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Known as 'the anarchy', the reign of Stephen (1135-1141) saw England plunged into a civil war that illuminated the fatal…

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In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. Food Rules, Michael Pollan's wise and…

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The author and her family fled the horrors of Nazi occupation by hiding in the back of a warehouse in Amsterdam for two…

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Explores the volatile and dangerous region in the world. In this story of squandered opportunities, misguided alliances and…

The starting point of Roger Knight's magnificent new biography is to explain how Nelson achieved such extraordinary success.…

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When the Nazis invaded Hungary in 1944, they sent virtually the entire Jewish population to Auschwitz. A Hungarian Jew and a…

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