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A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion

A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion

$54.99$10.00
Author: Tom Segev Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 816 When Tom Segev's biography of David Ben-Gurion was published in Israel in early 2018, it was a major event, making headlines...
The Second Most Powerful Man in the World: The Life of Admiral William D. Leahy, Roosevelt's Chief of Staff

The Second Most Powerful Man in the World: The Life of Admiral William D. Leahy, Roosevelt's Chief of Staff

$15.00
Author: Phillips Payson O'Brien Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 The life of Franklin Roosevelt's most trusted and powerful advisor, Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief...
The Spy in Moscow Station: A Counterspy's Hunt for a Deadly Cold War Threat

The Spy in Moscow Station: A Counterspy's Hunt for a Deadly Cold War Threat

$39.99$15.00
Author: Eric Haseltine Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The thrilling, true story of the race to find a leak in the United States Embassy in Moscow--before more American assets...
Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control

Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control

$49.99$15.00
Author: Stephen Kinzer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The bestselling author of All the Shah's Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the...
The Global Age: Europe 1950-2017

The Global Age: Europe 1950-2017

$59.95$8.00
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 Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great

The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great

$34.99$12.00
Author: Alex Rowson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons...
Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower's campaign for Peace

Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower's campaign for Peace

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Author: Alex Von Tunzelmann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 A lively, revelatory popular history that tells the story of both the Suez Crisis and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956--a...
Rise of the Right: The war on Australia's liberal values

Rise of the Right: The war on Australia's liberal values

$24.99$10.00
Author: Greg Barns Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 To most of us, liberal values mean respect for openness, progress, tolerance and the rule of law. But in...
The Cult of We: WeWork and the Great Start-Up Delusion

The Cult of We: WeWork and the Great Start-Up Delusion

$34.99$12.00
Author: Eliot Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 'An amazing portrait of how grifters came to be called visionaries and high finance lost its mind.' Charles Duhigg,...
Rommel - A Reappraisal

Rommel - A Reappraisal

$65.00$25.00
Author: Ian F. Beckett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 How should history judge the life and career of Erwin Rommel, the most famous German general of the Second World...
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat

Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat

$15.00
Author: Giles Milton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Six gentlemen, one goal: the destruction of Hitler's war machine In the spring of 1939, a top-secret organization was founded in...
The House of Yan, A Family at the Heart of a Century in Chinese History

The House of Yan, A Family at the Heart of a Century in Chinese History

$34.99$12.00
Author, Lan Yan Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 432 Through the sweeping cultural and historical transformations of China, entrepreneur Lan Yan traces her family's history through early 20th...
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library

The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library

$15.00
Author: Edward Wilson-Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 "Like a Renaissance wonder cabinet, full of surprises and opening up into a lost world." --Stephen Greenblatt "A captivating adventure...For lovers...
Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

$34.99$15.00
Author: Maggie Haberman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 608 *THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *A Financial Times Book of the Year* *Economist Book of the Year* 'A political epic'...
In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones

In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones

$44.99$12.00
Author: Jeffrey Tayler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 With exclusive insider status as Nikita Khrushchev's great grand-daughter, and an ex-pat living and reporting on Russia and the Soviet Union...
The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century

The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century

$15.00
Author: Clay Risen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2019 SELECTION The dramatic story of the most famous regiment in American history:...
The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un

The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un

$32.99$12.00
Author: Anna Fifield Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 THE GREAT SUCCESSOR is an irreverent yet insightful quest to understand the life of Kim Jong Un, one of...
A Brotherhood of Spies: The U-2 and the Cia's Secret War

A Brotherhood of Spies: The U-2 and the Cia's Secret War

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Author: Monte Reel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A thrilling dramatic narrative of the top-secret Cold War-era spy plane operation that transformed the CIA and brought the U.S. and...
Inside The Third Reich

Inside The Third Reich

$26.99$12.00
Author: Albert Speer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 832 'Inside the Third Reich' is not only the most significant personal German account to come out of the war but the...
The Prince

The Prince

$14.99$12.74
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Tim Parks's celebrated new translation of this classic text, now in paperback As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence,...
Papillon (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

Papillon (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

$22.99$12.00
Author: Henri Charriere Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 A classic memoir of prison breaks and adventure - a bestselling phenomenon of the 1960s Condemned for a murder...
Rainbow Revolutions: Power, Pride and Protest in the Fight for Queer Rights

Rainbow Revolutions: Power, Pride and Protest in the Fight for Queer Rights

$26.99$15.00
Author: Eve Lloyd Knight Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 On June 28 1969, around one o'clock in the morning, New York City Police raided the Stonewall Inn, a bar...
The Gulag Archipelago: (Abridged edition)

The Gulag Archipelago: (Abridged edition)

$24.99$21.24
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...
We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World - From Nobel Peace Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai

We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World

$29.99$10.00
Author: Malala Yousafzai Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Nobel Peace Prize winner and bestselling author Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the faces behind the statistics and news...
The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler's first Mass-Murder Programme

The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler's first Mass-Murder Programme

$34.99$12.00
Author: Charlie English Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'A riveting tale, brilliantly told' Philippe Sands The little-known story of Hitler's war on modern art and the mentally...
Optimism Over Despair

Optimism Over Despair

$14.99$12.74
Author: Noam Chomsky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A new Penguin Special on the problems of the world and how to prepare for tomorrow - from the...
30-Second Napoleon: The 50 fundamentals of his life, strategies, and legacy, each explained in half a minute

30-Second Napoleon: The 50 fundamentals of his life, strategies, and legacy, each explained in half a minute

$19.99$10.00
Author: Charles Esdaile Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Almost two centuries since his death, Napoleon Bonaparte remains the subject of vigorous debate. On one side are those...
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life

Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life

$17.50
Author: Robert Dallek Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 704 Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and NPR "We come to see in FDR the magisterial,...
Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World

Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World

$34.99$12.00
Author: Peter S. Goodman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller The New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent masterfully reveals how billionaires' systematic plunder...
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD

$34.99$12.00
Author: Steven L. Davis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'It's a rollicking tale that brings to life the antic atmosphere of America in the 'Me' Decade' Wall...
Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

$22.99$19.54
Author: Paulo Freire Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A groundbreaking text of educational philosophy and social reform, now in Penguin Modern Classics. This text argues that the...
The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi-Occupied France

The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi-Occupied France

$12.00
Author: Seth Meyerowitz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The remarkable, untold story of World War II American Air Force turret-gunner Staff Sergeant Arthur Meyerowitz, who was shot down over...
The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius

The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius

$17.99$15.29
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Key reading for 2018- Orwell's moving reflections on the English character and his passionate belief in the need for...
Can We All Be Feminists?: New Writing from Brit Bennett, Nicole Dennis-Benn, and 15 Others on Intersectionality, Identity, and the Way Forward for Feminism

Can We All Be Feminists?: New Writing from Brit Bennett, Nicole Dennis-Benn et al

$10.00
Author: June Eric-Udorie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 "As timely as it is well-written, this clear-eyed collection is just what I need right now." -Jacqueline Woodson, author...
We Are the Weather Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast

We Are the Weather Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast

$12.00
Author: Jonathan Safran Foer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 In We Are the Weather, Jonathan Safran Foer explores the central global dilemma of our time in a surprising, deeply...
If This Is A Man/The Truce

If This Is A Man/The Truce

$24.99$12.00
Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out...
Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers

Bad Data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers

$49.99$15.00
Author: Georgina Sturge Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'Essential reading ... An incisive and urgently needed book' Tim Harford '[An] entertaining introduction to the uses (and misuses) of data...
The New Spymasters: Inside the Modern World of Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror

The New Spymasters: Inside the Modern World of Espionage from the Cold War to Global Terror

$12.00
Author: Stephen Grey (Broadleaf Capital International Australia) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The old world of spying-dead-letter boxes, microfilm cameras, an enemy reporting to the Moscow Center, and a...
The Skripal Files: The Life and Near Death of a Russian Spy

The Skripal Files: The Life and Near Death of a Russian Spy

$12.00
Author: Mark Urban Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The explosive story of the poisoning of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and what it reveals about the growing clandestine...
Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957

Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957

$15.00
Author: Derek Leebaert (Georgetown University Washington DC) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 624 A new understanding of the post World War II era, showing what occurred when the British Empire...
Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win

Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win

$52.99$8.00
Author: Peter Schweizer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 #1 New York Times Bestseller Peter Schweizer says that, in a quarter-century as an investigative journalist, this is the scariest investigation...
Mein Kampf

Mein Kampf

$59.99$50.99
Author: Adolf Hitler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 Mein Kampf was first published in two volumes in 1925-6 and sold between eight and nine million copies during...
Therapy Quest: An Interactive Journey Through Acceptance And Commitment Therapy

Therapy Quest: An Interactive Journey Through Acceptance And Commitment Therapy

$23.99$5.00
Author: Dr Janina Scarlet Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Did you ever want to be a hero? Have you ever dreamed of going on an epic quest...
The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel

The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel

$24.99$12.00
Author: Kati Marton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private leader' WALTER ISAACSON From the bestselling author of Enemies of the...
Freedom

Freedom

$19.99$10.00
Author: Sebastian Junger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm 'Sebastian Junger bears...
The Gate to China: A New History of the People's Republic & Hong Kong

The Gate to China: A New History of the People's Republic & Hong Kong

$34.99$12.00
Author: Michael Sheridan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 'Impressive ... Fascinating' Sunday Times 'An authoritative history' Financial Times 'Gripping and richly researched' Rana Mitter A superb new...
All the Kremlin's Men, Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin

All the Kremlin's Men, Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin

$24.99$10.00
Author, Mikhail Zygar Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 400 ALL THE KREMLIN'S MEN is a gripping narrative of an accidental king and a court out of control. Based...
Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors

Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors

$15.00
Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 In this definitive biography of father and son, an eminent historian "brings to life the full drama of ancient history" (Wall...