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Flashman
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Flashman

By George MacDonald Fraser ,

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Moon Tiger
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Moon Tiger

By Penelope Lively ,

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Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain
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Empireland

By Sathnam Sanghera ,

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Daniel Deronda
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Daniel Deronda

By George Eliot ,

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Blood of Spain: An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War
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Blood of Spain

By Ronald Fraser ,

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The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War
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The Broken Years

By Bill Gammage ,

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Railways & the Raj: How the Age of Steam Transformed India
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Railways & the Raj

By Christian Wolmar ,

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A Troublesome Berth: The Journal of First Lieutenant Charles Allan Parker, Royal Marines: The Canada Years, 1838-1840
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A Troublesome Berth

By Rosalyn Parker , R. Andrews ,

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Rubies in the Snow: Diary of Russia's Last Grand Duchess, 1911-1918
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Rubies in the Snow

By Kate Hubbard ,

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The Most Extraordinary Adventures of Major Robert Stobo
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The Most Extraordinary Adventures of Major Robert Stobo

By Robert C. Alberts ,

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Toward- Freedom: An Autobiography of Jawaharlal Nehru
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Toward- Freedom

By Jawaharlal Nehru ,

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The History of Mary Prince
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The History of Mary Prince

By Mary Prince ,

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Like Froth Floating on the Sea: The World of Pirates and Seafarers in Late Imperial South China
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Like Froth Floating on the Sea

By Robert J. Antony ,

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Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740
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Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570-1740

By Mark G. Hanna ,

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Louisbourg Portraits
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Louisbourg Portraits

By Christopher Moore ,

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Louisbourg, From Its Foundation To Its Fall, 1713-1758
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Louisbourg, From Its Foundation To Its Fall, 1713-1758

By John Stewart McLennan ,

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Dickens
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Dickens

By Peter Ackroyd ,

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Sailors: English Merchant Seamen 1650 - 1775
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Sailors

By Peter Earle ,

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The People: No Different Flesh
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The People

By Zenna Henderson ,

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The Downstairs Room and Other Speculative Fiction
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The Downstairs Room and Other Speculative Fiction

By Kate Wilhelm ,

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An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels of Evliya Çelebi
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An Ottoman Traveller

By Robert Dankoff (translator) , Sooyong Kim (translator) , Evliya Çelebi

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Kings, Queens & Courtiers: Intimate Portraits of the Royal House of Windsor from its foundation to the present day
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Kings, Queens & Courtiers

By Kenneth Rose ,

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The Origins of the Second World War
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The Origins of the Second World War

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The Hawk in the Rain: Poems
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The Hawk in the Rain

By Ted Hughes ,

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My Memories of Six Reigns
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My Memories of Six Reigns

By Princess Marie Louise ,

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Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves
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Bury the Chains

By Adam Hochschild ,

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Bread and Jam for Frances
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Bread and Jam for Frances

By Russell Hoban , Lillian Hoban (illustrator) ,

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Shaka Zulu: The Rise of the Zulu Empire
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Shaka Zulu

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The Washing of the Spears: The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation
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The Washing of the Spears

By Donald R. Morris ,

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Feminists, Islam, and Nation: Gender and the Making of Modern Egypt
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Feminists, Islam, and Nation

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Summerland
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Summerland

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Something Sensational to Read in the Train
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Something Sensational to Read in the Train

By Gyles Brandreth ,

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Shooting An Elephant
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Shooting An Elephant

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The New England Village
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The New England Village

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Blindspot
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Blindspot

By Jane Kamensky , Jill Lepore ,

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A Report of the Kingdom of Congo: And of the Surrounding Countries; Drawn Out of the Writings and Discourses of the Portuguese, Duarte Lopez
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A Report of the Kingdom of Congo

By Duarte Lopes , Filippo Pigafetta , Margarite Hutchinson

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Bloody Foreigners: The Story of Immigration to Britain
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Bloody Foreigners

By Robert Winder ,

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Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress
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Heaven's Command

By James Morris ,

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The Ninth Directive
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The Ninth Directive

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A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings
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A Gift of Love

By Martin Luther King, Jr. ,

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Encyclopaedia Britannica (29 Volume Set)
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Encyclopaedia Britannica (29 Volume Set)

By Unknown ,

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New Amsterdam
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New Amsterdam

By Elizabeth Bear ,

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Ten Cities that Made an Empire
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Ten Cities that Made an Empire

By Tristram Hunt ,

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The Return to Camelot: Chivalry and the English Gentleman
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The Return to Camelot

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The Private War of Seaman Stumpf: The Unique Diaries of a Young German in the Great War
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The Private War of Seaman Stumpf

By Daniel Horn ,

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The Stuff To Give The Troops
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The Stuff To Give The Troops

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The King's Peace: Law and Order in the British Empire
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The King's Peace

By Lisa Ford ,

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Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England
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Virtuous Bankers

By Anne Murphy ,

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Phineas Finn
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Phineas Finn

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Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire
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Ornamentalism

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Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
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Legacy of Violence

By Caroline Elkins ,

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Slavery and the British Country House
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Slavery and the British Country House

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The People of the Mist
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The People of the Mist

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A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan: A Firsthand Account by One of the Few Survivors
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A Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan

By Lady Sale ,

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