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From the Ends of the Earth: The Jews in the 20th Century

From the Ends of the Earth: The Jews in the 20th Century

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The Jewish story is an extraordinary one: of a 'chosen race' but a 'difficult people', living in all countries but until recently without one to call its own. Over the...
Hero on the Western Front: Discovering Sergeant York's WWI Battlefield

Hero on the Western Front: Discovering Sergeant York's WWI Battlefield

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They knew it was the end. Weakened by four years of war, the reality had finally dawned on the Germans that their armies could never stop the combined might of...
Double Cross: The True Story of The D-Day Spies

Double Cross: The True Story of The D-Day Spies

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D-Day, 6 June 1944, the turning point of the Second World War, was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation: one...
The Story of Russia: 'An excellent short study'

The Story of Russia: 'An excellent short study'

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A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects of History 'The history book you need if you...
The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England

The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England

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'This is a wonderful book, exhaustively researched, vigorously argued and teeming with the furious joy of seventeenth-century life' THE TIMES 'A brilliant, bloody account of England's most dramatic century ....
Double Cross: The True Story of The D-Day Spies

Double Cross: The True Story of The D-Day Spies

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'Addictive and deeply moving' Independent 'Utterly gripping' Anthony Beevor, Daily Telegraph 'Enthralling ... A reminder that heroism can be found in the most unlikely places' Evening Standard 'I have seldom...
Sheila: The Australian ingenue who bewitched British society

Sheila: The Australian ingenue who bewitched British society

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Vivacious, confident and striking, young Australian Sheila Chisholm met her first husband, Lord Loughborough, in Egypt during the First World War. Arriving in London as a young married woman, she...
Cypria: A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean - shortlisted for

Cypria: A Journey to the Heart of the Mediterranean - shortlisted for

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A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 "A brilliant exploration of Cyprus's long history of cultural resilience. Superbly composed." -- Guardian "Poetic...Compelling" -- New Statesman One of National Geographic 's...
On a Knife Edge: How Germany Lost the First World War

On a Knife Edge: How Germany Lost the First World War

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Was the outcome of the First World War on a knife edge? In this major new account of German wartime politics and strategy Holger Afflerbach argues that the outcome of...
Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain

Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain

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How did Britain cease to be global? In Untied Kingdom, Stuart Ward tells the panoramic history of the end of Britain, tracing the ways in which Britishness has been imagined,...
England Revisited

England Revisited

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The book titled England Revisited by the author John Seymour. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Few: Summer 1940 - Battle of Britain

The Few: Summer 1940 - Battle of Britain

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Fifty years ago, in the blue skies of a late English summer, history''s first major air battle was fought. In a journey to the airfields and other key locations, this...
His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's

His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's

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When the R101 first took to the skies, she was the largest aircraft ever to fly. What followed was a tragic finale to a tale of human folly on a...
The Secret Servant: Life of Sir Stewart Menzies, Head of British

The Secret Servant: Life of Sir Stewart Menzies, Head of British

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The book titled The Secret Servant: Life of Sir Stewart Menzies, Head of British by the author Anthony Cave Brown. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...
The Pity of it All: A Portrait of Jews in Germany 1743-1933

The Pity of it All: A Portrait of Jews in Germany 1743-1933

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The purpose of this text is to try to understand how Germany could attempt to exterminate its Jewish population during the Nazi period. Through individual stories, beginning with Moses Mendelsohn...
Rulers and Victims: The Russians in the Soviet Union

Rulers and Victims: The Russians in the Soviet Union

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Many westerners used to call the Soviet Union 'Russia'. Russians too regarded it as their country, but that did not mean they were entirely happy with it. In the end,...
Dunkirk

Dunkirk

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This is the story of Dunkirk and of the men who planned it (insofar as it was planned) and of the men who carried it out, and of their ships....
Europa, Europa

Europa, Europa

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The Inspiration Behind The Golden Globe --Winning Film "An engrossing and memorable tale."Jewish Book World "The sheer emotion of telling the tale is palpable. The whole is moving, and strange...
The Berlin Blockade

The Berlin Blockade

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From the beginning of 1948 the Russians gradually mounted a siege against the Western sectors of Berlin occupied by American, British and French troops since the end of the war...
The Long Death of Adolf Hitler: An Investigative History

The Long Death of Adolf Hitler: An Investigative History

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A fascinating exploration of why Hitler's death was only confirmed in 2018 Adolf Hitler has taken a long time to die, despite the lethal efficiency of the gun he put...
The Impossible Bomb: The Hidden History of British Scientists and the

The Impossible Bomb: The Hidden History of British Scientists and the

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The remarkable story of the forgotten British scientists who enabled the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb Atomic weaponry is widely understood as a story of American scientific achievement-but...
Wartime Letters: London and Moscow 1941-1945

Wartime Letters: London and Moscow 1941-1945

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The extraordinary story of Kathleen Harriman, daughter of the US ambassador to the USSR, told through her wartime letters Kathleen Harriman was the daughter of American businessman W. Averell Harriman....
A Spy Amongst Us: Daniel Defoe's Secret Service and the Plot to End

A Spy Amongst Us: Daniel Defoe's Secret Service and the Plot to End

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The true story of Daniel Defoe and the dirty tricks which helped bring Scotland into union with England In 1706, Edinburgh was on the brink of a popular uprising. Men...
The Walls Have Ears: The Greatest Intelligence Operation of World War

The Walls Have Ears: The Greatest Intelligence Operation of World War

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A history of the elaborate and brilliantly sustained World War II intelligence operation by which Hitler's generals were tricked into giving away vital Nazi secrets "A great book."-Michael Goodman, BBC...
Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate

Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate

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The forgotten protagonist of this true account aspired to be a cubist painter in his native Kyiv. In a Europe remade by the First World War, his talents led him...
Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the

Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the

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The book titled Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the by the author Michael Korda. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
On a Knife Edge: How Germany Lost the First World War

On a Knife Edge: How Germany Lost the First World War

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Was the outcome of the First World War on a knife edge? In this major new account of German wartime politics and strategy Holger Afflerbach argues that the outcome of...
Fighting the People's War: The British and Commonwealth Armies and the

Fighting the People's War: The British and Commonwealth Armies and the

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Fighting the People's War is an unprecedented, panoramic history of the 'citizen armies' of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa, the core of the British...
The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy: A Story of Resistance, Courage, and

The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy: A Story of Resistance, Courage, and

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The fateful days and weeks surrounding 6 June 1944 have been extensively documented in histories of the Second World War, but less attention has been paid to the tremendous impact...
The Bourgeois Epoch: Marx and Engels on Britain, France, and Germany

The Bourgeois Epoch: Marx and Engels on Britain, France, and Germany

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Richard Hamilton provides an in-depth critique of the writngs of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels on Britain, France, and Germany. Hamilton contends that the validity of their principal historical claims...
Last of the Empires: A history of the Soviet Union, 1945-1991

Last of the Empires: A history of the Soviet Union, 1945-1991

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Described as `one of the most tragic human experiences in human history', the Soviet Union as an empire holds much intrigue and fascination for the Western world. It held unquestionable...
The File: A Personal History

The File: A Personal History

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In 1991, after the Wall came down and the archives of Eastern Europe opened up, Timothy Garton Ash walked into the building that housed the files of the Stasi, the...
Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern

Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern

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A journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia: into the lives of Hells Angels convinced they are messiahs, professional killers with the souls of artists, bohemian theatre...
The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj

The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj

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From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, many of Britain's best and brightest young men went out to India to work as administrators, soldiers and...
Defiance

Defiance

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The prevailing image of European Jews during the Holocaust is one of helpless victims, but in fact many Jews struggled against the terrors of the Third Reich. In Defiance, Nechama...
Acts of Union and Disunion

Acts of Union and Disunion

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The United Kingdom; Great Britain; the British Isles; the Home Nations: such a wealth of different names implies uncertainty and contention - and an ability to invent and adjust. In...
The German Century

The German Century

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For the best part of the 20th century, Germany has either united the world in anger or driven it apart. Its late appearance on the European scene in 1871 might...
These Divided Isles: Britain and Ireland, Past and Future

These Divided Isles: Britain and Ireland, Past and Future

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A vital history from the award-winning Financial Times journalist Philip Stephens on the dramatic century since the Anglo-Irish Treaty and partition. These Divided Isles tells the story from both sides...
Monet: The Restless Vision

Monet: The Restless Vision

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The 2024 Elizabeth Longford prizewinning biography of the founder of Impressionism Based on thousands of never-before translated letters and unpublished sources, Jackie Wullschl ger's enthralling biography is the first account...
City of Lions

City of Lions

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Lviv, Lwow, Lvov, Lemberg. Known by a variety of names, the City of Lions is now in western Ukraine. Situated in different countries during its history, it is a city...
The Riviera Set

The Riviera Set

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THE RIVIERA SET is the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked at the Chateau de l'Horizon near Cannes, over the course of forty years...
Most Secret War

Most Secret War

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This text is Jones's account of his part in British Scientific Intelligence between 1939 and 1949. It was his responsibility to anticipate German applications of science to warfare, so that...
Spies without Cloaks: The KGB's Successors

Spies without Cloaks: The KGB's Successors

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This book offers a compelling and comprehensive account of what happened to the KGB when the Soviet Union collapsed and the world's most powerful and dangerous secret police organization was...
The Edwardians

The Edwardians

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Following on from the success of A N. Wilson's THE VICTORIANS, Roy Hattersley's major new appraisal of Edwardian Britain is his finest book to date. Edwardian Britain is the quintessential...
Hotel on Place Vendome: Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in

Hotel on Place Vendome: Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in

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Established in 1898 in the heart of Paris on the Place Vendome, the Hotel Ritz instantly became an icon of the city frequented by film stars and celebrity writers, American...
Montenegro: A Modern History

Montenegro: A Modern History

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In May 2006, following a closely and bitterly fought referendum, Montenegro finally regained the status of an independent nation that it had lost in 1918 - the most recent chapter...
Eminent Edwardians: Four figures who defined their age: Northcliffe,

Eminent Edwardians: Four figures who defined their age: Northcliffe,

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A dazzling study of four figures who flourished in - and defined - the early years of the twentieth century. In his account of four characters, each of whose importance...
Sophisticated Rebels: The Political Culture of European Dissent,

Sophisticated Rebels: The Political Culture of European Dissent,

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Those who think otherwise, though they may fail, deserve our attention, says H. Stuart Hughes. In Sophisticated Rebels , Hughes shows what happened to the revolutionary spirit after the 1968...