Viking Britain
By: Thomas Williams
3.88
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A new narrative history of the Viking Age, interwoven with exploration of the physical remains and …
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1. The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605
By: Antonia Fraser
3.87
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters… read more
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- historical
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2. The Norse Myths
By: Kevin Crossley-Holland
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Here are thirty-two classic myths that bring the Viking world vividly to life. The mythic legacy of… read more
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- history
"A culture finds the gods it needs."-Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Norse Myths
"Be generous, be spirited, and you'll lead a happy life."-Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Norse Myths
"The treachery of a friend is worse than the treachery of an enemy."-Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Norse Myths
"Sometimes it's better not to see. Sometimes it's better to have a choice."-Kevin Crossley-Holland, The Norse Myths
3. Decline and Fall
By: Evelyn Waugh
4.88
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Expelled from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself… read more
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- british literature
4. In Search of the Dark Ages
By: Michael Wood
3.78
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
This edition of Michael Wood's groundbreaking first book explores the fascinating and mysterious ce… read more
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5. Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization
By: Richard Miles
3.00
Format: 253 pages, Hardcover
An epic history of a doomed civilization and a lost empire. The devastating struggle to the death … read more
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6. The Anglo-Saxon World
By: Nicholas J. Higham , None
4.26
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Anglo-Saxon period, stretching from the fifth to the late eleventh century, begins with the Rom… read more
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7. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
By: Neil Price
4.18
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
The Viking Age - between 750 and 1050 - saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples.… read more
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"The Viking mind is far away from us today, but occasionally just about tangible."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"Free will existed, but exercising it inevitably led to becoming the person you always, really, had been."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"History is nothing if not a suppositional discipline, sometimes akin to a sort of speculative fiction of the past."-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
"There is a sense in which this viewpoint is looking through the wrong end of the historical telescope, defining (and often judging) a people solely by the consequences of their actions rather than th…"-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
8. Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
By: Sathnam Sanghera
4.10
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consi… read more
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"It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the sh…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
"After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated war hero, a keen rugby and cricket player and, crucially, holder of a po…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
9. The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066
By: Marc Morris
4.34
Format: 508 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. … read more
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10. The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream
By: Charles Spencer
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The sinking of the White Ship is one of the greatest disasters in English history. Here, Sunday Tim… read more
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11. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road
By: Cat Jarman
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant new history that dramatically reassesses how far the Viking world extended. Dr Cat Ja… read more
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12. Cahokia Jazz
By: Francis Spufford
4.03
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently—from th… read more
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13. Messalina: Empress, Adulteress, Libertine: The Story of the Most Notorious Woman of the Roman World
By: Honor Cargill-Martin
4.06
Format: 432 pages, ebook
The shocking and scandalous story of Messalina—the third wife of Emperor Claudius—one of the most c… read more
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14. The First Kingdom: Britain in the Age of Arthur
By: Max Adams
3.77
Format: 545 pages, Kindle Edition
The bestselling author of The King in the North turns his attention to the obscure era of British h… read more
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15. Odd Boy Out
By: Gyles Brandreth
3.95
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In Odd Boy Out Gyles Brandreth provides an extraordinarily revealing account of growing up and comi… read more
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16. The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire
By: Tore Skeie
4.25
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The first major book on Vikings by a Scandinavian author to be published in English reframes the st… read more
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17. Ælfred’s Britain: War and Peace in the Viking Age
By: Max Adams
3.73
Format: 509 pages, Hardcover
In 865, a great Viking army landed in East Anglia, precipitating a series of wars that would last u… read more
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"More exotic still was Wulfstan's account of travels in the eastern Baltic and along the River Vistula; of a land of honey and plentiful fishing, of the habits of foreign kings and their burial rites …"-Max Adams, Ælfred’s Britain: War and Peace in the Viking Age
18. Viking Britain
By: Thomas Williams
3.88
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A new narrative history of the Viking Age, interwoven with exploration of the physical remains and … read more
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