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Slaughterhouse 5: The Children's Crusade A Duty-Dance With Death

Slaughterhouse 5: The Children's Crusade A Duty-Dance With Death

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Author: Kurt Vonnegut Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Kurt Vonnegut's masterpiece, one of the very best anti-war novels ever written, a book both beloved and banned -...
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...
Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943

Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943

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Author: John Gooch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A gripping, vivid account of Italy's disastrous experience of the Second World War While staying closely aligned with Hitler,...
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...
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...
Slaughterhouse 5: 50th Anniversary Edition

Slaughterhouse 5: 50th Anniversary Edition

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Author: Kurt Vonnegut Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 50th anniversary hardback edition of the bestselling cult US classic - with extra material 50th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION As a young...
Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: An Untold Story of World War II

Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: An Untold Story of World War II

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Author: Serhii Plokhy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, the incredible true story of one of the most audacious and...
Mein Kampf

Mein Kampf

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Author: Adolf Hitler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 Mein Kampf was first published in two volumes in 1925-6 and sold between eight and nine million copies during...
Sicily '43: A Times Book of the Year

Sicily '43: A Times Book of the Year

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Author: James Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 From the bestselling author of Normandy '44, containing new and unpublished research, this is the largely untold story of...
Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin

Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin

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Author: Timothy Snyder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 A magisterial history of the lands that lie between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany - where 14 million civilians...
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...
Catch-22

Catch-22

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Author: Joseph Heller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, now celebrating its 50th anniversary. SOON TO BE A MAJOR...
A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle

A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle

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Author: Julian Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 944 'Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography' Max Hastings, Sunday Times In six weeks in 1940, France was...
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...
Dresden: The Fire and the Darkness

Dresden: The Fire and the Darkness

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Author: Sinclair McKay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The bestselling historian's gripping account of the Allied bombing of Dresden for the 75th anniversary In February 1945 the...
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 Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End, 1917-1923

The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End, 1917-1923

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Author: Robert Gerwarth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A gripping work of history in the tradition of Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers In this highly original and gripping...
Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization

Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization

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Author: Justin Marozzi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 An epic history of Islam and the Middle East through the cities which best epitomized it Islamic civilization was...
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...
The Coming of the Third Reich: How the Nazis Destroyed Democracy and Seized Power in Germany

The Coming of the Third Reich: How the Nazis Destroyed Democracy and Seized Power in Germany

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Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 'Impressive . . . perceptive . . . humane . . . the most comprehensive history in any...
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy

Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy

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Author: Serhii Plokhy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A dramatic, minute-by-minute account of one of the most shattering events of the Cold War, from an award-winning historian...
The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler

The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler

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Author: Laurence Rees Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 A fascinating exploration of the character of Adolf Hitler- the most powerful and destructive man in history. Accompanies the...
The SS Officer's Armchair: In Search of a Hidden Life

The SS Officer's Armchair: In Search of a Hidden Life

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Author: Daniel Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A historical detective story and a gripping account of one historian's hunt for answers as he delves into the...
Somme: Into the Breach

Somme: Into the Breach

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Author: Hugh Sebag-Montefiore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on the greatest battle of World War One - with groundbreaking new material...
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...
Alone in Berlin

Alone in Berlin

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Author: Hans Fallada Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants...
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...
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

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Author: Laurence Rees Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The bestselling historian on the dramatic wartime relationship - and shocking similarities - between two tyrants This compelling book...
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...
The Arabs: A History - Revised and Updated Edition

The Arabs: A History - Revised and Updated Edition

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Author: Eugene Rogan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 736 The extraordinary story of the Arab world, from defeat and colonization to independence and astonishing wealth. Eugene Rogan has...
The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-Century History

The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-Century History

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Author: David Edgerton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 A revolutionary economic and political history of 20th century Britain Out of a liberal, capitalist, genuinely global power of...
The Cold War: A World History

The Cold War: A World History

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Author: Odd Arne Westad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 A major history of the conflict that shaped every aspect of our world As Germany and then Japan...
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56

Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56

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Author: Anne Applebaum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge...
Life and Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)

Life and Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)

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Author: Vasily Grossman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 The Vintage Classics Russians Series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the...
The Origins of the Second World War

The Origins of the Second World War

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Author: Professor A J P Taylor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 One of the most popular and controversial historians of the twentieth century, who made his subject...
The Regeneration Trilogy

The Regeneration Trilogy

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Author: Pat Barker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 A sweeping masterpiece of British historical fiction and a devastating portrait of the effects of WWI Pat Barker's award-winning...
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...
Churchill: Walking with Destiny

Churchill: Walking with Destiny

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Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1152 The blockbuster biography of the greatest Briton, by one of Britain's bestselling historians Winston Churchill towers over every other...
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...
Power: The Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984

Power: The Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984

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Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The Essential Works of Michel Foucault offer the definitive collection of Foucault's articles, interviews and seminars The third and...
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...