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M: Son of the Century
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THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER M. is a startling look into the fascist mindset, a portrait of unrelenting determination, and an impeccable work of historical fiction. Italy is exhausted. Tired of...
Mussolini
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: No markingsThis authoritative biography, Mussolini, chronicles the tumultuous life and political career of Italy's fascist dictator. It...
Mussolini: A Biography
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work of political biography, Denis Mack Smith's Mussolini: A Biography chronicles the rise and fall of Benito Mussolini,...
The Portable Machiavelli
In the four and a half centuries since Machiavelli's death, no single and unanimously accepted interpretation of his ideas has succeeded in imposing itself upon the lively debate over the...
Target: Italy: The Secret War Against Mussolini 1940-1943
Drawing on long-classified documents, this is the official history of the war waged by Britain's Special Operations Executive on Benito Mussolini's Fascist Italy. Told for the very first time, it...
Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943
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...
The Portable Machiavelli
In the four and a half centuries since Machiavelli's death, no single and unanimously accepted interpretation of his ideas has succeeded in imposing itself upon the lively debate over the...
The House on the Hill
A devastating novel set in wartime Italy from the great twentieth-century writer, in a new translation by Tim Parks Shortlisted for The Society of Authors Translation Award 2022 June, 1943....
Mussolini: His Part In My Downfall
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe final volume of Spike Milligan's legendary war memoirs concludes his absurdist, laugh-out-loud account of life as a...
Step By Step: Political Writings: 1936-1939
In the years following the great depression, with Germany rearming and the rise of fascism across Europe being met with a policy of appeasement from the Democratic countries, Winston Churchill...
The Good, The Bad & the Unlikely
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Lunch with Mussolini
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Dictator: From the Sunday Times bestselling author
FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'Confirms Harris's undisputed place as our leading master of both the historical and contemporary thriller' Daily Mail 'Climatic in every sense . . ....
Romans: Their Lives and Times
It offers information on the Rome of the Popes; the poet Shelley, in happiness and tragedy; Sheridan's unravelling of the curious story of Mussolini's son-in-law and the British ambassador; the...
Castle of the Eagles: Escape from Mussolini's Colditz
Author: Mark Felton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 High in the Tuscan hills above Florence, the menacing Vincigliata Castle - a very special prisoner-of-war camp converted on Mussolini's personal...
A Local Habitation and a Name: Imagining Histories in the Italian
Focusing on major authors and problems from the Italian fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, from Petrarch and Boccaccio to Machiavelli, Ariosto and Tasso, A Local Habitation and a Name examines the...
Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich
A biographical study of Hitler's inner circle offers a new way to understand the horrors of the Nazi regime Why did so many Germans take part in the crimes of...
The Ghost of Munich
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Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for Freedom
An enjoyably revisionist biography and a warning from the past about our world today Niccol Machiavelli lived in a fiercely competitive world, one where brute wealth, brazen liars and ruthless...
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
Winner of the British Book Awards History Book of the Year Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize This thrilling biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of...
Mussolini's Island
Author: Sarah Day Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Sarah Day's MUSSOLINI'S ISLAND is a novel of sexuality and desire, of hidden passions and the secrets we keep...
The Living Thoughts Of Mazzini
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: worn/faded, chipping and tears but still structural (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. At the...
The Experience of Pain
The first novel from one of Italy's most innovative writers of the 20th century 'The seething cauldron of life, the infinite stratification of reality, the inextricable tangle of knowledge are...
On Living and Dying Well
A selection of Cicero's philosophical writings on 'the good life', in a lively new translation by Thomas Habinek In the first century BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, orator, statesman, and defender...
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
The bestselling historian on the dramatic wartime relationship - and shocking similarities - between two tyrants This compelling book on Hitler and Stalin - the culmination of thirty years' work...
The Divine Comedy: Inferno
An acclaimed translation of Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy Volume 1: Inferno that retains all the style, power and meaning of the original A Penguin Classic This vigorous translation of...
Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: Winston Churchill's Famous Speeches
First time in Penguin Classics for this single-volume edition of Churchill's most famous speeches The most eloquent and expressive statesman of his time - phrases such as 'iron curtain', 'business...
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
"Laurence Rees brilliantly combines powerful eye-witness testimony, vivid narrative and compelling analysis in this superb account of how two terrible dictators led their countries in the most destructive and inhumane...
War Diaries: The Mediterranean 1943-1945
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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the crucible of the Second World War's Mediterranean theatre, a future British Prime Minister bore witness to some of history's most pivotal...
Opening The Gates of Hell: The untold story of Herbert Kenny, the man
Herbert Kenny, an army dispatch rider, was the first ally to push open the gates at Belsen Concentration Camp, in April 1945. He kept his story from the world until...
My Visit To The Kremlin
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: N/A (paperback/pamphlet with card covers). Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good — spine intact, no loose pages. A remarkable piece of anarchist...
The Hinge of Fate: The Second World War
In his introduction, John Keegan discusses Churchill's historical methods and the extraordinary achievement of The Second World War. This volume also includes appendices, an index, maps and diagrams. Winston Churchill's...
Inferno
Discover Dante's original Inferno - the inspiration for Dan Brown's new novel - in this modern and acclaimed Penguin translation Describing Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide,...
The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
Robin Kirkpatrick's superb translation of the most famous work of Italian literature, in a one-volume edition The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide; his...
The Betrothed
A sinister, fast-paced Italian novel Set in Lombardy during the Spanish occupation of the late 1620s, The Betrothed tells the story of two young lovers, Renzo and Lucia, prevented from...
Revenge of Rome (Eagles of the Empire 23): The thrilling new Eagles of the Empire novel - Macro and Cato return!
NOW A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER! THE EPIC NEW EAGLES OF THE EMPIRE NOVEL FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR SIMON SCARROW - THE PERFECT BOOK FOR THE SEASON OF ROME! ROME AND BOUDICA....
Opening The Gates of Hell: The untold story of Herbert Kenny, the man
Herbert Kenny, an army dispatch rider, was the first ally to push open the gates at Belsen Concentration Camp, in April 1945. He kept his story from the world until...
Monte Cassino: The Story of One of the Hardest-fought Battles of World
At the beginning of 1944 Italy was the western Allies' only active front against Nazi-controlled Europe, and their only route to the capital was through the Liri valley. Towering over...
The Book of Master Mo
A key work of ancient Chinese philosophy is brought back to life in Ian Johnston's compelling, definitive translation Very little is known about Master Mo, or the school he founded....
Escape from the Sun: Surviving the Tyrannies of Lenin, Hitler and Stalin
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The Letters of the Younger Pliny
Pliny's letters provide a series of fascinating views on imperial Rome A prominent lawyer and administrator, Pliny (c. AD 61-113) was also a prolific letter-writer, who numbered among his correspondents...