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The Invention Of Peace And The Reinvention Of War

The Invention Of Peace And The Reinvention Of War

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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...
Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond

Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond

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The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon: The Authorized Biography

The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon: The Authorized Biography

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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...
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...
Fighting them on the Beaches

Fighting them on the Beaches

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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...
Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune

Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune

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Author: John Merriman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 360 The Paris Commune lasted for only 64 days in 1871, but during that short time it gave rise to some of...
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...
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...