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The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
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Peter the Great: His Life and World
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
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Nicholas And Alexandra
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The Wars of the Roses
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The Life of Elizabeth I
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Marie Antoinette: The Journey
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The Guns of August
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
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Mary Queen of Scots
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Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942–1943
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Europe: A History
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Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London
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The Histories
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Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe
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The Conquest of Gaul
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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
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The Princes in the Tower
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Lives of the Twelve Caesars
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Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire
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London: The Biography
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The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, An Englishman's World
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Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
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Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution
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The German Genius: Europe's Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century
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Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
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How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
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Homage to Catalonia
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Beowulf
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The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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The Weaker Vessel
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Holy Blood, Holy Grail
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Complete Works of Tacitus
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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
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The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War
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A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium
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The Age of Revolution (A History of the English Speaking Peoples, #3)
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The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain from Vienna 1900 to the Present
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Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII 1547-1558
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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
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Pepys' Diary
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The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477–1806
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The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance that Changed the World
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Those Terrible Middle Ages!: Debunking the Myths
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Frederick the Great
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Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March
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The Thirty Years War
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Roman Britain: A New History
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Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
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Victorian London: The Tale of a City 1840-1870
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The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
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Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor
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The Conquering Family (The Plantagenets, #1)
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Life in a Medieval City
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The Abacus and the Cross: The Story of the Pope Who Brought the Light of Science to the Dark Ages
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London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets
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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
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The Magnificent Century (The Plantagenets, #2)
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The Origins of the Second World War
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Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages
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The Wives of Henry VIII
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Frederick the Great: King of Prussia
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1215: The Year of Magna Carta
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All the Countries: And the Few We Never Got Round To
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Bloody British History: Liverpool
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The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916
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God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution
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Inventing the Middle Ages
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The Isles: A History
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Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe
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In Search of the Trojan War
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Bloody British History: Plymouth
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Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation 1939-1944
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