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Where Have You Gone, Starlight Cafe?

Where Have You Gone, Starlight Cafe?

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Come along as the author searches America's backroads and mom-and-pop establishments, searching for a slice of America's past. Whatever happened to all of those wonderful cafes, diners, and drive-ins from...
Australian Women in Papua New Guinea: Colonial Passages 1920-1960

Australian Women in Papua New Guinea: Colonial Passages 1920-1960

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By the time Australia withdrew from Papua New Guinea in 1975, about 10,000 Australian women had lived there at some stage since 1920. Many came with their husbands who were...
Our East End: Memories of Life in Disappearing Britain

Our East End: Memories of Life in Disappearing Britain

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This oral history of London's East End spans the period after the First World War to the upsurge of prosperity at the beginning of the 60s - a time which...
The Tuscan Daughter

The Tuscan Daughter

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Read the brand-new heart-wrenching historical novel from Tessa Harris, The Florence Sisters , now! 'If you're a fan of WWII historical fiction [and] a courageous woman not willing to settle...
In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The 1918-1921 Pogroms in Ukraine and

In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The 1918-1921 Pogroms in Ukraine and

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In riveting prose, In the Midst of Civilized Europe repositions the pogroms as a defining moment of the twentieth century. Between 1918 and 1921, over a hundred thousand Jews were...
Under the Sickle and the Sledgehammer: One Woman's Private Diary from

Under the Sickle and the Sledgehammer: One Woman's Private Diary from

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A gripping and important memoir by a Finnish woman who migrated to Stalin's Soviet Russia in the 1930s and escaped in 1941. Under the Sickle and the Sledgehammer was originally...
The Tuscan Daughter

The Tuscan Daughter

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Read the brand-new heart-wrenching historical novel from Tessa Harris, The Florence Sisters , now! 'If you're a fan of WWII historical fiction [and] a courageous woman not willing to settle...
An Irish Country Childhood: Memories of a Bygone Age

An Irish Country Childhood: Memories of a Bygone Age

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This is the story of a magical childhood on a farm in the west of Ireland during the 1930s and early 1940s. It tells of a young girl and the...
The Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938

The Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938

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This is a classic survey of US foreign policy from 1938 to President Clinton's second term, now fully revised.
From Salisbury to Major

From Salisbury to Major

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This history examines the Conservative Party's ability to dominate British politics. It takes as its key themes the party's relationship with mass democracy and its willingness to adapt, often at...
Trotskyism

Trotskyism

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The Silent Snowman: Sir George Tallis, the Man Behind the World's

The Silent Snowman: Sir George Tallis, the Man Behind the World's

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George Tallis arrived in Melbourne in 1886 as a seventeen-year-old Irish immigrant, and by the mid-1920s was one of the first 'media giants'. The Silent Showman is a biography of...
The Night is Large: Collected Essays, 1938-95

The Night is Large: Collected Essays, 1938-95

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This text contains 54 of Martin Gardner's most searching and challenging essays, spanning nearly six decades. Issues tackled range from the apparent inexplicability of quantum physics to the eternal question...
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him

Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him

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A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who, like him or loathe him, left an indelible mark...
On the Road

On the Road

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On The Road: The NRMA'S First 75 Years tells the story of how an idea became a great Australian institution. A little over three quarters of a century ago, a...
A Nation and not a Rabble: The Irish Revolution 1913-23

A Nation and not a Rabble: The Irish Revolution 1913-23

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Packed with violence, political drama and social and cultural upheaval, the years 1913-23 saw the emergence in Ireland of the Ulster Volunteer Force to resist Irish home rule and in...
Solid Bluestone Foundations: And Other Memories of a Melbourne

Solid Bluestone Foundations: And Other Memories of a Melbourne

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New edition of a classic memoir with new Introduction, bibliography, biographical index and four new previously unpublished photographs. 'Hughenden', the seaside mansion of Kathleen's grandparents, provided the 'solid bluestone foundations'...
They Dared Return: The True Story of Jewish Spies Behind the Lines in

They Dared Return: The True Story of Jewish Spies Behind the Lines in

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Having barely escaped Germany, several Jewish friends are determined to strike back at the Third Reich while their families languish in concentration camps. After months of training with the U....
A Nation and not a Rabble: The Irish Revolution 1913-23

A Nation and not a Rabble: The Irish Revolution 1913-23

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Packed with violence, political drama and social and cultural upheaval, the years 1913-23 saw the emergence in Ireland of the Ulster Volunteer Force to resist Irish home rule and in...
The Art of the "New Yorker": 1925-95

The Art of the "New Yorker": 1925-95

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Shows and describes cartoons, covers, spot illustrations, and caricatures from the New Yorker magazine, and shares anecdotes about the artists and editors.
Further Particulars

Further Particulars

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Continuing from C.H. Rolph's first volume of memoirs: "London particulars", this volume covers the years from the end of World War I to the present day. It describes his 25...
Memoirs

Memoirs

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Mr. Wu and Mrs.Stitch: The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper,

Mr. Wu and Mrs.Stitch: The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper,

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Tells the story, via the letters they wrote to each other, of the relationship between Evelyn Waugh, author of "Brideshead Revisited", and Lady Diana Cooper, actress and hostess. The two...
The Autobiography of Malcolm X

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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From hustling, drug addiction and armed violence in America's black ghettos Malcolm X turned, in a dramatic prison conversion, to the puritanical fervour of the Black Muslims. As their spokesman...
Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943

Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943

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A gripping, vivid account of Italy's disastrous experience of the Second World War While staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940. Then, with...
The Enchanted April

The Enchanted April

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Funny, irreverent and full of joy, this is the perfect book to accompany you on holiday - a celebration of escaping the everyday WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BRENDA BOWEN Mrs...
The Paper Man

The Paper Man

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An unforgettable and sweeping interwar love story, from the Costa-shortlisted and bestselling Irish author of Life Sentences **A BOOK OF 2023 IN IRISH TIMES, RT GUIDE AND SUNDAY INDEPENDENT** An...
Family Lexicon

Family Lexicon

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'The places, events and people are all real. I have invented nothing.' Natalia Ginzburg wrote her masterful, Strega Prize winning novel Family Lexicon while living in London in the 1960s....
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War

Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at

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'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer Read this prize-winning historian's "immersive" ( New York Times) account of the...
British Naval Supremacy and Anglo-American Antagonisms, 1914-1930

British Naval Supremacy and Anglo-American Antagonisms, 1914-1930

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During World War I, Britain's naval supremacy enabled it to impose economic blockades and interdiction of American neutral shipping. The United States responded by building 'a navy second to none',...
Some Liked It Hot

Some Liked It Hot

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Women have been involved with jazz since its inception, but all too often their achievements were not as well known as those of their male counterparts. Some Liked It Hot...
Emily Noble's Disgrace

Emily Noble's Disgrace

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'A brilliant, original read' - Daily Mail 'Totally absorbing, this is a story that will keep you gripped' - Janice Hadlow, author of The Other Bennet Sister The case is...