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  • THE LAST DAYS OF BUDAPEST
    THE LAST DAYS OF BUDAPEST
    ADAM LEBOR
    Budapest, autumn 1943. Four years into the war, Hungary is allied with Nazi Germany and the Hungarian capital is the Casablanca of central Europe. The city swirls with intrigue and betrayal, home to spies and agents of every kind. But Budapest remains at peace, an oasis in the midst of war where Allied POWs, and Polish and Jewish refugees find sanctuary. The riverside cafes are...
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  • THOSE WHO ARE ABOUT TO DIE
    THOSE WHO ARE ABOUT TO DIE
    HARRY SIDEBOTTOM
    Bestselling author Harry Sidebottom takes readers on a thrilling journey through a day in the life of the most iconic figure of the ancient world: the Roman gladiator 'Wonderfully panoramic ... endlessly informative, rich with unexpected detail but never heavy to read' Literary Review 'Grippingly original' Tom Holland, Sunday Times bestselling author of Dominion 'Thrilling......
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  • THE CUCKOO AND THE CUCKQUEAN
    THE CUCKOO AND THE CUCKQUEAN
    PATRICIA TARRANT. ROMAN
    Six unique women - One common goal.The troubled lives of six Spanish women coincide, collide and intersect. Pedro and Maria are trapped in a loveless marriage, unable to divorce because of the teachings of the catholic church. Pedro meets Rosa, a naïve girl half his age, falls in love and builds her a home. But their world is doomed from the start. Pedro cannot sustain two hous...
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  • ENDGAME 1944
    ENDGAME 1944
    JONATHAN DIMBLEBY
    A gripping and authoritative account of the year that sealed the fate of the Nazis, from the bestselling historian June 1944: In Operation Bagration, more than two million Red Army soldiers, facing 500,000 German soldiers, finally avenged their defeat in Operation Barbarossa in 1941. The same month saw the Allies triumph on the beaches of Normandy, but, despite the myths that ...
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  • GOLIATH'S CURSE
    GOLIATH'S CURSE
    LUKE KEMP
    A radical retelling of human history through collapse - from the dawn of our species to the urgent existential threats of the twenty-first century and beyond. 'A brilliant, utterly convincing account of the evolution of human society and why we are probably reaching humanity's end days' HENRY MARSH 'Absolutely essential reading for understanding why past civilisations collaps...
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  • ALLIES AT WAR
    ALLIES AT WAR
    TIM BOUVERIE
    A Sunday Times bestselling landmark history of the alliance that won the war and made the peace from the author of Appeasing Hitler 'An astonishing achievement. Compellingly told, immensely wide-ranging and utterly fascinating'JAMES HOLLAND 'The best book I have ever read about the politics of the Second World War' TIM SHIPMAN After the fall of France in June 1940, only Brit...
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  • THE SIEGE
    THE SIEGE
    BEN MACINTYRE
    "On April 30, 1980, six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy on Princes Gate, overlooking Hyde Park in London. There they took 26 hostages, including embassy staff, visitors, and three British citizens. A tense six-day siege ensued as millions gathered around screens across the country to witness the longest news flash in British television history, in which poli...
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  • ASSYRIA
    ASSYRIA
    ECKART FRAHM
    The first comprehensive account of the rise and fall of what historians consider to be the world's very first empire: Assyria 'A work of remarkable synthesis. The range of its sources is truly extraordinary . . . Frahm punctures a fair share of myths too' Pratinav Anil, The Times At its height in 660 BCE, the kingdom of Assyria stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persi...
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  • DOMINION
    DOMINION
    TOM HOLLAND
    Christianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence the single most transformative development in Western history. Even the increasing number in the West today who have abandoned the faith of their forebears, and dismiss all religion as pointless superstition, remain recognisably its heirs. Seen close-up, the division between a scept...
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  • THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS
    THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS
    ISABEL WILKERSON
    'A landmark piece of non-fiction' Janet Maslin, The New York TimesFrom the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this is one of the great untold stories of American history: the migration of black citizens who fled the south and went north in search of a better life From 1915 to 1970, an exodus of almost six million people would change the face of America. With stunning historical de...
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  • THE BRITISH ARE COMING
    THE BRITISH ARE COMING
    RICK ATKINSON
    Winner of the George Washington PrizeWinner of the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American HistoryWinner of the Excellence in American History Book AwardWinner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book AwardFrom the bestselling author of the Liberation Trilogy comes the extraordinary first volume of his new trilogy about the American RevolutionRick Atkinson, author of the P...
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  • RAMPAGE
    RAMPAGE
    JAMES M SCOTT
    The definitive history of one of the most brutal campaigns of the war in the Pacific.Before World War II, Manila was a slice of America in Asia, populated with elegant neoclassical buildings, spacious parks, and home to thousands of U.S. servicemen and business executives who enjoyed the relaxed pace of the tropics. The outbreak of the war, however, brought an end to the good l...
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  • SYRIA
    SYRIA
    JOHN MCHUGO
    Syria's descent into civil war has already claimed an estimated 200,000 lives while more than nine million people have fled their homes. This is now the greatest humanitarian and political crisis of the twenty-first century. In this timely account, John McHugo charts the history of Syria from the First World War to the present and considers why Syria's foundations as a nation h...
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  • THE RISE OF ROME
    THE RISE OF ROME
    LIVY,
    `the fates ordained the founding of this great city and the beginning of the world's mightiest empire, second only to the power of the gods' Romulus and Remus, the rape of Lucretia, Horatius at the bridge, the saga of Coriolanus, Cincinnatus called from his farm to save the state - these and many more are stories which, immortalised by Livy in his history of early Rome, have be...
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  • THE LION AND THE UNICORN
    THE LION AND THE UNICORN
    RICHARD ALDOUS
    'Engaging and highly entertaining' Sunday Times The dramatic confrontation between the two 'mighty opposites' of the Victorian age, brilliantly recreated by a talented young historian. Gladstone and Disraeli were the fiercest political rivals of the modern age. Their intense hatred was ideological and deeply personal. Victorian Britain ruled the oceans and vast territories 'o...
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  • TRIPPED
    TRIPPED
    NORMAN OHLER
    A brilliant and original investigation into the medical origins of LSD and how the Nazis and the CIA turned it into a weapon, by the author of Blitzed. ...
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  • THIS EARTHLY GLOBE
    THIS EARTHLY GLOBE
    ANDREA DI ROBILANT
    'A dazzling tale, brilliantly told' Peter Frankopan 'Marries the intrigue of Europe's most powerful royal courts with the globe-trotting thrill of adventure and discovery' Sunday Telegraph, 5* review DURING THE AGE OF DISCOVERY, in the autumn of 1550, a little-known public servant in the Venetian government, Giovambattista Ramusio, anonymously published Navigationi et Viaggi...
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  • THE SHORTEST HISTORY OF JAPAN
    THE SHORTEST HISTORY OF JAPAN
    LESLEY DOWNER
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  • ROME
    ROME
    MATTHEW KNEALE
    No city on earth has preserved its past as has Rome. Visitors stand on bridges that were crossed by Julius Caesar and Cicero, walk around temples visited by Roman emperors, and step into churches that have hardly changed since popes celebrated mass in them sixteen centuries ago. These architectural survivals are all the more remarkable considering the violent disasters that hav...
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  • BAND OF BROTHERS
    BAND OF BROTHERS
    STEPHEN E. AMBROSE
    On the bloody battlefields of World War II Europe, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, got the toughest missions. As good a rifle company as any in the world, Easy was always in the thick of the fight -- from parachuting into France under a hellish crossfire early D-Day morning, to the final capture of Hitler's supposedly impregnable Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden....
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  • HIROSHIMA
    HIROSHIMA
    JOHN HERSEY
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  • THE ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINE
    THE ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINE
    ILAN PAPPE
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  • BREAKNECK
    BREAKNECK
    DAN WANG
    America used to pride itself on ambition. Today, it looks stuck. Meanwhile, China has been busy building the future. Over the past six years, technology analyst Dan Wang lived through China's astonishing, messy progress and the dissolution of its relationship to the West. In Breakneck, Wang offers a new framework for understanding China - which helps us to see global geopoliti...
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  • ALLIES AT WAR
    ALLIES AT WAR
    TIM BOUVERIE
    A Sunday Times bestselling landmark history of the alliance that won the war and made the peace from the author of Appeasing Hitler 'An astonishing achievement. Compellingly told, immensely wide-ranging and utterly fascinating'JAMES HOLLAND 'The best book I have ever read about the politics of the Second World War' TIM SHIPMAN After the fall of France in June 1940, only Brit...
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  • KING LEOPOLD'S GHOSTWRITER
    KING LEOPOLD'S GHOSTWRITER
    ANDREW FITZMAURICE
    A dramatic intellectual biography of Victorian jurist Travers Twiss, who provided the legal justification for the creation of the brutal Congo Free StateEminent jurist, Oxford professor, advocate to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Travers Twiss (1809-1897) was a model establishment figure in Victorian Britain, and a close collaborator of Prince Metternich, the architect of the Co...
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  • HITLER'S CRIME FIGHTER
    HITLER'S CRIME FIGHTER
    DAVID LEE
    In the Third Reich, the SS ran the Gestapo, the police and the concentration camps where millions of people were killed. However Nazi Germany still had laws and a legal system which outlawed murder and other criminal acts and SS Investigating Judge and Police Official SS, Major Konrad Morgen, used these laws to investigate and bring individual members of the SS to justice for t...
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  • AGENT ZIGZAG
    AGENT ZIGZAG
    BEN MACINTYRE
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 'Engrossing as any thriller' Daily Telegraph 'Superb. Meticulously researched, splendidly told, immensely entertaining' John le Carré 'This is the most amazing book, full of fascinating and hair-raising true life adventures . . . It would be impossible to recommend it too highly' Mail on Sunday _______ One December night in 1942, a Naz...
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  • AGE OF REVOLUTIONS
    AGE OF REVOLUTIONS
    FAREED ZAKARIA
    Fareed Zakaria first warned of the threat of \"illiberal democracy\" two decades ago. Now comes Age of Revolutions- Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present. A decade in the making, the book is based on deep research and conversations with world leaders from Emmanuel Macron to Lee Kuan Yew. In it Zakaria sets our era of populist chaos into the sweep of history. Age of Re...
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  • TARGETED: BEIRUT
    TARGETED: BEIRUT
    JACK CARR / JAMES M. SCOTT
    The first in a new in-depth nonfiction series examining the devastating terrorist attacks that changed the course of history from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr and Pulitzer Prize finalist James M. Scott, beginning with the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Beirut. 1983: the United States Marine Corps experiences its greatest single-day loss of life since the Bat...
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  • PIECE OF CAKE
    PIECE OF CAKE
    DEREK ROBINSON
    From the Phoney War of 1939 to the Battle of Britain in 1940, the pilots of Hornet Squadron learn their lessons the hard way. Hi-jinks are all very well on the ground, but once in a Hurricane's cockpit, the best killers keep their wits close. Newly promoted Commanding Officer Fanny Barton has a job on to whip the Hornets into shape before they face the Luftwaffe's seasoned pilo...
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