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The Histories

By Herodotus, A. R. Burn, Aubrey de Sélincourt

The Civil War (Penguin Classics)

By Caesar, Julius

The Conquest of Gaul (Classics)

By Caesar, Julius, Gardner, Jane, Handford, S.

The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives

By Plutarch, Scott-Kilvert, Ian, Scott-Kilvert, Ian, Ian Scott-Kilvert

Travels Through Stuart Britain: The Adventures of John Taylor, the Water Poet

By John H. Chandler

Victorian Women's Magazines: An Anthology

By Margaret Beetham, Kay Boardman

(Just As Well) It's Not About The Bike: A Journey Across Southern Spain

By Chris Atkin

A Holocaust Reader: Responses to the Nazi Extermination

By Michael L. Morgan (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University, Bloomington)

Travels in the Interior of Africa (World Literature Series) (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature)

By Park, Mungo, Waites, Bernard, Griffith, Tom, Mungo Park

Russian Voices

By Tony Parker

Crash Dive: In Action with HMS Safari, 1942-43

By Arthur P Dickison

This is Berlin: Reporting from Nazi Germany, 1938-40

By Shirer, William L.

The Illustrated Chronicles of Matthew Paris: Observations of Thirteenth-century Life

By Matthew Paris, Richard Vaughan

Africa: Dispatches from a Fragile Continent: Despatches from a Fragile Continent

By Harden, Blaine

Twenty Years A-Growing (The World"s Classics)

By O"Sullivan, Maurice Rendered from the original Irish by Moya llewelyn Davies and George Thomason Introduction by E.M. Forster Dust Jacket by Lynton Lamb

The Rainbow People of God: South Africa's Victory Over Apartheid

By Tutu, Archbishop Desmond, Allen, John

The Living Mountain (Canons): A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland: 6

By Shepherd, Nan

The Physiology of Taste

By Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Anne Drayton

Wondrous Times On The Frontier

By Brown, Dee

Women, History, and Theory: The Essays of Joan Kelly

By Joan Kelly

The Boer War

By Churchill, Winston S.

Interests and Obsessions: Historical Essays

By Robert Skidelsky

Captain John Smith: A Select Edition of His Writings

By Karen Ordahl Kupperman

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall

By William L. Riordon, Terrance J. McDonald

Writings of William Walwyn

By McMichael, Jack R., Taft, Barbara

Joyce and the Jews: Culture and Texts

By Ira Bruce Nadel

Trains and Buttered Toast: Selected Radio Talks

By John Betjeman, Stephen Games

In the Land of Israel (Harvest in Translation)

By Oz, AMOZ

The History of England;Lesley Castle (Penguin Classics 60s S.)

By Austen, Jane

The Home Front: Best of "Good Housekeeping", 1939-45

By Brian Braithwaite, Noelle Walsh, Glyn Davies