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Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery
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3.89 avg rating — 731 ratings
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The Story of Russia
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The Nineties
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Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
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4.18 avg rating — 2,625 ratings
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Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took On a World at War
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3.78 avg rating — 1,237 ratings
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The Beatles: Get Back
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4.50 avg rating — 863 ratings
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And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
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Hannibal: Rome's Greatest Enemy
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4.20 avg rating — 1,339 ratings
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A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community
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4.15 avg rating — 432 ratings
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The Sasanian Empire at War: Persia, Rome, and the Rise of Islam, 224–651
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3.58 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
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4.25 avg rating — 1,183 ratings
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The Vortex: A True Story of History’s Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation
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4.39 avg rating — 718 ratings
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Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania
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4.43 avg rating — 1,090 ratings
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Becoming Beatrix: The Life of Beatrix Potter and the World of Peter Rabbit
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4.33 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of it
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4.05 avg rating — 6,514 ratings
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The Grove: A Nature Odyssey in 19 ½ Front Gardens
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4.41 avg rating — 96 ratings
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The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy
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4.33 avg rating — 3,328 ratings
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Northerners: A History
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3.59 avg rating — 565 ratings
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The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World
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4.08 avg rating — 5,042 ratings
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A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them
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4.12 avg rating — 9,447 ratings
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The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
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3.93 avg rating — 3,969 ratings
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The Jesuits: A History
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3.92 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas
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3.79 avg rating — 3,247 ratings
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Mummified: The Stories Behind Egyptian Mummies in Museums
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4.24 avg rating — 109 ratings
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The Normans: Power, Conquest and Culture in 11th Century Europe
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3.46 avg rating — 119 ratings
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Two Houses, Two Kingdoms: A History of France and England, 1100–1300
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4.17 avg rating — 369 ratings
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River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
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3.84 avg rating — 16,664 ratings
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American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
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4.20 avg rating — 4,995 ratings
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Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
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4.18 avg rating — 969 ratings
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Empires of the Normans: Conquerors of Europe
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3.73 avg rating — 519 ratings
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The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People
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4.19 avg rating — 500 ratings
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The Lion House
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3.62 avg rating — 820 ratings
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Budapest: Between East and West
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4.30 avg rating — 762 ratings
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The Fifties: An Underground History
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3.79 avg rating — 266 ratings
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Fake History: 101 Things that Never Happened
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3.55 avg rating — 703 ratings
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The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England
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4.11 avg rating — 959 ratings
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The Black Joke: The True Story of One Ship's Battle Against the Slave Trade
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4.01 avg rating — 222 ratings
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Margery Kempe: A Mixed Life
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4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Blood, Metal and Dust: How Victory Turned into Defeat in Afghanistan and Iraq
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4.16 avg rating — 98 ratings
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The Georgians: The Deeds and Misdeeds of 18th-Century Britain
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3.78 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
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4.20 avg rating — 2,060 ratings
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Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe
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4.40 avg rating — 1,945 ratings
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Medieval Military Medicine: From the Vikings to the High Middle Ages
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3.39 avg rating — 23 ratings
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History of South Africa: From 1902 to the Present
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3.85 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Fowl Play: A History of the Chicken from Dinosaur to Dinner Plate
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4.07 avg rating — 270 ratings
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The Beginnings of the Ottoman Empire
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Shrimp to Whale: South Korea from the Forgotten War to K-Pop
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4.27 avg rating — 460 ratings
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Hitler's Tyranny: A History in Ten Chapters
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War
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3.76 avg rating — 1,225 ratings
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Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century
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3.74 avg rating — 2,615 ratings
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Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird
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3.87 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Crécy: Battle of Five Kings
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4.31 avg rating — 266 ratings
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Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop
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4.05 avg rating — 1,106 ratings
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Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World
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3.92 avg rating — 1,373 ratings
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Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela
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4.13 avg rating — 1,064 ratings
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Storm from the East: Genghis Khan and the Mongols
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4.04 avg rating — 47 ratings
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The Queen and the Mistress: The Women of Edward III
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4.04 avg rating — 83 ratings
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The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil
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4.03 avg rating — 20,038 ratings
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The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
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3.85 avg rating — 866 ratings
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M: Son of the Century (Il romanzo di Mussolini, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 7,044 ratings
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California: An American History
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4.12 avg rating — 243 ratings
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A People's Church: A History of the Church of England
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3.93 avg rating — 58 ratings
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The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World
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3.85 avg rating — 2,025 ratings
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Henrietta Maria: The Warrior Queen Who Divided a Nation
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4.05 avg rating — 254 ratings
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The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East
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4.04 avg rating — 464 ratings
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Undelivered: The Never-Heard Speeches That Would Have Rewritten History
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4.01 avg rating — 906 ratings
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Henrietta Maria: Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen
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4.05 avg rating — 254 ratings
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The Global History of Portugal: From Pre-History to the Modern World
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Plagues and Pandemics: Black Death, Coronaviruses and Other Killer Diseases Throughout History
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3.32 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation
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3.83 avg rating — 623 ratings
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Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
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3.66 avg rating — 295 ratings
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Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
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4.19 avg rating — 1,637 ratings
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Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement
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3.86 avg rating — 1,299 ratings
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Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
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3.86 avg rating — 1,081 ratings
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The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy
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3.92 avg rating — 209 ratings
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A Brief History of the Caribbean: Indispensable for Travellers
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2.67 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Misfire: The Sarajevo Assassination and the Winding Road to World War I
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4.04 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to America
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4.37 avg rating — 1,173 ratings
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Origen of Alexandria: Master Theologian of the Early Church
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4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
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4.02 avg rating — 20,024 ratings
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New Rome: The Roman Empire in the East, AD 395 - 700 - Longlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic Runciman Award (The Profile History of the Ancient World Series)
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3.51 avg rating — 158 ratings
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Shackleton
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4.31 avg rating — 2,536 ratings
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The Holy Land in the Era of the Crusades: Kingdoms at the Crossroads of Civilizations, 1100–1300
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4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Women in the Classical World: A History
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Heaven on Earth: The Lives and Legacies of the World's Greatest Cathedrals
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3.91 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor
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4.18 avg rating — 1,601 ratings
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Afghan Crucible: The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern Afghanistan
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4.13 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The Decline of Empires in South Asia: How Britain and Russia lost their grip over India, Persia and Afghanistan
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3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Ukraine's Revolt, Russia's Revenge
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The Battles of King Arthur
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The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation
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4.30 avg rating — 600 ratings
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An Encyclopaedia of British Bridges
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The Welsh Braveheart: Owain Glyndŵr, The Last Prince of Wales
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3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Spellbound by Marcel: Duchamp, Love, and Art
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The Normans in Ireland
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Accidental Czar: The Life and Lies of Vladimir Putin
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Agricola: Architect of Roman Britain
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Paris and Her Cathedrals
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Early English Queens, 650–850: Speculum Reginae
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The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler
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3.96 avg rating — 105 ratings
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