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Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City
Author: Russell Shorto Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Amsterdam is not just any city. Despite its relative size it has stood alongside its larger cousins - Paris, London, Berlin...
After the Fall: Crisis, Recovery and the Making of a New Spain
Author: Tobias Buck Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Tobias Buck arrived in Madrid in December 2012, in time to celebrate the bleakest Christmas the city had seen in a...
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,...
Return to Russia
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The History of Rome
Author: Professor Michael Grant Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 From a small Iron Age settlement on the banks of the Tiber, Rome grew to become the centre of an...
The Balkans
Author: Mark Mazower Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 At the end of the twentieth century people spoke as if the Balkans had plagued Europe forever. But two hundred years...
My Father's Letters: Correspondence from the Soviet Gulag
Author: Georgia Thomson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'They will live as human beings and die as human beings; and in this alone lies man's eternal and bitter victory...
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 New Royals: Queen Elizabeth's Legacy and the Future of the Crown
Author: Katie Nicholl Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 For seventy years, Queen Elizabeth ruled over an institution and a family. During her lifetime she was constant in her desire...
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 Bell of Treason: The 1938 Munich Agreement in Czechoslovakia
Author: P.E. Caquet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 On returning from Germany on 30 September 1938 after his agreement with Hitler on the carve-up of Czechoslovakia, Neville Chamberlain spoke...
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 Death of Hitler: The Final Word on the Ultimate Cold Case: The Search for Hitler's Body
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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...
The War Magician: The man who conjured victory in the desert
Author: David Fisher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The incredible true story of the greatest illusionist of modern times and the man who altered the course of the second...
What I Saw: Reports From Berlin 1920-33
Author: Joseph Roth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 In 1920, Joseph Roth, the most renowned German correspondent of his age, arrived in Berlin, the capital of the Weimar Republic....
A Ukrainian Christmas
Author: Yaroslav Hrytsak Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 'History, stories, recipes and beautiful illustrations' - OLINA HERCULES 'A wonderful little book of recipes and stories' - NIGELLA LAWSON 'Christmas...
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 Gunzburgs: A Family Biography
Author: Lorraine de Meaux Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 In 1857 the Gunzburgs arrived in Paris from Russia with their large family, a retinue of business staff and extensive...
Britain Alone: The Path from Suez to Brexit
Author: Philip Stephens Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 In 1962 the American statesman Dean Acheson famously charged that Britain had lost an empire and failed to find a new...
Yugoslavia in the Second World War
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Avant-Garde: The Experimental Theatre In France
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The Bridge: A Journey Between Orient and Occident
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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...
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
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Author: Neil Price Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 624 The definitive history of the Vikings -- from arts and culture to politics and cosmology -- by a distinguished archaeologist with...
Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich
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Author: Peter Fritzsche Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 This "elegant and sobering" (New York Times) history reveals how Germany's fractured republic gave way to the Third Reich, from the...
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...
Lying About Hitler
Author: Richard Evans Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 An illumination of one of the most explosive and publicized "holocaust trials" since that of Adolf Eichmann, by a leading historian...
Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall
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Author: Helena Merriman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 He escaped from one of the world's most brutal regimes.Then, he decided to tunnel back in. In the summer of 1962,...
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...
Phantom Terror
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Author: Adam Zamoyski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 For the ruling and propertied classes of the late eighteenth century, the years following the French Revolution were characterized by intense...
Chanel's Riviera: Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Cote d'Azur, 1930-1944
Author: Anne de Courcy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Far from worrying about the onset of war, in the spring of 1938 the burning question on the French Riviera...
The Quest for Queen Mary
Author: James Pope-Hennessy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'A scary portrait of put-upon servants and potty aristos ... this is arguably the most riotously funny volume published this year'...
The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
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The Scottish Highlanders: A Personal View
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Some Talk of Alexander:A Journey Through Space and Time in the Gr: A Journey Through Space and Time in the Greek World
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Inside the World of Bridgerton: True Stories of Regency High Society
Author: Catherine Curzon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Discover the true Regency history behind the TV phenomenon. In The Real World of Bridgerton, author and Regency period expert Catherine...
The Fortress
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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...
Kingship And Unity: Scotland 1000-1306
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Operation Overload D-Day
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The Celts: A Sceptical History
Author: Simon Jenkins (Columnist) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The history of the Celts is the history of a misnomer. There has never been a distinct people, race or...
The Quest for Queen Mary
Author: James Pope-Hennessy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A scary portrait of put-upon servants and potty aristos ... this is arguably the most riotously funny volume published this year'...
The Mines Of Tharsis: Roman, French And British Enterprise In Spain
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The Flowering of the Middle Ages
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To Shatter the Sky: Bomber Airfield at War
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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...