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The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin
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Author: Douglas Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing, little-known story of an American effort to save the newly formed Soviet Union from disaster...
Educated: The international bestselling memoir
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Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet
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Author: Lyndal Roper (University of London) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 From "one of the best of the new [Martin Luther] biographers" (The New Yorker), a portrait of the...
The Price of Victory: The Red Army's Casualties in the Great Patriotic War
Author: Boris Kavalerchik Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 193 The Red Army's casualties during the Second World War and the casualties sustained by the German army they fought are a...
L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron"
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Author: Lucasta Miller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A lost nineteenth-century literary life, brilliantly rediscovered--Letitia Elizabeth Landon, hailed as the female Byron; she changed English poetry; her novels, short...
The Drowned And The Saved
Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Shortly after completing THE DROWNED AND THE SAVED, Primo Levi committed suicide. The manner of his death was sudden, violent and...
When Darwin Sailed the Sea: Uncover how Darwin's revolutionary ideas helped change the world
Author: David Long Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 "One day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand; then I...
Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture
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Great Society: A New History
Author: Amity Shlaes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 The New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period...
Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
Author: Nadia Wassef Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'Nadia's story is for every business owner who has ever jumped without a net, and for every reader who has found...
Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets
Author: Burkhard Bilger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration...
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
Author: Natasha Trethewey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2020 WINNER OF THE ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 CARNEGIE MEDAL IN...
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
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The Allies: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Unlikely Alliance That Won World War II
Author: Winston Groom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Best-selling author Winston Groom tells the complex story of how Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin--the three iconic and vastly...
It Happens With Gurkhas: Tales from an English Nepali, 1944-2015
Author: J P Cross Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 Gurkhas have served with the British for almost 200 years, first with the army of the East India Company, then...
Consider the Platypus: Evolution through Biology's Most Baffling Beasts
Author: Maggie Ryan Sandford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 CONSIDER THE PLATYPUS explores the history and features of more than 50 animals to provide insight into our current understanding...
Fate of War: Fredericksburg, 1862
Author: Duane Schultz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The Union assault on the critical Confederate stronghold of Fredericksburg, Virginia, along the Rappahannock River in December 1862 was one of...
A Promised Land
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The Fear and the Freedom: How the Second World War Changed Us
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Author: Keith Lowe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 Bestselling historian Keith Lowe's The Fear and the Freedom looks at the astonishing innovations that sprang from WWII and how they...
The Idea of India: 20th Anniversary Edition
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Author: Sunil Khilnani Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A classic since it was first published in 1997, The Idea of India is a magisterial historical study that...
Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Author: Fiona Sampson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Beautifully told. It is high time Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Aurora Leigh were once again household names.' - Mail on Sunday...
Politics Bargain Book Box
Politics Bargain Book Box This incisive collection of sixteen books tackles the most pressing political challenges of the twenty-first century, spanning global geopolitics, digital rights, and the internal machinery of...
A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain
Author: Paul Preston (London School of Economics) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 768 The culmination of a half-century of historical investigation, A People Betrayed is not only a definitive history...
The Crossroad
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Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout
Author: Laura Jane Grace Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 "If I could have chosen, I would have been born a woman / My mother once told me she would...
The Tango War: The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America During World War II
Author: Mary Jo McConahay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The Tango War fills an important gap in WWII history. Beginning in the thirties, both sides were well aware of...
Jet Girl: My Life in War, Peace, and the Cockpit of the Navy's Most Lethal Aircraft, the F/A-18 Super Hornet
Author: Hof Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Caroline Johnson was an unlikely aviation candidate. A tall blonde debutante from Colorado, she could have just as easily gone into...
Spare
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Constable: A Portrait
Author: James Hamilton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 ONE OF THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES' BEST BOOKS FOR 2022 'Eye-opening and full of surprises . . . A treasure'...
Septimius Severus in Scotland: The Northern Campaigns of the First Hammer of the Scots
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Author: Simon Elliott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 'The order was brutal, its message unequivocal - kill the men, women and children of what is now Scotland and don't...
The Year of Magical Thinking
Author: Joan Didion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 From one of America's iconic writers, a portrait of a marriage and a life - in good times and...
Law in War: Freedom and restriction in Australia during the Great War
Author: Dr Catherine Bond Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 During the Great War law was used in everyday life as a tool to discriminate, oppress, censor and deprive many...
The Year of Magical Thinking (Collins Modern Classics)
Author: Joan Didion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that...
Leadership in War: Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History
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Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A comparison of nine leaders who led their nations through the greatest wars the world has ever seen and whose unique...
Angela's Ashes
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Gallipoli
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Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English
Author: Jonathan Ree Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 768 An ambitious new history of philosophy in English that broadens the canon to include many lesser-known figures "[This] lively chronicle of...
Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire
Author: Alan Gallay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 Sir Walter Ralegh was the favourite of Queen Elizabeth, who showered him estates, jewels, monopolies, and political appointments earning him the...
Sunnis and Shi'A: A Political History
Author: Laurence Louer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A compelling history of the ancient schism that continues to divide the Islamic world When Mohammed died in 632...
The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway
Author: Brendan Simms Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The Battle of Midway was, on paper, an improbable victory for the smaller, less experienced American navy and air force, so...
The Disappearance of Emile Zola: Love, Literature, and the Dreyfus Case
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Author: Michael Rosen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 It is the evening of July 18, 1898 and the world-renowned novelist Emile Zola is on the run. His crime? Taking...
Voices of Snipers: Eyewitness Accounts from the World Wars
Author: John Walter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 248 Based on an incredible breadth of first-hand testimony, this is a unique collection of eyewitness accounts from World War I and...
Dunkirk to D-Day: A Commando's War
Author: Jeff Steel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 360 Another rip-roaring World War II history by prize-winning author Jeff Steel. Bill Adlam's hair-raising escape from Dunkirk, his dramatic commando raids...
Elton John at 75
Author: Gillian G. Gaar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 200 A unique and beautifully produced celebration of the iconic and beloved rock star, Elton John at 75 examines Sir Elton's...
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...
Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine
Author: David Petraeus Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 'A HUGELY IMPORTANT BOOK ... ELEGANTLY WRITTEN AND PERSUASIVELY ARGUED' DAILY TELEGRAPH, FIVE-STAR REVIEW 'AN INTELLIGENT, AUTHORITATIVE, COMPELLING AND, ABOVE ALL,...
The Rise and Rise of Kerry Packer
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Operation Pedestal: The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942
Author: Max Hastings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 The Sunday Times bestseller 'One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by...