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Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule
Author: Gordon Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 "A terrifying and timely account of resistance in the face of the greatest of evils."--Alex Kershaw, New York Times bestselling author...
The Global Age: Europe 1950-2017
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 Hitler Years: Disaster, 1940-1945
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Author: Frank McDonough Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 656 The Second Volume of a new chronicle of the Third Reich under Hitler's hand, ending with his death and Germany's disastrous...
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
Author: Laurence Rees Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 An award-winning historian plumbs the depths of Hitler and Stalin's vicious regimes, and shows the extent to which they brutalized the...
Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint
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A definitive new biography of the Byzantine emperor Justinian Justinian is a radical reassessment of an emperor and his times. In the sixth century CE, the emperor Justinian presided over...
Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the
Translated into at least 24 languages and with over 16 million copies sold worldwide, Man's Search for Meaning is one of the seminal pieces of literature to emerge from the...
In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust
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Author: Jeffrey Veidlinger Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD * SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE "The mass killings of Jews from 1918...
Inside Ukraine: A Portrait of a Country and its People
Author: Ukrainer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Inside Ukraine is a compelling visual portrait of the real Ukraine, lovingly put together by Ukrainians in the years leading up to...
The Glass Wall: Lives on the Baltic Frontier
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Author: Max Egremont Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Max Egremont, author of Some Desperate Glory, tells stories from the Glass Wall between Europe and Asia. Few countries have suffered...
Auschwitz: A History
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A short, devastating study of history's most notorious killing ground At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz. In a total inversion of earlier hopes about the use...
Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe
A magical and acclaimed history, bringing back to life the lost realms of Europe, now in trade paperback We habitually think of the European past as the history of countries...
The Complete MAUS
2021 is the 35th anniversary of Maus - the million-selling, Pulitzer-winning, father-son memoir about the Holocaust 'A quiet triumph, moving and simple - impossible to describe accurately, and impossible to...
Berlin: The Downfall: 1945
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The Fighter of Auschwitz: The incredible true story of Leen Sanders
**A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'He had the dream again last night... He taps the gloves of his unbeaten Polish opponent. There are rumours that the loser will be sent to...
Turkiye: Cycling Through a Country's First Century
"A deeply thoughtful, gripping and scrupulous book told in Sayarer's trademark style from the saddle and the roadside" CAROLINE EDENBy a winner of the Stanford Dolman Award for Travel Writing"The...
A Brief History of the Vikings
Author: Jonathan Clements Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'From the Fury of the Northmen deliver us, O Lord.' Between the eighth and eleventh centuries, the Vikings surged...
Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North
A fascinating collection of medieval Arabic travel writing, translated into English by Paul Lunde and Caroline Stone In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a...
Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles
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Manslaughter Park
In this queer retelling of the classic novel and third book in Tirzah Price's Jane Austen Murder Mystery series, Mansfield Park is the center of a deadly accident (or is...
Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the
A handsome gift edition of one of the seminal pieces of literature to emerge from World War 2- Viktor Frankl's moving account of his experiences in Auschwitz. With new introduction...
Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom
Author: Tom Holland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared...
The Pursuit of Power: Europe, 1815-1914
A masterpiece of historical writing which brings to life an extraordinarly turbulent and dramatic era of revolutionary change The Pursuit of Power draws on a lifetime of thinking about nineteenth-century...
The French Exception: Emmanuel Macron - The Extraordinary Rise and
'Adam Plowright's excellent book captures the strangeness of Macron's life' Evening Standard THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF EMMANUEL MACRON IN ENGLISH From total unknown to one of Europe's most powerful men...
The Windeby Puzzle: History and Story
Newbery Medalist and New York Times bestselling author Lois Lowry transports readers to an Iron Age world through the suspenseful dual narrative of a boy and girl both battling to...
My Opposition: The Diary of Friedrich Kellner - A German against the
This is a truly unique account of Nazi Germany at war and of one man's struggle against totalitarianism. A mid-level official in a provincial town, Friedrich Kellner kept a secret...
Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic
Opens a fascinating new window onto medieval and early modern life - a world where it's possible to meet the devil on the road, control the future through stars, and...
Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-39
Author: Florian Illies Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023' 1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles...
Arnhem
Author: Christopher Hibbert Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The vivid account of how a brilliant plan turned into an epic tragedy - made into the BAFTA award-winning film A...
African Europeans: An Untold History
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A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent One of the Best History Books of 2021 -- Smithsonian Conventional wisdom holds that Africans...
Night
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Published on the 80th anniversary of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning author's birth Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration...
Blood Royal: Dynastic Politics in Medieval Europe
Throughout medieval Europe, for hundreds of years, monarchy was the way that politics worked in most countries. This meant power was in the hands of a family - a dynasty;...
The House on the Canal: The Story of the House that Hid Anne Frank
Charting 400 years of history, this is the astonishing true story of the Anne Frank House, beautifully illustrated by Britta Teckentrup. In the middle of Amsterdam, stands a tall, narrow...
Buckham's Bombers: The Australian Airmen Who Hunted Hitler's Deadliest Battleship
Bruce Buckham was captain of one of the finest Lancaster crews in World War II. The Australians were famous for their exploits in the air and infamous for their hijinks...
Beyond Black
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure...
Join the Vikings: The Raid
Join the Vikings - On Raid contains 16 fascinating accounts of Viking exploits during the early Viking Age. Here you can read about the Viking chieftain Ragnar's raid on Paris,...
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
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Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion
A major new reinterpretation of the religious superstate that defined both Europe and Christianity, by one of our foremost medieval historians In the fourth century AD, a new faith exploded...
The Balkans
Author: Mark Mazower Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 At the end of the twentieth century people spoke as if the Balkans had plagued Europe forever. But two hundred years...
The Celts - Search for a Civilisation
Alice Roberts goes in search of the Celts and their treasures in a narrative history to accompanying a new BBC series. We know a lot about the Roman Empire. The...
The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End, 1917-1923
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A gripping work of history in the tradition of Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers In this highly original and gripping book Robert Gerwarth asks us to think again about the true...
Foul Days: Book One of The Witch's Compendium of Monsters
'A fresh, gritty world bursting with wonderful characters' ALLISON SAFT, author of A Far Wilder Magic ' A fast-paced thrill ride with immersive worldbuilding' FRANCES WHITE, author of Voyage of...
Paradise of Cities: Venice and Its Nineteenth-century Visitors
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Paths of Glory: The French Army, 1914-18
Author: Anthony Clayton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Anthony Clayton is an acknowledged expert on the French military and his book is a major contribution to the study and...
Beyond Black
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure...
The Battle of Loos
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Beating Napoleon: How Britain Faced Down Her Greatest Challenge
'If it had not been for you English, I should have been Emperor of the East; but wherever there is water to float a ship, we are sure to find...
With Wellington's Outposts
John Vandeleur's letters home to his parents are a lively and engaging account of active service during the Napoleonic Wars, recounting everything from day-to-day life on campaign to the experience...
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
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