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Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years
**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE** Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious syn...
Somme Mud : An Australian Teenager in the First World War
"Beautifully presented young readers edition of the bestselling memoir of a young soldier on the First World War s Western Front.'It's the end of the 1916 winter and the conditions are almost unbelievable. We live in a world of Somme mud. We sleep in it, work in it, fight in it, wade in it and many of u...
Zennor in Darkness: From the Women's Prize-Winning Author of A Spell of Winter
Spring, 1917 and war haunts the Cornish coastal village of Zennor- ships are being sunk by U-boats, strangers are treated with suspicion, and newspapers are full of spy-fever.Into this turmoil come DH Lawrence and his German wife Frieda, hoping to escape the war-fever that grips London. They befriend Cl...
On this Day: A History of the World in 366 Days
Ever wonder what happened 100 years ago on your birthday? What about on Christmas Day in the year 800? Or Halloween in the distant past? You might be surprised by what you find out. On This Day is a history book with a difference. Travel back in time and discover the weird and wonderful things that happ...
The Drowning Pool (Green Crime Modern Classics)
A gripping tale of adultery and murder served hard-boiled, now part of a new crime series in Penguin Modern ClassicsWhen Maude Slocum - beautiful, frightened and angry - comes to Lew Archer's office with a poison pen letter intended for her husband, he reluctantly agrees to help her. As he follows the S...
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