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Short Histories: The Baker's Boy and the Great Fire of London

series Short Histories
Paperback / softback 22 Jun 2017
Publisher Wayland
ISBN: 9781526303479
Dewey: 823.92
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A Short History of the World in 50 Failures

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Dewey: 909
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The Limits of Liberty : American History 1607-1992

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Dewey: 973
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A Short History of the World in 50 Lies

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Short Histories: Mr Fawkes, the King and the Gunpowder Plot

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Dewey: 823.92
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A Short History of Irish Independence

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Dewey: 941.50821
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Nazi Germany

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Paperback / softback 24 Apr 2008
ISBN: 9780199276875
Dewey: 943.086
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A Short History of The Vietnam War

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Dewey: 959.7043
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A Short History of the World in 50 Lies

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Dewey: 909
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The War on Terror

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Epidemics : The Story of South Africa's Five Most Lethal Human Diseases

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Dewey: 614.4968
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The Nineteenth Century : Europe 1789-1914

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Paperback / softback 25 May 2000
ISBN: 9780198731351
Dewey: 940.28
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A Short History of the Weimar Republic : Revised Edition

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A Short History of The American Civil War

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Dewey: 973.7
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Ireland : A Short History

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ISBN: 9780861543687
Dewey: 941.5
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A Short History of the Reformation

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ISBN: 9781350151024
Dewey: 270.6
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Thomas Sankara : An African Revolutionary

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ISBN: 9780821421260
Dewey: 966.25052092
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A Short History of the Troubles

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Paperback / softback 28 Apr 2014
Publisher O'Brien Press Ltd
ISBN: 9781847176448
Dewey: 941.60824
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A Short History of the Mughal Empire

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ISBN: 9781350127531
Dewey: 954.025
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Modern India : The Origins of an Asian Democracy

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Dewey: 954
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A Short History of the American Civil War

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Paperback / softback 26 Dec 2019
Publisher I.B. Tauris
ISBN: 9781780765983
Dewey: 973.7
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A Short History of the Spanish Civil War : Revised Edition

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ISBN: 9781350152557
Dewey: 946.081
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Barricades and Borders : Europe 1800-1914

series Short Oxford History of the Modern World
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ISBN: 9780199253005
Dewey: 940.28
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Endurance and Endeavour : Russian History 1812-2001

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ISBN: 9780199246175
Dewey: 947.07
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Iraq : A History

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ISBN: 9781780749495
Dewey: 956.7
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A Short History of the American Revolutionary War

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ISBN: 9781350147119
Dewey: 973.3
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Liberalism

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Publisher Agenda Publishing
ISBN: 9781788218054
Dewey: 320.51094109034
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A Short History of the Crimean War

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Paperback / softback 29 Nov 2018
Publisher I.B. Tauris
ISBN: 9781848858619
Dewey: 947.0738
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Deglobalization

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Publisher Agenda Publishing
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Dewey: 303.482
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Robert Mugabe

series Ohio short histories of Africa
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ISBN: 9780821423240
Dewey: 968.91051092
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