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The incredible story of the largest POW escape in the Second World War organized by ordinary men who ultimately did something extraordinary.

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The epic, fascinating history of one of the world's great cultures.

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Offering a survey of Greek vases, this book sketches their stylistic history. It explores the process of identifying artists; the methods of making and decorating the vases and the problems in doing so; the life of the potter; the pots' dissemination beyond Greece; and their functions in life, cult and as messengers of style and subject.

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David Irving is a leading Holocaust revisionist. He sued Penguin Books for libel claiming he had been falsely labelled a Holocaust denier. The trial was one of the strangest to take place in an English court: the judge had to give a verdict on history.

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The eagerly anticipated final volume in Jonathan Sumption's prize-winning history of the Hundred Years War,'one of the great historical undertakings of our age' (Dan Jones, Sunday Times).

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(Hardback, Main)

The secret history of England's most notorious county

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A brilliant work of historical true crime charting a pivotal event in the l9th century that gripped the world and forever altered the course of Irish history.

It is the aim of this text to describe Leopold II without prejudice. The text presents many aspects of his life: as a most ruthless negotiator; as the cold father; and as the sensual ancient riding his tricycle at Vilefranche-sur-Mer to pedal round to the villa of a young mistress.

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Telling the story of the landmark international judgement that brought an end to Britain's colonial rule in Africa, THE LAST COLONY is a riveting, enraging and beautifully rendered history of international law by the bestselling author of EAST WEST STREET and THE RATLINE

Drawing on archival research, the author traces the emergence of the Napoleonic myth and how it developed into a potent political culture. This book is a study of why the fascination with Napoleon has endured for two centuries.

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The gripping history of one of the Second World War's most pivotal battles

Published alongside a landmark BBC2 series, this is the story of Britain from 1900 to the end of the Second World War.

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A portrait of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the darkest figures of Hitler's elite and the designer and executor of the Holocaust, featuring in-depth interviews with those who knew him best.

An introductory guide to the whare whakairo, or Mori meeting house.

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Demonstrates the relationship between money, people and power in both Western and Eastern culture over the centuries. The author reiterates that many of the trends that have been regarded as distinctively new in the past decades have parallels in earlier centuries.

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We consider the Middle Ages barbaric, yet the period furnished some of our most enduring icons, including King Arthur's Round Table, knights in shining armour and the idealised noblewoman. In this vivid history of the time, you can find out what people's beds were like, how often they washed, what they wore, what they cooked, and how they worked.

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Brimful of scandal, illicit affairs, spurned loves and unexpected tragedy, The Million Dollar Duchesses reveals the closed-door bargaining which led to these most influential matches and how America's heiresses shook-up British high society for ever.

President James Monroe's 1823 message to Congress declaring opposition to European colonization in the Western Hemisphere became the cornerstone of nineteenth-century American statecraft. This book focuses on the paradox at the centre of American diplomatic history: the nation's interdependent traditions of anticolonialism and imperialism.

Between 1720 and 1751, the gin craze nearly overwhelmed London. Based on extensive research, this work provides an evocative account of the gin craze and its effects upon the people of Georgian England.

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Between 1720 and 1751, the "gin craze" nearly overwhelmed London. Patrick Dillon's book follows the history of gin, or "geneva", from its introduction from Holland after the Glorious Revolution, to its role as the sustenance of the poor - a quick trip to oblivion in squalid 18th-century London.

The English Channel separates Britain from Europe, keeping invaders out of Britain and defining its identity. Peter Unwin tells its story, from the ancient land-bridge that linked Britain to the continent to the 21st century, charting the history of one of the world's busiest seaways.

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A panoramic narrative of the years leading up to the Second World War-a tale of democratic crisis, racial conflict, and a belated recognition of evil, with profound resonance for our own time.