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This week’s books in History
Here are this week’s new releases for the category ‘History’.
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★ Our Staff Pick ★ Old Ways to New Days: The Folklore, Traditions and Everyday Objects that Shaped Ireland By Shane Lehane Publisher: Hachette Books Ireland |
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Ike's Last Battle: The Battle of the Ruhr Pocket, April 1945 (Commanders at the Endgame Book 1) By Charles Whiting Publisher: Sapere Books |
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Gotham at War: A History of New York City from 1933 to 1945 By Mike Wallace Publisher: Oxford University Press |
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Surrender!: The End of World War II, and the Pens That Signed the Axis Death Warrants By Richard Binder (Author), Nicky Pessaroff (Foreword), Frederic Propas (Foreword) Publisher: Richard Binder |
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The Lost Mary: Rediscovering the Mother of Jesus By James D. Tabor Publisher: Knopf |
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Robert H. Jackson: A Life in Judgment By G. Edward White Publisher: Oxford University Press |
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The Far Edges of the Known World: Life Beyond the Borders of Ancient Civilization By Owen Rees Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company |
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Fashion Victims: Dress at the Court of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette By Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell Publisher: Yale University Press |
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Black History Is for Everyone By Brian Jones Publisher: Haymarket Books |
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Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth, and Power By Victoria Bateman Publisher: Seal Press |
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Northumbria AD 367-867: Earth Hall, Ring Gift and Heaven's Field By Max Adams (Author), Colm O'Brien (Author) Publisher: John Donald |
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Fighting Tigers in Italy: First Hand Accounts of Tanks in Combat By Jeffrey Plowman Publisher: Pen and Sword Military |
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A Short History of the World in 50 Failures By Ben Gazur Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books US |
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The Road to Cisterna: Darby’s Rangers and Their Most Consequential Battle in World War II By David Lyle Williams Publisher: LSU Press |
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New York’s Secret Subway: The Underground Genius of Alfred Beach and the Origins of Mass Transit By Matthew Algeo Publisher: Island Press |
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Battle of Britain The Final Curtain: 1 October 1940 – 31 October 1940 By Dilip Sarkar MBE FRHistS FRAeS Publisher: Air World |
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Jane Austen’s Favourite Brother, Henry By Christopher Herbert Publisher: Pen and Sword History |
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The Maya Myths: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes and Ancestors By Mallory E. Matsumoto Publisher: Thames & Hudson |
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The First Right: Self-Determination and the Transformation of International Order, 1941–2000 (Oxford Studies in International History) By Bradley R. Simpson Publisher: Oxford University Press |
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Demosthenes: Democracy's Defender (Ancient Lives) By James Romm Publisher: Yale University Press |
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A Tale Unasked By Lady Nijo (Author), Meredith McKinney (Translator) Publisher: Penguin |
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The Melted Pot: Diversity, Antisemitism, and the Limits of Tolerance By Harry Saul Markham Publisher: Academica Press |
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Palmyra, the Mediterranean and Beyond (Mediterranean Studies in Antiquity) By Rubina Raja Publisher: Cambridge University Press |
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The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History By Alexander Mikaberidze Publisher: Oxford University Press |
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Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 BCE–300 CE (Cultures of Reading in the Ancient Mediterranean) By Jeremiah Coogan (Editor), Candida R. Moss (Editor), Joseph A. Howley (Editor) Publisher: Oxford University Press |
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The State, the Law, and the People in the Roman Empire: A Sourcebook By Brian Campbell Publisher: Cambridge University Press |
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The Wars of the Roses: A Medieval Civil War (The James Lydon Lectures in Medieval History and Culture) By John Watts Publisher: Cambridge University Press |
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Relief in Greek, Roman, and Late Antique Art (Yale Classical Studies, Series Number 40) By Jas' Elsner (Editor), Milette Gaifman (Editor), Nathaniel B. Jones (Editor) Publisher: Cambridge University Press |
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The Cambridge Guide to Global Medieval Travel Writing By Sebastian Sobecki Publisher: Cambridge University Press |
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Stalin’s Liquidation Game: The Unlikely Case of Oleksandr Shumskyi, His Survival in Soviet Prison, and His Subsequent Arcane Assassination (Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies Book 86) By Filip Slaveski (Author), Yuri Shapoval (Author) Publisher: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute |
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Cyril of Alexandria: Against Julian: Introduction and Translation By Matthew R. Crawford (Translator), Aaron P. Johnson (Translator) Publisher: Cambridge University Press |
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Proscription by Degrees: The Abolition of the Slave Trade to the United States By Kenneth Morgan Publisher: Cambridge University Press |
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Minority Identities in Nigeria: Contesting and Claiming Citizenship in the Twentieth Century (African Identities: Past and Present) By Oghenetoja Okoh Publisher: Cambridge University Press |
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The Frisch-Peierls Memorandum: The Founding Document of the Nuclear Age (SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology) By Bruce Cameron Reed Publisher: Springer |
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Death Rituals: The Rūs and 'Vikings' in Arabic and Persian (Elements in the Global Middle Ages) By Tonicha M. Upham Publisher: Cambridge University Press |
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Pasts Otherwise: An Archaeology of War in Arctic Norway By Bjørnar Olsen (Author), Christopher Witmore (Author) Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic |