 | Digging Up the Dead: Uncovering the Life and Times of an Extraordinary Surgeon by Druin Burch
Buy new: £13.00 / Used from: £4.97 Blood, boldness & revolutions - told with a surprisingly personal touch - enthralling!
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 | Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal
Buy new: £15.00 / Used from: £5.74 Jewel of an account of adventure and personal exploration
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 | The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple
Buy used from: £1.97 Vivid and lively, as well as sad and evocative
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 | The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War and Madness in Seventeenth-century England by Adrian Tinniswood
Buy new: £15.44 / Used from: £10.00 One family and a whole century!
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 | Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of a Great English Dynasty by Catherine Bailey
Buy used from: £37.25 Bailey mines riches out of this story of coal
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 | Bomber Boys: Fighting Back 1940-1945 by Patrick Bishop
Buy used from: £3.26 The memories and stories of men whose lives made history
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 | Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama
Buy new: £13.48 / Used from: £11.37 An account of the French Revolution that grips like a soap opera and touches like a poem
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 | Hubbub: Filth, Noise, and Stench in England, 1600-1770 by E Cockayne
Buy new: £17.88 / Used from: £9.98 Filthy in almost the best possible way
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 | More Than a Game: The Story of Cricket's Early Years by John Major
Buy new: £15.24 / Used from: £0.01 The first of May will never seem the same
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 | Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Buy new: £15.50 / Used from: £2.38 The world's most successful terrorist
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 | Vulcan 607 by Rowland White
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.01 Boy's own story of heroism & patriotic Britishness
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 | 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: £3.93 Slightly hard work sometimes, but worth it
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 | A Guinea Pig's History of Biology by Jim Endersby
Buy new: £17.00 / Used from: £5.86 Attractive & vividly written account of the species that made science possible
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