 | Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared M. Diamond
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £3.00 Everyone interested in history should read this book. Jared Diamond explains why white people conquered everyone else. You will learn more from this book than from any ten or twenty other books.
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 | Europe: A History by Norman Davies
Buy used from: £9.50 There are so many excellent history books, but this one really stands out. It seems to include literally everything you could ever think of.
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 | Children'S War, the by STROYAR
Buy new: £8.81 / Used from: £2.92 This is the best novel I have read for years and I can't understand why it doesn't have a UK publisher. Like Robert Harris's Fatherland only infinitely better written.
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 | Making History by Stephen Fry
Buy used from: £0.01 It's that old sci-fi plot: someone invents a time machine and decides to use it to change history for the better (in this case, by eliminating Hitler); everything goes horribly wrong.
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 | Hominids by Sawyer
Buy new: £4.82 / Used from: £0.12 A VERY alternative alternative history.
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 | Jennifer Government by Max Barry
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £0.01 The blurb and legal disclaimer claim this book is set in the future, but it is actually set in an alternative, hyper-Americanised present. Scarily plausible.
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 | Flashman (The Flashman Papers) by George MacDonald Fraser
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 The Flashman??!! Makes him sound like a super-hero rather than an anti-hero. The correct title of this book is actually Flashman. First in the series about the caddish Victorian soldier.
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 | The Rotten Romans (Horrible Histories) by Terry Deary
Buy used from: £0.01 If you ever want to research anything, hit the children's books first. The entire Horrible History series is so loaded with odd facts as to be unputdownable.
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 | Weird War II (Gurps) by Kenneth Hite
Buy new: £14.99 / Used from: £35.24 Or buy a GURPS book.Many of the countless high-quality supplements for this role-playing game deal with historical and pseudo-historical topics.
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 | The Structures of Everyday Life: Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century: 1: Structure of Everyday Life Vol 1 (Civilization & Capitalism) by Fernand Braudel
Buy used from: £49.95 The first of three volumes covering the 15th-18th Centuries.Like Europe: A History this is massively comporehensive but still very readable.
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