When Lions Roar: The Churchills and the Kennedys by Thomas Maier
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Category: REM History
The first comprehensive history of the deeply entwined personal and public lives of the Churchills and the Kennedys and what their "special relationship" meant for Great Britain and the United States "When Lions Roar "begins in the mid-1930s at Chartwell, Winston Churchill's country estate, with new rev ...Show more
A Force So Swift - Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China 1949 by Kevin Peraino
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Category: REM History
New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - Winner of the 2018 Truman Book Award A gripping narrative of the Truman Administration's response to the fall of Nationalist China and the triumph of Mao Zedong's Communist forces in 1949--an extraordinary political revolution that continues to shape East ...Show more
The Colour of Time - A New History of the World, 1850-1960 by Marina Amaral; Dan Jones
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Category: REM History | Series: New History of the World 1850 - 1960 | Reading Level: very good
The top five Sunday Timesbestseller. 'Breathtaking'Daily Mail. 'Astonishing'Sun. 'Shimmering'Spectator. 'Extraordinary'Daily Telegraph. The Colour of Time spans more than a hundred years of world history from the reign of Queen Victoria and the US Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis and beginning of t ...Show more
Beneath Another Sky: A Global Journey into History by Norman Davies
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Category: REM History
In 2012, Norman Davies set off on a global circumnavigation. Native Lands is his account of the places he visited and the history he found there, from Abu Dhabi to Singapore, the settlement of Tasmania to the short-lived Republic of Texas. As in Vanished Kingdoms, Davies's historical gaze penetrates beh ...Show more
France - A History from Gaul to de Gaulle by John Julius Norwich
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Category: REM History | Reading Level: good-very good
"...This book is written in the belief that the average English-speaking man or woman has remarkably little knowledge of French history. We may know a bit about Napoleon or Joan of Arc or Louis XIV, but for most of us that's about it. In my own three schools we were taught only about the battles we won: ...Show more
Blitzed - Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler
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Category: REM History | Reading Level: very good
'Extremely interesting ...a serious piece of scholarship, very well researched' Ian Kershaw The Nazis presented themselves as warriors against moral degeneracy. Yet, as Norman Ohler's gripping bestseller reveals, the entire Third Reich was permeated with drugs: cocaine, heroin, morphine and, most of all ...Show more
The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj by Anne de Courcy
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Category: REM History
From the author of the critically acclaimed biographies Diana Mosley and The Viceroy's Daughters comes a fascinating, hugely entertaining account of the Victorian women who traveled halfway around the world on the hunt for a husband. By the late nineteenth century, Britain's colonial reign seemed to kn ...Show more
A Short History of the Middle East: From Ancient Empires to Islamic State by Gordon Kerr
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Category: REM History | Series: Short History Ser.
Situated at the crossroads of three continents, the Middle East has confounded the ambition of conquerors and peacemakers alike. Christianity, Judaism and Islam all had their genesis in the region but with them came not just civilization and religion, but also some of the great struggles of history. A S ...Show more
France: A History from Gaul to de Gaulle by Norwich John Julius
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Category: REM History
“This book is written in the belief that the average English-speaking man or woman has remarkably little knowledge of French history,” begins John Julius Norwich. “We may know a bit about Napoleon or Joan of Arc or Louis XIV, but for most of us that’s about it.” Norwich’s final book is the one he alw ...Show more
Red Nile: A Biography of the World's Greatest River by Robert Twigger
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Category: REM History
So much begins on the banks of the Nile: all religion, all life, all stories, the script we write in, the language we speak, the gods, the legends and the names of stars. This mighty river that flows through a quarter of all Africa has been history's greatest and most sustained creator. In this dazzlin ...Show more
A Brief Guide to Classical Civilization by Stephen Kershaw
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Category: REM History | Series: Brief Histories
A general introduction to the classical world from its origins to the fall of the Roman Empire. The book focuses on questions of how we know about Classical civilization from archaeology and history; deals with the Mycenaean era and the world of Myth and Epic in Homer's "Iliad & Odyssey"; gives an o ...Show more
A Brief History of the Great Moghuls, India's Most Flamboyant Rulers by Bamber Gascoigne
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Category: REM History | Series: Brief Histories | Reading Level: very good
This text chronicles the history of the extraordinarily talented dynasty of emperors, nicknamed by travellers returning to Europe, the Great Moghuls for their almost limitless power and incomparable wealth. The book deals with one of the most interesting periods of Indian history, the 16th and 17th cent ...Show more