The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War by Giles Milton
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Category: History
'Terrific' Anthony Horowitz From internationally bestselling historian Giles Milton comes the remarkable true story of the Allies' secret mission to wartime Moscow. In the summer of 1941, as Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, Stalin's forces faced a catastrophic defeat which would make the Allies' liber ...Show more
La Serenissima: The Story of Venice by Jonathan Keates
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Category: History
A stunningly illustrated history of Venice, from its beginnings as 'La Serenissima' - 'the Most Serene Republic' - to the Italian city that continues to enchant visitors today. 'Everything about Venice,' observed Lord Byron, 'is, or was, extraordinary - her aspect is like a dream, and her history is li ...Show more
Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire by Michael Palin
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Category: History
Michael Palin recreates the extraordinary life and tragic death of a First World War soldier - his great-uncle Harry. 'An important historical record and a well-paced story in its own right, Great-Uncle Harry is also much more than that- a tremendous act of love.' Guardian ______________________________ ...Show more
The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society by Joseph Stiglitz
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Category: social issues
A major reappraisal, by the Nobel-prizewinning economist, of the relationship between capitalism and freedom Despite its manifest failures, the narrative of neoliberalism retains its grip on the public mind and the policies of governments all over the world. By this narrative, less regulation and more ...Show more
Henry VIII: The Heart and the Crown by Alison Weir
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Category: History
The Sunday Times top 10 bestseller. Six wives. One King. You know their stories. Now it's time to hear his. In grand royal palaces, Prince Harry grows up dreaming of knights and chivalry - and the golden age of kings that awaits his older brother. But Arthur's untimely death sees Harry crowned King Henr ...Show more
Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan
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Category: social issues
An indelible exploration of the Cultural Revolution and how it shapes China today, Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the rarely heard stories of individuals who lived through Mao's decade of madness. SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2023WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HIS ...Show more
Cleopatra's Daughter: Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen by Jane Draycott
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Category: Ancient History/Mythology
Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Cleopatra VII of Egypt and Mark Antony, was the only member of the Ptolemaic dynasty to survive after her parents were defeated by the future Roman emperor Augustus at the Battle of Actium. Paraded as a prisoner in a Roman triumph, then brought up in the household of August ...Show more
Seven Against Thebes The Quest of the Original Magnificent Seven by Stephen Dando-Collins
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Category: Ancient History/Mythology | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Oedipus, who famously killed his father and married his mother, solving the riddle of the Sphinx to become king of Thebes. His devastated wife Jocasta. Their sons, the power-hungry Eteocles and the betrayed Polynices. Their loyal sisters Antigone and Ismene. And the Seven, most famous warrior band in Gr ...Show more
The Astronomers' Library: The Books that Unlocked the Mysteries of the Universe by Karen Masters
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Category: History | Series: Liber Historica Ser.
Indulge in this collection of the best astronomy books from the past 800 years. The Astronomers' Library is a rich history of astronomy (and astrology) publishing across Europe. This is a carefully selected arrangement of publications from all over the continent - Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, ...Show more
Thorns, Lust and Glory: The betrayal of Anne Boleyn by Estelle Paranque
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Category: History
An exciting new telling of the life of Anne Boleyn, using new archival research to reveal the woman behind the myth, from the acclaimed historian Dr Estelle Paranque. A queen on the edge. Anne Boleyn has mesmerised the English public for centuries. Her tragic execution, orchestrated by her own husband, ...Show more
Counterfeit Countess (Janina Mehlberg) The untold story of the Jewish heroine who defied the Holocaust by Elizabeth B White, Joanna Sliwa
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Category: History
A fascinating biography of the incredible Janina (Pepi Spinner) Mehlberg, a German-Jewish mathematician who saved the lives of many inmates of the Majdanek concentration and extermination camp at Lublin in Poland during the Second World War - which she did by posing as a bogus Polish aristocrat named Co ...Show more
A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps by Jonn Elledge
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Category: History
People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty or the decisions of a handful of tired Europeans had gone a different way. By ...Show more