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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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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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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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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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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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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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This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that…
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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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With wit and irreverence, lexicographer Kory Stamper cracks open the obsessive world of dictionary writing, from the agonizing decisions about what to define and how to do it to the knotty…
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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…
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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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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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Winner of the Alfred and Fay Chandler Book Award The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, workers…
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Salonica, located in northern Greece, was long a fascinating crossroads metropolis of different religions and ethnicities, where Egyptian merchants, Spanish Jews, Orthodox Greeks, Sufi…
Solzhenitsyn's masterwork about those who dared to oppose Stalin and the lives shaped, devastated and wasted by the Soviet…
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In the first month of the First World War the Russian campaign against the Germans creaks into gear. Crippled by weak,…
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY KATE WILLIAMSSebastian is young, handsome and romantic, the heir to a vast and beautiful English…
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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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Her favourite tales are those that conjure ancient worlds - of angry gods and heroic mortals, one of whom will some day come…
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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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The Gulag, the Stalinist labour camps to which millions of Russians were condemned for political deviation, has become a…
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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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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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Fascinating and authoritative of Britain's royal families from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I to Queen Victoria, by leading…
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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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A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From "one of our most nuanced thinkers on the intersections of race, class, and…
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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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The Road to 1945 is a rigorously researched study of the crucial moment when political parties put aside their differences…
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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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The meeting of Voltaire, successful financier, famous poet and troublemaker, and the enchanting amateur physicist and…
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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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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY STELLA TILLYARDDuring his reign Louis XIV was the most powerful king in Europe. He presided over a…
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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 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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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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Black Sea is a homage to an ocean and its shores and a meditation on Eurasian history, from the earliest times to the…
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A wealthy lawyer, debonair ladies' man, consummate actor, and courageous gambler, Dusko Popov played the role of playboy…
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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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Part history, part travelogue, part memoir, this book tells the inspiring story of how a one time British colony of convicts…
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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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Cornwall and its seas are brought to life, mixing drinking and drugs and sea spray, moonlit beaches and shattering storms,…
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A magnet for trade and travellers from all over the world, stylish, cosmopolitan Amsterdam is a city of dreams and…
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From the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, comes the story of King Edward III, who -…
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Berlin was the nerve-centre of Hitler's Germany - the backdrop for the most lavish ceremonies, it was also the venue for…
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