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“This book tells the amazing story of the hostage rescue mission at Entebbe Airport in 1976. It is a stunning piece of research based on newly-released classified documents and interviews with the participants. And it is so compelling that, having been reading it in a bath that had gone cold, I got out and sat with my hair dripping because I couldn’t bring myself to put it down.” Read more...
The Best History Books to Take on Holiday
Suzannah Lipscomb, Historian
Our most recommended books
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The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present
by John Pomfret -
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
by Rick Atkinson -
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
by William Bernstein -
Bolívar: American Liberator
by Marie Arana -
An Officer and a Spy
by Robert Harris -
The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916
by Alistair Horne
