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The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe
Author: James Belich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern age....
Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History
Author: Thomas J. Barfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern times. The world's first great empires...
The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World
Author: Karl Schloegel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 928 An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly...
Rarities of These Lands: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Dutch Republic
Author: Claudia Swan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A vivid account of the exoticism of the Dutch Republic at a critical moment in its cultural and political history. The...
The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle
Author: David Edmonds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 *New Statesman, Books of the Year* *FiveBooks, One of Nigel Warburton's Best Philosophy Books of 2020* On June 22, 1936, the...
Robespierre: The Man Who Divides Us the Most
Author: Marcel Gauchet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 How Robespierre's career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracy. Maximilien Robespierre (17581794) is arguably the most controversial and contradictory...
Africa's Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat
Author: Benedicte Savoy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial...
Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher
Author: John Davis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 600 Waterloo Sunrise is a panoramic and multifaceted account of modern London during the transformative years of the sixties and seventies, when...
Embattled Europe: A Progressive Alternative
Author: Konrad H. Jarausch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 344 A bracing corrective to predictions of the European Union's decline, by a leading historian of modern Europe. Is the European...
A Matter of Obscenity: The Politics of Censorship in Modern England
Author: Christopher Hilliard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 For Victorian lawmakers and judges, the question of whether a book should be allowed to circulate freely depended on whether it...
Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction
Author: Talia Schaffer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 In Communities of Care, Talia Schaffer explores Victorian fictional representations of care communities, small voluntary groups that coalesce around someone in...
The Tattooist of Auschwitz Commemorative Edition: the heartbreaking and unforgettable international bestseller
Author: Heather Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The incredible story of the Auschwitz-Birkenau tattooist and the woman he loved. Lale Sokolov is well-dressed, a charmer, a ladies' man....
The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab
Author: Marina Wheeler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Deeply touching.' - Daily Mail 'A personal, sometimes harrowing history of partition... a writer well worth reading.' - The Times 'A...
Merchant Adventurers: The Voyage of Discovery that Transformed Tudor England
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Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s
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A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration
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The Crazy Years: Paris in the Twenties
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And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris
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Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
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Dr. B.
Author: Daniel Birnbaum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The former director of the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm makes his literary debut with this dramatic and riveting novel...
Changing Stages: A View of British Theatre in the 20th Century
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Macquarie
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Postcards from the End of the World
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Refractive Africa: Ballet of the Forgotten
Author: Will Alexander Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Refractive Africa is a set of three poems ruminating on diasporic witness, colonialism, invasion, and political resistance. This 'pas de trois'...
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...
Debs at War: 1939-1945
Author: Anne de Courcy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 An extraordinary account - from firsthand sources - of upper class women and the active part they took in the...
The Battle of the Bulge
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Slaughter Over Sicily
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The Spies of Winter: The GCHQ codebreakers who fought the Cold War
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The Diamond Queen: Elizabeth II and Her People
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Dresden: The Fire and the Darkness
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The Girls Who Went to War: Heroism, heartache and happiness in the wartime women's forces
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Katherine Howard: The Tragic Story of Henry VIII's Fifth Queen
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Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers who Turned the Tide in the Second World War
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Walcheren - Operation Infatuate: Belgium-Holland
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Battlefields (of the Second World War)
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Hitler's American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and the German March to Global War
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Reluctant Nation
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The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers
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Robert Peel: A Biography
Author: Douglas Hurd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Robert Peel, as much as any man in the nineteenth century, transformed Great Britain into a modern nation. He invented our...
Shootdown: Verdict of K. A. L. 007
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The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara
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Tony and Cherie: A Special Relationship
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The Penguin History of Modern Spain: 1898 to the Present
Author: Nigel Townson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 A revelatory new history of Spain, from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first, drawing on a wealth of Spanish-led historical...
The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary
Author: Hana Videen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'A dream! I learnt something new and fascinating on every page' - Lucy Mangan 'If you love words, the weird and...