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Remedios Varo: The Mexican Years

Remedios Varo: The Mexican Years

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Between mysticism and modernity: the magical surrealism of Remedios Varo. Remedios Varo: The Mexican Years offers a definitive survey of the life and work of a singularly appealing and mysterious...
Al Taylor: Druckgrafik

Al Taylor: Druckgrafik

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The present publication is the catalogue raisonne of Al Taylor's graphic works and introduces a previously nearly unknown aspect of his oeuvre to the public for the first time. Aside...
20th Century Passenger Flying Boats

20th Century Passenger Flying Boats

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From Henri Fabre's first successful take off from water and landing near Marseilles, to the introduction of a hull rather than floats by American Glenn Curtiss, to the world-wide development...
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future

Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future

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From an 'indispensable voice on China' (Evan Osnos) comes a riveting, first-hand account of China's seismic progress America used to pride itself on ambition. Today, it looks stuck. Meanwhile, China...
Engagement

Engagement

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A feminist cult classic about love, independence and what it means to be an individual, translated into English for the first time 'I want to have him, I really do....
The Boxcar Librarian: A Novel

The Boxcar Librarian: A Novel

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Inspired by true events, a thrilling Depression-era novel from the author of The Librarian of Burned Books about a woman's quest to uncover a mystery surrounding a local librarian and...
The Mad and the Brave: The Untold Story of Ukraine's Foreign Legion

The Mad and the Brave: The Untold Story of Ukraine's Foreign Legion

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A Telegraph Best Book 2025 'Elegant and terrifying, the story of those who gave up life in the West for Ukraine's frontlines - some to save democracy, some to save...
Kargil 1999: South Asia's First Post-Nuclear Conflict

Kargil 1999: South Asia's First Post-Nuclear Conflict

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In 1999, less than one year after both countries tested nuclear weapons, India and Pakistan found themselves locked in another armed conflict. In spite of a ray of hope for...
Robert Barton: A Remarkable Revolutionary

Robert Barton: A Remarkable Revolutionary

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The first biography of the enigmatic Robert Barton, a central figure in the Irish Revolution. The enigmatic Robert Barton was a central figure in Irish Revolution. From an Anglo-Irish ascendancy...
Everything Under the Sun: The Complete Guide to Pink Floyd

Everything Under the Sun: The Complete Guide to Pink Floyd

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The definitive guide to the band offering song-by-song analysis, full chronology and gig guide, full bootleg guide, and exclusive interviews with surviving members. Pink Floyd formed in London in 1965,...
1964: The Year the Swinging Sixties Began

1964: The Year the Swinging Sixties Began

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1964 is a living history of one of the most pivotal years in the twentieth century. In Britain, a new Labour government promised to bring the 'white heat of technology'....
Curtiss Aerocar: 1928-1940

Curtiss Aerocar: 1928-1940

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The first-ever history of an innovative recreational and commercial trailer designed and built by engineering and aviation pioneer and icon Glenn H. Curtiss The complete history of the Curtiss Aerocar,...
The Last Kilo: Willy Falcon and the Cocaine Empire That Seduced

The Last Kilo: Willy Falcon and the Cocaine Empire That Seduced

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From true-crime legend T. J. English, the epic, behind-the-scenes saga of "Los Muchachos," one of the most successful cocaine trafficking organizations in American history-a story of glitz, glamour, and organized...
The Game

The Game

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Secrets. Lies. Murder. Fame can be deadly. A British icon delivers a powerful blockbuster in an exhilarating thriller set in London's East End. ____________________________________________________ A FALLEN ROCKSTAR. ONE LAST CHANCE...
Nineties Spirit: Music Caught on Camera

Nineties Spirit: Music Caught on Camera

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David Bowie and Bruce Springsteen, Nirvana and Oasis, Pete Doherty and Phil Collins, Prince and Motoerhead - the internationally acclaimed and renowned music photographer Paul Bergen has seen all the...
Pop Forever - Tom Wesselmann

Pop Forever - Tom Wesselmann

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At the end of 2024, Fondation Louis Vuitton will be holding for the first time a major exhibition dedicated to the work of the American Pop artist Tom Wesselmann. It...
Distant Signs

Distant Signs

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Distant Signs is an intimate portrait of two families spanning three generations amidst turbulent political change, behind and beyond the Berlin Wall. In 1960s East Germany, Margret, a professor's daughter...
Victor Lustig: The Man Who Conned the World

Victor Lustig: The Man Who Conned the World

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The first account of one of history's most notorious con artists, Victor Lustig, written by acclaimed biographer Christopher Sandford. An Austro-Hungarian with a dark streak, Victor Lustig was a man...
Ships of Splendour: Passenger Liners in Colour

Ships of Splendour: Passenger Liners in Colour

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The great passenger liners of the twentieth century make for iconic images of maritime history and design. This beautiful, full-colour book presents the development of passenger ships across the twentieth...
X3 to X54: The History of the British Midget Submarine

X3 to X54: The History of the British Midget Submarine

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Revealing the Midget Class Submarines from X-Class to Stickleback. The X Class submarines were conceived during WW2, small craft of around 51ft (16m) long, designed to be towed by a...
Sword of David: The Israeli Air Force at War

Sword of David: The Israeli Air Force at War

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Founded in 1948, the Israeli Air Force has seen involvement in some of the most dramatic and important conflicts of post-War history. In action during the Suez crisis and on...
Panther German Army Medium Tank: Italian Front, 1944-1945

Panther German Army Medium Tank: Italian Front, 1944-1945

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The Allied invasions of Sicily and the Italian mainland had been met with tenacious resistance by the Germans but the defence consisted for the most part of armoured units that...
Indignity: A Life Reimagined

Indignity: A Life Reimagined

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The acclaimed author of Free returns with an imaginative investigation into dignity and historical injustice through the story of a family When Lea Ypi discovers a photo of her grandmother,...
Tank: The 10 War Machines That Changed the World and the Remarkable

Tank: The 10 War Machines That Changed the World and the Remarkable

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An authoritative history of the tank and the remarkable individuals who designed them and fought in them, from a former soldier and best-selling historian Tanks are the ultimate embodiment of...
Why War?

Why War?

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A study of what leads humans to war, from one of our great military historians There can be few more important but also more contentious issues than attempting to understand...