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A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution

A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution

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A BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Thoroughly researched, stylish and entertaining' Financial Times'A vivid and sparkling account, full of colour and dark drama' Observer'Brilliantly depicts a disastrous failure' Antony...
Bad Girls: A History of Rebels and Renegades

Bad Girls: A History of Rebels and Renegades

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Society has never known what to do with its rebellious women. Those who defied expectations about feminine behaviour have long been considered dangerous and unnatural, and ever since the Victorian...
Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag

Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag (SIGNED)

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From Orlando Figes, international bestselling author of A People's Tragedy, Just Send Me Word is the moving true story of two young Russians whose love survived Stalin's Gulag. Lev and...
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 (SIGNED)

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'A heart-piercingly brilliant book about a woman whose personal life put her in the cross-hairs of history' HADLEY FREEMAN'Totally riveting. I couldn't put it down' VICTORIA HISLOP'Ethel sings out for...
Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era

Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era (SIGNED)

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'The very best sort of panoramic portrait' David Kynaston'The Edwardians have long been the lost decade of British history, yet they are that history at its climax. Alwyn Turner sets...
Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO: the "astonishingly fine history" of the world's most successful military alliance

Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO: the "astonishingly fine (SIGNED)

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'HUGELY IMPRESSIVE' - THE INDEPENDENT'AN ASTONISHINGLY FINE HISTORY' - COUNTRY LIFE'FASCINATING' - DAILY MAILThe history of the world's most successful military alliance, from the wrecked Europe of 1945 to Vladimir...
When the Apricots Bloom: The evocative and emotionally powerful story of secrets, family and betrayal . . .

When the Apricots Bloom: The evocative and emotionally powerful story

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  At night, in Huda's fragrant garden of apricot trees, a breeze sweeps in from the desert, carrying warning of visitors at her gate . . . Huda, a secretary...
P.S. Burn This Letter Please: The fabulous and fraught birth of modern drag, in the queens' own words

P.S. Burn This Letter Please: The fabulous and fraught birth of modern

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With an introduction from RuPaul's Drag Race winner Sasha VelourTheir greatest act of resistance was simply existing In 1950s New York, a group of drag pioneers found work in a...
Murder Most Vile

Murder Most Vile

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The search for a missing artist draws Donald Langham and Ralph Ryland into London's criminal underworld, with deadly consequences. London. April, 1957. Private investigator Donald Langham is approached by retired...
Intercept: The Secret History of Computers and Spies

Intercept: The Secret History of Computers and Spies

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INTERCEPT is the previously untold - and previously highly classified - story of the melding of technology and espionage. Gordon Corera's compelling narrative, rich with historical details and characters, takes...
Behind the Gloss: Disco, divas and dressing up. Welcome to the wild world of 1970s fashion

Behind the Gloss: Disco, divas and dressing up. Welcome to the wild

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Dressing up. Partying all night. This is the world of 1970s fashion, and this book is your backstage pass.Featuring over 25 exclusive interviews with the movers and shakers of the...
The Competent Authority

The Competent Authority

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'Great is the Soviet Union, vast its territories, warm its entrails...' 1959. Whispers of dissidence are spreading in the U.S.S.R. Texts published in the West are circulating in samizdat, tormenting...
P.S. Burn This Letter Please: The fabulous and fraught birth of modern drag, in the queens' own words

P.S. Burn This Letter Please: The fabulous and fraught birth of modern

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With an introduction from RuPaul's Drag Race winner Sasha VelourTheir greatest act of resistance was simply existing In 1950s New York, a group of drag pioneers found work in a...
The Afghans: Three lives through war, love and revolt - from the bestselling author of The Bookseller of Kabul

The Afghans: Three lives through war, love and revolt - from the

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'Asne Seierstad is the supreme non-fiction writer of her generation' Luke Harding'As an exploration of the social fabric of Afghan life, this book takes some beating' Daily Telegraph'An astonishing feat...
Operational Test: Honing the Edge

Operational Test: Honing the Edge

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The process to deliver a modern combat aircraft from concept to introduction to service is often measured in decades. Described as a weapon system, modern designs such as the Eurofighter...
Hitler's Secret Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Nazi Plan for Final Victory

Hitler's Secret Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Nazi Plan for Final

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A fascinating illustrated account of a crucial but less well-known aspect of the Third Reich. The story of the weapons that could have won the war: Nazi flying saucers, the...
Man Ray: Writings on Art

Man Ray: Writings on Art

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Man Ray (1890-1976), a pioneer of the Dada movement and a central protagonist of surrealism, is best known for his innovative photographs, but his writings are also remarkable expressions of...
Empire of Liberty

Empire of Liberty

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In this thoughtful and timely consideration of the nature of American power and empire, Anthony Bogues argues that America's self-presentation as the bastion of liberty is an attempt to force...
Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War

Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War

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Celebrated anthropologist Margaret Mead, who studied sex in Samoa and child-rearing in New Guinea in the 1920s and '30s, was determined to show that anthropology could tackle the psychology of...
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...
Emperor of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson's Foreign Policy

Emperor of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson's Foreign Policy

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A dramatic reevaluation of Thomas Jefferson's thinking on foreign policy and his record as a statesman This book, the first in decades to closely examine Thomas Jefferson's foreign policy, offers...
Spirits of the Somme: Visions of  War

Spirits of the Somme: Visions of War

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The 1st of July 1916, the opening day of the Battle of the Somme, was the blackest day in the history of the British Army. 60,000 men became casualties on...
The Battle That Won the War - Bellenglise: Breaching the Hindenburg Line 1918

The Battle That Won the War - Bellenglise: Breaching the Hindenburg

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It is no exaggeration to claim that 46th North Midland Division s action on 29 September 1918 was the hammer blow that shattered the will of the German High Command....
Cover Up at Omaha Beach: Maisy Battery and the US Ranges

Cover Up at Omaha Beach: Maisy Battery and the US Ranges

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The Rangers mission was clear. They were to lead the assault on Omaha Beach and breakout inland. Simultaneously other Ranger units would scale the cliffs at Pointe du Hoc to...
The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower

The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American

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A thrilling new biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day, when he grew from a well-liked general into one of the singular figures of American...
DC Confidential: The Controversial Memoirs of Britain's Ambassador at the Time of 9/11 and the Iraq War

DC Confidential: The Controversial Memoirs of Britain's Ambassador at the Time of 9/11 and the Iraq War

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Creating a World without Poverty

Creating a World without Poverty

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The Traitor of Arnhem: WWII's Greatest Betrayal and the Moment That Changed History Forever

The Traitor of Arnhem: WWII's Greatest Betrayal and the Moment That

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Sunday Times Bestselling author of The Traitor of Colditz Robert Verkaik reveals the incredible never-before-told story of the role played by the Cambridge Spies in the British defeat at Arnhem"A...
Trotsky's Favourite Spy: The Life Of George Alexander Hill

Trotsky's Favourite Spy: The Life Of George Alexander Hill

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UnaKroll was eleven when she first met her father. They stopped for lunch on theway from Brighton to London and he took her outside to play with theinnkeeper's Angora rabbit....
Dictionary Of Modern Arab Histor

Dictionary Of Modern Arab Histor

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From 1980 until Dr. Bidwell's death in 1994, much of his time was taken up with the writing and compilation of this encyclopaedic work which represents, in the true sense...
A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II

A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret

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As heard on the New Yorker Radio Hour: The triumphant and "engaging history" (The New Yorker) of the young women who devised a winning strategy that defeated Nazi U-boats and...
Scott of the Antarctic: The Legend 100 Years On

Scott of the Antarctic: The Legend 100 Years On

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Captain Robert Falcon Scott CVO (6 June 1868 29 March 1912) was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions. During the second venture,...
The Dragon's Trail: The Biography of Raphael's Masterpiece

The Dragon's Trail: The Biography of Raphael's Masterpiece

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In her fascinating new book, Pitman has written an enthralling micro history of Raphael's painting St. George and the Dragon--as well as the colorful rogue's gallery of historical characters who...
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...
The Battle of the Ypres-Comines Canal 1940: France and Flanders Campaign

The Battle of the Ypres-Comines Canal 1940: France and Flanders

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Known in some accounts as the Battle of Wijtschaete, the confrontation along the Ypres-Comines Canal in 1940 is still hardly remembered in this country and, apart from the battle honours...
Winter Soldiers: An Oral History of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War

Winter Soldiers: An Oral History of the Vietnam Veterans Against the

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"Winter Soldiers is an immensely valuable contribution to the history of the Vietnam War. It brings to life, through the words of the veterans themselves, the journey each individual made,...
The Inheritance

The Inheritance

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Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do about It

Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do about It

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The Triumph of the Lions: A Novel

The Triumph of the Lions: A Novel

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The basis for the Disney-produced series on Hulu The Lions of Sicily"A blazing epic of countless twists and turns."-Le Figaro"A compelling combination of historical sweep and family drama" -Kirkus ReviewsFrom...
You Should Be So Lucky: A Novel

You Should Be So Lucky: A Novel

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An emotional, slow-burn, grumpy/sunshine, queer mid-century romance for fans of Evvie Drake Starts Over, about grief and found family, between the new star shortstop stuck in a batting slump and...
Mary Poppins Comes Back

Mary Poppins Comes Back

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Discover the joy and wonder of Mary Poppins in the classic adventures!The original and classic stories available now in all-new luxurious livery. Just when Jane and Michael Banks thought she...
The Letter Tree: A Novel

The Letter Tree: A Novel

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Mere words can't end their families' feud, but the Campbell heir and the Bradshaw heiress plan to write a future together.Buffalo, NY, 1924Laura Bradshaw adores stories with happily ever afters....
A Thousand Miles From Care: A hunt for a brother's killer - a new compelling Australian true crime story about murder & corruption for readers of The Boy in the Dress and Getting Away With Murder

A Thousand Miles From Care: A hunt for a brother's killer - a new

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A gripping and heartbreaking story, A Thousand Miles From Care tells the 30 year quest Steve Johnson undertook to uncover the truth about his brilliant brother's brutal murder in Manly....
Death at Morning House

Death at Morning House

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An instant New York Times and Indie bestseller!From the bestselling author of the Truly Devious books, Maureen Johnson, comes a new stand-alone YA about a teen who uncovers a mystery...
Gold: The true story of the discovery of gold in Australia and the shameless pretender who took the credit, from the popular author of RUM, perfect for fans of Grantlee Kieza and David Hunt

Gold: The true story of the discovery of gold in Australia and the

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'Impostor ', 'greedy' and 'incompetent' - Edmund Hammond Hargraves was beloved by few and reviled by many more. Ask google Who discovered gold in Australia? and you'll promptly get 'Edward...
I Catch Killers: The Life and Many Deaths of a Homicide Detective

I Catch Killers: The Life and Many Deaths of a Homicide Detective

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THE #1 TRUE CRIME BESTSELLER. Serial killings, child abductions, organised crime hits and domestic murders. This is the memoir of a homicide detective. WINNER OF 2021 DANGER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONHere...
Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace

Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace

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'A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle ... Compelling' Daily Mail'An unmissable read' Sunday Times Soldiers is a very personal gathering...
Decoy

Decoy

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The shocking true story of one of Britain's most secretive, groundbreaking and successful police covert operations Bristol, 1979.An attacker roams the streets...Young women are warned not to go out alone...Enter...