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1	A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations more books like this by Clive Ponting add to wishlist In an important work that forces readers to view history with new eyes, Ponting shows in compelling detail how, over and over, human beings throughout history have prospered by exploiting the Earth's resources to the point where they could no longer sustain societies' populations, causing collapse. Publicity to tie in with Earth Day (April 23rd). see all copies from £7.01! new only from £7.01! \| first editions
2	1940: Myth and Reality more books like this by Clive Ponting add to wishlist This history of 1940 cuts away at the myth of survival against the odds and Churchillian bravado during the first year of World War II. It shows what the real situation was, how government reacted, the reality of Anglo-American relations, and the relations between London and the Commonwealth. For the last 50 years 1940 has been regarded as Britain ... see all copies from £6.86! new only from £16.20! \| first editions
3	Armageddon: The Reality Behind the Distortions,: Myths, Lies, Illusions of World War II more books like this by Clive Ponting add to wishlist Clive Ponting has previously demythologized the Battle of Britain in his book, "1940: Myth & Reality." In this book he takes on the myths of the war on all fronts. Ponting examines strategic errors, resistance fighters, collaborators, and hidden agendas. In one section, for instance, he writes about the Vatican's support for the German invasion of ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £9.18! \| first editions
4	Breach of promise : Labour in power, 1964-1970 more books like this by Clive Ponting add to wishlist This account of one of the most crucial governments in Britain's post-war history is based on inside accounts and previously secret American documents including correspondence between President Johnson and Harold Wilson. It throws new light on the policy of the government and reveals the dependence of Labour's economic and defence policy on the US ... see all copies from £1.24! first editions
5	A green history of the world more books like this by Clive Ponting add to wishlist A study of world civilizations, from Sumeria to Ancient Egypt to the Roman Empire of pre-Columbian North America and tiny Easter Island, that argues that over and over again, human beings have built societies that have grown and prospered by exploiting the Earth's resources, only to expand to the point where those resources could no longer sustain ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £12.47! \| first editions
6	World History: A New Perspective more books like this by Clive Ponting add to wishlist Conventional accounts of world history tend to focus on the rise of Western civilisation and concentrate on the story of ancient Greece, the Roman empire and the expansion of Europe. The histories of the great civilisations of China, India and Japan, and therefore the experience of the majority of the world's people, have been relegated to a minor ... see all copies from £14.93! new only from £14.93!
7	The Crimean War more books like this by Clive Ponting add to wishlist The Crimean War is full of resonance - the battles of Alma, Balaclava and Inkerman, the Charge of the Light Brigade, the siege of Sevastopol, Florence Nightingale at Scutari with her lamp. To contemporaries, it was not the Crimean War but 'The Great War with Russia' - ironically Britain's allies were France, her traditional enemy, and the Ottoman ... see all copies from £3.79! new only from £15.51!
8	The right to know : the inside story of the Belgrano affair more books like this by Clive Ponting add to wishlist see all copies from £1.24! first editions
9	The Crimean War: The Truth Behind the Myth more books like this by Clive Ponting add to wishlist "The Crimean War" is full of resonance - not least, the Charge of the Light Brigade, the Siege of Sevastopol and Florence Nightingale at Scutari with her lamp. In this fascinating book, Clive Ponting separates the myths from the reality, and tells the true story of the heroism of the ordinary soldiers, often through eye-witness accounts of the men ... see all copies from £4.09! new only from £5.77!
10	Gunpowder by Clive Ponting add to wishlist For many, gunpowder is associated with Guy Fawkes and the attempt to blow up parliament on 5th November, 1605. Fewer people know that the formula for gunpowder was in fact discovered more than 1,000 years ago - in China - and by accident. Known as 'fire-drug', its origin was the alchemists' search for immortality, 'the elixir of life', and it was ... see all copies from £5.02! new only from £5.02!
11	Progress & Barbarism more books like this by Clive Ponting add to wishlist How has the world changed in the last century? This text looks back across 100 years of turbulence, Clive Ponting providing a reassessment of what the 20th century has meant to people throughout the world. This book analyses the fundamental forces of population, industry and their consequences for the environment. It traces: the rise and fall of ... see all copies from £4.95! new only from £10.22! \| first editions
12	Arduous Journey (Oxford) more books like this by Clive Ponting add to wishlist see all copies from £7.08! first editions
13	The Twentieth Century more books like this by Clive Ponting add to wishlist For some, the twentieth century is seen as a big-budget disaster film -- the stifling darkness of oppression, the greed of the ruling classes. For the world's elite, the near-universal adoption of capitalism today reveals history as a narrative of unbroken progress. Avoiding conventional chronological accounts, The Twentieth Century is organized ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £158.88! \| first editions
14	Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizati more books like this by Clive Ponting add to wishlist In an important work that forces readers to view history with new eyes, Ponting shows in compelling detail how, over and over, human beings throughout history have prospered by exploiting the Earth's resources to the point where they could no longer sustain societies' populations, causing collapse. Publicity to tie in with Earth Day (April 23rd). see all copies from £1.24! new only from £65.09!
15	Secrecy in Britain more books like this by Clive Ponting add to wishlist Britain has one of the most extensive systems controlling the flow of information of any Western democracy. In this book Britain Clive Ponting discusses the passing of the 1911 and 1920 Acts, and famous prosecutions brought under these Acts including Compton Mackenzie, the "Crossman Diaries", Sarah Tisdall, "Spycatcher" and Ponting himself. The ... see all copies from £1.24!
16 view cover	Thirteen Days, Diplomacy and Disaster. the Countdown to the Great War by Clive Ponting add to wishlist At the end of World War I, Germany was demonized. The Treaty of Versailles contained a "war guilt" clause pinning the blame on the aggression of Germany and accusing her of "supreme offence against international morality". Here, Ponting rejects this thesis, having made a thorough study of the incredibly complex international diplomatic documents. ... see all copies from £5.02! new only from £115.27! \| first editions
17 view cover	Thirteen Days: Diplomacy and Disaster, the Countdown to the Great War by Ponting Clive add to wishlist At the end of the First World War, Germany was demonised. The Treaty of Versailles contained a 'war guilt' clause pinning the blame on the aggression of Germany and accusing her of 'supreme offence against international morality'. Thirteen Days rejects this verdict. Clive Ponting also rejects the thesis that Europe in 1914 had reached such a ... see all copies from £9.17! new only from £9.17! \| first editions
18 view cover	The Pimlico history of the twentieth century more books like this by Clive Ponting add to wishlist How has the world changed in the last century? As we look back across a hundred years of turbulence, Clive Ponting provides a major reassessment of what the twentieth century has meant to people throughout the world. "The Pimlico History of the Twentieth Century" analyses the fundamental forces of population, industry and their consequences for ... see all copies from £5.22!
19	Whitehall: Tragedy and Farce more books like this by Clive Ponting add to wishlist see all copies from £1.24! first editions
20 view cover	Churchill more books like this by Clive Ponting add to wishlist This revisionist, unauthorized biography of Winston Churchill, challenges the myth that has grown up around the war leader, much of it propagated by Churchill's own writings, and draws on recently-released material to paint a picture of a politician whose views were sometimes extreme and repugnant, who was disliked and distrusted by his colleagues ... see all copies from £4.06! signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	A New Green History of the World more books like this by Clive Ponting add to wishlist Like Jared Diamond's "Collapse", Clive Ponting's book studies the relationship between the environment and human history. It examines world civilizations from Sumeria to ancient Egypt, from Easter Island to the Roman Empire and it argues that human beings have repeatedly built societies that have grown and prospered by exploiting the Earth's ... see all copies from £5.89! new only from £5.89!
22	Whitehall : changing the old guard. more books like this by Clive Ponting add to wishlist see all copies from £3.00!
23	Historia Verde del Mundo more books like this by Clive Ponting add to wishlist see all copies from £36.70!

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