 | The New Penguin History of the World by J.M. Roberts
Buy used from: £4.50 Very informative, easy to read one-volume history covering pre-history to present day. Wonderful. One of my "Desert Island" books.
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 | The Holocaust by Martin Gilbert
Buy new: £10.88 / Used from: £6.75 Shocking, stunning, heartbreaking, the definitive work on the Holocaust
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 | The Limits of Liberty: American History 1607-1992 (Short Oxford History of the Modern World) by Maldwyn A. Jones
Buy new: £21.02 / Used from: £15.00 Flowing narrative, well researched, a good one volume history of America.
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 | The Origins of the Second World War by A.J.P. Taylor
Buy new: £7.18 / Used from: £2.75 My favourite historian, love him or hate him, he is just so easy to read.
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 | The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir
Buy used from: £1.15 Enjoyable and informative, best of the bunch of books on Henry VIII and his unfortunate wives.
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 | London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
Buy new: £9.56 / Used from: £5.93 Lots of interesting snippets of interesting information. Not a traditional history book so leaves you wanting to know more.
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 | Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
Buy used from: £1.47 Contains haunting eyewitness accounts - a riveting read.
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 | Somme by Lyn MacDonald
Buy new: £8.08 / Used from: £1.35 A very human account of the battle of the Somme 1916.
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