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(Hardback, Main)

By: Iain Dale

ISBN: 9781838954758
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2022
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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An informative, accessible and opinionated book on key moments in British political history that have occurred on every day from 1 January through to 31 December.


(Paperback, Main)

By: Iain Dale

ISBN: 9781838954772
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 19th September 2024
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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An informative, accessible and opinionated book on key moments in British political history that have occurred on every day from 1 January through to 31 December.


(Paperback)

By: David Roberts

ISBN: 9780712666282
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1998
UK Publication Date: 23rd April 1998
Publisher: Vintage
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The Apache wars were the final episode in the subjugation of the American Indian peoples. Featuring larger-than-life characters such as Geronimo, Cochise and General Cook, this is an account of the battles between the Apache and the US Army for land and freedom.


(Paperback)

By: Bob Greene

ISBN: 9780060081973
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2003
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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A portrait of the North Platte Canteen in Nebraska describes how its citizens transformed the train depot into a haven of companionship, home-cooked food, and music for passing World War II servicemen.


(Hardback)

By: Matthew Parker

ISBN: 9781408708583
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 28th September 2023
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The story of the British Empire at its maximum territorial extent, including a wider range of voices of the colonised than have ever been recorded before


(Paperback, Export)

By: Charles Fishman

ISBN: 9781982130152
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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President John F. Kennedy astonished the world on May 25, 1961, when he announced to Congress that the United States would land a man on the moon by 1970. No group was more surprised than the engineers at NASA.


(Paperback, Revised edition)

By: Admiral Sandy Woodward

ISBN: 9780007436408
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2012
UK Publication Date: 29th March 2012
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Updated for the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War, this is the bestselling, highly-acclaimed and most famous account of the conflict, written by the commander of the British Task Force.


(Paperback)

By: Linda Robinson

ISBN: 9781610394680
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
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(Hardback)

By: Nancy Pine

ISBN: 9781538143407
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This heart-wrenching story immerses readers in the dramatic survival of one outspoken man, An Wei, who illuminates the souls of a billion ordinary Chinese citizens. His perseverance and ability to confront adversity combine with the dramatic events and upheavals in Chinas modern history, inspiring a narrative that will keep readers enthralled.


(Paperback)

By: Michael Dobbs

ISBN: 9780099492450
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
UK Publication Date: 2nd April 2009
Publisher: Cornerstone
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October 27, 1962, a day dubbed Black Saturday in the Kennedy White House.

Dobbs's thrilling narrative features a cast of characters - including Soviet veterans never before interviewed by a western writer - with unique stories to tell, witnesses to one of the greatest mobilizations of men and equipment since the Second World War.


(Hardback)

By: Stephen A. Goldman

ISBN: 9781538161555
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: David James Smith

ISBN: 9781474623407
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 9th December 2021
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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Sarajevo, 28 June 1914: The story of the assassination that changed the world.
'Outstanding' SPECTATOR 'A fine piece of political and literary detective work, which held this reader enthralled' TRIBUNE


(Paperback)

By: sne Seierstad

ISBN: 9781844089185
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
UK Publication Date: 4th February 2016
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Inspiration for the Netflix Film 22 July - directed by Paul Greengrass - and in the tradition of In Cold Blood, the account of a massacre and a gripping portrait of evil, by the author of The Bookseller of Kabul.


(Paperback)

By: Arkady Babchenko

ISBN: 9781846270406
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2008
Publisher: Granta Books
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An unsparing, unsentimental, blackly comic and brutally beautiful autobiographical account of life as a young soldier in Russia's Chechen wars, which traces the author's journey from naive innocence to brutalized experience.


(Paperback)

By: Frederick Lewis Allen

ISBN: 9780060956653
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2000
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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(Hardback)

By: Hasia R. Diner

ISBN: 9781250243928
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 18th September 2024
Publisher: St Martin's Press
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(Hardback)

By: Donald Reid

ISBN: 9781786635402
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
Publisher: Verso Books
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How the occupation of a watch factory became one of the iconic labour struggles after May 1968


(Paperback)

By: Dr Brian D. Laslie

ISBN: 9781472860309
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 20th June 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A focused, illustrated history and analysis of perhaps the most complete air power victory in modern times, NATO's war against Serbian forces over Kosovo.


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By: William E. Hiestand

ISBN: 9781472861504
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 15th August 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Barbarossa was the biggest German invasion of World War II. Comprehensively illustrated, this study explores the air campaign that spearheaded it, and how it evolved during the rest of 1941.


(Hardback)

By: Max Hastings

ISBN: 9780008642167
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2024
UK Publication Date: 23rd May 2024
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER

'There are few things in life more dependable than a war story told by Hastings Hes a master of drama, a writer intimately familiar with the mind of the soldier' THE TIMES


(Paperback)

By: Andrew Bird

ISBN: 9781472856661
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 17th August 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A newly researched, fully illustrated account of how RAF Vulcan bombers flew a series of the world's longest air raids in 1982 against Port Stanley airfield, in a daring, hastily improvised strike against the Argentinian invaders.


(Paperback)

By: Joshua Levine

ISBN: 9780007395873
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2012
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Operation Fortitude was the ingenious web of deception spun by the Allies to mislead the Nazis as to how and where the D-Day landings were to be mounted.


(Paperback)

By: Robert Lyman

ISBN: 9781472852069
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 26th May 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This is the story of Operation Jericho, the spectacular prison break staged by an elite group of British, Australian and New Zealand bomber pilots, who flew a daring low-level mission to blow holes in the walls of Amiens jail and free French Resistance prisoners under the sentence of death during World War II.


(Paperback)

By: Harry Ferguson

ISBN: 9780099514657
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2010
Publisher: Cornerstone
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Operation Kronstadt not only reveals the early days of Britain's intelligence services but uncovers a truly dramatic story from the Russian Revolution involving a daring rescue attempt and a 'mission impossible' against the best defended naval target in Russia.

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