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Ancient Syria: A Three Thousand Year History

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General Modern

Book review – The Power of Knowledge: How Information and Technology Made the Modern World

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20th Century

Book review – Buildings of Empire

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General Modern

Book review – Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia’s History

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Book review – Empress Dowager Cixi

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The Men Who United the States

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20th Century

Book review – The Republic: The Fight for Irish Independence

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Book review – The Rainborowes

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Period

Book review – When Britain Burned the White House: The 1814 Invasion of Washington

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20th Century

Book review – The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945–57

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Book review – The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000 BCE – 1492 CE

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20th Century

Book review – Russian Roulette: How British Spies Thwarted Lenin’s Global Plot

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Book review – Paralysed with Fear: The Story of Polio

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Period

Bolívar: The Epic Life of the Man who Liberated South America

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Ancient Egypt

Red Nile: A Biography of the World’s Greatest River