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The SS Officer's Armchair: In Search of a Hidden Life

The SS Officer's Armchair: In Search of a Hidden Life

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Author: Daniel Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A historical detective story and a gripping account of one historian's hunt for answers as he delves into the...
Global Art and the Cold War

Global Art and the Cold War

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Author: John J. Curley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 In this readable and highly original book, John J. Curley presents the first synthetic account of global art during the...
The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State

The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State

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Author: Graeme Wood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A timely and essential rethinking of what ISIS is and what it really wants Based on Graeme Wood's unprecedented...
Seneca: A Life

Seneca: A Life

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Author: Emily Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Philosopher, dramatist, rhetorician, Stoic and pragmatist, Seneca was one of the most contradictory figures in ancient Rome, embracing a...
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

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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:...
Macarthur's Spies: The Soldier, the Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in World War II

Macarthur's Spies: The Soldier, the Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in World War II

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Author: Peter Eisner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A thrilling story of espionage, daring and deception set in the exotic landscape of occupied Manila during World War...
Clementine Churchill: A Life in Pictures

Clementine Churchill: A Life in Pictures

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Author: Sonia Purnell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Without Winston Churchill's inspiring leadership Britain could not have survived its darkest hour. Without his wife Clementine, however, he might never...
Island Song

Island Song

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Author: Madeleine Bunting (Y) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 1940. Guernsey is first bombed, then occupied, by the Germans. A year earlier, young, naive and recently married Helene, waves...
No Return: The True Story of How Martyrs Are Made

No Return: The True Story of How Martyrs Are Made

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Author: Mark Townsend Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Five teenage friends leave Brighton to wage jihad in Syria. All except one are killed. This is their untold...
The Eyes of Asia

The Eyes of Asia

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Author: Rudyard Kipling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Kipling's The Eyes of Asia takes the reader on a remarkable journey of discovery into the heart and soul...
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

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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...
The Journals of Captain Cook

The Journals of Captain Cook

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Author: Captain James Cook Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and 1779. In voyages that ranged from...
Life and Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)

Life and Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)

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Author: Vasily Grossman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 The Vintage Classics Russians Series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the...
Mein Kampf

Mein Kampf

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Author: Adolf Hitler Format: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 704 Mein Kampf was first published in two volumes in 1925-6 and sold between eight and nine million copies during Hitler's lifetime, as...
Secret and Special

Secret and Special

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Author: Will Davies Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The untold story of Z Special Unit and Operations, the precursor to the elite SAS, and the extraordinary feats...
Catch-22

Catch-22

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Author: Joseph Heller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, now celebrating its 50th anniversary. SOON TO BE A MAJOR...
The Warrior and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation

The Warrior and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation

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Author: Peter Cozzens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 'Marvellous... One of the best pieces of Native American history I have read.' - S.C. Gwynne, bestselling author of Empire of...
Slaughterhouse 5: The Children's Crusade A Duty-Dance With Death

Slaughterhouse 5: The Children's Crusade A Duty-Dance With Death

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Author: Kurt Vonnegut Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Kurt Vonnegut's masterpiece, one of the very best anti-war novels ever written, a book both beloved and banned -...
For the Record

For the Record

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Author: David Cameron Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 752 'The political memoir of the decade' Sunday Times The referendum on Britain's membership of the EU is one of the most...
The Scandalous Freddie McEvoy: The true story of the swashbuckling Australian rogue

The Scandalous Freddie McEvoy: The true story of the swashbuckling Australian rogue

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Author: Frank Walker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Swashbuckler, daredevil racing-car champion, Winter Olympian, gambler, smuggler, scoundrel, stud and suspected spy - this is the fascinating story...
Betrayal at Little Gibraltar: A German Fortress, a Treacherous American General, and the Battle to End World War I

Betrayal at Little Gibraltar: A German Fortress, a Treacherous American General, and the Battle to End World War I

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Author: William Walker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A vivid, thrilling, and impeccably researched account of America's bloodiest battle ever--World War I's Meuse-Argonne Offensive--and the shocking American...
Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War

Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War

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Author: Tim Bouverie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 This thrilling Sunday Times bestseller is the first major account of the disastrous years of British indecision and infighting...
The Nashos' War: Australia's national servicemen and Vietnam

The Nashos' War: Australia's national servicemen and Vietnam

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Author: Mark Dapin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 The untold story of the ordinary Australians conscripted to fight in our most controversial war, by one of our...
To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949

To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949

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Author: Ian Kershaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 To Hell and Backtells this story with humanity, flair and originality. Kershaw gives a compelling narrative of events, but...
Gandhi 1914-1948: The Years That Changed the World

Gandhi 1914-1948: The Years That Changed the World

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Author: Ramachandra Guha Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1152 The magnificent biography of Gandhi by India's leading historian Gandhi lived one of the great 20th century lives. He...
On Grand Strategy

On Grand Strategy

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Author: John Lewis Gaddis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 John Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian of the Cold War, has for almost two decades co-taught grand strategy...
The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination

The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination

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Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Renowned historian Richard Evans puts 'fake news' in historical perspective in this challenging and illuminating study The idea...
The Third Reich at War: How the Nazis Led Germany from Conquest to Disaster

The Third Reich at War: How the Nazis Led Germany from Conquest to Disaster

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Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 944 The final book in his acclaimed trilogy on the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, Richard J. Evans's...
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 11 and the Final Solution in Poland

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 11 and the Final Solution in Poland

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Author: Christopher R. Browning Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In 1942 a unit of ordinary, middle-aged, German reserve policemen were ordered to liquidate a Jewish village. Most...
The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War

The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War

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Author: Jonathan Dimbleby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The tale of the campaign that determined the outcome of the Second World War - 'truly gripping' (Andrew Roberts)...
The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One

The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One

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Author: Miranda Carter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 'An entertaining study of power and personality portrays the strutting absurdity and grotesque glamour of the last emperors on...
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

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Author: John M Barry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 In 1918, the world faced the deadliest pandemic in human history. What can the story of the so-called...
The Light in Hidden Places: Based on the true story of war heroine Stefania Podgorska

The Light in Hidden Places: Based on the true story of war heroine Stefania Podgorska

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Author: Sharon Cameron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A novel based on the incredible true story of Stefania Podg rska, a Polish teenager who hid 13 Jews...
The War in the West - A New History: Volume 1: Germany Ascendant 1939-1941

The War in the West - A New History: Volume 1: Germany Ascendant 1939-1941

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Author: James Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 The first part of an astonishing and revelatory new history of the Second World War from one of the...
The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives

The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives

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Author: Christopher Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 Two thousand years of Japanese history, told through interconnected portraits of twenty fascinating individuals Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book distils...
The Messenger

The Messenger

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Author: Shiv Malik Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The Messenger tells the story of an unlikely friendship between two men looking to change the world - a...
The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis

The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis

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Author: Norman Ohler (author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'An astonishing story... brilliantly told' - Antony Beevor Summertime, 1935. On a lake near Berlin, a young man is out...
The Great Commanders of the Modern World 1866-1975

The Great Commanders of the Modern World 1866-1975

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Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Great Commanders of the Modern World is a sumptuous chronological survey of the 25 greatest commanders of the modern...
Of Fortunes and War: Clare Hollingworth, first of the female war correspondents

Of Fortunes and War: Clare Hollingworth, first of the female war correspondents

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Author: Patrick Garrett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 'Unputdownable' Alexander McCall Smith 'One of the most unforgettable journalists I have ever met' Chris Patten 'She was a...
God's Wolf: The Life of the Most Notorious of all Crusaders, Scourge of Saladin

God's Wolf: The Life of the Most Notorious of all Crusaders, Scourge of Saladin

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Author: Jeffrey Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In a 2010 terrorist plot, Al-Qaeda hid a bomb in a FedEx shipment addressed to a man who had been dead...
The Great Commanders of the Medieval World 454-1582AD

The Great Commanders of the Medieval World 454-1582AD

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Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 What qualities made Attila the Hun a strategist of genius? How did Henry V of England achieve victory at...
Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War Two

Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War Two

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Author: James Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 Perfectly timed for the anniversary, this is the new single-battle epic from bestselling author, James Holland - the only...
Special Ops Heroes

Special Ops Heroes

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Author: Michael Ashcroft Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Special Ops Heroes tells the extraordinary stories behind Lord Ashcroft's collection of SAS and other Special Forces medals - the largest...
A History of the Crusades II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East 1100-1187

A History of the Crusades II: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East 1100-1187

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Author: Steven Runciman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Runciman's great Crusades trilogy reissued in Penguin Modern Classics 'The whole tale is one of faith and folly, courage...
Berlin Finale

Berlin Finale

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Author: Heinz Rein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 One of the first bestsellers in Germany after the Second World War, Berlin Finale is a breathtaking novel of...
Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45

Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45

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Author: Volker Ullrich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 The long-awaited second volume of Volker Ullrich's acclaimed biography of the F hrer, taking us through the war years...
The Gulag Archipelago: (Abridged edition)

The Gulag Archipelago: (Abridged edition)

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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...
A Pair of Silver Wings

A Pair of Silver Wings

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Author: James Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 ______________ It can take a lifetime to heal the wounds of war 'Brings history to life' Guardian ______________ Edward...