History of the Twentieth Century by Martin Gilbert

The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created by William J. Bernstein

The Great Game: The Struggle For Empire in Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk

Russia: Experiment with a People From 1991 to the Present by Robert Service

Resurrection: The Struggle For a New Russia by David Remnick

Under Two Flags: The Life of Major General Sir Edward Spears by Max Egremont

The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History by Derek Sayer

The Mapmakers: The Story of the Great Pioneers in Cartography from Antiquity to the Space Age by John Noble Wilford

The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation by John M. Hobson

Drink: A Social History by Andrew Barr

Politics Observations & Arguments by Hendrik Hertzberg

The Social Life of Information by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid

The Book of Babel: Words and the Way We See Things by Nigel Lewis

Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination by Peter Ackroyd

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