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1.		In Defence of History from Granta Books Price: £6.99 Customer Review: This books discusses history from a philosophical standpoint and defends it as a science. A wide range of topics is discussed from whether history (in the sense of changes throughout time) can be explained by means of grand narratives and theories on the one hand and the nuts and bolts of... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

2.		What is History? with a new Introduction by Richard J Evans from Palgrave Macmillan Price: £5.59 Customer Review: Overly complex, arrogant and long-winded - I had to read this book for my degree, and hated every second of it.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

3.		Art History and Its Methods: A Reader from Phaidon Press Ltd Price: £9.72 Customer Review: A good text book, especially for students (like myself) who come from a a non-history background to study art history. Useful in preparing avenues for research topics or for constructing essays. I wish I had used this book more when I was studying for my MA!	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

4.		History: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) from Oxford Paperbacks Price: £3.49 Customer Review: This was an interesting and thought provoking book suitable for either history students or just people with an interest in history. It touches on various topics e.g. how cats were highly valued in Ancient Egypt but tended to be ill-treated in Middle Age and Early Modern Europe. This illustrates... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

5.		The Pursuit of History: Aims, Methods and New Directions in the Study of Modern History from Longman Price: £15.29 Customer Review: John Tosh is in my view an excellent writer. This book enables even dimwits like me to understand the basics of historiography - the methods of history. This edition has really helpful notes in the margins explaining more complicated terms in a very simple way - spelling out anachronistic for... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

6.		Hitler, The Germans, and the Final Solution from Yale University Press Price: £18.99 Customer Review: This collection of essays by Ian Kershaw - perhaps best known as Hitler's biographer - has already received broad and deep plaudits from both historical and political scholarly camps. Kershaw has been among the most persistent and intuitive historians writing about the subject of Nazi Germany.... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

7.		Lighthouses: Towers of the Sea from National Trust Books Price: £4.99 Customer Review: Lighthouses are a memorial to all those brave builders and lighthouses keepers, and this little book certainly gives a very concise insight into their history and construction. Well written with superb photographs	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

8.		The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change from WileyBlackwell Price: £18.04 Customer Review: This is a truly excellent critique of postmodernism and more particularly of the socio-economic reshaping of our contemporary culture that shaped it. Harvey does not delve into the more involved subdivisions within postmodernism, do not expect to discover the differences between post structuralism,... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

9.		Why History Matters from Palgrave Macmillan Price: £8.49	Click here for more information

10.		Colditz: The Full Story from Pan Books Price: £5.99 Customer Review: In Reid's 3rd and final book focusing exclusively on Oflag IVC, Colditz he adopts a different style of writing from his first 2, written some 25 years previously. In this book he discusses life at Colditz from the point of view of POWs from all the different nationalities that made up the camp... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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