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We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus

We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus

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Author: Sean Mirski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 What did it take for the United States to become a global superpower? The answer lies in a missing chapter of...
Lost Son: An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI's Secret Wars

Lost Son: An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI's Secret Wars

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Author: Brett Forrest Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 When Billy Reilly vanished, his parents embarked on a desperate search for answers. Was their son's disappearance connected to his mysterious...
War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian Resistance

War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian Resistance

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Author: Mikhail Zygar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'History is made up of myths,' writes the renowned Russian dissident journalist Mikhail Zygar. 'Alas, our myths led us to the...
The Private Life of Spies: 'Spy-masterful storytelling' Sunday Post

The Private Life of Spies: 'Spy-masterful storytelling' Sunday Post

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Author: Alexander McCall Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 During WW2 there was a rumour that German spies were landing by parachute in Britain, dressed as nuns... 'Spy-masterful storytelling'...
The Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee Colony

The Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee Colony

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What does following in the footsteps of our ancestors mean? Iain Sinclair takes it literally. In The Gold Machine, Sinclair and his daughter travel through Peru, guided by the itinerary...
Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

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Author: Antony Beevor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this...
The Lion And The Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy

The Lion And The Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Washington's Spies, the thrilling story of the Confederate spy who came to Britain to turn the tide of the Civil War-and the...
Towards the Light: The Story of the Struggles for Liberty and Rights That Made the Modern West

Towards the Light: The Story of the Struggles for Liberty and Rights That Made the Modern West

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Australian Women at War

Australian Women at War

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The Invitation-Only Zone: The Extraordinary Story of North Korea's Abduction Project

The Invitation-Only Zone: The Extraordinary Story of North Korea's Abduction Project

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Author: Robert S. Boynton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 During the 1970s and early 80s, dozens - perhaps hundreds - of Japanese civilians were kidnapped by North Korean commandos...
Island Song

Island Song

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Author: Madeleine Bunting (Y) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 1940. Guernsey is first bombed, then occupied, by the Germans. A year earlier, young, naive and recently married Helene, waves...
How to Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance

How to Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance

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Author: Paul Mason Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 How can we stop the spread of fascism? The bestselling author of PostCapitalism offers a guide to resisting the far right...
Undreamed Shores: The Hidden Heroines of British Anthropology

Undreamed Shores: The Hidden Heroines of British Anthropology

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Author: Dr Frances Larson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In the first decades of the 20th century, five women arrived at Oxford to take the newly created Masters diploma...
The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis

The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis

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Author: Norman Ohler (author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'An astonishing story... brilliantly told' - Antony Beevor Summertime, 1935. On a lake near Berlin, a young man is out...
Fatherland: A Family History

Fatherland: A Family History

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Author: Nina Bunjevac Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Standing alongside Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and Joe Sacco's Palestine, Nina Bunjevac's Fatherland renders the searing history of the Balkans in the...