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Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy

Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy

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Author: Serhii Plokhy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A dramatic, minute-by-minute account of one of the most shattering events of the Cold War, from an award-winning historian...
The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler

The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler

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Author: Laurence Rees Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 A fascinating exploration of the character of Adolf Hitler- the most powerful and destructive man in history. Accompanies the...
World War II: The Essential History, Volume 2: From the Invasion of Sicily to VJ Day 1943-45

World War II: The Essential History, Volume 2: From the Invasion of Sicily to VJ Day 1943-45

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Author: Richard Overy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Published to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day (May 2020) and Victory in Japan Day (August 2020), this...
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine

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Author: Anne Applebaum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Red Famine, a triumph of scholarship and human sympathy, is a milestone in the recovery of those memories and...
Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation

Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation

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Author: Roderick Beaton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A history of modern Greece by one of the pre-eminent experts in the field We think we know ancient...
Hitler: Only the World Was Enough

Hitler: Only the World Was Enough

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Author: Brendan Simms Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 A powerful and searing biography of Hitler and the poisonous ideas behind his actions Adolf Hitler is one of...
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

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Author: Laurence Rees Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The bestselling historian on the dramatic wartime relationship - and shocking similarities - between two tyrants This compelling book...
My Remarkable Journey

My Remarkable Journey

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Author: Katherine Johnson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The remarkable woman at heart of the smash New York Times bestseller and Oscar-winning film Hidden Figures tells the...
Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

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Author: Talia Lavin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 *** "One of the marvels of this furious book is how insolent and funny Lavin is; she refuses to soft-pedal the...
Somme: Into the Breach

Somme: Into the Breach

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Author: Hugh Sebag-Montefiore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on the greatest battle of World War One - with groundbreaking new material...
Conversations With Stalin

Conversations With Stalin

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Author: Milovan Djilas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Written in 1961, after Djilas had served time in prison for his views, and featuring portraits of the leading...
If Not Now, When?

If Not Now, When?

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Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In this gripping novel, based on a true story, Primo Levi reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish...
Artists Under Hitler: Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany

Artists Under Hitler: Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany

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Author: Jonathan Petropoulos Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 424 A penetrating inquiry into the motives, moral dilemmas, and compromises of Walter Gropius, Emil Nolde, and other celebrated artists who chose...
Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present

Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present

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Author: Christopher Harding Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 A magical cultural history of modern Japan. Japan Story is a fascinating, surprising account of Japan's culture, from the...
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56

Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56

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Author: Anne Applebaum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge...
Alone in Berlin

Alone in Berlin

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Author: Hans Fallada Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants...
The Times First World War: The Great War from 1914 to 1918

The Times First World War: The Great War from 1914 to 1918

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Author: Peter Chasseaud Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The perfect gift for history fans. Follow the conflict of the World War 1 from 1914-1918 with expert commentary, photographs and...
The War in the West: A New History: Volume 2: The Allies Fight Back 1941-43

The War in the West: A New History: Volume 2: The Allies Fight Back 1941-43

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Author: James Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 The second instalment in a revealing and forceful new multi-volume history of the Second World War from one of...
Eichmann in Jerusalem

Eichmann in Jerusalem

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Author: Hannah Arendt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Hannah Arendt's authoritative and controversial report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a...
Freedom at Midnight: Inspiration for the major motion picture Viceroy's House

Freedom at Midnight: Inspiration for the major motion picture Viceroy's House

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Author: Larry Collins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 The electrifying story of India's struggle for independence, told in this classic account by two fine journalists who conducted...
The Birth of the RAF, 1918: The World's First Air Force

The Birth of the RAF, 1918: The World's First Air Force

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Author: Richard Overy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A short, brilliant account of the birth of the RAF for the centenary of its founding The dizzying pace...
Churchill: Walking with Destiny

Churchill: Walking with Destiny

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Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1152 The blockbuster biography of the greatest Briton, by one of Britain's bestselling historians Winston Churchill towers over every other...
Clementine Churchill: A Life in Pictures

Clementine Churchill: A Life in Pictures

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Author: Sonia Purnell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Without Winston Churchill's inspiring leadership Britain could not have survived its darkest hour. Without his wife Clementine, however, he might never...
The Great Crash 1929

The Great Crash 1929

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Author: John Kenneth Galbraith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 John Kenneth Galbraith, one of America's foremost economists, follows the incredible economic rise and fall that lead to...
Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017

Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017

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Author: Ian Kershaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 The definitive history of a divided Europe, from the aftermath of the Second World War to the present. After...
To the Edges of the Earth, 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration

To the Edges of the Earth, 1909, the Race for the Three Poles, and the Climax of the Age of Exploration

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Author, Edward J. Larson Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 352 Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a "suspenseful" (WSJ) and "adrenaline-fueled" (Outside)...
Of Love and Other Wars

Of Love and Other Wars

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Author: Sophie Hardach Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 385 The story of a Quaker family and a Jewish family in love and at war during WWII. London, 1939...
Fatherland: A Family History

Fatherland: A Family History

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Author: Nina Bunjevac Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Standing alongside Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and Joe Sacco's Palestine, Nina Bunjevac's Fatherland renders the searing history of the Balkans in the...
The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War

The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War

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Author: Jonathan Dimbleby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The tale of the campaign that determined the outcome of the Second World War - 'truly gripping' (Andrew Roberts)...
The Daughters Of Mars

The Daughters Of Mars

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Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 In the tradition of Atonement and Birdsong, the Durance sisters leave Australia to nurse on the front during WWI...
Birdsong

Birdsong

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Author: Sebastian Faulks Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The bestselling WWI classic now reissued in the new Faulks series style Birdsong is a mesmerising story of love...
Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends

Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends

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Author: Anne Applebaum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The Pulitzer prize-winning historian and journalist anatomizes the personal and ideological dimensions of the current appeal of authoritarian regimes...
We Germans

We Germans

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Author: Alexander Starritt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 When a young British man asks his German grandfather what it was like to fight on the wrong side...
Letters to Camondo

Letters to Camondo

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Author: Edmund de Waal Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 A haunting sequence of imagined letters to the Count de Camondo -- the owner of a Parisian palace filled with...
Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English

Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English

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Author: Jonathan Ree Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 768 An ambitious new history of philosophy in English that broadens the canon to include many lesser-known figures "[This] lively chronicle of...
Island Song

Island Song

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Author: Madeleine Bunting (Y) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 1940. Guernsey is first bombed, then occupied, by the Germans. A year earlier, young, naive and recently married Helene, waves...
Victory at Villers-Bretonneux

Victory at Villers-Bretonneux

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Author: Peter FitzSimons Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 On Anzac Day 1918, when the town of Villers-Bretonneux falls to the British defenders, it is the Australians who...
Lenin on the Train

Lenin on the Train

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Author: Catherine Merridale Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A gripping account of how, in the depths of the First World War, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in...
Unknown Valor: A Story of Family, Courage, and Sacrifice from Pearl Harbor to Iwo Jima

Unknown Valor: A Story of Family, Courage, and Sacrifice from Pearl Harbor to Iwo Jima

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Author: Martha MacCallum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. In honor of the 75th Anniversary of one of the most critical battles of World...
Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War

Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War

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Author: Duncan White Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 752 'White handles hefty quantities of research effortlessly, combining multiple biographies with a broader overview of the period. His energetic, anecdote-laden prose...
A Century of Colour in Design: 250 innovative objects and the stories behind them

A Century of Colour in Design: 250 innovative objects and the stories behind them

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Author: David Harrison Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'One sits more comfortably on a colour that one likes.'-Verner Panton The allure of colour is undeniable, but its wholesale use...
A Rabble of Dead Money: The Great Crash and the Global Depression: 1929-1939

A Rabble of Dead Money: The Great Crash and the Global Depression: 1929-1939

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Author: Charles Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The Great Crash of 1929 violently disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The suddenness of the...
Trumpets from the Steep

Trumpets from the Steep

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Author: Diana Cooper Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The third volume of Diana Cooper's witty, gossipy and brilliant autobiography - the perfect evocation of glittering high society...
Innocence: two novellas

Innocence: two novellas

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Author: Frank White Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In 2017 Hodder published Frank White's There Was A Time, surely the last novel about the Second World War to be...
The West End Front: The Wartime Secrets of London's Grand Hotels

The West End Front: The Wartime Secrets of London's Grand Hotels

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Author: Matthew Sweet Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Spies: Meet Marie-Jacqueline Lancaster, the woman from M15 who has the gravy browning licked from her legs by Dylan...
Kyiv

Kyiv

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Author: Graham Hurley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A thriller set against one of the most horrific scenes in the Second World War. 'Historical fiction of a...
The Other Hoffmann Sister

The Other Hoffmann Sister

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Author: Ben Fergusson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2015, Ben Fergusson's critically acclaimed debut, The Spring of...
Rendezvous at the Russian Tea Rooms: The Spyhunter, the Fashion Designer & the Man From Moscow

Rendezvous at the Russian Tea Rooms: The Spyhunter, the Fashion Designer & the Man From Moscow

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Author: Paul Willetts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 RENDEZVOUS AT THE RUSSIAN TEA ROOMS provides the first comprehensive account of what was once hailed by a leading...