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The Death Marches: The Final Phase of Nazi Genocide
From January 1945, in the last months of the Third Reich, about 250,000 inmates of concentration camps perished on death marches and in countless incidents of mass slaughter. They were...
After the Nazis: The Story of Culture in West Germany
A wide-ranging, insightful history of culture in West Germany-from literature, film, and music to theater and the visual arts After World War II a mood of despair and impotence pervaded...
Heroic Failure and the British
From the Charge of the Light Brigade to Scott of the Antarctic and beyond, it seems as if glorious disaster and valiant defeat have been essential aspects of the British...
A Small Town in Ukraine: The place we came from, the place we went
The revelatory history of Krakowiec - 'a little place you've never heard of ' - through which we see life in Eastern Europe as never before Decades ago, the historian...
Tyranny of the Minority: How to Reverse an Authoritarian Turn, and
An urgent follow-up to international bestseller How Democracies Die, by two world-leading experts on democracy In this razor-sharp analysis of one of the most important issues facing us today, leading...
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him
A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who, like him or loathe him, left an indelible mark...
Prisoners of History: What Monuments to the Second World War Tell Us
A Spectator Book of the Year 2020 A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 A Mail on Sunday Book of the Year 2020 'Inspired ... Lowe's sensitive, disturbing...
War and Society in Europe, 1870-1970
The book titled War and Society in Europe, 1870-1970 by the author Brian Bond. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Real Lolita: A Lost Girl, An Unthinkable Crime and A Scandalous
Vladimir Nabokov's LOLITA is one of the most beloved and notorious novels of all time. And yet, very few of its readers know that the subject of the novel was...
Exterminate/Regenerate: The Story of Doctor Who
AN INDEPENDENT BEST BOOK OF 2025 'Absolutely wonderful. The book I've been waiting to read since I was ten years old. Full of surprising and piercing insights . . ....
Exterminate/Regenerate: The Story of Doctor Who
AN INDEPENDENT BEST BOOK OF 2025 'Absolutely wonderful. The book I've been waiting to read since I was ten years old. Full of surprising and piercing insights . . ....
The Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee
'Follow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and immutable.' Barry Miles 'The Gold Machine is a trip, a psychoactive expedition...
At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era,
With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Love
A remarkable compilation of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s reflections on love and its transformative power-a stellar addition to Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins. "I have also decided...
Rebel Sounds: Music as Resistance
Author: Joe Mulhall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Empathy is the currency of all music and Joe Mulhall does a great job of explaining how that quality has been...
New York Times: The Times Of The Eighties: The Culture, Politics, and
From our nation's best source of in-depth daily reporting comes this sweeping retrospective of the news, culture, and personalities of the decade of the 1980s, as told through hundreds of...
Diners, Bowling Alleys, And Trailer Parks: Chasing The American Dream
The years immediately following the Second World War witnessed a dramatic transformation of America's working-class suburbs, driven by an unprecedented post-war prosperity and a burgeoning consumer culture. Chrome and neon...
Snakes and Ladders: The great British social mobility myth
Politicians say social mobility is real - a just reward for ambition and hard work. This book proves otherwise. 'Intensely readable... A stimulating and necessary redress' David Kynaston, Spectator Politicians...
Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America's Civil Rights Revolution
A kaleidoscopic narrative history of 1963, the pivotal moment in America's long civil rights movement-the year of the March on Washington, Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail," and...
Edwardian Farm
Following on from the hit BBC series Victorian Farm, this book accompanies a new 12-part BBC series. this time, Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn take a leap forward...
New York Times The Times Of The Seventies: The Culture, Politics, and
There is no better record of events then The New York Times, and now, The Times of the Seventies captures the history, culture, and personalities of the decade through hundreds...
Oceans of Consolation: Personal Accounts of Irish Migration to
The book titled Oceans of Consolation: Personal Accounts of Irish Migration to by the author Fitzpatri David. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
The Light on the Hill
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Originally published in 1992 to commemorate the centenary of Australia's oldest political party, this study contains an additional chapter which covers the two Paul Keating challenges and the political reversals...
Rural Britain Then & Now
- Firm Sale - A celebration of the British countryside and how it has changed over the last 140 years using photography from the Francis Frith Collection - the world's...
The Big Hop: The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic and Into
The powerful true story of the first flight across the Atlantic - and of the ordinary heroes who risked their lives to race in pursuit of progress 'David Rooney is...
Who's In, Who's Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume One
'The most detailed, amusing and accurate account ever of the post-war world of the English Establishment' William Shawcross, Daily Telegraph 'Extremely entertaining' Jane Ridley, Literary Review Kenneth Rose was one...
Lady in Waiting: The charming, word-of-mouth bestseller, with over
** SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** ** SUNDAY TIMES FAVOURITE PAPERBACKS OF 2020** 'The best royal book by miles . . . funny, gossipy and riveting' JANE RIDLEY, SPECTATOR...
War Like a Wasp: The Lost Decade of the Forties
World War II stung Britain like a wasp. It was a stimulus and an endurance. The Blitz concentrated the mind wonderfully. The arts flowered - poetry and painting, cinema and...
Born in 1942?: What Else Happened?
ABOUT THESE SERIES ....But after that, I realised that I knew very little about these parents of mine. They had been born about the start of the Twentieth Century, and...
Vintage New York City Subway Signs: 1920s-1980s
Photographic chronicle of the history and evolution of New York subway signage, covering porcelain, wood, tin, and mosaic signs from the 1920s to the 1980s. Vintage New York City Subway...
Venice, the Jews, and Europe: 1516-2016
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The history of the Venice Ghetto, how it developed, its architecture, the concrete life of its inhabitants and their relations with the whole city form the subject of this book....
BRIGHT LIGHTS BIG CITY
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Accompanying a London Weekend Television series, this book traces the history of popular entertainment in London from the end of the 19th century to the present day. From the Victorian...
Endeavour: The Ship and the Attitude that Changed the World
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. An inventive biography of one of the most famous ships of all time - an alluring combination of history, adventure and science. 'HISTORY BOOK OF THE...
Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present
OUT OF THE PAST is the first book of its kind to encompass the history of homosexuality from 1869 to the present, drawing on the experience of ordinary men and...
The London Square: Gardens in the Midst of Town
Modern-day London abounds with a multitude of gardens, enclosed by railings and surrounded by houses, which attest to the English love of nature. These green enclaves, known as squares, are...
Coronation: A History of Kingship and the British Monarchy
The definitive history of Coronation and the Royal Family, from acclaimed writer Roy Strong. What is the finest sight in the world? A Coronation. What do people talk most about?...
Hayek's Bastards: The Neoliberal Roots of the Populist Right
A revelatory exploration of how today's right-wing authoritarianism emerged not in opposition to neoliberalism, but from within it After the end of the Cold War, neoliberalism, with its belief in...
The Heretic of Cacheu: Struggles over Life in a Seventeenth-Century
A unique, startling book that gives a rich and detailed sense of life in an African port some 360 years ago In 1665 Crispina Peres, the most powerful trader in...
Mythomania: Tales of Our Times, From Apple to Isis
Despite our culture's proclaimed respect for scientific reason, we live in a society that is no less bedazzled-and bedevilled-by myth than those of our remote ancestors. Roland Barthes first examined...
A House Unlocked
Beautifully repackaged reissue of Penelope Lively's classic memoir The only child of divorced parents, Penelope Lively was often sent to stay at her grandparents' country house Golsoncott. Years later, as...
The West: The History of an Idea
A comprehensive intellectual history of the idea of the West How did "the West" come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural commonality? When did "Westerners"...
A History of Thailand
Since it was first published in 2005, A History of Thailand has been hailed as an authoritative, lively and readable account of Thailand's political, economic, social and cultural history. From...
The Passport in America: The History of a Document
In today's world of constant identification checks, it's difficult to recall that there was ever a time when "proof of identity" was not a part of everyday life. And as...
Night People: How to Be a DJ in '90s New York City
The raucous memoir from pop's most influential producer Lady Gaga, Adele, Amy Winehouse, Dua Lipa, Bruno Mars, Miley Cyrus, the Barbie soundtrack. Behind some of the biggest musical moments in...
The Betrayal of the Duchess: The Scandal That Unmade the Bourbon
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Fighting to reclaim the French crown for the Bourbons, the duchesse de Berry faces betrayal at the hands of one of her closest advisors in this dramatic history of power...