 | Napoleon and Wellington: The Long Duel by Andrew Roberts
Buy used from: £3.49 A biography duo. Brings the characters to life, discusses the irony of how it's all turned out! A joy to read, another superb book by a brillian historian.
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 | Lady Hester by Lorna Gibb
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.98 Well written and fascinating biography of an eccentric character that very cleverly touches on so many of the historical antecedents for the Lebanese crisis today.
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 | The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple
Buy used from: £1.65 A harsh time - British retribution and the Indian uprising. Meticulous research and Dalrymple's usual gloriously atmospheric prose.
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 | Paradise Divided: A Portrait of Lebanon by Alex Klaushofer
Buy new: £10.07 / Used from: £6.65 A good portrait of a terrible situation in a country I visited long before the war and loved.
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 | Shadow of the Silk Road by Colin Thubron
Buy used from: £5.21 A fabulous journey with the best of writer companions
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 | Setting the Desert on Fire: T.E. Lawrence and Britain's Secret War in Arabia, 1916-18 by James Barr
Buy used from: £4.99 The beginnings of the Arab War are all here.
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 | The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Antony Beevor
Buy used from: £12.00 Essential reading, how many people who holiday in Spain have even thought about this terrible period in recent history
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 | For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies by Robert Irwin
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £4.35 Scholarly and erudite, a book about a shared obssession and its consequences
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 | Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewick by Jenny Uglow
Buy new: £12.50 / Used from: £2.96 Surprising and original, a portrait of a man and his time
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 | A History of the Middle East by Peter Mansfield
Buy new: £8.08 / Used from: £4.50 A brilliant and forthright overview from Fisk
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