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White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations

White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations

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Trump/Russia: a definitive history

Trump/Russia: a definitive history

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At the Center of the Storm: The CIA During America's Time of Crisis

At the Center of the Storm: The CIA During America's Time of Crisis

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Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet

Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet

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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...
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...
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...
Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern Times

Human Rights for Pragmatists: Social Power in Modern Times

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Author: Jack Snyder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 328 Human rights are among our most pressing issues today, yet rights promoters have reached an impasse in their effort to achieve...
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 Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany

The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany

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The Lexus and the Olive Tree

The Lexus and the Olive Tree

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Waiting For the Revolution: A History of Australian Nationalism

Waiting For the Revolution: A History of Australian Nationalism

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Lenin on the Train

Lenin on the Train

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Author: Catherine Merridale Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A gripping account of how, in the depths of the First World War, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in...
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life

Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life

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Author: Robert Dallek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 A superb one-volume biography by the Number One New York Times bestselling biographer of JFK, explaining Roosevelt's career as...
Hitler: Only the World Was Enough

Hitler: Only the World Was Enough

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Author: Brendan Simms Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 A powerful and searing biography of Hitler and the poisonous ideas behind his actions Adolf Hitler is one of...
The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-Century History

The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-Century History

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Author: David Edgerton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 A revolutionary economic and political history of 20th century Britain Out of a liberal, capitalist, genuinely global power of...
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

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Author: Isabel Wilkerson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 The epic story of how millions of black Americans fled the Jim Crow south, told through the journeys of...
The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life

The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life

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Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as...
A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle

A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle

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Author: Julian Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 944 'Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography' Max Hastings, Sunday Times In six weeks in 1940, France was...
Churchill: Walking with Destiny

Churchill: Walking with Destiny

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Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1152 The blockbuster biography of the greatest Briton, by one of Britain's bestselling historians Winston Churchill towers over every other...
The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler's first Mass-Murder Programme

The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler's first Mass-Murder Programme

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Author: Charlie English Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'A riveting tale, brilliantly told' Philippe Sands The little-known story of Hitler's war on modern art and the mentally...
The Global Age: Europe 1950-2017

The Global Age: Europe 1950-2017

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Author: Ian Kershaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 704 The final chapter in the Penguin History of Europe series from the acclaimed scholar and author of To Hell and Back...
The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler

The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler

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Author: Laurence Rees Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 A fascinating exploration of the character of Adolf Hitler- the most powerful and destructive man in history. Accompanies the...
Agent Sonya: From the bestselling author of The Spy and The Traitor

Agent Sonya: From the bestselling author of The Spy and The Traitor

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Author: Ben MacIntyre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The incredible story behind the greatest female spy in history from one of Britain's best historians, now in paperback...
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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Author: John Gooch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A gripping, vivid account of Italy's disastrous experience of the Second World War While staying closely aligned with Hitler,...
The SS Officer's Armchair: In Search of a Hidden Life

The SS Officer's Armchair: In Search of a Hidden Life

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Author: Daniel Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A historical detective story and a gripping account of one historian's hunt for answers as he delves into the...
Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957

Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957

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Author: Derek Leebaert (Georgetown University Washington DC) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 624 A new understanding of the post World War II era, showing what occurred when the British Empire...
Clementine Churchill: A Life in Pictures

Clementine Churchill: A Life in Pictures

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Author: Sonia Purnell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Without Winston Churchill's inspiring leadership Britain could not have survived its darkest hour. Without his wife Clementine, however, he might never...
Mein Kampf

Mein Kampf

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Author: Adolf Hitler Format: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 704 Mein Kampf was first published in two volumes in 1925-6 and sold between eight and nine million copies during Hitler's lifetime, as...
Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War

Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War

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Author: Tim Bouverie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 This thrilling Sunday Times bestseller is the first major account of the disastrous years of British indecision and infighting...
Gandhi 1914-1948: The Years That Changed the World

Gandhi 1914-1948: The Years That Changed the World

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Author: Ramachandra Guha Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1152 The magnificent biography of Gandhi by India's leading historian Gandhi lived one of the great 20th century lives. He...
Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation

Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation

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Author: Roderick Beaton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A history of modern Greece by one of the pre-eminent experts in the field We think we know ancient...
Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends

Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends

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Author: Anne Applebaum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The Pulitzer prize-winning historian and journalist anatomizes the personal and ideological dimensions of the current appeal of authoritarian regimes...
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine

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Author: Anne Applebaum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Red Famine, a triumph of scholarship and human sympathy, is a milestone in the recovery of those memories and...
The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One

The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One

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Author: Miranda Carter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 'An entertaining study of power and personality portrays the strutting absurdity and grotesque glamour of the last emperors on...
How to Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance

How to Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance

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Author: Paul Mason Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 How can we stop the spread of fascism? The bestselling author of PostCapitalism offers a guide to resisting the far right...
The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis

The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis

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Author: Norman Ohler (author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'An astonishing story... brilliantly told' - Antony Beevor Summertime, 1935. On a lake near Berlin, a young man is out...
The Gulag Archipelago: (Abridged edition)

The Gulag Archipelago: (Abridged edition)

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Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 'It helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph ' The...