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The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present, Third Edition
Author: Jonathan Fenby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 The crucial book for understanding modern China, now updated to include the rule of Xi Jinping. In 1850, China...
The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination
Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Renowned historian Richard Evans puts 'fake news' in historical perspective in this challenging and illuminating study The idea...
The Third Reich at War: How the Nazis Led Germany from Conquest to Disaster
Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 944 The final book in his acclaimed trilogy on the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, Richard J. Evans's...
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 11 and the Final Solution in Poland
Author: Christopher R. Browning Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In 1942 a unit of ordinary, middle-aged, German reserve policemen were ordered to liquidate a Jewish village. Most...
Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation
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
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
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
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...
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56
Author: Anne Applebaum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge...
The Light in Hidden Places: Based on the true story of war heroine Stefania Podgorska
Author: Sharon Cameron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A novel based on the incredible true story of Stefania Podg rska, a Polish teenager who hid 13 Jews...
The War in the West - A New History: Volume 1: Germany Ascendant 1939-1941
Author: James Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 The first part of an astonishing and revelatory new history of the Second World War from one of the...
How to Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance
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...
Undreamed Shores: The Hidden Heroines of British Anthropology
Author: Dr Frances Larson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In the first decades of the 20th century, five women arrived at Oxford to take the newly created Masters diploma...
The Journey Matters: Twentieth-Century Travel in True Style
Author: Jonathan Glancey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 What was it really like to take the LNER's Art Deco Coronation streamliner from King's Cross to Edinburgh, to...
A Rabble of Dead Money: The Great Crash and the Global Depression: 1929-1939
Author: Charles Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The Great Crash of 1929 violently disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The suddenness of the...
Fatherland: A Family History
Author: Nina Bunjevac Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Standing alongside Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and Joe Sacco's Palestine, Nina Bunjevac's Fatherland renders the searing history of the Balkans in the...
Berlin Finale
Author: Heinz Rein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 One of the first bestsellers in Germany after the Second World War, Berlin Finale is a breathtaking novel of...
Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45
Author: Volker Ullrich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 The long-awaited second volume of Volker Ullrich's acclaimed biography of the F hrer, taking us through the war years...
The Gulag Archipelago: (Abridged edition)
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...
The Daughters Of Mars
Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 In the tradition of Atonement and Birdsong, the Durance sisters leave Australia to nurse on the front during WWI...
Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune
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Author: John Merriman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 360 The Paris Commune lasted for only 64 days in 1871, but during that short time it gave rise to some of...
The Naked and the Dead
Author: Norman Mailer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 One of the finest American novels ever written, Norman Mailer's classic account of the Philippines campaign of WW2. Based...
Conversations With Stalin
Author: Milovan Djilas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Written in 1961, after Djilas had served time in prison for his views, and featuring portraits of the leading...
If Not Now, When?
Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In this gripping novel, based on a true story, Primo Levi reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish...
Life and Fate
Author: Vasily Grossman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 This sweeping account of the siege of Stalingrad aims to give as panoramic a view of Soviet society during...
We Germans
Author: Alexander Starritt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 When a young British man asks his German grandfather what it was like to fight on the wrong side...
Dance Your Troubles Away
Author: Pamela Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Pam Evans' heartwarming London saga, DANCE YOUR TROUBLES AWAY, is set during the Second World War and is sure...
All Quiet on the Western Front
Author: Erich Maria Remarque Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Discover the most famous anti-war novel ever written. One by one the boys begin to fall... In 1914...
The Bronze Horseman
Author: Paullina Simons Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 A magnificent epic of love, war and Russia from the international bestselling author of TULLY and ROAD TO PARADISE...
Man Who Broke into Auschwitz
Author: Denis AveyFormat: Paperback / softbackNumber of Pages: The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into Buna-Monowitz, the...
The Fat Boy with the Bomb and 299 of the Worlds Craziest Politicians
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Author: Brian O'Connell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A completely original illustrated international dossier of lunatic statesmen and insane leaders! This first attempt to catalogue the world...
Alone in Berlin
Author: Hans Fallada Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants...
Artists Under Hitler: Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany
Author: Jonathan Petropoulos Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 424 A penetrating inquiry into the motives, moral dilemmas, and compromises of Walter Gropius, Emil Nolde, and other celebrated artists who chose...
Eichmann in Jerusalem
Author: Hannah Arendt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Hannah Arendt's authoritative and controversial report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a...