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Under Hitler and Stalin the Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million people in the bloodlands between Berlin and Moscow. The killing fields extended from central Polads to western…
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Europe in 1945 was prostrate. Much of the continent was devastated by war, mass slaughter, bombing and chaos. Large areas of Eastern Europe were falling under Soviet control, exchanging one…
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From the Ice Age to the Cold War, from Reykjavik to the Volga, from Minos to Margaret Thatcher, Norman Davies here tells the entire story of Europe in a single volume. It is the most ambitious…
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That Sweet Enemy brings both British wit (Robert Tombs is a British historian) and French panache (Isabelle Tombs is a French historian) to bear on three centuries of the history of Britain and…
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A radical and powerful reappraisal of the impact of Constantine's adoption of Christianity on the later Roman world, and on the subsequent development both of Christianity and of Western…
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Breaking Bad meets City of God Roberto Saviano, author of Gomorrah Husband. This is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel and…
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In the late 16th century the greatest philosophers, alchemists, astronomers, painters, and mathematicians of the day flocked to Prague to work under the patronage of the Holy Roman Emperor…
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Unrivalled in scope and brimming with human drama, A People's Tragedy is the most vivid, moving and comprehensive history of the Russian Revolution available today. `A modern masterpiece' Andrew…
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An endlessly entertaining portrait of the city of Amsterdam and the ideas that make it unique, by the author of the acclaimed Island at the Center of the World Tourists know Amsterdam as a…
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY KATE WILLIAMSSebastian is young, handsome and romantic, the heir to a vast and beautiful English…
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY KATE WILLIAMSFrederick II of Prussia attempted to escape his authoritarian father as a boy, but went…
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Since the ascendancy of the Taliban the lives of Mosheen and his beautiful wife, Zunaira, have been gradually destroyed.…
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Fascinating and authoritative of Britain's royal families from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I to Queen Victoria, by leading…
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To his fellow West Indians who assemble every weekend for the all-night poker game at Mrs Knight's, he is always known as…
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Pokles cenyA brilliantly written and groundbreaking book about Dylan's music - now the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2016…
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The American Civil War was one of the longest and bloodiest of modern wars. In this magisterial history of the first modern…
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Christmas in Tudor times was a period of feasting, revelry and merrymaking `to drive the cold winter away'. Carol-singing,…
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The Road to 1945 is a rigorously researched study of the crucial moment when political parties put aside their differences…
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In the summer of 1941 as the Germans invade Russia, Soviet Army's newspaper reporter Vasily Grossman is swept up into the…
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A fascinating and wonderfully readable deconstruction of the countless myths that have grown up around the Brontes. Since…
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'Who would ever think that a book on cod would make a compulsive read? In a story that brings world history and human…
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** Richard Lloyd Parry is the winner of the 2018 Rathbones Folio Prize **In the last years of the twentieth century, Richard…
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Studies the relationship between the environment and human history. This book examines world civilizations from Sumeria to…
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Woodbrook is a rare house that gives its name to a small, rural area in Ireland, not far from the old port of Sligo. In it…
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Drawing on material, from furious royal proclamations to the private letters of pirates and their victims, as well as…
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On 19 August 1953 the British and American intelligence agencies launched a desperate coup against a cussed, bedridden…
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Britain is celebrated for having avoided the extremism, political violence and instability that blighted many European…
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The case is among those which constitute the European witch craze of the 15th-18th centuries, when suspected witches were…
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Meet Frantz Schmidt: executioner, torturer and, most unusually for his times, diarist. At the same time, he poses a…
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'A terrifying lesson in US history - and a haunting tragedy' GuardianGertie is the young mother of five children -…
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The most daring of the corsairs who raided the West Indies and Spanish Main, he led the English into the Pacific, and…
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The story of modern Australia begins in eighteenth-century Britain, where people were hanged for petty offences but crime…
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