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Civilization: A New History of the Western World

A New History of the Western World

2008 || Paperback || Roger Osborne || Vintage Publishing

Ever since the attacks of 11th September, western leaders have described a world engaged in 'a fight for civilization'. But what do we mean by civilization? We believe in a western tradition of openness and freedom that has produced a good life for many millions of people and a culture of enormous depth and creative power. But the history of our civilisation is also filled with unspeakable brutality - for every Leonardo there is a Mussolini, for every Beethoven symphony a concentration camp, ...

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Genghis Khan

The Man Who Conquered the World

2024 || Paperback || Frank McLynn || Vintage Publishing

Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known, whose empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central Europe, including all of China, the Middle East and Russia. So how did an illiterate nomad rise to such colossal power, eclipsing Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Napoleon?

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The Death and Life of Great American Cities

2020 || Paperback || Jane Jacobs || Vintage Publishing

In this classic text, Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning and rebuilding and to introduce new principles by which these should be governed. The result is one of the most stimulating books on cities ever written. Throughout the post-war period, planners temperamentally unsympathetic to cities have been let loose on our urban environment.

Inspired by the ideals of the Garden City or Le Corbusier's Radiant City, they have dreamt up ambitious projects based on self-c...

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Danube

2024 || Paperback || Claudio Magris || Vintage Publishing

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD FLANAGANIn this fascinating journey Claudio Magris, whose knowledge is encyclopaedic and whose curiosity limitless, guides his reader from the source of the Danube in the Bavarian hills through Austro-Hungary and the Balkans to the Black Sea.

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A Rumor of War

2024 || Paperback || Philip Caputo || Vintage Publishing

In March 1965, Marine Lieutenant Philip J Caputo landed in Danang with the first ground combat unit committed to fight in Vietnam. Sixteen months later, having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars, he returned home - physically whole, emotionally wasted, his youthful idealism shattered. This book tells his story.

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Growing Up

Sex in the 1960s

2024 || Paperback || Peter Doggett || Vintage Publishing

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Edda Mussolini

The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe

2024 || Paperback || Caroline Moorehead || Vintage Publishing

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Dreaming the Karoo

A People Called the /Xam

2024 || Paperback || Julia Blackburn || Vintage Publishing

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The Roads To Rome

A History

2024 || Paperback || Catherine Fletcher || Vintage Publishing

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Amsterdam

A brief life of the city

2024 || Paperback || Geert Mak || Vintage Publishing

A magnet for trade and travellers from all over the world, stylish, cosmopolitan Amsterdam is a city of dreams and nightmares, of grand civic architecture and legendary beauty, but also of civil wars, bloody religious purges, and the tragedy of Anne Frank.