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The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague

The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague

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Author: Timothy Garton AshFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 183g, 208 pagesPublished: Atlantic Books, United Kingdom, 2019The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that capture history in the making,...
Twentieth-Century Fabrics: European and American Designers and Manufactures

Twentieth-Century Fabrics: European and American Designers and Manufactures

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Author: Doretta Davanzo PoliFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 280mm, 2070g, 304 pagesPublished: Skira, Italy, 2007Following the publication of Italian Ceramic Art, Skira presents a compilation devoted primarily to the modern decorative...
Richard Ehrlich: The Arolsen Holocaust Archive

Richard Ehrlich: The Arolsen Holocaust Archive

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Author: Richard EhrlichFormat: Hardback, 210mm x 270mm, 460g, 56 pagesPublished: Steidl Publishers, Germany, 2021The Arolsen Holocaust Archive chronicles the history of the Nazi repository of voluminous prisoner records from World...
Twentieth-Century Fabrics: European and American Designers and Manufactures

Twentieth-Century Fabrics: European and American Designers and Manufactures

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Author: Doretta Davanzo PoliFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 280mm, 2070g, 304 pagesPublished: Skira, Italy, 2007Following the publication of Italian Ceramic Art, Skira presents a compilation devoted primarily to the modern decorative...
Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin

Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin

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Author: Timothy Snyder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 A magisterial history of the lands that lie between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany - where 14 million civilians...
Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers who Turned the Tide in the Second World War

Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers who Turned the Tide in the Second World War

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Author: Paul Kennedy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 How, when it came down to it, did the Allies win the Second World War? How did they win...
The Coming of the Third Reich: How the Nazis Destroyed Democracy and Seized Power in Germany

The Coming of the Third Reich: How the Nazis Destroyed Democracy and Seized Power in Germany

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Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 'Impressive . . . perceptive . . . humane . . . the most comprehensive history in any...
The Origins of the Second World War

The Origins of the Second World War

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Author: Professor A J P Taylor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 One of the most popular and controversial historians of the twentieth century, who made his subject...
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...
A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle

A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle

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Author: Julian Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 944 'Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography' Max Hastings, Sunday Times In six weeks in 1940, France was...
The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century, Fifth Edition

The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century, Fifth Edition

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Author: Robert Service Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 768 The definitive history, now revised and updated with a new final chapter covering Russia's role in the world in...
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 Global Age: Europe 1950-2017

The Global Age: Europe 1950-2017

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Author: Ian Kershaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 704 The final chapter in the Penguin History of Europe series from the acclaimed scholar and author of To Hell and Back...
Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule

Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule

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Author: Gordon Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 "A terrifying and timely account of resistance in the face of the greatest of evils."--Alex Kershaw, New York Times bestselling author...
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...
Dresden: The Fire and the Darkness

Dresden: The Fire and the Darkness

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Author: Sinclair McKay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The bestselling historian's gripping account of the Allied bombing of Dresden for the 75th anniversary In February 1945 the...
1914: The Year the World Ended

1914: The Year the World Ended

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Author: Paul Ham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 736 Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth- 1914 did. Few years can justly be said to have...
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...
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...
Victory at Villers-Bretonneux

Victory at Villers-Bretonneux

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Author: Peter FitzSimons Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 784 On Anzac Day 1918, when the town of Villers-Bretonneux falls to the British defenders, it is the Australians who are called...
Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth

Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth

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Author: Paul Ham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 Passchendaele epitomises everything that was most terrible about the Western Front. The photographs never sleep of this four-month battle,...
Sicily '43: A Times Book of the Year

Sicily '43: A Times Book of the Year

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Author: James Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 From the bestselling author of Normandy '44, containing new and unpublished research, this is the largely untold story of...
Power: The Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984

Power: The Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984

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Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The Essential Works of Michel Foucault offer the definitive collection of Foucault's articles, interviews and seminars The third and...
Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth

Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth

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Author: Paul Ham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 Passchendaele epitomises everything that was most terrible about the Western Front. The photographs never sleep of this four-month battle, fought from...
Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943

Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943

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Author: John Gooch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A gripping, vivid account of Italy's disastrous experience of the Second World War While staying closely aligned with Hitler,...
A Brief History of the Birth of the Nazis

A Brief History of the Birth of the Nazis

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Author: Nigel Jones Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The birth pangs of Nazism grew out of the death agony of the Kaiser's Germany. Defeat in World War...
Mein Kampf

Mein Kampf

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Author: Adolf Hitler Format: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 704 Mein Kampf was first published in two volumes in 1925-6 and sold between eight and nine million copies during Hitler's lifetime, as...
To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949

To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949

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Author: Ian Kershaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 To Hell and Backtells this story with humanity, flair and originality. Kershaw gives a compelling narrative of events, but...
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...
The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present

The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present

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Author: Peter Gatrell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 'Peter Gatrell has produced a tour de force ... This important and timely work on one of the most...
The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination

The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination

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Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Renowned historian Richard Evans puts 'fake news' in historical perspective in this challenging and illuminating study The idea...
The Third Reich at War: How the Nazis Led Germany from Conquest to Disaster

The Third Reich at War: How the Nazis Led Germany from Conquest to Disaster

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Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 944 The final book in his acclaimed trilogy on the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, Richard J. Evans's...
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

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Author: Christopher Clark Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 736 The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand...
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 11 and the Final Solution in Poland

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 11 and the Final Solution in Poland

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Author: Christopher R. Browning Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In 1942 a unit of ordinary, middle-aged, German reserve policemen were ordered to liquidate a Jewish village. Most...
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...
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 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 War One

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Author: Miranda Carter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 'An entertaining study of power and personality portrays the strutting absurdity and grotesque glamour of the last emperors on...
The War in the West - A New History: Volume 1: Germany Ascendant 1939-1941

The War in the West - A New History: Volume 1: Germany Ascendant 1939-1941

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Author: James Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 The first part of an astonishing and revelatory new history of the Second World War from one of the...
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...