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Dear Dana

Dear Dana

When Amy Daughters reconnected with her old pal Dana on Facebook, she had no idea how it would change her life. Though the two women hadn’t had any contact in thirty years, it didn’t take them long to catch up—and when Amy learned that Dana’s son Parker was doing a...

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The Road to Culloden Moor

The Road to Culloden Moor

How did Charles Edward Stuart and his failed Jacobite rising find such an enduring place in our popular memory? How did a half-Polish prince, who was born in Rome and spoke with an Italian accent, become the Bonnie Prince Charlie of ballad, poem and song? Was he...

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Vlad the Impaler

Vlad the Impaler

Who was the real man who inspired the Dracula legend? In spring 1460, a contemporary wrote, 'untold abuses, damage hardly reparable, sad murders, mutilations, sorrows' were visited upon the city of Brasov, by 'the unfaithful cruel tyrant Dracula, who calls himself...

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Dunkirk to Belsen

Dunkirk to Belsen

In this extraordinary book, the soldiers who served in the Durham Light Infantry recount their personal experiences of serving in World War II. Following the remarkable story of a ‘band of brothers’ who fought in every major land campaign, the soldiers tell their...

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A Way Through the Wilderness

A Way Through the Wilderness

Merchants, bankers, planters, soldiers, Kaintucks and gamblers, all were tied in one way or another to that enchanting, storied, and often mysterious highway of the American Frontier: the Natchez Trace.  Beginning life as a shadowy Indian trail, the road became the...

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Lost Britain

Lost Britain

In exploring the history of forgotten Britain, author David Long both mourns their loss and celebrates the achievements of engineers and architects of past generations, revealing some extraordinary tales that we would do well to remember. Lost Britain tells the...

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Cruise Ship SOS

Cruise Ship SOS

What happens to patients when it all goes wrong at sea? Say hello to Dr Ben MacFarlane. After spending a year as a repatriation doctor, he's now sailing off around the world as a ship's doctor - and with 3,000 passengers and crew to look after he's in for the most...

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The Making of Eastern Europe

The characteristics of Eastern Europe as we know it today were formed long before the Soviet Union came into existence. In searching for the origins of Eastern Europe’s difficulty in adapting to democracy, this sweeping history ranges from the present day to the time...

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Crown of Thistles

Crown of Thistles

This book tells the story behind one of history’s greatest rivalries: Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I. The struggle between the fecund Stewarts and the barren Tudors is generally seen only in terms of the relationship between two formidable women, Elizabeth I and...

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The Stable Boy of Auschwitz

The Stable Boy of Auschwitz

The instant Sunday Times and Amazon charts bestseller I found myself in the Auschwitz stables, and I felt an ember of hope. If I could make myself useful, helping these horses, maybe I could stay alive.” In the darkest moment of history, one child found the courage...

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Locomotion: The Railway Revolution

Locomotion: The Railway Revolution

"The effects of the railways on society are too universal and long-lasting to be compressed within a single volume. Like some many-headed Hindu god they contain life and death, creation and destruction, squalor and magnificence. All I can do is to sketch some of the...

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Explorers of the Nile

Explorers of the Nile

A “highly enjoyable” account of six men, and one woman, who journeyed into uncharted and treacherous African terrain to find the source of the White Nile (The Washington Post). Nothing obsessed explorers of the mid-nineteenth century more than the quest to discover...

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The Excellent Doctor Blackwell

The Excellent Doctor Blackwell

When British-born Elizabeth Blackwell earned her medical degree in America in 1849 there was an international outcry. Few at the time would have disagreed with the actress Fanny Kemble’s remark – ‘What, trust a woman doctor – never!’ Yet by the time Dr Blackwell died...

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Disease and History

Disease and History

A newly updated edition of a classic in the history of medicine with information on Covid-19. Arising from collaboration between a doctor and a historian, Disease and History offers the general reader a wide-ranging and accessible account of the ways in which disease...

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