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Colonial Wars, 1689-1762

Colonial Wars, 1689-1762

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Afghanistan: Mullah, Marx, And Mujahid

Afghanistan: Mullah, Marx, And Mujahid

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Super-spy

Super-spy

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George Condo: Painting Reconfigured

George Condo: Painting Reconfigured

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Author: Simon BakerFormat: Paperback, 260mm x 310mm, 1980g, 296 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2022The definitive monograph on the iconoclastic painter George Condo. With his arresting, unsettling style,...
Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper

Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper

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Author: Alexandra HarrisFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 450g, 416 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023An award-winning study of England's unique and peculiarly insular variant of modernism. While the...
Designing Peace: Building a Better Future Now

Designing Peace: Building a Better Future Now

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Author: Cynthia E. SmithFormat: Paperback, 220mm x 300mm, 1100g, 240 pagesPublished: Cooper-Hewitt Museum, United Kingdom, 2022Designing Peace asks, how might we collectively put our creative forces together to envision a...
In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Cultural Icon

In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Cultural Icon

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Author: Helen Rappaport Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'An astonishingly rich story... wonderfully informative' The Times 'Rappaport does a terrific job of bringing respectful rigour to her account of...
Cold War Games: Spies, Subterfuge and Secret Operations at the 1956 Olympic Games

Cold War Games: Spies, Subterfuge and Secret Operations at the 1956 Olympic Games

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Destination Casablanca: Exile, Espionage, and the Battle for North Africa in World War II

Destination Casablanca: Exile, Espionage, and the Battle for North Africa in World War II

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Author: Meredith Hindley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 In the summer of 1940, following France's surrender to Germany, Casablanca was transformed from an exotic travel destination to a key...
Bligh in Australia: A New Appraisal of William Bligh and the Rum Rebellion

Bligh in Australia: A New Appraisal of William Bligh and the Rum Rebellion

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Tom Clancy's Enemy Contact

Tom Clancy's Enemy Contact

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Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul

Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost Its Mind and Found Its Soul

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The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy

The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy

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Author: Alexander Rose Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 From the New York Times bestselling author of Washington's Spies, the thrilling story of the Confederate spy who came to Britain...
The Protectors: A journey through whitefella past

The Protectors: A journey through whitefella past

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Spooked: The Secret Rise of Private Spies

Spooked: The Secret Rise of Private Spies

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A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's revelatory look inside the sinister world of private spies.A spy story like no other.Private spies are the invisible force that shapes our modern world: they influence...
Australia's Empire

Australia's Empire

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The First Dismissal: Penguin Special

The First Dismissal: Penguin Special

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Thicker Than Water

Thicker Than Water

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Maralinga: The Struggle for Return of the Lands

Maralinga: The Struggle for Return of the Lands

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I Spy: My Life in MI5

I Spy: My Life in MI5

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Author: Tom Marcus Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The explosive book from ex-MI5 surveillance officer Tom Marcus takes the reader on a non-stop, adrenalin-fuelled ride as he hunts down...
A System of Ambition?: British Foreign Policy, 1660-1793

A System of Ambition?: British Foreign Policy, 1660-1793

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On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

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Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023. A Waterstones Book of the Year 2023. An Economist Book of...
1983: The World at the Brink

1983: The World at the Brink

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Author: Taylor Downing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'A carefully researched and hugely readable account of the build-up to war, the momentum inexorably growing as he assembles each part...
Freedom's Sword: Scotland's Wars of Independence

Freedom's Sword: Scotland's Wars of Independence

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Karama!: Journeys Through the Arab Spring

Karama!: Journeys Through the Arab Spring

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Author: Johnny WestFormat: Paperback, 134mm x 197mm, 248g, 350 pagesPublished: Quercus Publishing, United Kingdom, 2011Johnny West has lived in this area for the past decade and speaks fluent Arabic, and...
You Can't Say That: Memoirs

You Can't Say That: Memoirs

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Author: Ken LivingstoneFormat: Paperback, 126mm x 196mm, 563g, 720 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2012A frank, gripping, moving - and controversial - autobiography from one of the most idiosyncratic...
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

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Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023. A Waterstones Book of the Year 2023. An Economist Book of...
Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century

Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century

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By now everyone knows the basic facts of China's rise to pre-eminence over the past three decades. But how did this erstwhile sleeping giant finally manage to arrive at its...
Golden Age

Golden Age

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Author: Wang XiaoboFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 197mm, 202g, 272 pagesPublished: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2024The bestselling novel by cult writer Wang Xiaobo, a satire of the Cultural Revolution, in...
The Diaries of Franz Kafka

The Diaries of Franz Kafka

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Author: Franz KafkaFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 214mm, 635g, 704 pagesPublished: Penguin Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2024An essential new translation of the author's complete, uncensored diaries - revealing the idiosyncrasies and...
All Against All: The long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War

All Against All: The long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War

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Author: Paul Jankowski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 During a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went wrong: Hitler came to power; Japan invaded Jehol...
A Place Called Home: (The Cliffehaven Series Book 19)

A Place Called Home: (The Cliffehaven Series Book 19)

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THE NINETEENTH CLIFFEHAVEN NOVEL BY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ELLIE DEANCliffehaven, 1946. The war is over and those who have spent years fighting behind enemy lines are finally coming home.Peggy...
Tom Clancy's Enemy Contact

Tom Clancy's Enemy Contact

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Author: Mike Maden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 Jack Ryan Jr returns in Tom Clancy's thrilling series - the inspiration behind the smash-hit on Amazon Prime At a suspected...
Destiny: The Secret Operations of the Yodog Exiles

Destiny: The Secret Operations of the Yodog Exiles

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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: With a foreword by David Olusoga

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: With a foreword by David Olusoga

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Author: Olaudah Equiano Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Equiano's narrative is the most significant autobiographical account of slavery to emerge from Britain's centuries as a slave trading and slave...
War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian Resistance

War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian Resistance

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Author: Mikhail Zygar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'History is made up of myths,' writes the renowned Russian dissident journalist Mikhail Zygar. 'Alas, our myths led us to the...
The Architecture of Modern Empire

The Architecture of Modern Empire

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Author: Arundhati Roy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 From the bestselling author of Azadi and My Seditious Heart, a piercing exploration of modern empire, nationalism and rising fascism that...
White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain's Legacy of Slavery

White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain's Legacy of Slavery

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Author: Thomas Harding Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 When Thomas Harding discovered that his mother's family had made money from plantations worked by enslaved people, what began as an...
ISIS: A History

ISIS: A History

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Author: Fawaz A. Gerges Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The Islamic State stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. However, its most striking and...
Zorrie

Zorrie

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Finalist for the 2021 National Book Award (Fiction)"It was Indiana, it was the dirt she had bloomed up out of, it was who she was, what she felt, how she...
Inside the Jihad: My Life with Al Qaeda

Inside the Jihad: My Life with Al Qaeda

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Author: Omar Nasiri Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Between 1994 and 2000, Omar Nasiri worked as a secret agent for Europe's top foreign intelligence services-including France's DGSE (Direction Generale...
The Russia Conundrum: One man's fight to save his country's soul

The Russia Conundrum: One man's fight to save his country's soul

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Author: Mikhail Khodorkovsky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 An urgent analysis of the battle between Russia and the West, by former Kremlin insider and now vocal Putin critic Mikhail...
The Secret Heart: Le Carre and Me: Tales From a Secret Love Affair

The Secret Heart: Le Carre and Me: Tales From a Secret Love Affair

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Author: Suleika Dawson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A Telegraph Book to Read for Autumn 2022 A Times Best Non-fiction Book for Autumn 2022 A Daily Mail Book of...
Forgotten War: new edition

Forgotten War: new edition

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Author: Henry Reynolds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'We are at war with them,' wrote a Tasmanian settler in 1831. 'What we call their crime is what in a...
Rights as Weapons: Instruments of Conflict, Tools of Power

Rights as Weapons: Instruments of Conflict, Tools of Power

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Author: Clifford Bob Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 An in-depth look at the historic and strategic deployment of rights in political conflicts throughout the world. Rights are usually viewed...
The Contraceptive Revolution

The Contraceptive Revolution

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Here is the full report of the 1970 National Fertility Study, a national sample survey for which thousands of women were interviewed who had been married at some time and...
Iran Rising: The Survival and Future of the Islamic Republic

Iran Rising: The Survival and Future of the Islamic Republic

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Author: Amin Saikal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 344 An authoritative account of how and why the Islamic Republic has survived to become a critical player in the Middle East...
The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab

The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab

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Author: Marina Wheeler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Deeply touching.' - Daily Mail 'A personal, sometimes harrowing history of partition... a writer well worth reading.' - The Times 'A...