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Talking History's Book Recommendations

For our Book Recommendations from previous seasons of 'Talking History' click here  We'll ke...
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15.47 20 Oct 2014


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Talking History's Book Recommendations

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For our Book Recommendations from previous seasons of 'Talking History' click here 

We'll keep adding our recommendations to the list each week:

  • 'The Battle of Waterloo: A Series of Accounts by A Near Observer' commissioned by Marcus Cowper
  • 'Weimar: From Enlightenment to the Present' by Michael H. Kater
  • 'Shackleton; By Endurance We Conquer' by Michael Smith
  • 'Chasing the Scream: the First and Last Days of the War on Drugs' by Johann Hari
  • '16 Lives: Thomas McDonagh' by Shane Kenna
  • 'Marshal of Victory: The Autobiography of General Georgy Zhukov' edited by Geoffrey Roberts
  • 'The Oxford Illustrated History of the Reformation' edited by Peter Marshall
  • 'Fire and Movement: The British Expeditionary Force and the Campaign of 1914' by Peter Hart
  • 'The Spy with 29 Names: The story of the Second World War's most audacious double agent' by Jason Webster
  • 'The Last Cavalier: Richard Talbot (1631-91)' by Padraig Lenihan
  • 'The Glorious Madness: Tales of the Irish and the Great War' by Turtle Bunbury
  • 'Churchill's Iceman. The True Story of Geoffrey Pyke: Genius, Fugitive, Spy' by Henry Hemming
  • 'Judging W.T. Cosgrave' by Michael Laffan
  • 'Napoleon: The End of Glory' by Munro Price
  • 'The Crossing of Antarctica' by George Lowe & Huw Lewis-Jones
  • 'Kingmaker: Winter Pilgrims' by Toby Clements
  • 'Emmet Dalton: Somme Soldier, Irish General, Film Pioneer' by Sean Boyne
  • 'Where the Iron Crosses Grow: The Crimea 1941-44' by Robert Forczyk
  • '24 Hours at Waterloo: 18th June, 1815' by Robert Kershaw
  • 'The Imperial Japanese Army: The Invincible Years 1941–42' by Bill Yenne
  • 'The Devil's Alliance: Hitler’s Pact With Stalin 1939-1941' by Roger Moorehouse
  • 'Murder Houses of London' by Jan Bondeson
  • 'A History of Trench Warfare' by Stephen Bull 
  • 'Blazing Star' by Alexander Larman
  • 'Fight or Flight' by Martin Thomas
  • 'God's Traitors' by Jessie Childs
  • 'Ireland, the United Nations and the Congo' by Michael Kennedy & Art Magennis
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