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Endless Endless: A Lo-Fi History of the Elephant 6 Mystery
Years after its release, Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea remains one of the most beloved and best-selling albums in all of indie music, hailed as a...
Heroic Failure and the British
From the Charge of the Light Brigade to Scott of the Antarctic and beyond, it seems as if glorious disaster and valiant defeat have been essential aspects of the British...
France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Petain
A prism into the most controversial period of twentieth-century French history, from one of the great contemporary historians of France Few images more shocked the French population during the Occupation...
Golden Harvest
It seems at first commonplace: a group photograph of peasants at harvest time, after hard work well done, resting contentedly with their tools behind the fruits of their labor. But...
The Month that Changed the World: July 1914
On 28 June 1914 the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in the Balkans. Five fateful weeks later the Great Powers of Europe were at war. Much time and ink...
The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris
The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At 12.00 midnight, Maximilien Robespierre, the most prominent...
Against Anti-Semitism: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Polish
Poland's relationship with its Jewish population has long been a subject of often agonizing debate. In September 1939, there were approximately 3.3 million Jews living in Poland, the largest population...
Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War
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In this brilliant account of the literary war within the Cold War, novelists and poets become embroiled in a dangerous game of betrayal, espionage, and conspiracy at the heart of...
Prisoners of History: What Monuments to the Second World War Tell Us
A Spectator Book of the Year 2020 A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 A Mail on Sunday Book of the Year 2020 'Inspired ... Lowe's sensitive, disturbing...
War and Society in Europe, 1870-1970
The book titled War and Society in Europe, 1870-1970 by the author Brian Bond. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Design Monograph: Wright
A design monograph series on the most remarkable architects, designers, brands and design movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, each book contains a historical-critical essay discussing the life and...
Our History of the 20th Century: As Told in Diaries, Journals and
What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elborough's compilation offers brilliantly candid and intimate...
Making Sense of Slavery: America's Long Reckoning, from the Founding
An "essential" (James Oakes, author of The Crooked Path to Abolition ) history of the study of slavery in America, from the Revolutionary era to the 1619 Project, showing how...
The Ball at Versailles
A special invitation. A night to remember . . . The Ball at Versailles is a sparkling, captivating tale of four young women and one life-changing night, from the billion...
Oh, What a Lovely Century: One man's marvellous adventures in love,
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A completely extraordinary autobiography. One that reads like the most outlandish, beguiling fiction but that is - amazingly - all true' - William Boyd,...
The Green Hollow
In 1966 a coal slag heap collapsed on a school in south Wales, killing 144 people, most of them children. Poet Owen Sheers has given voice to those who still...
Human Resources: Slavery and the Making of Modern Britain - in 39 Institutions, People, Places and Things
Author: Renay Richardson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The transatlantic slave trade is often seen as separate part of British history: a module in a history course, a chapter...
Float Up, Sing Down
From National Book Award Finalist Laird Hunt, a masterful collection of interwoven stories capturing one summer's day in Reagan-era Indiana. Candy Wilson has forgotten to buy the paprika. Turner Davis...
When We Sold God's Eye: Diamonds, Murder and a Clash of Worlds in the
'A first-class work of reporting [and] a work of compassion for Indigenous peoples everywhere' BENJAMIN MOSER, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of SONTAG 'A non-fiction novel of modern conquest, capitalism and murder...
Exterminate/Regenerate: The Story of Doctor Who
AN INDEPENDENT BEST BOOK OF 2025 'Absolutely wonderful. The book I've been waiting to read since I was ten years old. Full of surprising and piercing insights . . ....
Exterminate/Regenerate: The Story of Doctor Who
AN INDEPENDENT BEST BOOK OF 2025 'Absolutely wonderful. The book I've been waiting to read since I was ten years old. Full of surprising and piercing insights . . ....
African Americans and the Pacific War, 1941-1945: Race, Nationality,
In the patriotic aftermath of Pearl Harbor, African Americans demanded the right to play their part in the war against Japan. As they soon learned, however, the freedom for which...
Australia 1943: The Liberation of New Guinea
By January 1943, Australia had emerged from the shadow of war in a strong position. The victories in 1942 at Kokoda, Guadalcanal, Buna, Gona and Sanananda had secured the northern...
The Stolen Child: the gripping emotional thriller with a twist you'll
*The Irish Times No. 1 bestseller* *A Sunday Times best crime fiction of the year selection* 'One of the greatest twists I've ever read' CATHERINE RYAN HOWARD 'An addictive, immersive,...
The Silence and the Rage: The epic and compelling second novel in 'The
'A novelist at the height of his powers' La Croix 'You have the ingredients Balzac would have cooked with. And it is exactly those great 19th century novels that Lemaitre...
The Silence and the Rage: The epic and compelling second novel in 'The
'A novelist at the height of his powers' La Croix 'You have the ingredients Balzac would have cooked with. And it is exactly those great 19th century novels that Lemaitre...
The Invention of Russia: The Journey from Gorbachev's Freedom to
By tracing the history of modern Russia from Mikhail Gorbachev to the rise of ex KGB agent Vladimir Putin, Arkady Ostrovsky reveals how the Soviet Union came to its end...
Epstein: A Biography
Jacob Epstein (1880-1959) ranks among the finest and most influential sculptors of this century. This biography traces his often turbulent private life and assesses his sculpture and paintings. It also...
Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue
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The true, declassified account of CIA operative Tony Mendez's daring rescue of American hostages from Iran that inspired the critically-acclaimed film directed by and starring Ben Affleck, and co-starring John...
The Second Russian Revolution
The book titled The Second Russian Revolution by the author Angus Roxburgh. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Tastemakers
In this irreverent, gossipy, questioning and amazingly well-informed inside story, BBC Arts Correspondent, Rosie Millard, identifies The Tastemakers, the cultural movers and shakers - artists, dealers, curators, art teachers, entrepreneurs...
Thank You For Calling the Lesbian Line: A Hidden History of Queer
'Compelling, funny, intelligent . . . Thank You for Calling the Lesbian Line is a remarkable piece of work.' Kerry Hudson, Observer 'Utterly essential queer reading.' Lucy Rose, author of...
Far from Eutopia: How Europe is failing - and Britain could do better
In 2020, after three and a half years of bitter negotiations, Britain left the European Union. For some it was a day of freedom, for others a tragedy which would...
Captain de Havilland's Moth: Tales of High Adventure from the Golden
A nostalgic celebration of the golden age of aviation - and the iconic DH60 Moth in its centenary year 'Vivid and entertaining' TLS 'A wonderfully affecting, highly entertaining, at times...
The Work We Need: 'An act of radical hope, radical listening and
'Cottam is the humane revolutionary our turbulent century needs - and this book our roadmap to a better future' JONATHAN FREEDLAND, author of THE ESCAPE ARTIST ' Highly recommend -...
The Work We Need: 'An act of radical hope, radical listening and
'Cottam is the humane revolutionary our turbulent century needs - and this book our roadmap to a better future' JONATHAN FREEDLAND, author of THE ESCAPE ARTIST ' Highly recommend -...
Foreign Correspondent: Travels in Paris in the Sixties
Disenchanted with his native Ireland Peter Lennon, a novice journalist in the late 1950s, borrowed thirty pounds and headed for Paris to take his chances as a foreign correspondent. The...
Death in Midsummer
Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Filled with rich description and luxurious beauty,...
Shooting an Elephant
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Today, George Orwell is perhaps most...
A Spy In The House Of Love
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Beautiful, bored and bourgeoise, Sabina leads...
The Gift of the Magi
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. O. Henry is one of the...
Lolly Willowes
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Lolly Willowes, so gentle and accommodating,...
The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate
The Cold War had been over for two decades when, in 2010, ten Russian agents were arrested in the United States after a decade-long FBI operation. Among the spies were...
New York Times: The Times Of The Eighties: The Culture, Politics, and
From our nation's best source of in-depth daily reporting comes this sweeping retrospective of the news, culture, and personalities of the decade of the 1980s, as told through hundreds of...
The Gatsby Gambit: A completely unputdownable golden age murder
'A thoroughly enjoyable mystery story with all the tropes and pleasures of a golden age detective story' Observer 'A glamorous recipe of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Agatha Christie' Paula Sutton...
Disclosure: Unravelling the Spycops Files
'GRIPPING . . . DISTURBING . . . INVIGORATING' OLIVIA LAING, GUARDIAN 'ASTOUNDING . . . DEVASTATING . . . COMPELLING' STUART JEFFRIES, OBSERVER 'It was exciting when it started,...
The Sixties in "Queen"
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The book titled The Sixties in "Queen" by the author S QUINN. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Creators of Modern China: 100 Lives from Empire to Republic 1796-1912
Discover the stories of 100 women and men whose activities in the 19th century laid the foundations of modern China. Through telling the lives of one hundred significant individuals, this...