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Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory: 20th Century Military
At many points in the 20th century, failures in command or political direction have resulted in miltary campaigns and operations failing to achieve their objectives. This text explores a selection...
Empire
The British Empire radically altered the modern world. At its height, it governed over a quarter of the human race and encompassed more that a fifth of the globe. As...
Pretty Young Rebel: The Life of Flora Macdonald
A SPECTATOR AND SCOTSMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'So well researched, pacily written and sympathetic to the Auld Cause that it almost makes one a Jacobite' Andrew Roberts, Spectator 'Enthralling...
Death Sat on a Pale Horse: the WW1 Experiences of Two Gunners of 3rd
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The World War One Diaries, Letters and Sketches of Harold Stephens and W 'Billy' O'Neil. Over 90 years ago two friends from the farming community of Cowra, New South Wales...
Silk Silver Opium: The Trade with China that Changed History
Silk Silver Opium not only tells the fascinating stories of silk and tea, porcelain, silver and opium, missionaries, mercenaries and trade, but also what became inevitable - war and humiliation....
Revolting: A riotous history of rebellions and revolutions
Multi-million copy bestselling author Terry Deary shows you the history of the world through the eyes of Mr and Mrs Peasant (and their good friend Monsieur Guillotine...). A globetrotting, laugh-out-loud...
The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin
How an event once considered the greatest of all political dangers came to be seen as a solution to all social problems Political thinkers from Plato to John Adams saw...
Oxford Illustrated Encyclopedia
This volume of the "Oxford Illustrated Encyclopedia" covers social, economic and political changes that have taken place since 1800. With over 2400 alphabetically arranged entries, and maps and diagrams integrated...
Jet Age: The Comet, the 707, and the Race to Shrink the World
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The captivating story of the titans, engineers, and pilots who raced to design a safe and lucrative passenger jet. In "Jet Age," journalist Sam Howe Verhovek explores the advent of...
The Wright Brothers
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The #1 New York Times bestseller from David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize--the dramatic story-behind-the-story about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly--Wilbur and Orville...
The Traitors Circle: The Rebels Against the Nazis and the Spy Who
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ESCAPE ARTIST ' Magnificent . . . Important and impressive' DAILY TELEGRAPH ' Astonishing . . . Freedland is a...
The Last Emperor of Mexico: A Disaster in the New World
One of the most monstrous enterprises in the annals of international history,' said Karl Marx. 'A madness without parallel since Don Quixote,' said a future French president. This is history's...
Genius and Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947
Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Bernhardt and Kafka. Between the middle of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a few dozen men and women changed the way we see the world. But...
Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century
Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow history of creative vanity in a time that turned...
The Death of Hitler: The Final Word
On April 30, 1945, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker as the Red Army closed in on Berlin. Within four days the Soviets had recovered his body. But the truth...
Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century
'An illuminating work of massive insight' Alan Moore 'A sensational book. Heartily recommended' Rufus Hound It is the century about which we know too much, yet understand too little. With...
One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink
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This critical historical exploration shows a portrait of the British Empire at both the peak of its global reach--and the moment it began to topple. September 29, 1923. Once the...
The Book at War: How Reading Shaped Conflict and Conflict Shaped
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A "magisterial" ( Sunday Times ) history of how books were used in war across the twentieth century--both as weapons and as agents for peace We tend not to talk...
Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
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An instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller from one of the world's leading economists: this "magisterial history" offers a grand narrative of the century that made us...
Factastic Millennium Facts
An insight into the milestone and events that have shaped our world over the last 1000 years. Packed with key political, social and cultural developments, it charts the march of...
Visionaries of the 20th Century: A Resurgence Anthology
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Visionaries of the 20th Century brings together the lives and works of 100 great men and women who offered inspiration, hope and healing. The 20th century was marked by wars,...
West Coast Support Group: Task Group 96.8, Korea 1950-1953
This illustrated portfolio is produced upon the 50th anniversary of cessation of hostilities and as a remembrance of the ships of Task Group 96.8. Through extensive research the author has...
Amphibious Warfare: The Theory and Practice of Amphibious Operations
A full history of the theory and practice of amphibious operations in the 20th century. The text takes the reader through a stage-by-stage account of amphibious tactical operations, and includes...
Ships without Names: Story of the Royal Navy's Tank Landing Ships of
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This is an illustrated account of these remarkable vessels which played a crucial role in the Allied offensives of the 1939-45 war. The American-built landing ship was a vessel of...
Closing Pandora's Box: Arms Race, Arms Control and the History of the
This history of arms control in the 20th century challenges the liberal-pacifist view of international relations, and explains the Cold War from a post-Cold War perspective, untangling the complex realities...
Twentieth-Century France: Politics and Society 1898-1991
Originally published as "Dreyfus to de Gaulle", this authoritative account has been revised and extended, its greater chronological range reflected in the new title.Two substantial additional chapters have been incorporated...
1971 - Never a Dull Moment: Rock's Golden Year
The story of the year that rock music exploded, featuring almost every star who defined the decade *THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER* As seen on Apple TV - 1971-...
Great Images of the 20th Century
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This is a visual history of the 20th century, incorporating some of the most recognisable photographs of the last 100 years. Included are numerous Pulitzer Prize winning images, along with...
After Such Knowledge: Memory, History and the Legacy of the Holocaust
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Sixty years after the Holocaust, the author of Lost in Translation explores the difficult process of preserving an authentic version of its tragic events. As the Holocaust recedes in time,...
The Truth About Empire: Real Histories of British Colonialism
The Truth About Empire comes from expert historians who believe that the truth, as far as we can pinpoint it, matters; that our decades of painstaking research make us worth...
The End of Empires and a World Remade: A Global History of
Empires, until recently, were everywhere. They shaped borders, stirred conflicts, and set the terms of international politics. With the collapse of empire came a fundamental reorganisation of our world. Decolonisation...
The "New York Times": The Complete Front Pages, 1851-2009
New edition of the national blockbuster and New York Times bestseller?with more than a dozen new front pages, including Obama's election and inauguration, his first trip abroad, the financial meltdown,...
On Secret Service East of Constantinople
Under the banner of a Holy War, masterminded in Berlin and unleashed from Constantinople, the Germans and the Turks set out in 1914 to foment violent revolutionary uprisings against the...
The Eleventh Day
'The best available account of 9/11 - soberly written, judiciously weighted, meticulously sourced' Robert Harris Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan have written the definitive account of 9/11. The shockwaves of...
Into Unknown Skies: An Unlikely Team, a Daring Race, and the First
"Thrilling . . . With deep research and suspenseful storytelling, Mr. Randall reminds us that America's pre-eminence in the aviation industry was never assured and that it took a race...
Winnie Mandela: A Life
Everyone has an opinion about Winnie Mandela, and usually a strong one. She has been adored, feared and hates more than any other women in South African history. But few...
Our Land in Colour
A breathtaking collection of 200 photographs expertly colourised by Aotearoa New Zealand's premier colourist, Brendan Graham, with commentary from award-winning historian Jock Phillips ONZM Our Land in Colour celebrates the...
The Atlas of Microstates
An ideal gift for anyone with an intrigue for geographical curiosities. Defined as sovereign states with a very small population, land area, or both, microstates serve as fascinating case studies...