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The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Boydell & Brewer 2011; US$ 85.00The first book-length history of the Fante people of southern Ghana during the Atlantic slave trade. Specifically, this volume provides a historical framework for the relationship between Ghana's coastal forts and castles and local African societies during this complex period. more...
The Second World War
Orion 2012; US$ 49.82A magisterial, single-volume history of the greatest conflict the world has ever known by our foremost military historian. more...
Young Prince Philip: His Turbulent Early Life
HarperCollins Publishers 2011; Not AvailableA revelatory and racy biography of the early life of Prince Philip, published to coincide with his 90th birthday more...
World War Two
Penguin Books Ltd 2013; Not AvailableA pacy, compelling and penetrating account from Wolfson Prize-winning author Norman Stone, that shows World War Two in a fresh new light The Second World War is the nightmare that sits at the heart of the modern era - a total refutation of any notion of human progress and a conflict which still haunts us seventy years on. Norman Stone's... more...
Treasures of the Great Silk Road
The History Press 2013; US$ 26.24Turkestan - the great landmass of Central Asia and Western China - is an intriguing meeting point of civilizations. Four major invasions - Greek, Arab, Mongol and Russian - together with Persian, Turkic and Chinese culturual influences, have made their mark on this vast and sometime forbidding region. The Great Silk Route ran to the West through it,... more...
The Last Mughal
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 17.95In this evocative study of the fall of the Mughal Empire and the beginning of the Raj, award-winning historian William Dalrymple uses previously undiscovered sources to investigate a pivotal moment in history. The last Mughal emperor, Zafar, came to the throne when the political power of the Mughals was already in steep decline. Nonetheless, Zafar?a... more...
Ripcord
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 7.99On April 10, 1970, Hill 927 was occupied by troopers of the Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division. By July, the activities of the artillery and infantry of Ripcord had caught the attention of the NVA (North Vietnamese Army) and a long and deadly siege ensued. Ripcord was the Screaming Eagles? last chance to do significant damage to the NVA... more...
Blood Trails
Random House Publishing Group 2008; US$ 7.99BAPTISM BY FIRE Chris Ronnau volunteered for the Army and was sent to Vietnam in January 1967, armed with an M-14 rifle and American Express traveler?s checks. But the latter soon proved particularly pointless as the private first class found himself in the thick of two pivotal, fiercely fought Big Red One operations, going head-to-head against crack... more...
The Unreliable Life of Harry the Valet
Random House 2011; US$ 10.6717 October 1898. An impossibly daring jewellery heist aboard a train at Paris's Gare du Nord station captures the attention of the world. Who would have dared to pull off such a feat? Award-winning writer Duncan Hamilton reveals the true story of Harry the Valet, the notorious crook who was the scourge of Victorian London. Harry... more...
Not the Slightest Chance
Hong Kong University Press 2003; US$ 40.00The book assembles a phase-by-phase, day-by-day, hour-by-hour, and death-by-death account of the battle. It considers the individual actions that made up the fighting, as well as the strategies and plans and the many controversies that arose. more...









