 | A People's Tragedy: Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes
Buy new: £12.57 / Used from: £9.99 A fantastic account of a complex and bloody era
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 | Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the West by Tom Holland
Buy used from: £3.64 Reads like a novel, unputdownable!
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 | The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History by Peter Heather
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £2.60 Buries the theory that the Romans had gone "soft". Excellent account of how outsiders gradually chipped away at the western empire.
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 | The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme by John Keegan
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £3.40 Detailed and scientific study of battle but doesn't ignore the human element. Fabulous
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 | Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw by Norman Davies
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £1.62 Awesome saga of this brutal yet almost forgotten battle.
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 | Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45 by Max Hastings Sir
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £2.44 Enlightening and critical take on the Allies' push to Berlin.
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 | Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Penguin history) by James M. McPherson
Buy new: £11.37 / Used from: £5.00 Still the best one-volume account of the civil war
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 | The Isles: A History by Norman Davies
Buy new: £12.65 / Used from: £6.00 Deals with the entire British Isles as one entity and takes all opinions and differences within the Isles in its stride.
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 | Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland
Buy new: £7.66 / Used from: £0.01 Another cracker from Holland
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 | A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts by Andrew Chaikin
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £1.92 Fascinating study of this brief period in modern history.
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