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Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain

Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain

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A new history of modern Britain that makes sense of its contradictions today Imperial Island shows how empire, its disintegration and its ever-present aftermath have profoundly shaped the British people,...
Harrier 809: Britain's Legendary Jump Jet and the Untold Story of the Falklands War

Harrier 809: Britain's Legendary Jump Jet and the Untold Story of the Falklands War

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From one of the leading voices in aviation non-fiction, and the bestselling author of VULCAN 607, the untold story of the Falklands War and the iconic 809 Squadron. Perfect for...
A Flat Place

A Flat Place

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Beautiful and haunting, a personal journey through Britain's flatlands and a reckoning with the painful memories and hidden histories they contain Noreen Masud has always loved flat landscapes - their...
An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family

An Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family

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Two hundred years of modern science and culture, told through one family history In his early twenties, poor, depressed, stranded in the Coral Sea on the HMS Rattlesnake, hopelessly in...
Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation

Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation

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A revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic world To fully understand why the shadow of slavery haunts us today, we must confront the flawed...
Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography

Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography

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The follow-up to the 2 million-copy-selling Losing My Virginity, documenting the incredible last twenty years in Sir Richard Branson's life. PAPERBACK EDITION FULLY UPDATED WITH FOUR NEW CHAPTERS After creating...
Walls Come Tumbling Down: The Music and Politics of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge

Walls Come Tumbling Down: The Music and Politics of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge

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Walls Come Tumbling Down charts the pivotal period between 1976 and 1992 that saw politics and pop music come together for the first time in Britain's musical history; musicians and...
The People's Songs: The Story of Modern Britain in 50 Records

The People's Songs: The Story of Modern Britain in 50 Records

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An original book to accompany Stuart Maconie's landmark Radio 2 series- a history of post-war Britain through pop music These are the songs that we have listened to, laughed to,...
Undercover Agent: How one of SOE's youngest agents helped defeat the Nazis

Undercover Agent: How one of SOE's youngest agents helped defeat the Nazis

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Tony Brooks was unique. He was barely out of school when recruited in 1941 by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), the wartime secret service established by Churchill to 'set Europe...
Real War Horses: The Experiences of the British Cavalry 1814 - 1914

Real War Horses: The Experiences of the British Cavalry 1814 - 1914

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Many histories have been written about the conflicts the British army was involved in between the Battle of Waterloo and the First World War. There are detailed studies of campaigns...
Denim and Leather: The Rise and Fall of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal

Denim and Leather: The Rise and Fall of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal

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In the late 1970s, aggressive, young bands are forming across Britain. Independent labels are springing up to release their music. But this isn't the story of punk. Forget punk. Punk...
The Men Who Made the SAS: The History of the Long Range Desert Group

The Men Who Made the SAS: The History of the Long Range Desert Group

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Established in June 1940, the Long Range Desert Group was the inspiration of scientist and soldier Major Ralph Bagnold, a contemporary of T.E Lawrence who, in the inter-war years, explored...
The Churchill Sisters: The Extraordinary Lives of Winston and Clementine's Daughters

The Churchill Sisters: The Extraordinary Lives of Winston and Clementine's Daughters

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As complex in their own way as their Mitford cousins, Winston and Clementine Churchill's daughters each had a unique relationship with their famous father. Rachel Trethewey's biography, The Churchill Sisters...
The Real Special Relationship: The True Story of How the British and US Secret Services Work Together

The Real Special Relationship: The True Story of How the British and US Secret Services Work Together

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'Fascinating analysis' Nigel West; 'Grippingly told, authoritative' Mail on Sunday ; 'Meticulously researched...a remarkably good read' John Brennan, former CIA Director; 'Excellent...a detailed, highly professional account' Sir John Scarlett, former...
The Lost City of Z: A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the Amazon

The Lost City of Z: A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the Amazon

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**NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING ROBERT PATTINSON, CHARLIE HUNNAM AND SIENNA MILLER** 'A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure' JOHN GRISHAM The story of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett,...
History in the House: Some Remarkable Dons and the Teaching of Politics, Character and Statecraft

History in the House: Some Remarkable Dons and the Teaching of Politics, Character and Statecraft

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A Spectator Best Book of the Year; An Aspects of History Best Book of the Year; An Engelsberg Ideas Best Book of the Year Five hundred years ago, Thomas Wolsey...
Churchill & Son

Churchill & Son

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The intimate, untold story of Winston Churchill's enduring yet volatile bond with his only son, Randolph "Ireland draws unforgettable sketches of life in the Churchill circle, much like Erik Larson...
Birds as Individuals

Birds as Individuals

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Classic nature writing for bird lovers - a portrait of Britain's ordinary garden birds, and the woman who opened her doors to them. Enter the secret lives of Britain's ordinary...
The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience

The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience

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A panoramic social history chronicling the lives of hundreds of British people of all classes in the most important territory of the British Empire The British in this book lived...
Churchill: Walking with Destiny

Churchill: Walking with Destiny

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The blockbuster biography of the greatest Briton, by one of Britain's bestselling historians Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history. By the time of his death...
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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A revolutionary economic and political history of 20th century Britain Out of a liberal, capitalist, genuinely global power of a unique kind, there arose from the 1940s a distinct British...
Winds of Change: Britain in the Early Sixties

Winds of Change: Britain in the Early Sixties

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The third volume of Peter Hennessy's landmark postwar history of Britain Harold Macmillan - the presiding figure in Peter Hennessy's magnificent new history - famously said in 1960 that the...
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

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The juicy, funny story of the three dysfunctional rulers of Germany, Russia and Great Britain at the turn of the last century, combined with a study of the larger forces...
Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War

Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War

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This thrilling Sunday Times bestseller is the first major account of the disastrous years of British indecision and infighting that enabled Hitler's domination of Europe ** Sunday Times Bestseller **...
Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War Two

Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War Two

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Perfectly timed for the anniversary, this is the new single-battle epic from bestselling author, James Holland - the only book of its kind on this battle. 'James Holland is a...
The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life: NOW A MAJOR APPLE TV MOTION PICTURE

The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life: NOW A MAJOR APPLE TV MOTION

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The Sunday Times no. 1 memoir now in paperback The Pigeon Tunnel, John le Carre's memoir and his first work of non-fiction, is a thrilling journey into the worlds of...
Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain

Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain

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The groundbreaking bestseller which examines the effect of empire on modern Britain In Britain, imperialism is everywhere - though we often choose not to see it. From the way we...
The Naive and Sentimental Lover

The Naive and Sentimental Lover

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Le Carre's singular story of a cautious man plunged into recklessness, published in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time Aldo Cassidy is the naive and sentimental lover. A successful,...
Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper

Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper

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An unflinching, brilliant book on the Parachute Regiment and the Falklands War Our Boys brings to life the human experiences of the paratroopers who fought in the Falklands, and examines...
Undercover Agent: How one of SOE's youngest agents helped defeat the Nazis

Undercover Agent: How one of SOE's youngest agents helped defeat the

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Tony Brooks was unique. He was barely out of school when recruited in 1941 by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), the wartime secret service established by Churchill to 'set Europe...
Our Stories: 75 Years of the NHS from the People Who Built It, Lived It and Love It

Our Stories: 75 Years of the NHS from the People Who Built It, Lived

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FOREWORD BY ADAM KAY, AUTHOR OF THIS IS GOING TO HURTPortion of proceeds go to NHS Charities Together.A beautiful and heart-warming collection of stories, this landmark publication tells, for the...
Bizarre & Outlandish Gadgets & Doohickeys: Used in Everyday Life-1851 to 1951

Bizarre & Outlandish Gadgets & Doohickeys: Used in Everyday Life-1851

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Hundreds of 19th- and 20th-century curiosities and contraptions are catalogued in this amusing assembly of more than 1,000 images. The days from the first Great Industrial Exhibition of 1851 to...
The Ambassador Magazine: Promoting Post-War British Textiles and Fashion

The Ambassador Magazine: Promoting Post-War British Textiles and

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The Ambassador has been described as 'probably the most daring and enterprising trade magazine ever conceived'. With the motto 'Export or Die!', the magazine was renowned for its innovative design...
Bizarre & Outlandish Gadgets & Doohickeys: Used in Everyday Life-1851 to 1951

Bizarre & Outlandish Gadgets & Doohickeys: Used in Everyday Life-1851

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Hundreds of 19th- and 20th-century curiosities and contraptions are catalogued in this amusing assembly of more than 1,000 images. The days from the first Great Industrial Exhibition of 1851 to...
Handle With Care: Confessions of an NHS Health Visitor

Handle With Care: Confessions of an NHS Health Visitor

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'[It] manages to be funny, moving, activist, and challenging.' Harriet Minter, TalkRadio'I loved this book - I thought it was really interesting' Jane Garvey, BBC Radio 4 Woman's HourHealth Visiting...
Chastise: The Dambusters Story 1943

Chastise: The Dambusters Story 1943

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA masterly history of the Dambusters raid from bestselling and critically acclaimed Max Hastings.Operation Chastise, the overnight destruction of the Moehne and Eder dams in north-west Germany...
Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era

Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era (SIGNED)

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'The very best sort of panoramic portrait' David Kynaston'The Edwardians have long been the lost decade of British history, yet they are that history at its climax. Alwyn Turner sets...
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

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'Enthralling' GUARDIAN'Incredibly absorbing ... astonishingly candid' Bill BrysonWinner of the PEN Ackerley Prize and the South Bank Sky Arts Award for LiteratureShortlisted for the Costa Biography Award; Duff Cooper Prize;...
First Lady: The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill

First Lady: The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill

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From the personal and political upheavals of the Great War, through the Churchills' 'wilderness years' in the 1930s, to Clementine's desperate efforts to preserve her husband's health during the struggle...
The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler

The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler

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Cairo, 1942: If you had asked a British officer who Colonel Clarke was, they would have been able to point him out: always ready with a drink and a story,...
Trotsky's Favourite Spy: The Life Of George Alexander Hill

Trotsky's Favourite Spy: The Life Of George Alexander Hill

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UnaKroll was eleven when she first met her father. They stopped for lunch on theway from Brighton to London and he took her outside to play with theinnkeeper's Angora rabbit....
A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II

A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret

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As heard on the New Yorker Radio Hour: The triumphant and "engaging history" (The New Yorker) of the young women who devised a winning strategy that defeated Nazi U-boats and...
Kidnap in Crete: The True Story of the Abduction of a Nazi General

Kidnap in Crete: The True Story of the Abduction of a Nazi General

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This is the story of how a small SOE unit led by Patrick Leigh Fermor kidnapped a German general on the Nazi-occupied island of Crete in 1944. For thirty-two days,...
Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace

Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace

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'A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle ... Compelling' Daily Mail'An unmissable read' Sunday Times Soldiers is a very personal gathering...
Edwardian Ladies' Hat Fashions: Where Did You Get that Hat?

Edwardian Ladies' Hat Fashions: Where Did You Get that Hat?

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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...
The Privatisation Classes: A Pictorial Survey of Diesel and Electric Locomotives and Units Since 1994

The Privatisation Classes: A Pictorial Survey of Diesel and Electric

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Post Privatisation Diesels and Electrics is an album of photographs taken by David Cable, a well-regarded author of several books covering trains throughout much of the world. This book looks...
British Naval Supremacy and Anglo-American Antagonisms, 1914-1930

British Naval Supremacy and Anglo-American Antagonisms, 1914-1930

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During World War I, Britain's naval supremacy enabled it to impose economic blockades and interdiction of American neutral shipping. The United States responded by building 'a navy second to none',...
Black Box Canberras: British Test and Trials Canberras 1951-1994

Black Box Canberras: British Test and Trials Canberras 1951-1994

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English Electric's Canberra saw an unbroken 46 years of service in the UK as a test and trials aircraft from 1951 until final retirement in 1994. Flown by Government research...