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Edexcel AS History: Russia in Revolution, 1881-1924
Hodder Education 2012; Not AvailableRevision guide which combines course content with activities to develop exam skills to help students effectively revise for this AS unit. more...
The Lost King of France: The Tragic Story of Marie-Antoinette's Favourite Son (Text Only Edition)
HarperCollins Publishers 2012; Not Available?This is history as it should be. It is stunningly written, I could not put it down. This is the best account of the French Revolution I have ever read.? Alison Weir, author of ?Henry VIII, King and Court? more...
The War of the World
Penguin Books Ltd 2012; Not AvailableThe world at the beginning of the 20th century seemed for most of its inhabitants stable and relatively benign. Globalizing, booming economies married to technological breakthroughs seemed to promise a better world for most people. Instead, the 20th century proved to be overwhelmingly the most violent, frightening and brutalized in history with fanatical,... more...
Lebanon
Oxford University Press, USA 2012; US$ 25.99In this impressive synthesis, William Harris narrates the history of the sectarian communities of Mount Lebanon and its vicinity. He offers a fresh perspective on the antecedents of modern multi-communal Lebanon, tracing the consolidation of Lebanon's Christian, Muslim, and Islamic derived sects from their origins between the sixth and eleventh... more...
Kursk: The Greatest Battle
Headline 2013; Not AvailableA monumental, enthralling work charting the greatest land battle of all time which changed the course of World War Two, by a highly regarded military expert. more...
The Great African War
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 24.00This book examines a decade-long period of instability, violence and state decay in Central Africa from 1996 to 2006. more...
Zeitoun
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.95National Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book An O, The Oprah Magazine Terrific Read of the Year A Huffington Post Best Book of the Year A New Yorker Favorite Book of the Year A Chicago Tribune Favorite Nonfiction Book of the Year A Kansas City Star Best Book of the Year A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year An... more...
Diana, A Cultural History
Palgrave Macmillan 2001; US$ 48.00This book intervenes in debates over the significance of Diana, Princess of Wales by offering a critical account of her media iconicity from 1981 to the present. It outlines the historical development of representations of Diana, analysing the ways in which the Princess has been understood via discourses of gender, sexuality, race, economic class,... more...
No One Left to Lie to
Atlantic Books Ltd 2012; US$ 10.19In No One Left to Lie To, Christopher Hitchens portrays President Bill Clinton as one of the most ideologically skewed and morally negligent politicians of recent times. In a blistering polemic which shows that Clinton was at once philanderer and philistine, crooked and corrupt, Hitchens challenges perceptions - of liberals and conservatives alike... more...
Security Intelligence Services in New Democracies
Palgrave Macmillan 2000; US$ 138.00The first account of the secret police in Eastern Europe and after 1989, this book uses a wide range of sources, including archives, to identify what has and has not changed since the end of communism. After explaining the structure and workings of two of the area's most feared services, Czechoslovakia's StB and Romania's Securitate, the authors details... more...









