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The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag After Stalin
Stalin's reign of terror in the Soviet Union has been called 'the other Holocaust'. During the Stalin years, it is thought that more innocent men, women and children perished than...
We Survived the Night: An Indigenous Reckoning
'Written in gorgeous, sparse prose, We Survived the Night reads like a novel. [...] A book I've been waiting my whole life to read.' Tommy Orange, author of There ThereAs...
Moscow, December 25, 1991: The Last Day of the Soviet Union
The implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had different concepts for the future....
Against Oblivion: Some Lives of the Twentieth Century Poets
The idea for Ian Hamilton's unorthodox new book was sparked by a rereading of Samuel Johnson's classic "Lives of the English Poets". Johnson included appraisals of 52 poets, but of...
The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the
This book takes as its focus the response of the English intelligentsia to the new, and supposedly threatening, phenomenon of mass culture. It shows how the attitudes of disdain and...
Henry R. Luce, Time, and the American Crusade in Asia
Henry Robinson Luce (1898-1967) founded Time, Life, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated. Born in China to missionary parents, Luce was a kind of lay preacher, anxious to mold the American mind...
American Visions of Europe: Franklin D. Roosevelt, George F. Kennan,
American Visions of Europe sets three learned and elegantly written portraits against the background of the dramatic events and foreign policy controversies of the twentieth century. John Lamberton Harper's careful...
A Divided Life: Biography of Donald Maclean
This is a biography of one of the last of the ideological spies, belonging to the important group the author calls "the Cambridge Comintern". Robert Cecil, a close acquaintance of...
Conspiracy of Silence: Secret Life of Anthony Blunt
The book titled Conspiracy of Silence: Secret Life of Anthony Blunt by the author Barrie Penrose. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.
Babembe Sculpture / Statuaire Babembe
The first full investigation into the symbolic artworks of the Babembe, this richly illustrated monograph presents a particular type of sculpture that the Babembe devoted to their family ancestors. Many...
Giorgio Morandi
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Now available in a sleek and nicely priced new format, this book reveals why Giorgio Morandi is considered one of the most accomplished painters of his generation. Throughout his long...
Christian Dior: Destiny: The Authorized Biography
In 1947, when Christian Dior's model spun her wasp-waisted skirt and tipped a hat over one eye, the iconic designer became an instant celebrity. His groundbreaking "new look" was quintessentially...
Anthony Hernandez
Since the early 1970s, when he hit the streets of Los Angeles with a 35mm camera and the basic technical knowledge he had acquired in darkroom classes at East Los...
Strong to Serve: An Australian Spitfire Pilot's war over Europe
Following training in Australia, Canada and the UK, Fred Riley flew Spitfires with No 130 (Punjab) Squadron RAF from October 1943 until December 1944. Flying the Spitfire Mk.V, he escorted...
The Modern Art Activity Book
The Modern Art Activity Book is jam-packed full of illustrations, activities and information on artists from 1900 to today. This gorgeous book contrains a fun variety of colouring, drawing, creative...
Fragile Legacies: The Photographs of Solomon Osagie Alonge
Fragile Legacies showcases the extraordinary photographs of Chief Solomon Osagie Alonge (1911 94), one of Nigeria's premier photographers and the first official photographer to the royal court of the Benin...
Contemporary Art: World Currents
Contemporary Art: World Currents argues that, in recent decades, a worldwide shift from modern to contemporary art has occurred. This has not, however, been a uniform change from one phase...
The New Middle East
The Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs offers a vision of the future for the Middle East. He sees a reconstructed region free of past conflicts, set to take its place...
Ho Chi Minh: The Missing Years
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She makes the case that Ho's significance within the Comintern has been overstated by both leftist and anti-communist scholarship; she shows that there were other forces and personalities who played...
Face to Face: Interviews with Artists
A fascinating insight into the lives and work of a remarkable range of contemporary artists Conducted by Richard Cork, one of the UK's most distinguished art writers, these intimate and...
Weimar Radicals: Nazis and Communists between Authenticity and
Exploring the gray zone of infiltration and subversion in which the Nazi and Communist parties sought to influence and undermine each other, this book offers a fresh perspective on the...
Out of Albania: From Crisis Migration to Social Inclusion in Italy
"I strongly believe that this book will soon become a 'standard reference' in studies of Albanian society, Albanian migration, immigration to Italy (and possibly to Greece)." * Panos Hatziprokopiou Analysing...
The New Face of Political Cinema: Commitment in French Film since 1995
Since 1995 there has been a widespread return of commitment to French cinema taking it to a level unmatched since the heady days following 1968. But this new wave of...
From the Ends of the Earth: The Jews in the 20th Century
The Jewish story is an extraordinary one: of a 'chosen race' but a 'difficult people', living in all countries but until recently without one to call its own. Over the...
The Illustrated Guide to the History of the 20th Century
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The book titled The Illustrated Guide to the History of the 20th Century by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
Three Years in Hell: The Brexit Chronicles
Three years in the troubled British Isles, leading up to the election of Boris Johnson. Three years in the troubled British Isles from the bestselling author of Heroic Failure ....
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish
In his iconoclastic and controversial study, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an interrogation of the place the Holocaust has come to occupy in global culture to a disturbing examination of...
Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco
In the Spring of 1993, federal agents raided the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. A 51-day standoff ensued. Known as the Waco Siege, it has become a founding myth...
The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of Gaza and the Occupied
Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2017 From the author of the bestselling study of the 1948 War of Independence comes an incisive look at the Occupied Territories, picking up...
The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story
Late in the summer of 1961, a KGB assassin defected to West Germany. Bogdan Stashinsky had already travelled on numerous occasions to Munich, where he'd single-handedly tracked down and killed...
Nationalism and the Cinema in France: Political Mythologies and Film
It is often taken for granted that French cinema is intimately connected to the nation's sense of identity and self-confidence. But what do we really know about that relationship? What...
Operational Test: Honing the Edge
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...
100 Best-Selling Albums of the 80s
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A totally righteous collection of tunes! From hair metal to the King of Pop, these 100 best-selling albums made up the soundtrack of the '80s. The wild success of artists...
Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait in Letters of an American
When Daniel Patrick Moynihan died in 2003 the Economist described him as a philosopher-politician-diplomat who two centuries earlier would not have been out of place among the Founding Fathers. Though...
On a Night of a Thousand Stars
In this moving, emotional narrative of love and resilience, a young couple confronts the start of Argentina's Dirty War in the 1970s, and a daughter searches for truth twenty years...
Building for Battle: Hitler's D-Day Defences
Following nearly two years of planning and exacting preparation, Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of the Nazi-dominated European continent, was mounted in the early hours of 6th June, 1944. It...
Hero on the Western Front: Discovering Sergeant York's WWI Battlefield
They knew it was the end. Weakened by four years of war, the reality had finally dawned on the Germans that their armies could never stop the combined might of...
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
THE SUNDAY TIMES No. 1 BESTSELLER WITH AN AFTERWORD BY JOHN LE CARR E 'Riveting, astounding . . . An unputdownable postwar thriller' Observer 'Irresistibly readable' Sunday Times 'Worthy of...
Double Cross: The True Story of The D-Day Spies
D-Day, 6 June 1944, the turning point of the Second World War, was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation: one...
Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Traitor,
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 'Engrossing as any thriller' Daily Telegraph 'Superb. Meticulously researched, splendidly told, immensely entertaining' John le Carre 'This is the most amazing book, full of...
China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower
'A revolutionary book' Sunday Times 'A pulsating account' Peter Frankopan *A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR* How did the People's Republic of China transform from a backwater...
The Story of Russia: 'An excellent short study'
A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects of History 'The history book you need if you...
Dictators: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
A New Statesman , Financial Times and Economist Book of the Year 'Brilliant' NEW STATESMAN , BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'Enlightening and a good read' SPECTATOR 'Moving and perceptive' NEW...
The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England
'This is a wonderful book, exhaustively researched, vigorously argued and teeming with the furious joy of seventeenth-century life' THE TIMES 'A brilliant, bloody account of England's most dramatic century ....
Edwardian Ladies' Hat Fashions: Where Did You Get that Hat?
Based upon the author's large personal collection of beautiful fashion postcards from Edwardian times, this book takes the reader on a journey through that era covering the hat fashions and...