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The Renaissance Bazaar: from the Silk Road to Michelangelo

By Jerry Brotton (, Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London)

Night Walks (Penguin Great Ideas)

By Dickens, Charles

The Isma'ilis: Their History and Doctrines

By Farhad Daftary

South Africa: A Modern History

By T. Davenport, C. Saunders

The Archimedes Codex: How a Medieval Prayer Book is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity's Greatest Scientist

By Reviel Netz, William Noel

Secret Alliance: v. 3

By Jorgen Haestrup

Secret Alliance: v. 2

By Jorgen Haestrup

History from South Africa

By J Brown

An Economic History of South Africa: Conquest, Discrimination, and Development

By Charles H. Feinstein (University of Oxford)

Fuck You, 2016

By Bob A. N. Grypants

Card Night: Classic Games, Classic Decks, and The History Behind Them

By Will Roya

Viceroys: The Creation of the British

By Christopher Lee

Uncentering The Earth: Copernicus and the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

By William T. Vollmann

From the Ground Up: Stories from the men and women who built, serviced and flew aircraft in WWII

By Edward Smithies

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900

By Andrew Roberts

Tartar Khan's Englishman

By Gabriel Ronay

One Morning In Sarajevo: The true story of the assassination that changed the world

By David James Smith

At Day's Close: A History of Nighttime

By Professor A. Roger Ekirch

Mercator: The Man who Mapped the Planet

By Crane, Nicholas

The Road To Berlin

By Prof John Erickson

At Day's Close: A History of Nighttime

By Professor A. Roger Ekirch

The Road To Stalingrad

By Prof John Erickson

Creators: From Chaucer to Walt Disney

By Paul Johnson

What Is History, Now?

By Suzannah Lipscomb, Helen Carr

Rising Sun And Tumbling Bear: Russia's War with Japan

By Richard Connaughton

Farewell Britannia: A Family Saga Of Roman Britain

By Simon Young

Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine

By Anna Reid

Fake Heroes: Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History

By Otto English

London 2012: Olympic & World Records

By Keir Radnedge

Great Military Disasters: From Bannockburn to Stalingrad

By Julian Spilsbury