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Imperial Tea Party: Family, politics and betrayal: the ill-fated

Imperial Tea Party: Family, politics and betrayal: the ill-fated

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Russia and Britain were never natural bedfellows. But the marriage, in 1894, of Queen Victoria s favourite granddaughter, Alicky, to the Tsarevich Nicholas marked the beginning of an uneasy Anglo-Russian...
Open Letters: Selected Writings, 1965-1990

Open Letters: Selected Writings, 1965-1990

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Spanning twenty-five years, this historic collection of writings shows Vaclav Havel's evolution from a modestly known playwright who had the courage to advise and criticize Czechoslovakia's leaders to a newly...
Another Woman's Husband: From the #1 bestselling author of The Secret

Another Woman's Husband: From the #1 bestselling author of The Secret

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ANOTHER WOMAN'S HUSBAND is the latest gripping novel from Gill Paul. 'A triumph' Dinah Jefferies on the USA Today bestselling The Secret Wife. Two women who challenged the Crown. Divided...
A Conspiratorial Life: Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the

A Conspiratorial Life: Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the

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The first full-scale biography of Robert Welch, who founded the John Birch Society and planted some of modern conservatism's most insidious seeds. Though you may not know his name, Robert...
Biafra Genocide: Nigeria: Bloodletting and Mass Starvation, 1967-1970

Biafra Genocide: Nigeria: Bloodletting and Mass Starvation, 1967-1970

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One of the great tragedies of Africa is not only the fact that a million people-mostly civilians and a large proportion of them children-died in one of Africa's first post-independence...
The Cambrai Campaign 1917

The Cambrai Campaign 1917

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Cambrai Campaign 1917 is an account of the British Expeditionary Force s battles in November and December of 1917. It starts with the plan to carry out a tank raid...
AVJennings: Home Builders to the Nation

AVJennings: Home Builders to the Nation

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Leading the way in housing design and marketing, and setting the pattern of Australian detached housing, AVJennings built over 66,000 homes between 1962 and 1982. How this was done with...
The Tailor of Ulm: A History of Communism

The Tailor of Ulm: A History of Communism

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The Italian Communist Party was once one of the most powerful and vibrant parties of the West. In this detailed and probing work, Lucio Magri, one of the towering intellectual...
The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations towards

The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations towards

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A new translation of Simone Weil's best-known work- a political, philosophical and spiritual treatise on what human life could be An icon of twentieth-century French philosophy, Simone Weil was described...
The Master of Confessions

The Master of Confessions

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The Eichmann in Jerusalem for the Khmer Rouge, The Master of Confessions is a harrowing yet humane account of the trial of Duch, a Khmer Rouge operative and the director...
Legacies in Steel: Personalized and Historical German Military Edged

Legacies in Steel: Personalized and Historical German Military Edged

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A sumptuous collection of nearly 100 German military edged weapons, predominantly swords and daggers, are displayed in close-up detail, together with information on what is known about their owners. Legacies...
Visionaries of the 20th Century: A Resurgence Anthology

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,...
12 Strong Film Tie-in

12 Strong Film Tie-in

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Now a major motion picture from Jerry Bruckheimer starring Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon! "A thrilling action ride of a book" ( The New York Times Book Review )--the New...
A Brief History of Britain 1851-2021: From World Power to ?

A Brief History of Britain 1851-2021: From World Power to ?

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From the Great Exhibition's showcasing of British national achievement in 1851 to the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Stratford in 2012 and on to Brexit, an insightful exploration of...
South Atlantic Requiem: A gripping Falklands War espionage thriller by a former special forces officer

South Atlantic Requiem: A gripping Falklands War espionage thriller by a former special forces officer

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A brilliant, eye-opening espionage thriller by a former special forces officer 'now at the forefront of spy writing' 'The thinking person's John le Carre' Tribune 'Edward Wilson seems poised to...
Burma '44: The Battle That Turned Britain's War in the East

Burma '44: The Battle That Turned Britain's War in the East

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The untold story of one of WW2's most extraordinary and significant battles which marked the turning of the tide of the war in the jungles of Burma 'A thrilling blow-by-blow...
Australia's First Spies: The remarkable story of Australian intelligence operations, 1901-45

Australia's First Spies: The remarkable story of Australian intelligence operations, 1901-45

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Australia was born with its eyes wide open. Although politicians spoke publicly of loyalty to Britain and the empire, in secret they immediately set about protecting Australia's interests from the...
Octavia, Daughter of God: The Story of a Female Messiah and Her Followers

Octavia, Daughter of God: The Story of a Female Messiah and Her

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In 1919, in the wake of the upheaval of World War I, a remarkable group of English women came up with their own solution to the world's grief: a new...
Mr B.: George Balanchine's Twentieth Century

Mr B.: George Balanchine's Twentieth Century

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Balanchine's radical approach to choreography reinvented the art of dance and his richly evocative ballets made him a lasting legend. Today, nearly thirty years after his death, the man is...
Hitler's British Isles

Hitler's British Isles

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True-life recollections from the Channel Islanders who were the only British subjects to live under Nazi rule in WWII. 'Barrett has vividly summoned a troubling episode from our national past.'...
Operation Crusader: Tank Warfare in the Desert, Tobruk 1941

Operation Crusader: Tank Warfare in the Desert, Tobruk 1941

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Author: Hermann BuschlebFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 228mm, 128 pagesPublished: Casemate Publishers, United States, 2019First English translation of a Geman account of Operation Crusader. The port of Tobruk, Libya, was besieged...
China 1945: Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice

China 1945: Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice

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Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre

Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre

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Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought

Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought

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How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in IndiaDuring the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and...