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Lenin on the Train
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...
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life
Author: Robert Dallek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 A superb one-volume biography by the Number One New York Times bestselling biographer of JFK, explaining Roosevelt's career as...
Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers who Turned the Tide in the Second World War
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...
A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle
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...
Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization
Author: Justin Marozzi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 An epic history of Islam and the Middle East through the cities which best epitomized it Islamic civilization was...
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
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...
1914: The Year the World Ended
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...
Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943
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,...
Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: An Untold Story of World War II
Author: Serhii Plokhy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, the incredible true story of one of the most audacious and...
Life and Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)
Author: Vasily Grossman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 The Vintage Classics Russians Series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the...
Letters to Camondo
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...
Mein Kampf
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...
Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War
Author: Tim Bouverie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 This thrilling Sunday Times bestseller is the first major account of the disastrous years of British indecision and infighting...
Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present
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...
Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation
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...
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56
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...
Conversations With Stalin
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?
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...
Life and Fate
Author: Vasily Grossman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 This sweeping account of the siege of Stalingrad aims to give as panoramic a view of Soviet society during...
All Quiet on the Western Front
Author: Erich Maria Remarque Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Discover the most famous anti-war novel ever written. One by one the boys begin to fall... In 1914...
Eichmann in Jerusalem
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...