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The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
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Author: Norman Eisen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa's greatest...
The Phoenix: St. Paul's Cathedral And The Men Who Made Modern London
Author: Leo Hollis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'A tour de force of biography, history, politics, philosophy and experimental science' ECONOMIST The remarkable and inspiring story of how London...
Trackers: The Untold Story of the Australian Dogs of War
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History of the Boer War 1899-1902
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Doves of War: Four Women of Spain
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KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
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Spirit of Kokoda, The (New Edition)
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Blood, Fire and Gold: The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici
Author: Estelle Paranque Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A thrilling joint biography of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici, uncovering how their complex 30-year relationship shaped their dynasties, perfect...
Last Stop Auschwitz: My story of survival from within the camp
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Author: Eddy de Wind Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 An Auschwitz prisoner's remarkable account of suffering and survival, an international bestseller and the only complete book written inside the...
London Perceived: A Portrait of The City
Author: V.S. Pritchett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 In unfailingly elegant prose, V. S. Pritchett provides a timeless distillation of the city of London and the London experience. He...
Forgotten War: new edition
Author: Henry Reynolds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'We are at war with them,' wrote a Tasmanian settler in 1831. 'What we call their crime is what in a...
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...
The Other Renaissance: From Copernicus to Shakespeare
Author: Paul Strathern Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 It is generally accepted that the European Renaissance began in Italy. However, a historical transformation of similar magnitude also took place...
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...
Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940-45
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Merchant Adventurers: The Voyage of Discovery that Transformed Tudor England
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The Berlin Wall: 13 August 1961 - 9 November 1989
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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...
Macquarie
Author: Grantlee Kieza Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 A lively and engaging portrait of a towering and complex figure of Australian colonial history. Lachlan Macquarie is credited with shaping...
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'...
Stateless
A group of young pilots face intrigue and sabotage in a race around Europe in this thrilling murder mystery, from the bestselling author of Code Name Verity. Ideal for readers...
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 Diamond Queen: Elizabeth II and Her People
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The Girls Who Went to War: Heroism, heartache and happiness in the wartime women's forces
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Battlefields (of the Second World War)
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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...
Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership
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How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions
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Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany: The 'Fascist' Style of Rule
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Castle of the Eagles: Escape from Mussolini's Colditz
Author: Mark Felton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 High in the Tuscan hills above Florence, the menacing Vincigliata Castle - a very special prisoner-of-war camp converted on Mussolini's personal...
George Mackay Brown
Author: Maggie Fergusson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 George Mackay Brown was one of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century writers, but in person a bundle of paradoxes. He had a wide...
The Verdict: Did Labour Change Britain?
Author: David Walker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Did the Labour government improve people's lives? Are we healthier, wealthier or wiser; happier or safer than in 1997, when Labour...
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 Born in March 1896, Nancy Cunard was a great beauty, rich, promiscuous, with a mesmeric effect on men. She was...
One Common Enemy: The Laconia incident: A survivor's memoir
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Heart of Darkness (Collins Classics)
Author: Joseph Conrad Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if...
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
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Author: Anna Funder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 'A heartbreaking, beautifully written book. A classic for sure' Claire Tomalin, Guardian Extraordinary...
The Beautiful Mrs Seidenman: With an introduction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Author: Andrzej Szczypiorski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 In the Nazi-occupied Warsaw of 1943, Irma Seidenman, a young Jewish widow, possesses two attributes that can spell the difference between...
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...
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...
White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain's Legacy of Slavery
Author: Thomas Harding Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 When Thomas Harding discovered that his family had profited from slavery, he set out to interrogate the choices of his ancestors...
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 Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
Author: Hana Videen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Delightful ... a pleasure' - Guardian Old English is the language you think you know until you hear or see it....