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1914: The Year the World Ended

1914: The Year the World Ended

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Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth- 1914 did. Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth- 1914 did. In July that year,...
Victory at Villers-Bretonneux: from the author of Gallipoli, Batavia and Mutiny on the Bounty

Victory at Villers-Bretonneux: from the author of Gallipoli, Batavia

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On Anzac Day 1918, when the town of Villers-Bretonneux falls to the British defenders, it is the Australians who are called on to save the day, the town, and the...
Time's Monster: History, Conscience and Britain's Empire

Time's Monster: History, Conscience and Britain's Empire

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An award-winning intellectual reconsiders the role of historians in political debate and the legacy of the British Empire For generations, British thinkers told the history of an empire whose story...
Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth

Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth

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Passchendaele epitomises everything that was most terrible about the Western Front. The photographs never sleep of this four-month battle, fought from July to November 1917, the worst year of the...
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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This definitive three-volume Penguin Classics edition provides a complete and unmodernized text, presenting the History as it appeared to its early readers Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and...
Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022

Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022

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A groundbreaking history of the people at the centre of Europe, from the Second World War to today In 1945, Germany lay in ruins, morally and materially. The German people...
The English and their History: Updated with two new chapters

The English and their History: Updated with two new chapters

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The first full-length history of England in one volume for many decades - now in paperback The English first came into existence as an idea, before they had a common...
The Martyr and the Red Kimono: A Fearless Priest's Sacrifice and A New Generation of Hope in Japan

The Martyr and the Red Kimono: A Fearless Priest's Sacrifice and A New

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The remarkable true story of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, his sacrifice in Auschwitz, and the two men in war-torn Japan whose lives he changed forever The remarkable true story of Saint...
The Gulag Archipelago

The Gulag Archipelago

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'It helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' - Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons,...
The Golden Throne: The Curse of a King

The Golden Throne: The Curse of a King

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An immersive reconstruction of the life of the most feared and powerful man of the sixteenth century, from the author of The Lion House Istanbul, 1538. The greatest of the...
The Prosecutor: One Man's Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice

The Prosecutor: One Man's Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice

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A gripping, definitive account of one man's battle to reckon with the horror of the Holocaust, by Jack Fairweather, the bestselling, Costa prize-winning author of The Volunteer (over 100k TCM)...
Madame Brussels: The Life and Times of Melbourne's Most Notorious Woman

Madame Brussels: The Life and Times of Melbourne's Most Notorious

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A must-read biography of an enigmatic personality who helped shape early Melbourne Madame Brussels, the most legendary brothel keeper in nineteenth-century Melbourne, is still remembered and celebrated today. But until...
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World

The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the

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From one of the world's most prominent thinkers comes an urgent warning of the threat that US power poses to humanity's future The land of the free. The home of...
The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience

The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience

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A panoramic social history chronicling the lives of hundreds of British people of all classes in the most important territory of the British Empire The British in this book lived...
The Complete MAUS

The Complete MAUS

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2021 is the 35th anniversary of Maus - the million-selling, Pulitzer-winning, father-son memoir about the Holocaust 'A quiet triumph, moving and simple - impossible to describe accurately, and impossible to...
A History of Venice

A History of Venice

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Renowned historian John Julius Norwich's classic history of Venice - with a fresh new cover look Intricate, captivating, beautiful, romantic, unique, unforgettable . . . A History of Venice tells...
We Do Not Part

We Do Not Part

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Like a long winter's dream, this haunting and visionary new novel from 2024 Nobel Prize winner Han Kang takes us on a journey from contemporary South Korea into its painful...
King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne

King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne

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The acclaimed biography of one of the most extraordinary of all European rulers Charles, King of the Franks, is one of the most remarkable figures ever to rule a European...
The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century, Fifth Edition

The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first

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The definitive history, now revised and updated with a new final chapter covering Russia's role in the world in 2020 Russia's recent past has encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror...
All Things Made New: Writings on the Reformation

All Things Made New: Writings on the Reformation

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A brilliant kaleidoscope on the Reformation from 'one of the best historians writing in English today' (Sunday Telegraph) The Reformation which engulfed England and Europe in the sixteenth century was...
Churchill: Walking with Destiny

Churchill: Walking with Destiny

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The blockbuster biography of the greatest Briton, by one of Britain's bestselling historians Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history. By the time of his death...
Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943

Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943

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A gripping, vivid account of Italy's disastrous experience of the Second World War While staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940. Then, with...
Napoleon the Great

Napoleon the Great

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The definitive modern biography of Napoleon - now in paperback Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of all human lives, transforming France and Europe in the space of...
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

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'Masterly ... will surely be the standard history for many years to come ... This is a warning for the future, as much as a judgement on the past' Richard...
The Rise And Fall of Athens

The Rise And Fall of Athens

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Plutarch traces the fortunes of Athens through nine lives - from Theseus, its founder, to Lysander, its Spartan conqueror - in this seminal work What makes a leader? How does...
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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The most celebrated historical work in the English language Spanning thirteen centuries from the age of Trajan to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, DECLINE & FALL is one...
Victory at Villers-Bretonneux: from the author of Gallipoli, Batavia and Mutiny on the Bounty

Victory at Villers-Bretonneux: from the author of Gallipoli, Batavia

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On Anzac Day 1918, when the town of Villers-Bretonneux falls to the British defenders, it is the Australians who are called on to save the day, the town, and the...
Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth

Passchendaele: Requiem for Doomed Youth

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Passchendaele epitomises everything that was most terrible about the Western Front. The photographs never sleep of this four-month battle, fought from July to November 1917, the worst year of the...
Convict-era Port Arthur: Misery of the deepest dye

Convict-era Port Arthur: Misery of the deepest dye

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An evocative narrative of the many tragedies that fell upon those who were forced to serve time in Port Arthur, one of the most remote and feared convict locations in...
Secret and Special

Secret and Special

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The untold story of Z Special Unit and Operations, the precursor to the elite SAS, and the extraordinary feats they undertook in the Pacific during the Second World War. Soon...
The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A Selection

The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A Selection

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Published to co-incide with the pbk of Claire Tomalin's Whitbread Prize-winning biography The 1660s represent a turning point in English history, and for the main events - the Restoration, the...
Letters to Camondo: 'Immerses you in another age' Financial Times

Letters to Camondo: 'Immerses you in another age' Financial Times

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A haunting sequence of imagined letters to the Count de Camondo -- the owner of a Parisian palace filled with beautiful objects, turned into a memorial for his lost son...
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

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The first part of an astonishing and revelatory new history of the Second World War from one of the UK's most exciting and expert young historians From the top ten...
Russian Emigre Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky

Russian Emigre Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky

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A landmark anthology of extraordinary Russian writers, revealing the full story of the emigre experience in their own words Fleeing Russia amid the chaos of the Russian Revolution and subsequent...
The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe's History

The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe's History

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An astonishing, essential book on what was for ten centuries Europe's largest state - the Holy Roman Empire A great, sprawling, ancient and unique entity, the Holy Roman Empire, from...
Bill's Secrets: Class War and Ambition

Bill's Secrets: Class War and Ambition

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A father presents as an English gentleman and war hero to his wife and subsequent children who catch up with the truth of the impoverished Welsh beginnings only after his...
November 1942: An Intimate History of the Turning Point of the Second World War

November 1942: An Intimate History of the Turning Point of the Second

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NOVEMBER 1942 is an intimate history of the pivotal phase of World War Two. An intimate history of the most important month of the Second World War - perhaps the...
Seneca: A Life

Seneca: A Life

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The definitive biography of ancient Rome's most powerful and colourful philosopher-politician This book traces the eventful life of Seneca, the Roman philosopher, dramatist, essayist and rhetorician of the first century...
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

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New to Black Classics from 20th c. Hannah Arendt's authoritative and controversial report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in...
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life

Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life

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A superb one-volume biography by the Number One New York Times bestselling biographer of JFK, explaining Roosevelt's career as an incomparable politician, deal-maker and uniter Franklin D. Roosevelt is a...
Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation

Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation

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A history of modern Greece by one of the pre-eminent experts in the field We think we know ancient Greece, the civilization that shares the same name and gave us...
The Pursuit of Power: Europe, 1815-1914

The Pursuit of Power: Europe, 1815-1914

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A masterpiece of historical writing which brings to life an extraordinarly turbulent and dramatic era of revolutionary change The Pursuit of Power draws on a lifetime of thinking about nineteenth-century...
To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949

To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949

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From one of our greatest historians, the epic story of how 20th-century Europe went to hell and back In the summer of 1914 most of Europe plunged into a war...
The History of the Kings of Britain

The History of the Kings of Britain

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Geoffrey of Monmouth's history - or legend - of the earliest kings of Britain Completed in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britain traces the story of the realm...
Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia

Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia

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A PEOPLE'S TRAGEDY won pretty much every prize for which it was eligible This tremendously attractive, ambitious, dizzying book is in every way a worthy successor to Figes' bestselling A...
Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World

Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World

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The greatest story of military conquest in history from a 'master storyteller' (Guardian) Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known, whose empire stretched from...
Autobiography of Malcolm X

Autobiography of Malcolm X

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Compelling, controversial, angry, startling - one of the fundamental books of the Twentieth Century Civil Rights Movement They called him the 'angriest black man in America' . . . Celebrated...
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

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The astounding history that masterfully and decisively rewrites the causes of the First World War as we know them The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to...