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The Race Against the Stasi: The Incredible Story of Dieter Widemann, the Iron Curtain and the Greatest Cycling Race on Earth
Author: Herbie Sykes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 When the 'Iron Curtain' descended across Europe, Dieter Wiedemann was a hero of East German sport. A podium finisher in The...
The Narrow Sea: Barrier, Bridge and Gateway to the World - The History of the English Channel
Author: Peter Unwin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The English Channel separates Britain from Europe, keeping invaders out of Britain and making the island and islanders different from the...
La Serenissima: The Story of Venice
Author: Jonathan Keates Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 A stunningly illustrated history of Venice, from its beginnings as 'La Serenissima' - 'the Most Serene Republic' - to the Italian...
The Romanovs: The Final Chapter
Author: Robert K. Massie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The compelling quest to solve a great mystery of the twentieth century: the ultimate fate of Russia's last tsar and...
How Britain Kept Calm and Carried On: True stories from the Home Front
Author: Anton Rippon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 How Britain Kept Calm and Carried On is a unique, funny and sometimes heartbreakingly sad book containing a treasury of first-hand...
Five Days in London: May 1940
Author: John Lukacs Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The decisive importance of these five days is the focus of John Lukacs's magisterial book. The days from 24 May to...
The Story of Russia: 'An excellent short study'
Author: Orlando Figes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects...
The Searchers: The Quest for the Lost of the First World War
Author: Robert Sackville-West Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 **Selected as a Book of the Year by the Spectator and the Daily Telegraph** 'Fascinating ... carefully researched and beautifully written'...
Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes
Author: Tariq Ali Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The subject of numerous biographies and history books, Winston Churchill has been repeatedly voted as one of the greatest of Englishmen....
Paris in Turmoil: A City between Past and Future
Author: Eric Hazan (Director) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 "Since the disastrous Pompidou years, working-class Paris has been steadily nibbled away, either by destruction or more insidiously by a...
England: The Making of the Myth from Stonehenge to Albert Square
Author: Maureen Duffy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'An erudite, extremely entertaining work' Jan Morris, Independent In the style of Longitude and Fermat's Last Theorem, acclaimed novelist Maureen Duffy...
The Queen's Knight
Author: Martyn Downer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 Suppressed passion and domestic intrigue at the heart of Queen Victoria's court. Sir Howard Elphinstone, dashing hero of the Crimean War,...
The Lost Decade: 2010-2020, and What Lies Ahead for Britain
Author: Polly Toynbee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The ten years from 2010 have been devastating. A decade of austerity and paralysis nurtured contempt for leaders, institutions and fellow...
Dangerous Days in Elizabethan England: Thieves, Tricksters, Bards and Bawds
Author: Terry Deary Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 From the author of HORRIBLE HISTORIES comes the third volume in Terry Deary's gritty and humorous history series for adults. The...
Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in its Darkest, Finest Hour
Author: Lynne Olson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 In her latest book, Lynne Olson focuses again on Britain in World War II, this time from an American perspective. This...
Conspirator
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Author: Helen Rappaport Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Helen Rappaport's Conspirator is a vivid account of Vladimir I. Lenin's years of exile in Europe, showing that this often-overlooked period...
The Tories: Conservatives and the Nation State, 1922-97
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Slim, Master of War: Burma, 1942-5
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The City of York Companion
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The Secret History of Georgian London: How the Wages of Sin Shaped the Capital
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In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815
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The Affair: Case of Alfred Dreyfus
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The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon
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The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England
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The Story of Russia: 'An excellent short study'
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Ministers at War: Winston Churchill and his War Cabinet
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Code Wars: How 'Ultra' and 'Magic' led to Allied Victory
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Pursuit Through Darkened Skies: An Ace Night-fighter Crew in World War II
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Sunk by Stukas, Survived at Salerno: The Memoirs of Captain Tony McCrum RN
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The Night Blitz, 1940-41
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Escort Carrier of the Second World War
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1943: The Victory That Never Was
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Luck of the Devil: Flying Swordfish in Wwii
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Inside the War Cabinet: Directing Australia's War Effort, 1939-45
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MacArthur's ""Ultra: Codebreaking and the War Against Japan, 1942-45
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The Third Force
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Shan Hackett: the Pursuit of Exactitude
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The Nazi Menace: Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Road to War
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Battle of Sicily: How the Allies Lost Their Chance at Total Victory
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First Wave: The D-Day Warriors Who Led the Way to Victory in the Second World War
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The Unheralded: Men and Women of the Berlin Blockade and Airlift
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Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis
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The Girls Who Went to War: Heroism, heartache and happiness in the wartime women's forces
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The Spies of Winter: The GCHQ codebreakers who fought the Cold War
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Airlines at War: British Civil Aviation 1939 - 1944
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Battered Bastards of Bastogne: A Chronicle of the Defense of Bastogne December 19, 1944 - January 17, 1945
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A Ruddy Awful Waste: Eric Lock DSO, DFC & Bar: the Brief Life of a Battle of Britain Ace
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Biggin Hill Wing 1941: from Defence to Offence, The
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