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Hitler's British Isles
True-life recollections from the Channel Islanders who were the only British subjects to live under Nazi rule in WWII. 'Barrett has vividly summoned a troubling episode from our national past.'...
The Boys
In August 1945, the first of 732 child survivors of the Holocaust reached Britain. First settled in the Lake District, they formed a tightly knit group of friends whose terrible...
Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean
WINNER OF THE 2024 SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARDIts name means 'centre of the world', and since the dawn of history the Mediterranean Sea has formed the shared horizon of innumerable cultures....
Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era
'The very best sort of panoramic portrait' David Kynaston'The Edwardians have long been the lost decade of British history, yet they are that history at its climax. Alwyn Turner sets...
The Shoulders We Stand On: How Black and Brown people fought for
** Eastern Eye's Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2023 **The UK is grappling with big questions about belonging, equality and the legacies of Empire and Colonialism. We've been here before....
The Unsettling of Europe: How Migration Reshaped a Continent
An acclaimed historian examines postwar migration's fundamental role in shaping modern Europe Migration is perhaps the most pressing issue of our time, and it has completely decentered European politics in...
Espionage in the Divided Stuart Dynasty: 1685-1715
King James II was the Catholic king of a Protestant nation, but he had inherited a secure crown and was able to put down the rebellion by his nephew the...
Contested Frontiers in the Balkans: Ottoman and Habsburg [...]
From the Holy Roman Empire and the Ottomans to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Russia, Eastern Europe has been a battleground between the East and the West and a region of...
Zeppelin
This new publication from Michael Belafi offers some truly intriguing content. Photographs of the mighty Zeppelin at all stages of development feature in a publication that aims to chart the...
Precarious Childhood in Post-Independence Ireland
This fascinating study reveals the desperate plight of the poor, illegitimate and abused children in an Irish society that claimed to "cherish" and hold them sacred, but in fact marginalised...
American Government in Ireland, 1790-1913: A History of the Us Consular Service
This book reconstructs American consular activity in Ireland from 1790 to 1913 and elucidates the interconnectedness of America's foreign interests, Irish nationalism and British imperialism. Its originality lies in that...
Phoenix - a Complete History of the Luftwaffe 1918-1945: Volume 2 - the Genesis of Air Power 1935-1937
Based on forty years of detailed research, Phoenix - A Complete History of the Luftwaffe 1918-1945 is a unique history of the wartime German Luftwaffe. Going far beyond a simple...
The Austrian Revolution
The definitive work on Eastern Europe's revolutionary period and the unique working-class experiment of Red Vienna.This is the story of the decline and fall of an empire, a region devastated...
The Hidden Perspective: The Military Conversations 1906-1914
In 1905, British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey agreed to speak secretly with his French counterparts about sending a British expeditionary force to France in the event of a German attack....
Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War
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Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair
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Goldstar Century: 31 Squadron RAF 1915-2015
Author: Ian HallFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 304 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Number 31 Squadron RAF will celebrate its centenary in 2015; a pivotal milestone for...
Goldstar Century: 31 Squadron RAF 1915-2015
Author: Ian HallFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 304 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Number 31 Squadron RAF will celebrate its centenary in 2015; a pivotal milestone for...
The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle
Author: Geoff AndrewsFormat: Hardback, 155mm x 226mm, 553g, 288 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2015James Klugmann appears as a shadowy figure in the legendary history of the Cambridge spies....
The Spies of Winter: The GCHQ codebreakers who fought the Cold War
Author: Sinclair McKayFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 352 pagesPublished: Quarto Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2017Once victory was declared, many of the individuals who had achieved the seemingly impossible at Bletchley...
The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague
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,...
Russia of the Tsars
Author: Peter WaldronFormat: Paperback, 170mm x 210mm, 480g, 144 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2011Between the 17th century and the 1917 revolution, the Russian Tsars became absolute rulers...
America Declares Independence
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