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Author: John Grehan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 287 Officers led and men followed; all were expected to do their duty without thought of reward. Enlisted men rarely penetrated the...
The Bell of Treason: The 1938 Munich Agreement in Czechoslovakia
Author: P.E. Caquet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 On returning from Germany on 30 September 1938 after his agreement with Hitler on the carve-up of Czechoslovakia, Neville Chamberlain spoke...
The Borgias
Author: Christopher Hibbert Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. The powerful, voracious Rodrigo...
A Short History of England
Author: Simon Jenkins (Columnist) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 From the invaders of the dark ages to the aftermath of the coalition, one of Britain's most respected journalists, Simon...
Five Love Affairs and a Friendship: The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age
Author: Anne de Courcy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Dazzlingly beautiful, highly intelligent and an extraordinary force of energy, Nancy Cunard was an icon of the Jazz Age, said...
Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine
Author: Anna Reid Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 FULLY UPDATED 'A fascinating and often violent odyssey, spanning more than 1,000 years of conflict and culture' INDEPENDENT Flat, fertile, and...
The Sky Wept Fire: My Life as a Chechen Freedom Fighter
Author: Mikail Eldin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 On the eve of the first Chechen war, Mikail Eldin was a young and naive arts journalist. By the end of...
Budapest: Between East and West
Author: Victor Sebestyen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Budapest has always been an important place. Almost at the centre of Europe, it is at the crossroads of geographical regions...
A Brief History of Paris
Author: Cecil Jenkins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Paris: city of love, food and fashion. Paris: the city that played host to major historical and cultural dramas. Paris: a...
The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I's Dream
Author: Charles Spencer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'As gripping as any thriller. History doesn't get any better than this' BILL BRYSON 'A brilliant...
Luxury and Austerity
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The Last Time I Saw Paris
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The Secret History of Soviet Russia's Police State: Cruelty, Co-operation and Compromise, 1917-91
Author: Martyn Whittock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 '[R]eadable and thoughtful . . . does an excellent job of exploring how the murderous political police in all its incarnations...
Endgame
Author: Omid Scobie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The explosive new book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the international blockbuster Finding Freedom, Endgame a penetrating...
Churchill's War Lab: Code Breakers, Boffins and Innovators: the Mavericks Churchill Led to Victory
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MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949
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The Showman: The Inside Story of the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky
Author: Simon Shuster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'This book offers a front row seat to history as it is being made' ANNE APPLEBAUM 'This is the...
Venice: Lion City
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A Strange Business: Making Art and Money in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: James Hamilton (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Britain in the nineteenth century saw a series of technological and social changes which continue to influence and direct us...
The Showman: The Inside Story of the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky
Author: Simon Shuster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'This book offers a front row seat to history as it is being made' ANNE APPLEBAUM 'This is the Zelensky book...
Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth
Author: Keiron Pim Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 The brilliant, mercurial, self-mythologising novelist and journalist Joseph Roth, author of the European 20th century masterpiece The Radetzky March, was an...
Endgame
Author: Omid Scobie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The explosive new book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the international blockbuster Finding Freedom, Endgame a penetrating...
The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England's Last Literary Salon
Author: Simon Fenwick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 In 1945, Eddy Sackville-West, Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Eardley Knollys - writers for the New Statesman and a National Trust administrator -...
Saving Freud: A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London
Author: Andrew Nagorski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'An intimate, touching portrait of a genius as an old man' -SYLVIA NASAR, author of A BEAUTIFUL MIND 'A gripping masterpiece'...
The Unsettling of Europe: How Migration Reshaped a Continent
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Author: Peter Gatrell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 An acclaimed historian examines postwar migration's fundamental role in shaping modern Europe Migration is perhaps the most pressing issue of our...
The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague
Author: Timothy Garton Ash (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that capture history in the making, written by...