Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fear and the Making of a Massacre
By: Kim A. Wagner
4.21
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
A powerful reassessment of a seminal moment in the history of India and the British the Amritsar M…
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1. Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
By: William Dalrymple
4.34
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
In the spring of 1839 British forces invaded Afghanistan for the first time, re-establishing Shah S… read more
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"No one was planning to travel light. One brigadier claimed that he needed fifty camels to carry his kit, while General Cotton took 260 for his. Three hundred camels were earmarked to carry the milita…"-William Dalrymple, Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
"The first Embassy to Afghanistan by a western power left the Company's Delhi Residency on 13 October 1808, with the Ambassador accompanied by 200 calvary, 4,000 infantry, a dozen elephants and no few…"-William Dalrymple, Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
2. Koh-I-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond
By: William Dalrymple , Anita Anand
4.04
Format: 335 pages,
The first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i Noor, arguably the most celebrated a… read more
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3. The Inheritance of Loss
By: Kiran Desai
4.32
Format: 632 pages,
Kiran Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in o… read more
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4. Lost Islamic History: Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past
By: Firas Alkhateeb
4.09
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
Islam has been one of the most powerful religious, social and political forces in history. Over the… read more
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5. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
By: Lawrence Wright
4.16
Format: 208 pages,
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6. The Valley of Fear
By: Arthur Conan Doyle , David Timson
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Audio CD
The Sherlock Holmes series read in unabridged form by David Timson is widely regarded as one of the… read more
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7. After Rain
By: William Trevor
3.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . After Rain- Twelve remarkable s… read more
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8. The Bastard of Istanbul
By: Elif Shafak
3.67
Format: 499 pages, Hardcover
From one of Turkey's most acclaimed and outspoken writers, a novel about the tangled histories of t… read more
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9. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
By: Arundhati Roy
3.12
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling, richly moving new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The God of Small Th… read more
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10. The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India
By: Urvashi Butalia
3.57
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
Oral History Association Book Award 2001 The partition of India into two countries, India and Pakis… read more
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11. Sacred Games
By: Vikram Chandra
4.10
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
Vikram Chandra's novel draws the reader deep into the life of Inspector Sartaj Singh--and into the … read more
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12. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
By: William Dalrymple
4.20
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results… read more
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13. 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
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14. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
By: Hallie Rubenhold
4.11
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never m… read more
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"As social commentators marvelled, charity was 'frequently derived from the lowest orders"-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
"The victims of Jack the Ripper were never 'just prostitutes'; they were daughters, wives, mothers, sisters, and lovers. They were women. They were human beings, and surely that in itself is enough."-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
"At its very core, the story of Jack the Ripper is a narrative of a killer's deep, abiding hatred of women, and our culture's obsession with the mythology serves only to normalize its particular brand…"-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
"My intention in writing this book is not to hunt and name the killer. I wish instead to retrace the footsteps of five women, to consider their experiences within the context of their era, and to foll…"-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
15. Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe
By: Sathnam Sanghera
4.04
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
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4.11
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17. The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689
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4.20
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18. The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and India's Quest for Independence
By: Anita Anand
4.24
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19. The Shortest History of India: From the World’s Oldest Civilization to Its Largest Democracy―A Retelling for Our Times (The Shortest History Series)
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3.86
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20. Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fear and the Making of a Massacre
By: Kim A. Wagner
4.21
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
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21. Anatomy of a Killing: Life and Death on a Divided Island
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4.21
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On the morning of Saturday 22nd April 1978, members of an Active Service Unit of the IRA hijacked a… read more
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