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The War That Ended Peace
Margaret MacMillan
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Time's Anvil
Richard Morris
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The Story of the Jews Finding the Words (1000 BCE – 1492)
Simon Schama
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Danubia
Simon Winder
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Return of a King
William Dalrymple
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The Old Ways
Robert MacFarlane
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The Spanish Holocaust
Paul Preston
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One on One
Craig Brown
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Grand Pursuit The Story of Economic Genuis
Sylvia Nasar
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Mao’s Great Famine The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe
Frank Dikötter
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Liberty's Exiles The Loss of America and the Remaking of the British Empire
Maya Jasanoff
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The Rational Optimist How Prosperity Evolves
Matt Ridley