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Visionaries of the 20th Century: A Resurgence Anthology

By Satish Kumar, Freddie Whitefield

North West Frontier: British India and Afghanistan - A Pictorial Record, 1839-1947

By Michael Barthorp

The Palestine-Israeli Conflict: A Beginner's Guide

By Dan Cohn-Sherbok, Dawoud Sudqi El Alami

Three Kings in Baghdad: The Tragedy of Iraq's Monarchy

By Gerald De Gaury, Philip Mansel, Alan De Lacy Rush

Golden Years 1967

Imperial Fictions: Europe's Myths of Orient

By Rana Kabbani

The Unwritten Order: Hitler's Role in the Final Solution

By Peter Longerich

A History of Modern Burma

By Michael W. Charney (Project Professor, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)

In Pursuit of Civility: Manners and Civilization in Early Modern England

By Keith Thomas

The Cambridge History of South Africa

By Carolyn Hamilton (University of Cape Town), Bernard K. Mbenga (North-West University, South Africa), Robert Ross (Universiteit Leiden)

The Cambridge History of South Africa

By Robert Ross (Universiteit Leiden), Anne Kelk Mager (University of Cape Town), Bill Nasson (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)

Comrades: The Rise and Fall of World Communism

By Robert Harvey

The Battle of Britain

By Matthew Parker

Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn from Myths

By Mary R. Lefkowitz

The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika: a New Translation

By Robert B Strassler

The Rest is History: The official book from the makers of the hit podcast

By Goalhanger Podcasts, Dr Tom Holland, Dominic Sandbrook

Thoth: Architect of the Universe

By R. Ellis

The Search: The Birkenau Boys

By Gerhard Durlacher, Susan Massotty

The Library at Night

By Alberto Manguel

The Berbers: The Peoples of Africa

By Michael Brett (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London), Elizabeth Fentress (School of Oriental and African Studies

An Empire of Facts: Colonial Power, Cultural Knowledge, and Islam in Algeria, 1870-1914

By George R. Trumbull IV (Dartmouth College, New Hampshire)

Historians, State and Politics in Twentieth Century Egypt: Contesting the Nation

By Anthony Gorman

Shakespeare in Swahililand: Adventures with the Ever-Living Poet

By Edward Wilson-Lee

Idi Amin: The Story of Africa's Icon of Evil

By Mark Leopold

Decentralisation in Africa: A Pathway out of Poverty and Conflict?

By Christof Hartmann, Gordon Crawford

Ancient Greek Political Thought in Practice

By Paul Cartledge (University of Cambridge)

Making History: Writings on History and Culture

By E. P. Thompson

The Revolution of the Dons: Cambridge and Society in Victorian England

By Sheldon Rothblatt

A History of the Maghrib in the Islamic Period

By Jamil M. Abun-Nasr

Dead Man Running

By M MCGARTLAND