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'The universal significance of this historic event becomes ever more relevant in our own turbulent times.' Mike Leigh 'One…

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In 1815, beneath the aegis of the Army of Occupation, Brussels is the gayest town in Europe. And the widow Lady Barbara…

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The incredible stories of 100 perfumes from a whole century of scents. Signature scents and now lost masterpieces; the…

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For the young Richard Bolitho the spring of 1778 marked a complete transformation for himself and his future. It was the…

'He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time.' GUARDIAN'A Dance to the Music…

Loyal to the party's central vision of a unified free India, his incarceration is a symptom of the growing deterioration of…

The five-month Monte Cassino campaign in central Italy is one of the best-known European land battles of World War Two,…

Members of the Polish Air Force fought through the defeat of their own country in 1939 and then alongside the French until…

Set against the terrible struggle of the English Civil War and the dark plots of the Commonwealth, Rebels and Traitors tells…

The Volunteers were the men and women of the Royal Navy's Special Operations units, carrying out lightning raids on hostile…

This title involves left-wing academics, right-wing capitalists, true-blue country gentry, workers, peasants, police and…

As the clouds of war begin to rise once more over the Channel, he has no choice but to accept an appointment to the Nore.…

With the Allies poised for the invasion of Italy, the Germans hold a vital card: a floating dock, the only one in the…

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June 1793, Gibraltar - The gathering might of revolutionary France prepares to engulf Europe in another bloody war. For…

Delve into the history of the sinister Count Dooku in the original script to the thrilling Star Wars audio production!Darth…

British history as we know it is a cluttered patchwork of questionable stories which have been re-written, re-evaluated and…

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER''[A] clever, lively ... splendid new book''DAN JONES, SUNDAY TIMES''A big gold bar of…

The Gangs of New York is a tour through a now unrecognisable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence centred around…

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A Sunday Times bestseller - Five women.Even today, Cliveden retains its royal mystique - it is where Meghan Markle and her…

Using computer simulations of the ancient skies to crack the millennial code that the monuments transcribe, the authors set…

BOOK FOUR OF THE RAJ QUARTETThe British Raj in India is in its final days. And for the British families still residing in…

Presents a story of the Golden Age of magic and of the world's legendary magicians: the personalities who patented the first…

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The battle for the control of RJR Nabisco in the Autumn of 1988, which became the largest and most dramatic corporate…

Produkt Armchair General World War One zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele Cornerstone.…

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October 27, 1962, a day dubbed Black Saturday in the Kennedy White House. Using a wealth of untapped archival material, he…

A story of how George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Madison's passion for nature, plants, agriculture…

Saudi Arabia is a country defined by paradox: it sits atop some of the richest oil deposits in the world, and yet the…

'Rappaport uses new sources to give a vivid account of Albert's death . Drawing widely on contemporary letters, diaries and…

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In the spring of 1797, Richard Bolitho brings the 100-gun Euryalus home to Falmouth to be flagship of the hastily formed…

The Trojan War may have been the inevitable consequence of expanding Greek maritime commerce. Written by a leading expert on…

For 200 years after 1650 the West Indies were the most fought-over colonies in the world, as Europeans made and lost immense…

Germany opens the final, bitter round of the war with a new and deadly weapon in the struggle for the seas - the Vulcan…

The authors of this text show that the ancient Book of Enoch, rediscovered in the 18th century, describes how Uriel's…

In Forgotten Fruits, Christopher Stocks tells the fascinating - often rather bizarre - stories behind Britain's rich…

It is 1943, and Captain Mike Blackwood, Royal Marine Commando, is a survivor. Here, tradition is not enough, and Mike…

Coal has transformed societies and shaped the fate of nations. The first half of the book is set in Britain and tells how…

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March 1814Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho returns to England from several months' rigorous patrolling off the North American…

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Challenges our traditionally western-focused perception of the past, connecting Greco-Roman civilisation to the great rulers…

Mohandas Gandhi and Winston Churchill: India's moral leader and Great Britain's greatest Prime Minister. For more than forty…

conquered Wales, extinguishing forever its native rulers, and constructed - at Conwy, Harlech, Beaumaris and Caernarfon -…

In the course of a long and successful career as a journalist and author, Paul Johnson has known popes, presidents, prime…

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2014 is the 100-year-anniversary of the panama canal: one of the most extraordinary engineering feats in world history. But…

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Based on her personal archive of over 35,000 pages of documents, and extensive interviews with friends and colleagues, this…