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Rasputin: The Downfall of the Romanovs
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The Blood Countess: Murder, Betrayal, and the Making of a Monster
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3.30 avg rating — 2,536 ratings
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Servus: The moving, enthralling true story of slavery in the Roman Empire by acclaimed ancient historian Emma Southon
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The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin's Greatest Enemy
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4.02 avg rating — 242 ratings
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Trauma Bonds
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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A Golden World: How the Americas Transformed Tudor and Stuart England
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The Lost Voices of Pompeii: Life and Death on Pompeii's Final Day – An Immersive Ancient History of Roman Culture
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4.24 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Margaret Beaufort: Survivor, Rebel, Kingmaker
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4.18 avg rating — 254 ratings
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The Coming Storm: Power, Conflict, and Warnings from History
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3.93 avg rating — 343 ratings
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The Renoir Girls: A Hidden History of Art, War & Betrayal
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3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece
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4.68 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Dwelling on Earth: The Past and Future of the Places We Call Home
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4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
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4.50 avg rating — 1,073 ratings
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Stalin's Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire
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4.52 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Mary of Modena: James II's Dazzling Queen
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3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Eleanor: A 200-Mile Walk in Search of England's Lost Queen
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3.93 avg rating — 1,364 ratings
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The King's Traitor: Reginald Pole and the Tudors
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America
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4.08 avg rating — 1,815 ratings
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The Black Death: A Global History of Humanity's Most Devastating Pandemic
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4.41 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Discovery of Britain: An Accidental History
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3.51 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Contested Continent: The Struggle for North America, c. 1000-1680
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4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings
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A Passage to Europe: The Astonishing Travels of an Indian Prince in the Age of Revolutions
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Violence: My Family's Colombian War
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4.65 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Rebel of the Regency: The Scandalous Saga of Caroline of Brunswick, Britain’s Queen Without a Crown
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3.97 avg rating — 1,095 ratings
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The Dangerous Shore: How a Motley Crew of Scientists, Mobsters, Double Agents, Retirees, Volunteer Pilots (and a Boy Scout) Stopped the Invasion of America
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3.96 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Lightning Beneath the Sea: The Race to Wire the World and the Dawn of the Information Age
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Mighty Continent: A Candid History of Modern Europe
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4.56 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Queens of Society: Six Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between the Wars
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3.63 avg rating — 535 ratings
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The Four Heavens: A New History of the Ancient Maya
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4.29 avg rating — 49 ratings
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The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East
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Self-Help From the Middle Ages: What Medieval History Can Teach Us About Living a Happy, Healthy Life
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3.95 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Archbishop, Chancellor, Kingmaker: A Life of Thomas Arundel
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Hammer of the Gods: King Olaf's Viking Conquest
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4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Castles: A Fortified History of the World from the Bronze Age to the Nuclear Age
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First Kings: Forged by Vikings in England and Norway
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail
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4.42 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Great Shadow: A History of How Sickness Shapes What We Do, Think, Believe, and Buy
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4.16 avg rating — 423 ratings
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The Queen and Her Presidents: The Hidden Hand That Shaped History
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4.22 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Echoes of Ash: Life in Herculaneum
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3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Lords of the Salt Road: The Norse Earls of Orkney and the Viking World
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Founder’s Fire: From 1776 to the Age of Trump
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3.62 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Mafia: A Global History
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3.59 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Target Stopped: The History of the Modern Tank
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1873: The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World
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4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Anne Boleyn: Reputation, Revolution, Religion, and the Queen Who Changed History
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2.75 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Cicero's Tongue: The Life of Rome's Greatest Orator and the End of the Republic
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Masters of the Ocean Sea: The Epic Saga of the Portuguese Explorers Who Redrew the Map of the World
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4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America
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4.15 avg rating — 1,083 ratings
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Soldiers Scholars and Spies: The Men Who Charted the British Empire
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Aphrodisia: Women, Sex and Pleasure in the Classical World
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3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings
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History's Greatest Drinking Games: From the Notorious to the Wisely Forgotten
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4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Alexander: God, King, Man
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Those Who Are About to Die: A Day in the Life of a Roman Gladiator
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3.79 avg rating — 137 ratings
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THE AMERICAN TRANSLATOR: FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO BATTLEFIELDS IN IRAQ
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4.83 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Holbein: Renaissance Master
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4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The University: A History in Stone, Silk, and Blood
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The Lost Founder: James Wilson and the Forgotten Fight for a People's Constitution
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4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln
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4.34 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Confucius: A New Tradition
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Regina: A New History of Women and Power
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The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery in the Americas
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4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
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4.20 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Sunak at 10: The Last Conservative Prime Minister?
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Writing Timbuktu: The Book in West African History
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3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Crown's Silence: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy and Slavery in the Americas – Royal Profit and the Roots of Racial Injustice
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4.27 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Indigenous Citizens: Native Americans' Fight for Sovereignty, 1776-2025
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4.14 avg rating — 22 ratings
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This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark
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4.38 avg rating — 182 ratings
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Reproductive Wrongs: A Short History of Bad Ideas About Women
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3.12 avg rating — 759 ratings
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Island at the Edge of the World: The Forgotten History of Easter Island – A Provocative Archaeological Study of Colonial Legacy, Indigenous Reclamation, and the Collapse Myth
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3.76 avg rating — 242 ratings
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Witches: A History of Witchcraft, Witch-Hunters, and a King's Obsession: 1562-1735
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3.73 avg rating — 37 ratings
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After Agincourt: The French Campaigns of Henry V
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The Secrets of Eaton Square: Sex, Scandal, and Infamy on the Road to Buckingham Palace
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3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Neanderthals Among Us: The Making of a Prehistoric Human
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Seven Sisters: Captives and Rebels in Revolutionary Europe's First Family
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3.95 avg rating — 79 ratings
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The Story of Tudor Art: A History of Tudor England Through its Art and Objects
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4.56 avg rating — 18 ratings
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In the Shadow of the Great House: A History of the Plantation in America
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4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Boomtown: The True Story of the Wickedest Town in Texas
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3.40 avg rating — 48 ratings
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The African Kingdom of Gold: Britain and the Asante Treasure
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3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Lost Cities of El Norte: Coronado's Quest, the Unconquered West, and the Birth of American Indian Resistance
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4.28 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Island of Impact: Uncovering Puerto Rico’s Untold Story, Global Power, and Fight for Identity
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Trafalgar
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3.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Five Crowns: Royals in War and Revolution from Athens to Tehran
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Seven Sieges: The Making of Europe
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A Woman's Work: Reclaiming the Radical History of Mothering
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3.70 avg rating — 126 ratings
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The Village on the Edge of the World: Writing and Surviving in Ceausescu's Romania
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4.33 avg rating — 303 ratings
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Dreams of Empire: A History of the Ottomans
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Babylon: The Mother of All Cities
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The Secret Life of the Hotel: Sex, Crime and Protest in British Guesthouses Since 1918
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Offa: King of the Mercians (The English Monarchs Series)
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Venice and the Mongols: The Eurasian Exchange That Transformed the Medieval World
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Cold War City: A History of West Berlin
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Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945
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4.29 avg rating — 483 ratings
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Lost London: From Crystal Palace to Heston Airport, a History in 25 Missing Buildings
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3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Talking Classics: THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
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4.01 avg rating — 216 ratings
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The Roman World War: From the Ides of March to Cleopatra’s Suicide
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3.12 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Themistocles: The Rise and Fall of Athens’s Naval Mastermind
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4.31 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Europe: A New History
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3.62 avg rating — 16 ratings
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To Rule All under Heaven: A History of Classical China, from Confucius to the First Emperor
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The Oak and the Larch: A Forest History of Russia and Its Empires
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3.88 avg rating — 173 ratings
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Empire of Skulls: Phrenology, the Fowler Family, and a New Nation's Quest to Unlock the Secrets of the Mind
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4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings
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