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  • The Month that Changed the World: July 1914 by Gordon Martel

    The Month that Changed the World: July 1914 by Gordon Martel

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    On 28 June 1914 the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in the Balkans. Five fateful weeks later the Great Powers of Europe were at war. Much time and ink has been spent ever since trying to identify the 'guilty' person or state...
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  • Three Whys Of Russian Revolution by Richard Pipes

    Three Whys Of Russian Revolution by Richard Pipes

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    It is my considered judgement that, had it not been for the Russian Revolution, there would very likely have been no National Socialism; probably no Second World War and no decolonization; and certainly no Cold War, which one dominated our lives. I will...
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  • The Last 100 Years (give or take) and All That: An hilarious gallop through 20th Century Britain Al Murray 9781529411850

    The Last 100 Years (give or take) and All That: An hilarious gallop through 20th Century Britain Al Murray 9781529411850

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    A fascinating and hilarious gallop through twentieth-century British history, by comedian Al Murray.An awful lot has happened in the last 100 years or so. In fact, when you look at how much went on in the 20th century, it's amazing it didn't take longer...
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  • A Brief History of The Third Reich: The Rise and Fall of the Nazis Martyn Whittock 9781849012997

    A Brief History of The Third Reich: The Rise and Fall of the Nazis Martyn Whittock 9781849012997

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    Beginning in the broken aftermath of the First World War and the Treaty of Versailles that made German recovery almost impossible, Whittock tells not just the account of the men who rose to the fore in the dangerous days of the Weimar republic, circling...
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  • Playing with Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina, Pianist in Stalin's Russia by Elizabeth Wilson

    Playing with Fire: The Story of Maria Yudina, Pianist in Stalin's Russia by Elizabeth Wilson

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    The first full biography of the fearless and brilliant Maria Yudina, a legendary pianist who was central to Russian intellectual life "Playing with Fire is a ground-breaking work-a phenomenal biography of a towering human spirit of everlasting...
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  • The Last Secret of the Secret Annex by Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl 9781398518216

    The Last Secret of the Secret Annex by Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl 9781398518216

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    The extraordinary, never-before-told story of Bep Voskuijl, Anne Frank’s closest friend during the 761 days she spent in the Secret Annex. Bep was just twenty-three when the Franks went into hiding and she risked her life to protect them, plunging into...
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  • How to French Country: A Story of Colour, Textiles and Design at Home by Sara Silm 9781760760984

    How to French Country: A Story of Colour, Textiles and Design at Home by Sara Silm 9781760760984

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760760984Author Sara SilmFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty LtdPublisher Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty...
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  • Empress of the Nile: the daredevil archaeologist who saved Egypt’s ancient temples from destruction by Lynne Olson

    Empress of the Nile: the daredevil archaeologist who saved Egypt’s ancient temples from destruction by Lynne Olson

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    The riveting story of a true-life female Indiana Jones: an archaeologist who survived the Nazis and then saved Egypt's ancient temples. In the 1960s, the world's attention was focused on a nail-biting race against time: fifty countries had contributed...
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  • Hitler's Crime Fighter: The Extraordinary Life of Konrad Morgen David Lee 9781785908668

    Hitler's Crime Fighter: The Extraordinary Life of Konrad Morgen David Lee 9781785908668

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    Nazi Germany, June 1943, Buchenwald concentration camp. The last place you'd expect to find any form of justice. And yet justice against the SS men who brutalised the prisoners here would be attempted by the unlikeliest of sources - SS officer Konrad...
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  • The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz: The Extraordinary True Story Denis Avey 9781444714197

    The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz: The Extraordinary True Story Denis Avey 9781444714197

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    THE MAN WHO BROKE INTO AUSCHWITZ is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into Buna-Monowitz, the concentration camp known as Auschwitz III. In the summer of 1944, Denis Avey was being held in a POW labour camp, E715,...
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  • Let It Go: My Extraordinary Story - From Refugee to Entrepreneur to Philanthropist by Dame Stephanie Shirley

    Let It Go: My Extraordinary Story - From Refugee to Entrepreneur to Philanthropist by Dame Stephanie Shirley

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    A moving memoir from a woman who made a fortune in a man's world and then gave it all away...soon to be turned into a filmIn 1962, Stephanie 'Steve' Shirley created a software company when the concept of software barely existed. Freelance Programmers...
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  • Women and Children First: Bravery, love and fate: the untold story of the doomed Titanic by Gill Paul 9781847563255

    Women and Children First: Bravery, love and fate: the untold story of the doomed Titanic by Gill Paul 9781847563255

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    Praise for Gill Paul: 'A cleverly crafted novel and an enthralling story... A triumph.' DINAH JEFFERIES 'Gripping, romantic and evocative of its time.' LULU TAYLOR It is 1912. Against all odds, the...
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  • Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa by Paul Kenyon

    Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa by Paul Kenyon

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    A Financial Times Book of the Year 'Jaw-dropping' Daily Express 'Grimly fascinating' Financial Times 'Humane, timely, accessible and well-researched' Irish Times The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a...
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  • The First World War: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Howard

    The First World War: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Howard

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    By the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic episode the world had known. This Very Short Introduction provides a concise and insightful history of the 'Great War', focusing on...
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  • The Subversive Seventies by Michael Hardt 9780197674659

    The Subversive Seventies by Michael Hardt 9780197674659

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    A thought-provoking reconsideration of how the revolutionary movements of the 1970s set the mold for today's activism. The 1970s was a decade of "subversives". Faced with various progressive and revolutionary social movements, the forces of...
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  • The World's War by David Olusoga

    The World's War by David Olusoga

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    'A groundbreaking and important book that will surely reframe our understanding of the Great War' David Lammy 'A genuinely groundbreaking piece of research' BBC History 'Meticulously researched and beautifully written' Military History Monthly In...
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  • D-Day 6th June 1944: The Allied Invasion of Normandy by Mike Lepine 9781915343529

    D-Day 6th June 1944: The Allied Invasion of Normandy by Mike Lepine 9781915343529

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915343529Author Mike LepineFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Sona BooksPublisher Danann Media Publishing LimitedWeight(grams) 757gDimensions(mm) 273mm...
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  • Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life by Clare Mac Cumhaill

    Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life by Clare Mac Cumhaill

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    WINNER OF THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWNAN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOKA FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDElizabeth Anscombe: defiantly brilliant, chain-smoking, trouser-wearing Catholic and...
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  • India After Gandhi: A History by Ramachandra Guha 9781035014729

    India After Gandhi: A History by Ramachandra Guha 9781035014729

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    'Magisterial' - The Financial TimesAn updated edition of Ramachandra Guha's India After Gandhi with new material that explains the major events, policy shifts and controversies of the past decade, placing them in their proper sociological and historical...
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  • Yes To Life In Spite of Everything by Viktor E Frankl 9781846046360

    Yes To Life In Spite of Everything by Viktor E Frankl 9781846046360

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    'Viktor Frankl gives us the gift of looking at everything in life as an opportunity' Edith Eger, bestselling author of The Choice'Offers a path to finding hope even in these dark times' The New York Times A rediscovered masterpiece by the 16 million...
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  • Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923 by R. F. Foster

    Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923 by R. F. Foster

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    OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR and OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014WINNER OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION'S MORRIS D. FORKOSCH PRIZE 2016'The most complete and plausible exploration of the roots of the...
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  • Sharon And My Mother-In-Law: Ramallah Diaries by Suad Amiry 9781862078116

    Sharon And My Mother-In-Law: Ramallah Diaries by Suad Amiry 9781862078116

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    A blackly funny account of everyday life in Ramallah and refreshingly different from most writing on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Sharon and My Mother-in-Law describes Suad Amiry's life on the West Bank from the early 1980s to the first decade of...
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  • Michael Collins: A Biography by Tim Pat Coogan

    Michael Collins: A Biography by Tim Pat Coogan

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    'The unofficial voice of modern Irish history' EconomistWhen President of the Irish Republic Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, he remarked to Lord Birkenhead, 'I may have signed my actual death warrant.' In August 1922 at...
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  • British Rail by Christian Wolmar 9781405946278

    British Rail by Christian Wolmar 9781405946278

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    The authoritative and fascinating history of the rise and fall of the state-owned British Rail'Wolmar's book is impeccably organised and makes a fast, enjoyable read' THE TIMES Literary Supplement________British Rail wasn't how we're asked to remember it...
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  • Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich by Eric Kurlander

    Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich by Eric Kurlander

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    The definitive history of the supernatural in Nazi Germany-the occult ideas, esoteric sciences, and pagan religions touted by the Third Reich in the service of power"[Kurlander] shows how swiftly irrational ideas can take hold, even in an age before...
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  • Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Dictatorship, 1915-1945 by Richard  J. B. Bosworth

    Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Dictatorship, 1915-1945 by Richard J. B. Bosworth

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    For almost all nations the First World War was an unparalleled disaster, but the Italian experience especially was to have catastrophic consequences. Weakened and embittered, trying and failing to come to terms with 600,000 dead and with an entire...
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  • The Secret State: Preparing For The Worst 1945 - 2010 by Peter Hennessy

    The Secret State: Preparing For The Worst 1945 - 2010 by Peter Hennessy

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    Peter Hennessy's The Secret State: Preparing for the Worst 1945-2010 is the story of secret government plans for combatting attacks on Britain, from the Cold War to modern counter-terrorism. Now completely revised and updated, Peter Hennessy's acclaimed...
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  • United Queerdom: From the Legends of the Gay Liberation Front to the Queers of Tomorrow by Dan Glass

    United Queerdom: From the Legends of the Gay Liberation Front to the Queers of Tomorrow by Dan Glass

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    Throughout the 1970s the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) initiated an anarchic campaign that permanently changed the face of Britain. Inspired by the Stonewall uprisings in the US, the GLF demanded a 'Absolute Freedom For All' worldwide. Yet half a century...
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  • Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870 to 1914 by David Mccullough

    Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870 to 1914 by David Mccullough

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    Describes all the events and personalities involved in the monumental undertaking which precipitated revolution, scandal, economic crisis, and a new Central American republic.Book InformationISBN 9780671244095Author David McculloughFormat PaperbackPage...
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  • The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia by Mark Galeotti

    The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia by Mark Galeotti

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    The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the gulags to become Russia's much-feared crime class: the vory v zakone Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and police around the...
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  • Stalin's Curse: Battling for Communism in War and Cold War by Robert Gellately

    Stalin's Curse: Battling for Communism in War and Cold War by Robert Gellately

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    The Second World War almost destroyed Stalin's Soviet Union. But victory over Nazi Germany provided the dictator with his great opportunity: to expand Soviet power way beyond the borders of the Soviet state. Well before the shooting stopped in 1945,...
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  • Britain, 1947: Hope Amid Hardship by David Kirby 9781911723219

    Britain, 1947: Hope Amid Hardship by David Kirby 9781911723219

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    For the British people, 1947 was a momentous year. For three long months, they endured the worst winter in living memory, with drastic fuel shortages and power cuts, and continuing food rationing post-World War Two. Heavy snow gave way to widespread...
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  • Margot at War: Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916 Anne de Courcy 9781474625159

    Margot at War: Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916 Anne de Courcy 9781474625159

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    Margot Asquith was perhaps the most daring and unconventional Prime Minister's wife in British history. Known for her wit, style and habit of speaking her mind, she transformed 10 Downing Street into a glittering social and intellectual salon. Yet her...
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  • Mexico's Once and Future Revolution: Social Upheaval and the Challenge of Rule since the Late Nineteenth Century by Gilbert M. Joseph

    Mexico's Once and Future Revolution: Social Upheaval and the Challenge of Rule since the Late Nineteenth Century by Gilbert M. Joseph

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    In this concise historical analysis of the Mexican Revolution, Gilbert M. Joseph and Jurgen Buchenau explore the revolution's causes, dynamics, consequences, and legacies. They do so from varied perspectives, including those of campesinos and workers;...
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  • Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939 by Virginia Nicholson

    Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939 by Virginia Nicholson

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    Virginia Nicholson's Among the Bohemians is a portrait of England's artistic community in the first half of the twentieth century, engaged in a grand experiment.Subversive, eccentric and flamboyant - the Bohemians ate garlic and didn't always wash; they...
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  • Fire in Babylon: How the West Indies Cricket Team Brought a People to its Feet by Simon Lister

    Fire in Babylon: How the West Indies Cricket Team Brought a People to its Feet by Simon Lister

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    WINNER OF THE CRICKET SOCIETY AND MCC BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD'I doubt there will be a better book written about this period in West Indies cricket history.' Clive LloydCricket had never...
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  • Cilka's Journey: The Sunday Times bestselling sequel to The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris 9781785769047

    Cilka's Journey: The Sunday Times bestselling sequel to The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris 9781785769047

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    Cilka's Journey is the million copy bestselling sequel to the phenomenon The Tattooist of Auschwitz.Don't miss the conclusion to The Tattooist of Auschwitz Trilogy, Three Sisters. Available now.'She was the bravest person I ever met'Lale Sokolov, The...
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  • The Naked Truth: Viennese Modernism and the Body by Alys X. George

    The Naked Truth: Viennese Modernism and the Body by Alys X. George

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    Uncovers the interplay of the physical and the aesthetic that shaped Viennese modernism and offers a new interpretation of this moment in the history of the West. Viennese modernism is often described in terms of a fin-de-siecle fascination with the...
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  • Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul by Charles King 9780393351866

    Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul by Charles King 9780393351866

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    When the Ottoman Empire collapsed, so many spies mingled in the lobby of Istanbul's Pera Palace Hotel that the manager put up a sign asking them to relinquish seats to paying guests. As the multi-ethnic empire became a Turkish republic, Russian emigres...
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  • Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017 by Ian Kershaw

    Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017 by Ian Kershaw

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    A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE 2020'Brilliant ... a historical masterpiece' The Times Literary SupplementFrom one of Britain's most distinguished historians and the bestselling author of Hitler, this is the definitive...
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