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Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag
The extraordinary true story of the triumph of love over repression in Stalin's Russia Almost everything we know about the terrible experience of the Gulag has been based on survivor...
The Promise
A masterpiece of a family in crisis from twice Booker-shortlisted author Damon Galgut- 'one of the world's great writers' (Edmund White) and 'the bold, fresh voice of South African fiction'...
Seventies: The Sights, Sounds and Ideas of a Brilliant Decade
When people think of culture in the 1970s they usually conjure up a confetti of kitsch, a jumble of disposable trash in which pet rocks vie for space with the...
The Cold War
In 1950, when Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh and Kim Il-Sung met in Moscow to discuss the future, they had reason to feel optimistic. International communism seemed everywhere...
City Of Cities: The Birth Of Modern London
A dazzling account of London at its height when it was the largest, richest and most rapidly changing city on earth. There is no period in London's history in which...
A History In Fragments: Europe in the Twentieth Century
The problem with the history of 20th-century Europe, asserts the author, is that everyone thinks they know it. The great stories of the century - the two world wars, the...
Swap: A Secret History of the New Cold War
From the Wall Street Journal 's award-winning international investigations team comes a spellbinding account of a spy war between the U.S. and Russia that transformed into a ruthless game of...
Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York
THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER A Book of the Year for The Times, Financial Times and Waterstones 'This isn't a book; it's a case for revolution' CAMILLA LONG, SUNDAY TIMES...