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|title=Tutankhamen's Curse: The Developing History of an Egyptian King

|author=Joyce Tyldesley

|rating=4.5

|genre=History

|summary=The striking cover of 'Tutankhamen’s Curse' certainly has a way of arresting the reader’s attention. The iconic golden funeral mask peers out from an ink-black background and those heavily-lined Egyptian eyes seem to stare eerily into the soul of the beholder.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1861971664</amazonuk>

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|title=A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha Mousa

|summary=At the now famous Council of Clermont in November 1095, Pope Urban II responded to calls of distress from the eastern Byzantine Empire by issuing the dramatic call to arms that sparked the First Crusade. But there are at least two sides to every story, especially in history. Western histories of the Crusades have concentrated on that Council and the journeys of Crusaders across Europe: Peter Frankopan's 'The Call from the East' instead draws attention to Emperor Alexios I Komnenus and the plight of his Byzantine Empire.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099555034</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Christopher de Bellaigue~~

~~|title=Patriot of Persia: Muhammad Mossadegh and a Very British Coup~~

~~|rating=5~~

~~|genre=History~~

|summary=A good historian will take a single important fact and make good use of it to expound his general thesis. De Bellaigue demonstrates this masterfully when he states, 'Between 1876 and 1915 a quarter of the world changed ownership, with a half a dozen European states taking the lion’s share.' Persia, however, during this time was judged to be too poor to be worth occupying. It had, for instance, only a few miles of railway track. Secondly, Russia and Britain both had schemes for control but their mutual animosity gave the Persians room for manoeuvre. The latter were skilled at playing each off against the other and obtaining concessions. However, the conflict sharpened over the control of a critical resource, oil. This was controlled upon the outbreak of the First World War by the major share held in the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, later to become BP, held by the British. It was Muhammad Mossadegh, one of the first liberals of the Middle East was determined that this resource beneath his native land had to belong to his own people.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099540487</amazonuk>~~

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