The Man Who Created the Middle East: A Story of Empire, Conflict and the Sykes-Picot Agreement
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At the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the Sykes-Picot agreement, one of the most...
The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Maths Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History
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Listed as an FT book of the month. "Anyone with an interest in financial services and in what has...
Reckless: The Life and Times of Luis Ocana
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Luis Ocana seemed doomed to live in the shadow of cycling's greatest ever rider, Eddy Merckx - 'The...
Recollections from the Ranks: Three Russian Soldiers' Autobiographies from the Napoleonic Wars
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From Napoleon's invasion of 1812 to the Wars of Liberation and beyond, seen from the common Russian...
The Fortune Hunter: A German Prince in Regency England
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The two decades after Waterloo marked the great age of foreign fortune hunters in England. Each year...
Charles-Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, Premier Grand Mayaniste de France: 2015
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Two hundred years ago, on September 8, 1814, in the northern French city of Bourbourg, a boy was...
Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction
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Beneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank Abraham Lincoln ran private...
Nell and the Girls
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'Goodbye! There's my good girl.' The German got hold of Papa's arm roughly and said, 'Come on!' They...
No Wonder You Wonder!: Great Inventions and Scientific Mysteries: 2016
Claude R. Phipps and Friedel Wicke
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This book explores and explains scientific mysteries and principles, leavened with tongue-in-cheek...
Rugby: An Anthology: The Brave, the Bruised and the Brilliant
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Inspiring and irreverent by turns, Brian Levison's new anthology has drawn on rugby's wealth of...