 | A People's Tragedy: Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes
Buy new: £12.57 / Used from: £9.50 The finest account of the grinding of humanity in the Russian Revolution. Peerless, breathtaking and absorbing
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 | The Fall of Berlin 1945 by Antony Beevor
Buy used from: £3.60 Beevor takes the reader into the dark heart of Nazi Germany as it suffers its long, spasmic last days before the feared onslaught of the Russians
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 | Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
Buy used from: £1.46 One of the finest accounts of battle in the English language. Beevor's tale of privation, hardship, valour and despair is unmatched
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 | The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £2.23 An incredibly vivid, lucid and at times devestating account of both the Chicago World Fair and the dark secrets of the World Fair Hotel
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 | The Perfect Heresy: The Life and Death of the Cathars by Stephen O'Shea
Buy new: £5.58 / Used from: £1.80 A surprisingly readable yet informative account of the last days of the Cathar heresy
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 | Hawkwood: Diabolical Englishman by Frances Stonor Saunders
Buy new: £5.40 / Used from: £0.01 A smashing romp through the war ravaged Italian peninsular in the company of Hawkwood - a diabolical Englishman buried with full Venetian honours
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 | London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
Buy new: £9.56 / Used from: £7.00 Not as strictly narrative as the others, but the single best account of the history of a city as complex and diverse as its inhabitants
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 | Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps by Anne Applebaum
Buy new: £7.67 / Used from: £1.77 Hard labour, plunging temperatures and the despair of an all-encompassing state. Stalin's terror is truly relived and rightly reviled
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 | Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder
Buy new: £5.70 / Used from: £2.45 Fascinating look behind the iron curtain as a decade of research into the activities of Germany's secret police is revealed
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 | Frederick The Great: A Life in Deed and Letters by Giles MacDonogh
Buy used from: £3.17 An intelligent biography of one of the most intelligent, if eccentric, rulers in Europe's history
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 | Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama
Buy used from: £4.32 A stunning tour de force from one of the best living historians. Lucid, thought provoking and timely.
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