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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408834329 | ISBN 10: 1408834324
The mud-filled, blood-soaked trenches of the Low Countries and North-Eastern Europe were essential battlegrounds during the First World War, but the war reached many other corners of the globe, and events elsewhere significantly affected its course.
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£10.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408839997 | ISBN 10: 1408839997
The sun is setting on the Western world. Slowly but surely, the direction in which the world spins has reversed: where for the last five centuries the globe turned westwards on its axis, it now turns to the east...
For centuries, fame and fo ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781847085214 | ISBN 10: 1847085210
In Terra Nullius, Sven Lindqvist travels 7,000 miles through Australia, lyrically describing its landscape, flora and fauna, while telling the history of the country, and revealing the shocking treatment of the Aboriginal peoples.�Lindqvist's title ... more
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£20.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780822347712 | ISBN 10: 0822347717
In the 1950s, thousands of ordinary Tibetans rose up to defend their country and religion against Chinese troops. Their citizen army fought through 1974 with covert support from the Tibetan exile government and the governments of India, Nepal, and th ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780141039497 | ISBN 10: 0141039493
Aung San Suu Kyi, human-rights activist and leader of Burma's National League for Democracy, was detained in 1989 by SLORC, the ruling military junta. In 1995 she was freed from six years' house arrest in Ragoon, where she was held as a prisoner of c ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781843549604 | ISBN 10: 1843549603
In Wages of Guilt, Ian Buruma explores the duplicity of feeling towards World War II amongst the people of two very different participant countries: Germany and Japan. In this highly original and now classic text, Ian Buruma explores and compares ho ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099536031 | ISBN 10: 009953603x
Born in pre-Revolutionary China and brought up in the Midlands, Esther Cheo Ying returned to China in 1949 after a traumatic childhood, convinced that there she would find the happiness and sense of belonging she longed for. Caught up in the turmoil ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780141041865 | ISBN 10: 0141041862
When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the beginning of a terrifying new episode in human history.
Written only a year after the disaster, John Hersey brought the ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780719560057 | ISBN 10: 0719560055
One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains, flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. For millennia it has been worshipped as a god; for centuries used as a tool of imperial expansion; today it ... more
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£24.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780745327808 | ISBN 10: 074532780x
Mao and his policies have long been demonsised in the West, with the Cultural Revolution considered a fundamental violation of human rights. As China embraces capitalism, the Mao era is also being surgically denigrated by the Chinese political and in ... more
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£20.00 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781843543749 | ISBN 10: 1843543745
The Kamasutra was written in northern India in the third century AD, when erotic culture lay at the heart of an exquisite civilization. The Book of Love is a unique portrait of this sensuous era, evoking the world of the pleasure-seeking men - and wo ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780099507376 | ISBN 10: 0099507374
Jung Chang's Wild Swans was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking biog ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780007194803 | ISBN 10: 0007194803
Every nation has its founding myth, and for modern China it is the Long March.
In 1934, the fledgling Communist Party and its 200,000 strong armies were forced out of their bases by Chiang Kaishek and his National troops. Walking more than 1 ... more
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£17.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781844671779 | ISBN 10: 1844671771
Ho Chi Minh (1890–1969) was the founder of the Vietminh and President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. He played a key role in the formation of the French, Chinese, and Vietnamese Communist movements and fought successfully against Japanese, Fr ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780099483748 | ISBN 10: 0099483742
In late-18th-century Britain, people were hanged for petty offences, yet crime was rife. The gaols were bursting and over-flow prisoners were kept in notorious 'hulks': rotting old ships moored offshore. Out of this situation was born the 'solution' ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780719566264 | ISBN 10: 0719566266
6 August 1945, 9.15 a.m. Six miles above Hiroshima, the bombardier of the Enola Gay releases an atomic bomb into the freezing skies. Seconds later, the city is obliterated in a single, monumental blast of fire. The destruction is immediate and catast ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781843544999 | ISBN 10: 1843544997
Kang Chol-hwan is the first person to escape successfully from the gulags of North Korea and tell the story of his imprisonment. In collaboration with Pierre Rigoulot, Kang exposes the appalling truth about life in the camp: the forced labour, the pu ... more
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£24.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780521804707 | ISBN 10: 0521804701
Nepal emerged as a unified state over two hundred years ago, centred on the Kathmandu Valley with its two thousand years of urban civilisation. While John Whelpton's history focuses on the period since the overthrow of the Rana family autocracy in 19 ... more
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£7.95 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780500301142 | ISBN 10: 050030114x
Here is a lively, vibrantly illustrated social and cultural history of the Aboriginal Australians, from their origins to the present day. The book explores the spiritual beliefs and Dreamings of the Indigenous people, their complex social structures ... more
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£32.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781842775714 | ISBN 10: 1842775715
Nepal's Maoist insurgency began on 13 February 1996 when members of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) carried out simultaneous raids on government offices, police posts and private businesses. The often-violent campaign that followed embroiled th ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780862103644 | ISBN 10: 0862103649
More than 7,000 people died within a matter of days when toxic gases leaked from a chemical plant in Bhopal, India in December 1984. Since then, exposure to the toxins has resulted in the deaths of a further 15,000 people as well as chronic and debil ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780553815221 | ISBN 10: 0553815229
In 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their orders were 'to proceed all the way to the end of the ear ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780099440789 | ISBN 10: 0099440784
For eight groundbreaking years, Xinran presented a radio programme in China during which she invited women to call in and talk about themselves. Broadcast every evening, Words on the Night Breeze became famous throughout the country for its unflinchi ... more
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£6.95 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9781929377213 | ISBN 10: 1929377215
The Rants, Raves & Thoughts of Mao Zedong lets you step inside the head of China's infamous leader. From his views of communism, the U.S., women, the people, capitalism and Henry Kissinger, The Rants, Raves & Thoughts of Mao Zedong will fascina ... more
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£12.99 paperback (1999) - ISBN 13: 9780471327233 | ISBN 10: 0471327239
A searing chronicle of wartime experiences, Even the Women must Fight probes the cultural legacy of North Vietnam's American War. Unflinching in its portrayal of hardship, valor, and personal sacrifice, this wrenching account is nothing short of a re ... more
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