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France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Petain by Julian Jackson

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Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849 by Christopher Clark
The Revolutionary Temper - Paris 1748 -1789 by Robert Darnton
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of the Empire by Nandini Das
Monet: The Restless Vision by Jackie Wullschlager
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The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown by Anna Keay

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Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Conspiracy on Cato Street: A Tale of Liberty and Revolution in Regency London by Vic Gatrell
Constable: A Portrait by James Hamilton
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Katherine Rundell
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement by James Vincent
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The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe by Mark Mazower

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The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris by Colin Jones
George III: The Life and Reign of Britain's Most Misunderstood Monarch by Andrew Roberts
The Amur River: Between Russia and China by Colin Thubron
Burning Man: The Ascent of DH Lawrence by Frances Wilson
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Ravenna: Crucible of Europe by Judith Herrin
 
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Himalaya: A Human History by Ed Douglas
Tom Stoppard: A Life by Hermione Lee
Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca by Ferdinand Mount
A Dominant Character: JBS Haldane by Samanth Subramanian
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A History of the Bible by John Barton
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The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes
On Chapel Sands: My mother and other missing persons by Laura Cumming
The Europeans by Orlando Figes
Margaret Thatcher: Volume 3: Herself Alone by Charles Moore
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De Gaulle by Julian Jackson

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The King and the Catholics by Antonia Fraser
Thomas Cromwell by Diarmaid MacCulloch
In Byron's Wake by Miranda Seymour
The Marshall Plan by Benn Steil
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Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum

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The Victorious Century by David Cannadine
David Jones by Thomas Dilworth
The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World by Maya Jasanoff
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova
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Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel
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Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession by Ian Bostridge

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Charlotte Bronte by Claire Harman
Agents of Empire by Noel Malcolm
The Tears of the Rajas by Ferdinand Mount
The Poet’s Tale by Paul Strohm
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Other People’s Countries: A Journey into Memory by Patrick McGuinness
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The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
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Strindberg - A Life by Sue Prideaux
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Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
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How to live: A life of Montaigne in twenty questions and one attempt at an answer by Sarah Bakewell
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Trotsky by Robert Service
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American Prometheus by Kai Bird & Martin J Sherwin
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The Discovery of France by Graham Robb
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The Last Mughal by William Dalrymple
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Edge of Empire by Maya Jasanoff
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Salonica: City of Ghosts by Mark Mazower
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Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps by Anne Applebaum
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The Architect and his Wife: Edwin Lutyens by Jane Ridley
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Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War by Margaret Macmillan
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John Maynard Keynes: Hopes Betrayed, 1883-1920 by Robert Skidelsky
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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
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Coleridge: Darker Reflections by Richard Holmes
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Frozen Desire by James Buchan
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Thomas Cranmer: A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch
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Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth by Gitta Sereny
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Curzon by David Gilmour
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A History of Warfare by John Keegan
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Never Again: Britain 1945-1951 by Peter Hennessy
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Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius by Ray Monk
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Clever Hearts by Hugh & Mirabel Cecil
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Federico Garcia Lorca: A Life by Ian Gibson
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The Life of Ezra Pound by Humphrey Carpenter
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The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
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CR Ashbee by Alan Crawford
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Edmund Gosse by Ann Thwaite
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Ivy Compton-Burnett by Hilary Spurling
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Collected Poems by Peter Porter
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James Joyce by Richard Ellmann
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Edith Sitwell: Unicorn Among Lions by Victoria Glendinning
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Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart by Robert Bernard Martin
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Tenebrae by Geoffrey Hill
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Life in the English Country House by Mark Girouard
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Missing Persons by ER Dodds
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Mussolini’s Roman Empire by Denis Mack Smith
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North by Seamus Heaney
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Wilfred Owen by Jon Stallworthy
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Alexander The Great by Robin Lane Fox
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Virginia Woolf by Quentin Bell
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Discoveries of Bones and Stones by Geoffrey Grigson
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Charles of Orleans by Enid McLeod
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The Man of Letters by John Gross
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New Poems by Roy Fuller
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The Peregrine by JA Baker
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The Continent of Circe by Nirad C Chaudhuri
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Marcel Proust by George Painter
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The World of the Shining Prince by Ivan Morris
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John Keats: The Making of a Poet by Aileen Ward
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The Franco-Prussian War by Michael Howard
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Joseph Conrad by Jocelyn Baines
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Collected Poems by Andrew Young
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Mani by Patrick Leigh Fermor
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Collected Poems by John Betjeman
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Bitter Lemons by Lawrence Durrell
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Gallipoli by Alan Moorehead
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