British writer, photographer and yacht designer Gurney (The Race to the White Continent) sets his sights on the events leading to ...
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Lost to the West
Lars Brownworth
In AD 476 the Roman Empire fell - or rather, its western half did. Its eastern half, which would come to be known as the Byzantine...
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The Taste of Conquest
Michael Krondl
In this engaging, anecdotal history of food, world conquest, and desire, a chef-turned-journalist tells the story of three legend...
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The Penguin History of Europe
Comprehensive in its scope and brilliantly readable, this is a superb follow-up to the author's bestselling Penguin History of the...
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Crown and Country
David Starkey
From one of our finest historians comes an outstanding exploration of the British monarchy from the retreat of the Romans up until...
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The Afghan Campaign
Steven Pressfield
In words that might have been ripped from todays combat dispatches, Steven Pressfield, the bestselling novelist of ancient warfare...
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First Light
Geoffrey Wellum
An account of "Boy" Wellum, one of the youngest fighter pilots in the Battle of Britain. Enlisting in the RAF weeks before the out...
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The Remains of Company D
James Carl Nelson
Haunted by an ancestors tale of near death on a distant battlefield, James Carl Nelson set out in pursuit of the scraps of memory ...
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