 | The Verneys: Love, War and Madness in Seventeenth-century England by Adrian Tinniswood
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £3.77 The Verney family is brought to life in this terrific book.
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 | The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village by E Duffy
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £7.50 An intensely personal slant on the Reformation.
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 | Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
Buy new: £5.62 / Used from: £4.00 A gripping, vivid account of the battle. Beevor's best book, I think.
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 | The Price of Glory: Verdun, 1916 (Penguin History) by Alistair Horne
Buy new: £6.81 / Used from: £2.99 Another memorable, deeply moving account of an appalling battle.
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 | The Holocaust by Martin Gilbert
Buy new: £10.88 / Used from: £7.50 Definitive account
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 | White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European Slaves by Giles Milton
Buy new: £5.96 / Used from: £0.01 Fabulous narrative history
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 | Dresden: Tuesday, 13 February, 1945 by Frederick Taylor
Buy new: £5.54 / Used from: £0.01 Very thorough, clear account of the raid on Dresden and the aftermath
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 | Black Diamonds: The Rise and Fall of a Great English Dynasty by Catherine Bailey
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £1.99 Reads like a novel; the decline of a great country house
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 | City of Oranges: Arabs and Jews in Jaffa by Adam LeBor
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £0.98 The Arab/Israeli conflict as seen from the point of view of the people of Jaffa; very human, very moving.
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 | On Secret Service East of Constantinople: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire by Peter Hopkirk
Buy new: £9.08 / Used from: £5.73 Peter Hopkirk's books are unsurpassable for derring-do; narrative history at its best.
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 | A Little History of the English Country Church by Roy Strong
Buy new: £6.22 / Used from: £1.67 Very visual book, with just the right amount of information for an interested general reader. Makes the Reformation and subsequent events easier to understand, too.
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 | Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922 - The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance by Giles Milton
Buy new: £6.55 / Used from: £3.45 More superb narrative history from Giles Milton
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