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All the Light We Cannot See

All the Light We Cannot See

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Author: Anthony Doerr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE...
Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany

Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany

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Author: Norman Ohler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The sensational account of the overwhelming role of drug-taking in the Third Reich - from Hitler and his entourage...
The Bronze Horseman

The Bronze Horseman

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Author: Paullina Simons Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 A magnificent epic of love, war and Russia from the international bestselling author of TULLY and ROAD TO PARADISE...
Between Five Eyes: 50 Years of Intelligence Sharing

Between Five Eyes: 50 Years of Intelligence Sharing

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Author: Anthony R. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 UK-US intelligence and the wider Five Eyes community of Canada, Australia and New Zealand is primarily about one...
The Splendid and the Vile: Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Bombing of London

The Splendid and the Vile: Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Bombing of London

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Author: Erik Larson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Every time Churchill took to the airwaves it was as if he were...
A Pair of Silver Wings

A Pair of Silver Wings

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Author: James Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 ______________ It can take a lifetime to heal the wounds of war 'Brings history to life' Guardian ______________ Edward...
Inside The Third Reich

Inside The Third Reich

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Author: Albert Speer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 832 'Inside the Third Reich' is not only the most significant personal German account to come out of the war but the...
Young Prince Philip, His Turbulent Early Life

Young Prince Philip, His Turbulent Early Life

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Author, Philip Eade Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 384 'The narrative is as suspenseful as any thriller. Truly, an excellent read' Lynn Barber, Sunday Times Married for almost...
The Gulag Archipelago: (Abridged edition)

The Gulag Archipelago: (Abridged edition)

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Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 'It helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph ' The...
All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front

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Author: Erich Maria Remarque Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Discover the most famous anti-war novel ever written. One by one the boys begin to fall... In 1914...
The Last Checkmate: A Novel

The Last Checkmate: A Novel

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Author: Gabriella Saab Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A PopSugar Best Book of the Year! Readers of Heather Morris's The Tattooist of Auschwitz and watchers of The...
Life and Fate

Life and Fate

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Author: Vasily Grossman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 This sweeping account of the siege of Stalingrad aims to give as panoramic a view of Soviet society during...
The Light in Hidden Places: Based on the true story of war heroine Stefania Podgorska

The Light in Hidden Places: Based on the true story of war heroine Stefania Podgorska

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Author: Sharon Cameron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A novel based on the incredible true story of Stefania Podg rska, a Polish teenager who hid 13 Jews...
Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45

Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45

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Author: Volker Ullrich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 The long-awaited second volume of Volker Ullrich's acclaimed biography of the F hrer, taking us through the war years...
Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble

Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble

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Author: Antony Beevor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The No. 1 Bestseller- Hitler's ill-fated final stand, from the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day. From the...
Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War

Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War

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Author: Tim Bouverie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 This thrilling Sunday Times bestseller is the first major account of the disastrous years of British indecision and infighting...
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 11 and the Final Solution in Poland

Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 11 and the Final Solution in Poland

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Author: Christopher R. Browning Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In 1942 a unit of ordinary, middle-aged, German reserve policemen were ordered to liquidate a Jewish village. Most...
The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination

The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination

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Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Renowned historian Richard Evans puts 'fake news' in historical perspective in this challenging and illuminating study The idea...
Conversations With Stalin

Conversations With Stalin

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Author: Milovan Djilas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Written in 1961, after Djilas had served time in prison for his views, and featuring portraits of the leading...
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine

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Author: Anne Applebaum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Red Famine, a triumph of scholarship and human sympathy, is a milestone in the recovery of those memories and...
Hitler: Only the World Was Enough

Hitler: Only the World Was Enough

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Author: Brendan Simms Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 A powerful and searing biography of Hitler and the poisonous ideas behind his actions Adolf Hitler is one of...
Berlin Finale

Berlin Finale

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Author: Heinz Rein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 One of the first bestsellers in Germany after the Second World War, Berlin Finale is a breathtaking novel of...
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914

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Author: Christopher Clark Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 736 The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand...
The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One

The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One

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Author: Miranda Carter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 'An entertaining study of power and personality portrays the strutting absurdity and grotesque glamour of the last emperors on...
If Not Now, When?

If Not Now, When?

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Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In this gripping novel, based on a true story, Primo Levi reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish...
To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949

To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949

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Author: Ian Kershaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 To Hell and Backtells this story with humanity, flair and originality. Kershaw gives a compelling narrative of events, but...
Dance Your Troubles Away

Dance Your Troubles Away

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Author: Pamela Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Pam Evans' heartwarming London saga, DANCE YOUR TROUBLES AWAY, is set during the Second World War and is sure...
Eichmann in Jerusalem

Eichmann in Jerusalem

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Author: Hannah Arendt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Hannah Arendt's authoritative and controversial report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a...
The War in the West - A New History: Volume 1: Germany Ascendant 1939-1941

The War in the West - A New History: Volume 1: Germany Ascendant 1939-1941

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Author: James Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 The first part of an astonishing and revelatory new history of the Second World War from one of the...
We Germans

We Germans

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Author: Alexander Starritt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 When a young British man asks his German grandfather what it was like to fight on the wrong side...
Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017

Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017

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Author: Ian Kershaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 The definitive history of a divided Europe, from the aftermath of the Second World War to the present. After...
Armies of the Italian Wars of Unification 1848-70 (2): Papal States, Minor States & Volunteers

Armies of the Italian Wars of Unification 1848-70 (2): Papal States, Minor States & Volunteers

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Author: Gabriele Esposito Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 48 In the 1840s, Italy was a patchwork of states. The North was ruled by the Austrian Empire, the South by the...
The Naked and the Dead

The Naked and the Dead

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Author: Norman Mailer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 One of the finest American novels ever written, Norman Mailer's classic account of the Philippines campaign of WW2. Based...
The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War

The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War

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Author: Jonathan Dimbleby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The tale of the campaign that determined the outcome of the Second World War - 'truly gripping' (Andrew Roberts)...
Gandhi 1914-1948: The Years That Changed the World

Gandhi 1914-1948: The Years That Changed the World

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Author: Ramachandra Guha Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1152 The magnificent biography of Gandhi by India's leading historian Gandhi lived one of the great 20th century lives. He...
Birdsong

Birdsong

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Author: Sebastian Faulks Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The bestselling WWI classic now reissued in the new Faulks series style Birdsong is a mesmerising story of love...
Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends

Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends

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Author: Anne Applebaum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The Pulitzer prize-winning historian and journalist anatomizes the personal and ideological dimensions of the current appeal of authoritarian regimes...
The Kamikaze Hunters: The Men Who Fought for the Pacific, 1945

The Kamikaze Hunters: The Men Who Fought for the Pacific, 1945

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Author: Will Iredale Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 456 The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. In May 1945, with victory in Europe established, the war was all but...
The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present, Third Edition

The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present, Third Edition

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Author: Jonathan Fenby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 The crucial book for understanding modern China, now updated to include the rule of Xi Jinping. In 1850, China...
Rendezvous at the Russian Tea Rooms: The Spyhunter, the Fashion Designer & the Man From Moscow

Rendezvous at the Russian Tea Rooms: The Spyhunter, the Fashion Designer & the Man From Moscow

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Author: Paul Willetts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 RENDEZVOUS AT THE RUSSIAN TEA ROOMS provides the first comprehensive account of what was once hailed by a leading...
The West End Front: The Wartime Secrets of London's Grand Hotels

The West End Front: The Wartime Secrets of London's Grand Hotels

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Author: Matthew Sweet Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Spies: Meet Marie-Jacqueline Lancaster, the woman from M15 who has the gravy browning licked from her legs by Dylan...
The Other Hoffmann Sister

The Other Hoffmann Sister

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Author: Ben Fergusson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2015, Ben Fergusson's critically acclaimed debut, The Spring of...
Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

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Author: Antony Beevor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 'A masterpiece of history' DAILY TELEGRAPH Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of...
The Last Emperor of Mexico: A Disaster in the New World

The Last Emperor of Mexico: A Disaster in the New World

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Author: Edward Shawcross Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Superbly entertaining.' - Financial Times 'Jaw-dropping.' - Sunday Times 'Fascinating.' - Guardian 'Gripping.' - The Times 'Terrific . . . A...
Land of the Living

Land of the Living

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Author: Georgina Harding Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A profound masterpiece on war, loss and survival, rendered in prose of rhythmic precision, subtlety and exceptional sensitivity, by...
Iran: My Grandfather

Iran: My Grandfather

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We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People

We Are Bellingcat: An Intelligence Agency for the People

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Author: Eliot Higgins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'John le Carre demystified the intelligence services; Higgins has demystified intelligence gathering itself' Financial Times 'Uplifting ....
Empire in the Age of Globalisation: US Hegemony and Neo-Liberal Disorder

Empire in the Age of Globalisation: US Hegemony and Neo-Liberal Disorder

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