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  • Blitzed

    Norman Ohler
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    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'The most brilliant and fascinating book I have read in my entire life' Dan Snow'A huge contribution... remarkable' Ant...

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  • BRAVEST VOICES PB

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    'A breathtaking story' Daily Mail 'Extraordinary' The Telegraph on the Cook sisters Desperate circumstances can c...

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  • City Maps and Stories: Contemporary Wanders Through the 19th Century

    Lorenzo Petrantoni
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    Stroll around some of the greatest cities in the world and discover what they were like a century ago at the start of the modern age. Explore 100 r...

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  • Culture and Society: 1780-1950

    Raymond Williams
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    Acknowledged as a masterpiece of materialist criticism, this book delves into the complex ways economic reality shapes the imagination. Surveying t...

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  • DEAD FAMOUS BPB

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    'Fizzes with clever vignettes and juicy tidbits... [a] joyous romp of a book.' Guardian'A fascinating, rollicking book in search of why, where and ...

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    Fallout: Conspiracy, Cover-Up and the Deceitful Case for the Atom Bomb

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    Between December 1943 and August 1944, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Winston Churchill ignited the Cold War, a superpower rivalry that would domina...

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  • Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan

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    'A remarkable and deeply moving book' Henry Marsh, bestselling author of Do No Harm 'A breathtaking, extraordinary work of non-fiction' Times Liter...

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  • Holocaust: The Nazis' Wartime Jewish Atrocities

    Stephen Wynn
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    The Holocaust is without doubt one of the most abhorrent and despicable events not only of the Second World War, but of the twentieth century. What...

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  • India Conquered: Britain's Raj and the Chaos of Empire

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    'The product of many years of detailed archival research, Wilson's book is without question the best one-volume history of the Raj currently in pri...

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  • Intercept: The Secret History of Computers and Spies

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    INTERCEPT is the previously untold - and previously highly classified - story of the melding of technology and espionage. Gordon Corera's compellin...

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  • Into the laager: Afrikaners living on the edge

    Kajsa Norman
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  • Island on the Edge of the World: The Story of St Kilda (Paperback)

    Charles MacLean
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    A classic work of social history and a moving account of the destruction of a remote Scottish community. For more than two thousand years the pe...

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  • Made in Sweden: 25 ideas that created a country

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    What are the real Swedish Values? Who is the real Swedish Model? In recent times, we have come to favour all things Scandi - their food, furnishin...

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  • Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine

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    This ambitious volume, worldwide in scope and ranging from antiquity to the present, examines the human encounter with Unreason in all its manifest...

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  • Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62

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    Winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2011 Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to dea...

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  • Map: Exploring The World, midi format

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    A compelling exploration of the ways that humans have mapped the world throughout history - now in a compact new edition Map: Exploring the World b...

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  • McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime

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    The extraordinary real stories that inspired the major BBC series Have you ever illegally downloaded a DVD? Taken drugs? Fallen for a phishing scam...

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  • Milk: A 10,000-Year History

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    Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic and culinary story of milk and al...

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    Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World

    Laura Spinney
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    Read the devastating story of the Spanish flu - the twentieth century's greatest killer - and discover what it can teach us about the current Covid...

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  • PRISONERS OF HISTORY PB

    LOWE, KEITH
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    A Spectator Book of the Year 2020 A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 A Mail on Sunday Book ...

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  • Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

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    More than twenty years ago, the longtime NPR correspondent Anne Garrels began to visit the region of Chelyabinsk, an aging military-industrial cent...

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  • Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine (Paperback)

    Anne Applebaum
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    Winner of the Duff Cooper and Lionel Gelber prizes In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately depri...

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  • Revolutions (Paperback)

    Peter Furtado
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    Revolutions - peaceful or violent, radical or reactionary - have shaped the political landscape of the world we live in today. But what led revolut...

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  • Superstition: White Rabbits and Black Cats - The History of Common Folk Beliefs

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    Ever wondered why we touch wood, salute magpies, skip over cracks and throw salt over our shoulders? Then Sally Coulthard has the answer as she get...

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