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Shadow Wars: The Secret Struggle for the Middle East

Shadow Wars: The Secret Struggle for the Middle East

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America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy

America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy

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Do Let's Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

Do Let's Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

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Author: Gareth RussellFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 230g, 240 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023A Times Best Book on the Royal Family of the Year 2022This is a biography of...
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

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Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023. A Waterstones Book of the Year 2023. An Economist Book of...
All Against All: The long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War

All Against All: The long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War

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Author: Paul Jankowski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 During a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went wrong: Hitler came to power; Japan invaded Jehol...
Agent Undercover

Agent Undercover

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Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History

Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History

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Author: Thomas J. Barfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern times. The world's first great empires...
Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco's Spain

Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco's Spain

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Author: Paul Preston Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is...
Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English

Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English

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Author: Jonathan Ree Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 768 An ambitious new history of philosophy in English that broadens the canon to include many lesser-known figures "[This] lively chronicle of...
The Whiteley Story: a Life and Times

The Whiteley Story: a Life and Times

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Philip Guston

Philip Guston

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Author: Musa Mayer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 120 Written by Musa Mayer - Philip Guston's daughter and President of The Guston Foundation - this book brings Guston's life and...
Australian Women at War

Australian Women at War

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Ethel Rosenberg: The Short Life and Great Betrayal of an American Wife and Mother

Ethel Rosenberg: The Short Life and Great Betrayal of an American Wife and Mother

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Author: Anne Sebba Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A heart-piercingly brilliant book about a woman whose personal life put her in the cross-hairs of history' HADLEY FREEMAN 'Totally riveting....
Ethel Rosenberg: The Short Life and Great Betrayal of an American Wife and Mother

Ethel Rosenberg: The Short Life and Great Betrayal of an American Wife and Mother

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Author: Anne Sebba Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A heart-piercingly brilliant book about a woman whose personal life put her in the cross-hairs of history' HADLEY FREEMAN 'Totally riveting....
This is Tomorrow: Twentieth-century Britain and its Artists

This is Tomorrow: Twentieth-century Britain and its Artists

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Author: Michael Bird Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A compelling and lively history that examines the lives of British artists from the late-19th century to today. In This is...
Famous for 15 Minutes: My Years with Andy Warhol

Famous for 15 Minutes: My Years with Andy Warhol

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Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography

Unended Quest: An Intellectual Autobiography

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Glass: The life and art of Klaus Moje

Glass: The life and art of Klaus Moje

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Author: Nola Anderson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'It is always based on what I see, what is touching me.' For more than fifty years, Klaus Moje devoted his...
Noel Counihan

Noel Counihan

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Modern Britain 1900-1960

Modern Britain 1900-1960

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Beyond Belief: Modern Art and the Religious Imagination

Beyond Belief: Modern Art and the Religious Imagination

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All Against All: The Long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War

All Against All: The Long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War

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Author: Paul Jankowski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 A narrative history, cinematic in scope, of a process that was taking shape in the winter of 1933 as domestic passions...
Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy

Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy

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Author: Anne Sebba Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "Totally riveting. I couldn't put it down" VICTORIA HISLOP "Masterful, original and painfully gripping" PHILIPPE SANDS "A heart-piercingly brilliant book about...
Unknown Valor: A Story of Family, Courage, and Sacrifice from Pearl Harbor to Iwo Jima

Unknown Valor: A Story of Family, Courage, and Sacrifice from Pearl Harbor to Iwo Jima

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Author: Martha MacCallum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. In honor of the 75th Anniversary of one of the most critical battles of World...
Love in the Blitz: A Woman in a World Turned Upside Down

Love in the Blitz: A Woman in a World Turned Upside Down

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Author: Eileen Alexander Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 'Her voice is absolutely, beguilingly conversational ... Intelligent, allusive, iconoclastic, captivatingly intense ... This is the news from the...
Between Five Eyes: 50 Years of Intelligence Sharing

Between Five Eyes: 50 Years of Intelligence Sharing

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Author: Anthony R. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 UK-US intelligence and the wider Five Eyes community of Canada, Australia and New Zealand is primarily about one...
V2: the Sunday Times bestselling World War II thriller

V2: the Sunday Times bestselling World War II thriller

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Author: Robert Harris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The no. 1 bestselling author of MUNICH and THE SECOND SLEEP returns to the Second World War for his...
The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler's first Mass-Murder Programme

The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler's first Mass-Murder Programme

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Author: Charlie English Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'A riveting tale, brilliantly told' Philippe Sands The little-known story of Hitler's war on modern art and the mentally...
The Global Age: Europe 1950-2017

The Global Age: Europe 1950-2017

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Author: Ian Kershaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 704 The final chapter in the Penguin History of Europe series from the acclaimed scholar and author of To Hell and Back...
Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule

Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule

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Author: Gordon Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 "A terrifying and timely account of resistance in the face of the greatest of evils."--Alex Kershaw, New York Times bestselling author...
The Tango War: The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America During World War II

The Tango War: The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America During World War II

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Author: Mary Jo McConahay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The Tango War fills an important gap in WWII history. Beginning in the thirties, both sides were well aware of...
New York Times The Times Of The Seventies: The Culture, Politics, and Personalities that Shaped the Decade

New York Times The Times Of The Seventies: The Culture, Politics, and Personalities that Shaped the Decade

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Author: Clyde Haberman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 There is no better record of events then The New York Times, and now, The Times of the Seventies captures the...
The Nazis Knew My Name: A remarkable story of survival and courage in Auschwitz

The Nazis Knew My Name: A remarkable story of survival and courage in Auschwitz

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Author: Magda Hellinger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The extraordinarily moving memoir by Australian Slovakian Holocaust survivor Magda Hellinger, who saved an untold number of lives at...
Fighting them on the Beaches

Fighting them on the Beaches

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Author: Nigel Cawthorne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages:
Clementine Churchill: A Life in Pictures

Clementine Churchill: A Life in Pictures

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Author: Sonia Purnell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Without Winston Churchill's inspiring leadership Britain could not have survived its darkest hour. Without his wife Clementine, however, he might never...
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...
The Eyes of Asia

The Eyes of Asia

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Author: Rudyard Kipling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Kipling's The Eyes of Asia takes the reader on a remarkable journey of discovery into the heart and soul...
Catch-22

Catch-22

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Author: Joseph Heller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, now celebrating its 50th anniversary. SOON TO BE A MAJOR...
The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination

The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination

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Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Renowned historian Richard Evans puts 'fake news' in historical perspective in this challenging and illuminating study The idea...
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 Journey Matters: Twentieth-Century Travel in True Style

The Journey Matters: Twentieth-Century Travel in True Style

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Author: Jonathan Glancey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 What was it really like to take the LNER's Art Deco Coronation streamliner from King's Cross to Edinburgh, to...
A Rabble of Dead Money: The Great Crash and the Global Depression: 1929-1939

A Rabble of Dead Money: The Great Crash and the Global Depression: 1929-1939

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Author: Charles Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The Great Crash of 1929 violently disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The suddenness of the...
A Pair of Silver Wings

A Pair of Silver Wings

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Author: James Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 ______________ It can take a lifetime to heal the wounds of war 'Brings history to life' Guardian ______________ Edward...
Escaping Hitler: Stories Of Courage And Endurance On The Freedom Trails

Escaping Hitler: Stories Of Courage And Endurance On The Freedom Trails

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Author: Monty Halls Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Some of the great untold stories of the Second World War concern the freedom trails, the highly dangerous escape...
The Kamikaze Hunters: The Men Who Fought for the Pacific, 1945

The Kamikaze Hunters: The Men Who Fought for the Pacific, 1945

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Author: Will Iredale Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 456 The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. In May 1945, with victory in Europe established, the war was all but...
We Germans

We Germans

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Author: Alexander Starritt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 When a young British man asks his German grandfather what it was like to fight on the wrong side...
The Six Loves of Billy Binns

The Six Loves of Billy Binns

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Author: Richard Lumsden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 THE SIX LOVES OF BILLY BINNS is a deeply moving debut set in London against the backdrop of the...
The Bronze Horseman

The Bronze Horseman

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Author: Paullina Simons Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 A magnificent epic of love, war and Russia from the international bestselling author of TULLY and ROAD TO PARADISE...