Hot 10 History
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DC Confidential
~Christopher
Meyer
Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Hardcover - Weidenfeld & Nicolson / November 10, 2005
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DUBLIN EVENING
HERALD
'a gem of a book.' |
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The Cold War
~John Lewis
Gaddis
Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Hardcover - Allen Lane / January 5, 2006
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Peter Hennessy,
author of The Prime Minister and The Secret State
'The perils and the politics fly at you off every page, and the
cameo portraits of the players are masterly.' |
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Mao: The Unknown Story
~Jung Chang,
Jon Halliday
Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Hardcover - Jonathan Cape / June 2, 2005
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Simon Sebag
Montefiore, Sunday Times
‘A triumph. This is the first intimate, political biography of the
greatest monster of them all.’ |
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The World Is Flat: A Brief
History of the Twenty-First Century
~Thomas
Friedman
Usually dispatched within 3 to 5 days
Hardcover - Allen Lane / April 28, 2005 |
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Synopsis
When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now,
and they come to the chapter Y2K to March 2004 , what will they say
was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade
Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology
and events that allowed India,... |
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Lions, Donkeys and
Dinosaurs
~Lewis Page,
Harold Evans (Preface)
Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Paperback - William Heinemann / January 5, 2006
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Synopsis
Lewis Page's cover story in "Prospect" on the military's most
useless and expensive hardware set off a firestorm of controversy,
back pedalling, and accusations. In this irreverent and provocative
book, he gives us the full story: how British soldiers are sent off
to war with some of the worst guns... |
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Lost Worlds: What Have We
Lost and Where Did It Go?
~Michael
Bywater
Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Paperback - Granta Books / October 3, 2005
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James Delingpole,
Literary Review
'I can confidently predict that Michael Bywater’s Lost Worlds is
going to be an enormous popular success.' |
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The Classical World: An
Epic History from Homer to Hadrian
~Robin Lane Fox
Usually dispatched within 4 to 6 weeks
Hardcover - Allen Lane / October 6, 2005
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The Economist
'more epic that any toga-clad celluloid epic to date... [a]
brilliant book...a story that is never cluttered and always
stimulating' |
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Egypt, How A Lost
Civilization Was Rediscovered
~Joyce A.
Tyldesley
Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Hardcover - BBC Books / October 6, 2005
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Synopsis
For nearly two thousand years after the last pharaoh ruled Egypt,
the wonders of this ancient culture remained hidden, seemingly lost
and forgotten for ever. Then, in the late eighteenth century,
Napoleon's invasion of the country sparked an explosion of interest
in ancient Egypt that burns as... |
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