Poland: The First Thousand Years

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  The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569 - 1999

  Timothy Snyder traces the emergence of four rival modern nationalist ideologies from common medieval notions of citizenship. He presents the ideological innovations and ethnic cleansings that abetted …

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  Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

  The Viking Age - between 750 and 1050 - saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they reshaped the world between eastern North Ameri…

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  Northmen: The Viking Saga, 793-1241 AD

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  The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

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  Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918

  Before 1871, Germany was not a nation but an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable task at hand. How would he bring thirty-nine individual states under the yoke of a single Kaiser, co…

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  They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45

  “When this book was first published it received some attention from the critics but none at all from the public. Nazism was finished in the bunker in Berlin and its death warrant signed on the bench a…

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  La strega

  Tre dei racconti qui riuniti hanno come protagoniste quelle creaturine infide, pericolose, enigmatiche che Shirley Jackson conosceva molto bene per aver cresciuto quattro «demoni», come chiamava – sch…

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  A Brief History of the World in 47 Borders: Surprising Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps

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  Two Houses, Two Kingdoms: A History of France and England, 1100–1300

  The twelfth and thirteenth centuries were a time of personal monarchy, when the close friendship or petty feuding between kings and queens could determine the course of history. The Capetians of Franc…

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  We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

  A quarter-century after Frank McCourt’s extraordinary bestseller, Angela’s Ashes, Fintan O’Toole, one of the Anglophone world’s most consummate stylists, continues the narrative of modern Ireland into…

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  Unfinished Tales

  Classic hardback edition of this fascinating collection of stories, featuring Tolkien’s own painting of the dragon Glaurung on the cover, which continues the tales of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings…

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  The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

  A masterful narrative of the Middle Ages, when religion became a weapon for kings all over the world.
  
  From the schism between Rome and Constantinople to the rise of the T’ang Dynasty, from the birth o…

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  The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe

  An essential new history of Central Europe, the contested lands so often at the heart of world history  
   
  Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war, a place where empires clashed a…

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  The First World War: A Complete History

  It was to be the war to end all wars, and it began at 11:15 on the morning of June 28, 1914, in an outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire called Sarajevo. It would end officially almost five years lat…

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  The Shortest History of Germany

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  Medieval Christianity: A New History

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  The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)

  How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world history
  
  Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To j…

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  Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History

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  The Basque History of the World

  From Mark Kurlansky, the bestselling author of Cod, Salt, and Birdseye—the illuminating story of an ancient and enigmatic people.
  
  Straddling a small corner of Spain and France in a land that is marked …

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  The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors

  The fifteenth century experienced the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history. The crown of England changed hands violently seven times as the great families of England fought to…

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