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A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History
Author: Edward Wilson-Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A Times History Book of the Year 2022 A TLS Book of the Year 2022 'Exhilarating and whip-smart' THE SUNDAY TIMES...
Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the West - 'Magisterial' Books of the Year, Independent
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The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War
Author: Philip Oltermann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'Engrossing.' -Observer 'Remarkable.' - The Times 'Magnificent.'- Phillipe Sands 'Gripping.'- Literary Review 'A history so outlandish and unlikely that you feel...
The Last Palace: Europe's Extraordinary Century Through Five Lives and One House in Prague
Author: Norman Eisen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador's residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled after the...
Budapest: Between East and West
Author: Victor Sebestyen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Wallis Simpson, Theodore Roosevelt, Benito Mussolini, Evelyn Waugh, the great tenor Luciano Pavarotti, and the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin,...
Arnhem
Author: Christopher Hibbert Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The vivid account of how a brilliant plan turned into an epic tragedy - made into the BAFTA award-winning film A...
Return to Russia
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Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom
Author: Tom Holland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared...
Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-39
Author: Florian Illies Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023' 1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles...
Inside Ukraine: A Portrait of a Country and its People
Author: Ukrainer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Inside Ukraine is a compelling visual portrait of the real Ukraine, lovingly put together by Ukrainians in the years leading up to...
The Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee Colony
'Follow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and immutable.' Barry Miles'The Gold Machine is a trip, a psychoactive expedition in...
The Invention of Russia: The Journey from Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War
Author: Arkady Ostrovsky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Winner 2016 Orwell Prize In 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev launched Perestroika, opened Russia up to the world, ended the Cold War and...
The Invention of Russia: The Journey from Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War
Author: Arkady Ostrovsky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Winner 2016 Orwell Prize In 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev launched Perestroika, opened Russia up to the world, ended the Cold War and...
A Brief History of the Vikings
Author: Jonathan Clements Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'From the Fury of the Northmen deliver us, O Lord.' Between the eighth and eleventh centuries, the Vikings surged from their...
Witnessing Waterloo: 24 Hours, 48 Lives, A World Forever Changed
Author: David Crane Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 [Previously published as 'Went The Day Well'] 'Of all the books marking the bicentenary Waterloo, this has to be the best'...
Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-39
Author: Florian Illies Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023' 1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles...
City of Light: The Making of Modern Paris
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Author: Rupert Christiansen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century reinvention of Paris as the most beautiful, exciting city in the world In 1853, French...
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 Invention of Power: Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West
Author: Bruce de Mesquita Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Western exceptionalism-the idea that European civilizations are freer, wealthier, and less violent-is a widespread and powerful political idea. It has...
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
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Woody Allen: Beyond Words
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Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends
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Author: Linda Kinstler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In 1965, five years after the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, one of his Mossad abductors was sent back...
Paradise of Cities: Venice and Its Nineteenth-century Visitors
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Konin-A Quest
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The Penguin History of Medieval Europe
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Agent Sniper: The Cold War Superagent and the Ruthless Head of the CIA
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Author: Tim Tate Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The thrilling never-before-told story of Agent Sniper, one of the Cold War's most effective counter-agents Michal Goleniewski, cover name Sniper, was...
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
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The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
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Author: Judy Batalion Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Also on the USA Today, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Globe and Mail, Publishers Weekly, and...
Faceless
Newbery Honor winner Kathryn Lasky, author of the Guardians of Ga'hoole series, delivers a riveting adventure about young British spies on a secret mission in Germany in WWII. "Fascinating and...
Arnhem: A Tragedy of Errors
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We Know You Remember: The No. 1 International Bestseller
Eira Sjodin is just old enough to remember the summer when 16-year-old Lina Stavren went missing. The entire community was haunted by the disappearance - especially when Olof Hagstrom, just...
The Discovery of France
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Crete: The Battle and the Resistance
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Return to Gallipoli: Walking the Battlefields of the Great War
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The Borgias
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The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War
Author: Philip Oltermann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'Liebe Mitstreiter', he says. Dear comrades in arms. Today we are going to learn about the sonnet. Berlin, 1962. Morale is...
The Quest for Queen Mary
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The Force of Destiny: A History of Italy Since 1796
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The Embrace of Unreason: France, 1914-1940
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When in Rome
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The Nazis: A Warning From History
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Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic
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The Anzacs
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An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler
Author: Peter Fritzsche Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 376 World War II reached into the homes and lives of ordinary people in an unprecedented way. Civilian men, women, and children...
Historical Enigmas
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The Somme
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Black Horse Odyssey: Search for the Lost City of Rome in China
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Crucible: The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924
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Author: Charles Emmerson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 752 The gripping story of the years that ended the Great War and launched Europe and America onto the roller coaster of...