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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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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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How do we discuss serious ideas in the age of 24-hour news? What was rhetoric in the past and what should it be now? And what does Islamic State have in common with Donald Trump? This book…
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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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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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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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The prescient and now-classic analysis of the forces of anti-intellectualism in contemporary American life–updated for the era of Trump, Twitter, Breitbart and fake news controversies. The…
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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…
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It is easy to forget that every development in the history of the American information industry–from the telephone to radio to film–once existed in an open and chaotic marketplace inhabited by…
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY KATE WILLIAMSSebastian is young, handsome and romantic, the heir to a vast and beautiful English…
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2 SEPTEMBER 1666: 350 YEARS SINCE THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON In the early hours of 2 September 1666 a small fire broke out in…
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Prometheus comes the first effort to set the Cuban Missile Crisis, with…
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*'The Republic of Motherhood' shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem*`I crossed the border into the Republic…
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The whole family on the porch, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before. From…
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Early this century Enrico, a young intellectual, leaves the city of Gorizia with its abundant population and culture, to…
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MITCHELLOne morning Herman Mussert wakes up in a hotel room in Lisbon, where twenty years…
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Carhart, an American living in Paris, is intrigued by a piano repair shop hidden down a street near his apartment. Packed…
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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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Wallis Simpson, the twice-divorced American woman for whom Edward Vlll abdicated in 1936, ended her life as the prisoner of…
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A wildly vivid and entertaining chronicle of America's manned space program, from the author of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid…
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`A masterpiece ... [Douglass] was not only self-educated, with a love of language which should still be an inspiration; A…
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Life as a film extra in Beijing might seem hard, but Fenfang won't be defeated. Determined to live a modern life, Fenfang…
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WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARD FOR GENERAL OUTSTANDING SPORTS WRITING A captivating account of the Nazi Olympics…
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'A fascinating, informative, revelatory book' William Boyd, GuardianParks are such a familiar part of everyday life, you…
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Henrietta Howard, later Countess of Suffolk, was the long-term mistress and confidante of King George II. The mark that this…
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READ THE STORY BEHIND THE NEW BBC/NETFLIX EPIC SERIES, TROY: FALL OF A CITYHigh on Olympus, Zeus and the assembled deities…
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Lady Diana Cooper had been famous from her earliest youth, the subject of gossip and adoration as the queen of the…
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1 bestseller The Silk Roads: A New History of the WorldThe First Crusade is one of the best-known and most written-about…
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Cornwall and its seas are brought to life, mixing drinking and drugs and sea spray, moonlit beaches and shattering storms,…
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When eighteen-year-old Ian Bedloe pricks the bubble of his family's optimistic self-deception, his brother Danny drives into…
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Village of Stone brilliantly evokes the harshness of life on the typhoon-battered coast of China, where fishermen are often…
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It is an epic tale full of the romance and legend of feudal life, the glamour and licence of the international political…
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD FLANAGANIn this fascinating journey Claudio Magris, whose knowledge is encyclopaedic and…
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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 Road to 1945 is a rigorously researched study of the crucial moment when political parties put aside their differences…
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James Walvin offers a new and an original interpretation of the barbaric world of slavery and of the historic end to the…
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\'The definitive biography\' Roy StrongThe remarkable story of Bess of Hardwick, her ascent through Elizabethan society and…
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Penelope has been waiting for her husband Odysseus to return from Troy for many years. Will he overcome the hideous…
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A brilliantly written and groundbreaking book about Dylan's music - now the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2016…
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In this history of World War II, the author explores both the technical and the human impact of the conflict. The text…
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A Times History Book of the Year The voyage of the Mayflower is one of the seminal events in world history. Yet, fifty years…
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This extraordinarily wide-ranging study looks at the dilemmas of life today and shows how they need not have arisen.…
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A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA concise, sharp-witted and illuminating account of the lives of Britain's prime ministers from…
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Described by Christopher Marlowe as the 'She-Wolf of France', Isabella was one of the most notorious femme fatales in…
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