 | Barbarism and Civilization: A History of Europe in our Time by Bernard Wasserstein
Buy new: £18.99 / Used from: £15.47 fantastic new history of europe's 20th century. a very readable addition to the great (hobsbawm, mazower, ferguson etc.) histories of europe in the last 100 years
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 | Mandela: A Critical Life by Tom Lodge
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.51 fascinating biography of the world's greatest leader
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 | The Changing Face of China: From Mao to Market by John Gittings
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £5.20 china and how it has changed since Mao. Essential. Unavoidable
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 | A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr
Buy used from: £4.46 great history of britain by one of britain's greatest journalists
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 | The Oxford Companion to Black British History (Oxford Companions)
Buy new: £19.50 / Used from: £10.93 important reference in the bicentenary year of the abolition of the slave trade
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 | Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752 by Jonathan I. Israel
Buy new: £29.99 / Used from: £18.56 major reassessment of the enlightenment - essential for history students
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 | We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (A Council on Foreign Relations book) by John Lewis Gaddis
Buy new: £21.84 / Used from: £13.91 reassessment of the cold war which provoked a huge historiographical debate. essential.
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 | The Fall of Mussolini: Italy, the Italians, and the Second World War by Philip Morgan
Buy new: £11.21 / Used from: £2.34 new interpretation of one of the 20th century's most controversial leaders
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 | Fleeing Hitler: France 1940 by Hanna Diamond
Buy new: £16.14 / Used from: £5.77 very personal insight into the french occupation
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 | Modern India: The Origins of an Asian Democracy (Short Oxford History of the Modern World) by Judith M. Brown
Buy new: £23.74 / Used from: £16.97 really good textbook of modern indian history. great for students, and really interesting read.
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 | Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy by Sugata Bose
Buy new: £18.99 / Used from: £15.09 groundbreaking revisionist history of south asia. great on partition. and a really good textbook.
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 | Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India by Stanley Wolpert
Buy new: £13.29 / Used from: £4.50 an interesting look at the last years of the Indian raj.
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 | Simon Schama's Power of Art by Simon Schama
Buy new: £16.25 / Used from: £8.99 great new book by schama
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 | The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple
Buy new: £5.22 / Used from: £2.06 already a classic
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 | After Hitler: Recivilizing Germans, 1945-1995 by Konrad H. Jarausch
Buy new: £19.99 / Used from: £18.42 great book on how germany rebuilt itself in the second half of the twentieth century
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 | The International Struggle Over Iraq: Politics in the UN Security Council 1980-2005 by David M. Malone
Buy new: £26.00 / Used from: £11.99 a very relevant bit of history that is often ignored.
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 | Democracy in Iran: History and the Quest for Liberty by Ali Gheissari
Buy new: £14.99 / Used from: £7.79 democracy in iran - its history and the possibility of a future
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 | Fatherlands: State-building and Nationhood in Nineteenth-century Germany (New Studies in European History): State-building and Nationhood in Nineteenth-century ... Germany (New Studies in European History) by Abigail Green
Buy new: £26.40 / Used from: £35.32 insightful analysis of the development of nationalism. fascinating and relevant.
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 | Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang
Buy new: £15.00 / Used from: £2.84 great biography of a notorious leader. brilliant writing.
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 | Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World by David Brion Davis
Buy new: £11.87 / Used from: £5.24 rise and fall of slavery
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 | A People's Tragedy: Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes
Buy new: £12.60 / Used from: £7.89 great work on the russian revolution.
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 | The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Antony Beevor
Buy new: £8.57 / Used from: £4.00 very readable but comprehensive account of the spanish civil war
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 | Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates by David Wootton
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £3.25 unusual approach to the history of medicine
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 | Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
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 | Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
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