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All You Need To Know...World War Two - A Brilliant Account of the Most Terrible Event in Human History by Max Hastings
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Category: Military | Series: All You Need to Know Ser.
Within Western culture, World War Two continues to exercise an extraordinary fascination for generations unborn when it took place. The obvious explanation is that it was the greatest and most terrible event in human history. Within the vast compass of the struggle, some individuals scaled summits of co ...Show more
Christianity - The Faith That Inspired and Shaped the Western World by Thomas Small
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Category: Religion | Series: All You Need to Know Ser.
More than any other, Christianity is the world's first truly global faith. Lying at the heart of Western civilization, Christianity has spread everywhere, and today is still winning converts in Africa, China, and throughout the world. How is it that a movement which began more than 2,000 years ago in Pa ...Show more
How to Read a Poem - A Practical Guide Which Will Open Your Eyes - and Touch Your Heart by Malcom Hebron
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Category: Words and Writing | Series: All You Need to Know Ser.
Malcolm Hebron writes with one aim in mind: to help you read, understand and appreciate poetry. The English language has an extraordinarily rich stock of poems to its credit, from the epic Beowulf, written perhaps as early as the eighth century, to the poetry of Simon Armitage, Carol Ann Duffy and the m ...Show more
Slavery - The History and Legacy of One of the World's Most Brutal Institutions by James Walvin
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Category: History | Series: All You Need to Know Ser.
Western slavery goes back 10,000 years to Mesopotamia, today's Iraq, where a male slave was worth an orchard of date palms. Female slaves were called on for sexual services, gaining freedom only when their masters died. This book traces slavery from classical times to the present. It shows how the enfor ...Show more
The British Empire - How It Was Built and How It Fell by Piers Brendon
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Category: History | Series: All You Need to Know Ser.
The sun never set upon the British Empire, its critics liked to say, because God didn't trust the British in the dark. The joke was a backhanded tribute to the astonishing achievement of the inhabitants of small island kingdom off the European mainland. Beginning in the 17th century with a few colonia ...Show more
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