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'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy': On Where Eagles Dare

'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy': On Where Eagles Dare

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Author: Geoff Dyer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 An extremely funny scene-by-scene analysis of the Richard Burton/Clint Eastwood film Where Eagles Dare - published as the film...
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...
Trumpets from the Steep

Trumpets from the Steep

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Author: Diana Cooper Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The third volume of Diana Cooper's witty, gossipy and brilliant autobiography - the perfect evocation of glittering high society...
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....
The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life

The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life

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Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as...
The West End Front: The Wartime Secrets of London's Grand Hotels

The West End Front: The Wartime Secrets of London's Grand Hotels

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Author: Matthew Sweet Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Spies: Meet Marie-Jacqueline Lancaster, the woman from M15 who has the gravy browning licked from her legs by Dylan...
Kyiv

Kyiv

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Author: Graham Hurley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A thriller set against one of the most horrific scenes in the Second World War. 'Historical fiction of a...
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...
Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth

Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth

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Author: Paul Ham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 Passchendaele epitomises everything that was most terrible about the Western Front. The photographs never sleep of this four-month battle,...
The World of Peaky Blinders: An unofficial guide

The World of Peaky Blinders: An unofficial guide

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Author: Dan Whitehead Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Welcome to The World of Peaky Blinders, a cultural guide to the world that inspired the hit BBC drama. Get ready...
Germany: Jekyll And Hyde: A Contemporary Account of Nazi Germany

Germany: Jekyll And Hyde: A Contemporary Account of Nazi Germany

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Author: Sebastian Haffner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A few years ago, Sebastian Haffner's DEFYING HITLER, a memoir about growing up in interwar Germany, sold over forty...
The Other Hoffmann Sister

The Other Hoffmann Sister

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Author: Ben Fergusson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2015, Ben Fergusson's critically acclaimed debut, The Spring of...
The Traitors: A True Story of Blood, Betrayal and Deceit

The Traitors: A True Story of Blood, Betrayal and Deceit

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Author: Josh Ireland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'An epic tale of love, dishonour, bravery, cowardice, betrayal and high-treason. Beautifully written. A stunning debut' Damien Lewis Playboy....
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....
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...
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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Pocket Frida Kahlo Wisdom: Inspirational Quotes and Wise Words From a Legendary Icon

Pocket Frida Kahlo Wisdom: Inspirational Quotes and Wise Words From a Legendary Icon

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Author: Hardie Grant Books Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 Frida Kahlo is undoubtedly one of the most innovative and influential painters of the 20th century and is widely considered...
The Bitter Road to Freedom, a New History of the Liberation of Europe

The Bitter Road to Freedom, a New History of the Liberation of Europe

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Author, MR William I Hitchcock (University of Virginia) Format, Microfilm Number of Pages, 454 American s are justly proud of th e role their country played in liberating Europe from...
Fortress Malta: An Island Under Siege 1940-1943

Fortress Malta: An Island Under Siege 1940-1943

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Author: James Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Malta remains the most bombed place on earth. In March and April 1942, more explosives were dropped on this...
Land of the Living

Land of the Living

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Author: Georgina Harding Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A profound masterpiece on war, loss and survival, rendered in prose of rhythmic precision, subtlety and exceptional sensitivity, by...
The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order

The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order

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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...
Iran: My Grandfather

Iran: My Grandfather

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Making it Modern: Essays on the Art of the Now

Making it Modern: Essays on the Art of the Now

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Author: Linda Nochlin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A selection of key essays by one of the most influential voices in art history, including seven previously unpublished pieces. This...
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life

Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life

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Author: Robert Dallek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 A superb one-volume biography by the Number One New York Times bestselling biographer of JFK, explaining Roosevelt's career as...
Pessoa: An Experimental Life

Pessoa: An Experimental Life

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Author: Richard Zenith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 1088 A monumental biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest and most enigmatic writers 'A completely superb and magisterial life of...
Into the Fire

Into the Fire

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Author, Glenn Patterson Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 240 Eleven guests. Three nights. One murderer... 'I tore through it' Erin Kelly 'Perfect storytelling' Victoria Selman 'A wicked plot'...
The MGM Story: The Complete History of Fifty-Four Roaring Years

The MGM Story: The Complete History of Fifty-Four Roaring Years

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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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Author: Iain Sinclair Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 What does following in the footsteps of our ancestors mean? Iain Sinclair takes it literally. In The Gold Machine, Sinclair and...
Kuhn vs.Popper: Prophets of the End of Science

Kuhn vs.Popper: Prophets of the End of Science

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Production or Reproduction?

Production or Reproduction?

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Glamour of Italian Fashion since 1945

Glamour of Italian Fashion since 1945

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The Passion of Michel Foucault

The Passion of Michel Foucault

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The Fourth Shore

The Fourth Shore

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Author: Virginia Baily Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Liliana's beloved husband has been dead six months when she finds a roll of banknotes in a drawer with...
Australian Women at War

Australian Women at War

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Modernism and Feminism: Australian Women Artists 1900-1940

Modernism and Feminism: Australian Women Artists 1900-1940

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Contemporary Art

Contemporary Art

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Riffs and Relations

Riffs and Relations

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Author: Adrienne L. Childs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Riffs and Relations: African-American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition presents works by African-American artists of the twentieth and twenty-first...
Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper

Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper

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Author: Helen Parr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 An unflinching, brilliant book on the Parachute Regiment and the Falklands War Our Boys brings to life the human...
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...