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Retreat from the Finland Station: The Moral Journeys of the Men Who
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In 1940, Edmund Wilson published "To the Finland Station", a study of the growth of the idea of communism. This book examines the lives of such men as Bukharin, Koestler,...
The Last Train: A Family History of the Final Solution
'Haunting.' Jonathan Freedland 'Powerful.' Daniel Finkelstein The profoundly moving and deeply intimate story of one Jewish family's fate in the Holocaust, following the thread from Germany to Latvia and to...
Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West
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Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the chairperson of the Pakistan People's Party, was seen as vital to that country's future. In exile for years, in late 2007 she felt the...
Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World
Garry Kasparov has been a vocal critic of Putin for over a decade, even leading the pro-democracy opposition in the 2008 Presidential election. Yet years of seeing his Cassandra- like...
Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World
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With the publication of her landmark bestseller "Paris 1919," Margaret MacMillan was praised as "a superb writer who can bring history to life" ("The Philadelphia Inquirer"). Now she brings her...
Solidarity, Solitude: Essays by Adam Zagajewski
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The book titled Solidarity, Solitude: Essays by Adam Zagajewski by the author Adam Zagajewski. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.
Redefining Russian Society And Polity
With the advent of Gorbachev's glasnost era, Russians have been forced to redefine their society and polity. Journalists, academics and politicians all needed a new language in which to articulate...
The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling was a unique figure in British history, a great writer and at the same time a great imperial icon. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature and added...
Margaret Thatcher: v. 2: Iron Lady
The first volume of John Campbell's biography of Margaret Thatcher was praised by Frank Johnson in the Daily Telegraph as 'much the best book yet written about Lady Thatcher'. That...
Borderlands: Nation and Empire
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The book titled Borderlands: Nation and Empire by the author Scott Malcolmson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.
The Long and Winding Road
The third volume of Alan Johnson's bestselling and award-winning memoirs takes us to the corridors of Westminster and lifts the lid on the life of a hard-working constituency MP... Winner...
G. D. H. Cole: An Intellectual Biography
A sensitive analysis of the thought and intellectual development of G. D. H. Cole (1889-1959) the distinguished Labour historian. Cole's career is traced from his earliest days in the Labour...
Letters of Leonard Woolf
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The book titled Letters of Leonard Woolf by the author Frederic Spotts. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.
Lenin's Tomb: Last Days of the Soviet Empire
This work is a narrative of the most momentous event in the post-war world - the end of communism and the subsequent break-up of the Soviet Union. Seen, in some...
Mao: The Unknown Story
The most authoritative life of Mao ever written, by the bestselling author of Wild Swans, Jung Chang and her husband, Jon Halliday. The most authoritative life of Mao ever written,...
The Rise and Fall of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu
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The book titled The Rise and Fall of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu by the author Mark Almond. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
We Survived the Night: An Indigenous Reckoning
'Written in gorgeous, sparse prose, We Survived the Night reads like a novel. [...] A book I've been waiting my whole life to read.' Tommy Orange, author of There ThereAs...
A Divided Life: Biography of Donald Maclean
This is a biography of one of the last of the ideological spies, belonging to the important group the author calls "the Cambridge Comintern". Robert Cecil, a close acquaintance of...
Conspiracy of Silence: Secret Life of Anthony Blunt
The book titled Conspiracy of Silence: Secret Life of Anthony Blunt by the author Barrie Penrose. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this book.
Biografi
In Albania, under the long dictatorship of Enver Hoxha, each Albanian citizen had a biografi - literally an account of their suitability as good socialists which was registered by the...
The New Middle East
The Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs offers a vision of the future for the Middle East. He sees a reconstructed region free of past conflicts, set to take its place...
The New Face of Political Cinema: Commitment in French Film since 1995
Since 1995 there has been a widespread return of commitment to French cinema taking it to a level unmatched since the heady days following 1968. But this new wave of...
Three Years in Hell: The Brexit Chronicles
Three years in the troubled British Isles, leading up to the election of Boris Johnson. Three years in the troubled British Isles from the bestselling author of Heroic Failure ....
A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto
China Mieville's brilliant reading of the modern world's most controversial and enduring political document: The Communist Manifesto . 'It's thrilling to accompany Mieville... as he wrestles - in critical good...
The Weimar Years: Rise and Fall 1918-1933
REVISED EDITION 'Magisterial, terrifyingly relevant and yet also a celebration of Weimar's delicious decadence' - Simon Sebag Montefiore A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEK A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE...
The Romance of American Communism
"Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class." So begins Vivian Gornick's exploration of how the world...
Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway
'If you read one book about India, read this one.' - Geeta Anand, Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of The Cure 'Mountain Tales is a remarkable feat of immersive reporting and...
The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story
Late in the summer of 1961, a KGB assassin defected to West Germany. Bogdan Stashinsky had already travelled on numerous occasions to Munich, where he'd single-handedly tracked down and killed...
Designer Evolution: A Transhumanist Manifesto
The debate about the ethics of human biotechnology or genetic engineering is one of the most important cultural issues of our time. 'Transhumanism' is the philosophy that most of all...
Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait in Letters of an American
When Daniel Patrick Moynihan died in 2003 the Economist described him as a philosopher-politician-diplomat who two centuries earlier would not have been out of place among the Founding Fathers. Though...
The Court at War: FDR, His Justices, and the World They Made
The inside story of how one president forever altered the most powerful legal institution in the country-with consequences that endure today By the summer of 1941, in the ninth year...
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
THE SUNDAY TIMES No. 1 BESTSELLER WITH AN AFTERWORD BY JOHN LE CARR E 'Riveting, astounding . . . An unputdownable postwar thriller' Observer 'Irresistibly readable' Sunday Times 'Worthy of...
The Story of Russia: 'An excellent short study'
A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects of History 'The history book you need if you...
Dictators: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century
A New Statesman , Financial Times and Economist Book of the Year 'Brilliant' NEW STATESMAN , BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'Enlightening and a good read' SPECTATOR 'Moving and perceptive' NEW...
A Long Petal of the Sea
* ORDER MY NAME IS EMILIA DEL VALLE NOW - THE CAPTIVATING NEW NOVEL FROM ISABEL ALLENDE * _______________ THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER _______________ 'A...
The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World
From the internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads: everything you need to know about the present and future of the world 'Masterly mapping out of a new world order'...
Swimming in the Dark: Selected for Dua Lipa's Service95 Book Club 2024
**Selected for Dua Lipa's Service95 Book Club 2024** LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI PRIZE 2021 A Guardian Book of the Year 'The highest talent at work' Sebastian Barry 'Beautiful ... A...
Parliament's Generals: Supreme Command and Politics during the British
Waller, Essex, Fairfax, Manchester and Cromwell are among the most famous military men who fought for Parliament during the English Civil War. While their performance as generals has been explored...
Orwell: A Man Of Our Time
Orwell: A Man of Our Time offers a vivid portrait of the man behind the writings, and places him and his work at the centre of the current political landscape....
Humankind: A Hopeful History - from the presenter of the 2025 BBC
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - FROM THE 2025 BBC REITH LECTURER A Guardian , Daily Telegraph , New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year 'Hugely, highly and happily recommended'...
A Good Country
The powerful, moving story of a California teenager from an immigrant family who, finding himself in an increasingly hostile world, is turned from a carefree surfer's life towards a culture...
A More Perfect Union: The Europe We Need
'Timely, necessary and impeccably researched . . . Required reading for anyone interested in Europe. And even more so for anyone interested in Britain' DAILY TELEGRAPH China's rise and Russian...
America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES , USA TODAY , AND AMAZON BESTSELLER America's most effective conservative intellectual proves once and for all that Marxist radicals have taken over our nation's...
The Lie of the Land: Who Really Cares for the Countryside?
WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2025 A WATERSTONES AND GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2024 'Both dynamite and medicine' AMY-JANE BEER 'Timely and rousing' THE TIMES ________________________________ The lie...
You Shall Be as Gods: Pagans, Progressives, and the Rise of the Woke
Our country doesn't have a partisan problem, a political problem, a social problem, or an economic problem. We have a spiritual problem. What in the world is happening? To many...
Diary of a Crisis: Israel in Turmoil
Diary of a Crisis explores the past tumultuous and traumatic year in Israel-Palestine. The eminent historian Saul Friedlander began a diary of Israeli politics in January 2023 as the country...
Robert Barton: A Remarkable Revolutionary
The first biography of the enigmatic Robert Barton, a central figure in the Irish Revolution. The enigmatic Robert Barton was a central figure in Irish Revolution. From an Anglo-Irish ascendancy...