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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

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A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historians On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement...
The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller

The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: The Number One Sunday

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The inspiring true story of a father and son's fight to stay together and to survive the Holocaust In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by...
The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One

The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World

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The juicy, funny story of the three dysfunctional rulers of Germany, Russia and Great Britain at the turn of the last century, combined with a study of the larger forces...
Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45

Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45

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The long-awaited second volume of Volker Ullrich's acclaimed biography of the F hrer, taking us through the war years - from the early triumphs of the Blitzkrieg to Hitler's suicide...
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China

Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of

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A major new biography from the internationally bestselling author of Wild Swans, Mao and Empress Dowager Cixi- a gripping story of sisterhood, revolution and betrayal, and three women who helped...
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture

Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture

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The definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero The Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue with a slave revolt in...
Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper

Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper

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An unflinching, brilliant book on the Parachute Regiment and the Falklands War Our Boys brings to life the human experiences of the paratroopers who fought in the Falklands, and examines...
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

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From the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao- The Unknown Story, the extraordinary story of the woman who single-handedly dragged China into the modern age Discover the extraordinary story...
Stone Cold: The Extraordinary Story of Len Opie, Australia's Deadliest Soldier

Stone Cold: The Extraordinary Story of Len Opie, Australia's Deadliest Soldier

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'If I'd have been a Vietcong you'd be dead.' - Len Opie 'Len was a soldier above soldiers.' - Keith Payne VC Through three wars across 30 years, Len Opie...
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War

Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at

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'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer Read this prize-winning historian's "immersive" ( New York Times) account of the...
Ethel Rosenberg: The Short Life and Great Betrayal of an American Wife and Mother

Ethel Rosenberg: The Short Life and Great Betrayal of an American Wife (SIGNED)

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'A heart-piercingly brilliant book about a woman whose personal life put her in the cross-hairs of history' HADLEY FREEMAN'Totally riveting. I couldn't put it down' VICTORIA HISLOP'Ethel sings out for...
The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower

The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American

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A thrilling new biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day, when he grew from a well-liked general into one of the singular figures of American...
Trotsky's Favourite Spy: The Life Of George Alexander Hill

Trotsky's Favourite Spy: The Life Of George Alexander Hill

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UnaKroll was eleven when she first met her father. They stopped for lunch on theway from Brighton to London and he took her outside to play with theinnkeeper's Angora rabbit....
Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor

Beverly Hills Spy: The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack

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In the spirit of Ben Macintyre's greatest spy nonfiction, the truly unbelievable and untold story of Frederick Rutland-a debonair British WWI hero, flying ace, fixture of Los Angeles society, and...
Frank and Al: FDR, Al Smith, and the Unlikely Alliance That Created the Modern Democratic Party

Frank and Al: FDR, Al Smith, and the Unlikely Alliance That Created

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"This is history told the old-fashioned way. The book is only as long as it needs to be, the adroit narrative full of heroes (Smith, Roosevelt, big-city Democratic bosses) and...
Churchill and Empire: A Portrait of an Imperialist

Churchill and Empire: A Portrait of an Imperialist

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One of our finest narrative historians, Lawrence James has written a genuinely new biography of Winston Churchill, one focusing solely on his relationship with the British Empire. As a young...
Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War

Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War

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Dean Acheson was one of the most influential Secretaries of State in U.S. history, presiding over American foreign policy during a pivotal era--the decade after World War II when the...
The Ballad of Roy Benavidez: The Life and Times of America's Most Famous Hispanic War Hero

The Ballad of Roy Benavidez: The Life and Times of America's Most

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The dramatic life of Vietnam War hero Roy Benavidez, a Mexican American Green Beret from a working-class family with deep roots in Texas, revealing how Hispanic Americans have long shaped...
The Eagle in the Mirror: In Search of War Hero, Master Spy and Alleged Traitor Charles Howard 'Dick' Ellis

The Eagle in the Mirror: In Search of War Hero, Master Spy and Alleged

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Part biography, part forensic jigsaw puzzle, part cold-case detective investigation, The Eagle in the Mirror is the story of Charles Howard 'Dick' Ellis. The longest-serving spy for the British Secret...
Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth II

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Rod Green explores the personal and political intrigues that have dogged the House of Windsor, including the Queen's fascinating relationships with prime ministers from Winston Churchill and Antony Eden to...
Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth II

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Rod Green explores the personal and political intrigues that have dogged the House of Windsor, including the Queen's fascinating relationships with prime ministers from Winston Churchill and Antony Eden to...
King Richard: Nixon and Watergate: an American tragedy

King Richard: Nixon and Watergate: an American tragedy

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From an acclaimed British author, a sharply focused, riveting account - told from inside the White House - of the crucial days, hours, and moments when the Watergate conspiracy consumed,...
A Circle of Five

A Circle of Five

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On a misty Monday-21st June 1948-the MV Empire Windrush sailed up the Thames and anchored at Tilbury Dock, London. There were a total of 1027 passengers on board with 802...
Harold Wilson: The Winner

Harold Wilson: The Winner

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Harold Wilson is the only post-war leader of any party to serve as Britain's Prime Minister on two separate occasions. In total he won four General Elections, spending nearly eight...
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War

Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a [...]

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'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer Read this prize-winning historian's "immersive" ( New York Times) account of the...
George I. Sanchez: The Long Fight for Mexican American Integration

George I. Sanchez: The Long Fight for Mexican American Integration

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George I. Sanchez was a reformer, activist, and intellectual, and one of the most influential members of the "Mexican American Generation" (1930-1960). A professor of education at the University of...
The Soldier from Independence: A Military Biography of Harry Truman

The Soldier from Independence: A Military Biography of Harry Truman

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Harry S. Truman was Commander-in-Chief at one of the (if not the) critical moments in American--and global--military history: when the decision had to be made to drop the Bomb. As...
The Astrologer: How British Intelligence Plotted to Read Hitler's Mind

The Astrologer: How British Intelligence Plotted to Read Hitler's Mind

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Were British Intelligence chiefs gullible or sensible to recruit an astrologer to assist in the war effort against Nazi Germany? And was the astrologer genuine or a charlatan? In the...
Double Agent Victoire: Mathilde Carre and the Interallie Network

Double Agent Victoire: Mathilde Carre and the Interallie Network

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On 28.2.42 there arrived in the U.K. a remarkable woman agent: Mathilde Lucie (or Lily) CARRE.' Her codename was VICTOIRE, although she became better known as 'La Chatte' - the...
Secrets of a German POW: The Capture and Interrogation of Hauptmann Herbert Cleft

Secrets of a German POW: The Capture and Interrogation of Hauptmann Herbert Cleft

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Author: Brian BrinkworthFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014This is the riveting and extraordinary story of Kapitan Herbert Cleff, presented here for...
Secrets of a German POW: The Capture and Interrogation of Hauptmann Herbert Cleft

Secrets of a German POW: The Capture and Interrogation of Hauptmann Herbert Cleft

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Author: Brian BrinkworthFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014This is the riveting and extraordinary story of Kapitan Herbert Cleff, presented here for...
Do Let's Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

Do Let's Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

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Author: Gareth RussellFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 230g, 240 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023A Times Best Book on the Royal Family of the Year 2022This is a biography of...
Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds

Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds

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Author: Simon IngsFormat: Hardback, 158mm x 236mm, 608g, 368 pagesPublished: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2024Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN...