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The Shaping of Middle-Earth by J. R. R. Tolkien; Christopher Tolkien
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: The\Histories of Middle-Earth Ser.
Poems and prose, maps and chronologies, detours and diversions along the road to Middle-earth . . . Christopher Tolkien has gathered archival materials that his late father, J. R. R. Tolkien, used to create the world and the history behind his classic stories. This fourth volume of The History of Middle ...Show more
The Soviet-Afghan War, 1979-89 by Gregory Barnes; Gregory Fremont-Barnes
Category: Military | Series: Essential Histories Ser.
The Soviet invasion of neighbouring Afghanistan in December 1979 sparked a bloody nine-year conflict with the Mujahideen until Soviet forces withdrew in 1988-89, dooming the communist Afghanistan government to defeat by Afghan popular resistance backed by the USA and other powers. The Soviet invasion ha ...Show more
The Stinky History of Toilets by Olivia Meikle, Katie Nelson
Category: CHILDREN'S NON FICTION | Series: Wacky Histories Ser.
You sit on it every day, but how much do you really know about your toilet? Discover the history of pooing and weeing in this frankly disgusting non-fiction book. Authors Katie Nelson and Olivia Meikle have scoured the toilet bowls and sewers of the world to find out how humans have done their business ...Show more
The Vietnam War by Andy Wiest (Professor of History and Director, Vietnam Studies Program and Co-director, Center for the Study of War and Society, University of Southern Mississippi, USA)
Category: Military | Series: Essential Histories Ser.
America entered the Vietnam War certain of its moral mission to save the world from the advance of communism. As this title explains, however, the war was not at all what the US expected. Outnumbered and outgunned the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces resorted to a guerrilla war.
The Vikings (Classic Histories Series) by Magnus Magnusson
Category: MILITARY/HISTORY | Series: Classic Histories Series
The Vikings hold a particular place in the history of the West, both symbolically and in the significant impact they had on Northern Europe. Magnus Magnusson's indispensable study of this great period presents a rounded and fascinating picture of a people who, in modern eyes, would seem to embody striki ...Show more
The World Health Organization - A History by Marcos Cueto; Theodore M. Brown; Elizabeth Fee
Category: POLITICAL AND GOVERNMENT | Series: Global Health Histories Ser.
According to its Constitution, the mission of the World Health Organization (WHO) was nothing less than the 'attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health' without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic status, or social condition. But how consistently and how well ...Show more
The Young Victoria Classic Histories Series by Alison Plowden
Category: History | Series: Classic Histories Series
'I delight in this work', wrote the young Victoria shortly after she became Queen. She was an engaging creature, high-spirited and eager to be 'amused'. But her early years were difficult ones. Fatherless from the age of eight months, she was brought up at Kensington Palace in an atmosphere thick with f ...Show more
Up in the Air by Terry Deary; Martin Brown (Illustrator)
Category: Education | Series: Horrible Histories Ser.
Discover all the foul facts about the history of air travel with history's most horrible headlines: in-flight edition. The master of making history fun, Terry Deary, turns his attention to the skies. From the Chinese prisoners who were sent up on kites and the brave but foolish failures who jumped fr ...Show more
Vile Victorians by Terry Deary; Martin Brown (Illustrator)
Category: History-Myths | Series: Horrible Histories 25th Anniversary Edition Ser.
All the foul facts about the VILE VICTORIANS are uncovered, including the murderers who wouldn't hang, when the first public loo was flushed and how stag hunting took place in Paddington Station.
Villains (HH Handbook) by Terry Deary
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Horrible Histories Handbooks Ser.
From gangs of gangsters to maniacs who massacre, meet the biggest baddies in history and discover how they tortured and terrifie their way to the top. Want to know: Whose savage speciality was nostril-splitting? Which evil emperor served up guts in goldishes? Whose axe-murdering antics were turned into ...Show more
Violence in Defeat - The Wehrmacht on German Soil, 1944-1945 by Bastiaan Willems
Category: Military | Series: Cambridge Military Histories Ser.
In the final year of the Second World War, as bitter defensive fighting moved to German soil, a wave of intra-ethnic violence engulfed the country. Bastiaan Willems offers the first study into the impact and behaviour of the Wehrmacht on its own territory, focusing on the German units fighting in East P ...Show more
Voices from the Holocaust by Jon E. Lewis
Category: Biography | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
The testament to a tragedy. "Voices from The Holocaust" follows the whole history of the 'Shoah' from Hitler's rise to power to the Nuremburg trials, but of course the exterminations and death camps of 'The Final Solution' take centre stage. It tells the story from the perspective of the people who were ...Show more