 | Auschwitz : The Nazis & The 'Final Solution' by Laurence Rees
Buy new: £4.65 / Used from: £1.02 The extermination camp brought to 'life': its origins as a humble detention center, and the unimaginable but all-too-believable path to Holocaust.
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 | We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed with Our Families by Philip Gourevitch
Buy new: £5.69 / Used from: £3.11 A story of opportunism, brutality, fanaticism, and neglect: how Rwanda collapsed into bloody genocide while the US, France and the UN pretended not to see. Outstandingly researched and argued.
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 | The Highland Clearances by Eric Richards
Buy new: £7.46 / Used from: £5.31 Contesting popular perceptions, Eric Richards puts the Clearances in a pan-European context of agricultural revolution, challenges to feudalism, and metropolitan hostility to peasant ways of life.
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 | A Short History of Slavery by James Walvin
Buy new: £6.25 / Used from: £3.87 Emphasizes the 'global' nature of the Anglo-American slave trade; its evolution over time; and slaves' persistent, if inconsistent, contestation of the system that oppressed them.
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 | A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 (New York Review Books Classics) by Alistair Horne
Buy new: £8.36 / Used from: £7.38 Sweeping narrative account of the Algerian civil war, focusing on missed opportunities, the obstinacy of the French metropolitan government, and the ensuing escalation of violence.
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 | All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror by Stephen Kinzer
Buy new: £6.17 / Used from: £4.21 How short-sightedness, greed and Cold War paranoia conspired against the Iranian nationalist leader Mossadegh, leaving a wound in US-Iranian relations that still festers.
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 | Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps by Anne Applebaum
Buy new: £7.67 / Used from: £1.42 Argues that the gulag is what lay at the very heart of Stalinist communism.
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 | The Black Death: A Chronicle of the Plague by Johannes Nohl
Buy new: £13.59 / Used from: £21.38 Audacious attempt to animate contemporary reaction to the plague on a Europe-wide scale.
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 | The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe
Buy new: £7.60 / Used from: £4.78 A frank perspective on the foundation of the Israeli state which, like all colonial projects, was bloodier and more ruthless than state propaganda allows.
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 | The Shah's Last Ride by William Shawcross
Buy used from: £0.01 Decline and fall of a proud, vacillating, vain monarch in the face of unprecedented public opposition. Shakespearean tragedy.
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 | The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS by Elizabeth Pisani
Buy new: £12.07 / Used from: £2.97 When politics and prejudice clash with science and disease, guess who loses?
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 | The War for Lebanon, 1970-85 (Cornell Paperbacks) by Itamar Rabinovich
Buy used from: £16.87 Retelling of the destructive, pointless, now largely forgotten Lebanese civil war, with Lebanon and its people trapped by geography and demography as the Israel-Syria-PLO conflict played itself out.
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 | The Irish Famine (New Horizons) by Peter Gray
Buy new: £4.36 / Used from: £2.10 Fact-heavy account of the potato famine and emigration, mixing illustrations, first-hand accounts and statistics.
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 | A Modern History of the Kurds by David McDowall
Buy new: £13.54 / Used from: £12.89 History of a people without a land, and its hitherto doomed struggle for recognition.
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 | Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India by Stanley Wolpert
Buy new: £13.69 / Used from: £10.21 Centers on Britain's amoral, short-sighted and counter-productive behavior during the transfer of sovereignty; responsible for bloodshed and the most substantial mass migration the world has known.
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