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The Booker-shortlisted author of the Ibis trilogy explores the impact of opium on global history, economies, cultures, and his own understanding of self.

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The Booker-shortlisted author of the Ibis trilogy explores the impact of opium on global history, economies, cultures, and his own understanding of self.

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A highly illustrated history of Operation Suvorov, the Soviet assault against German positions around Smolensk in late 1943.

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Warburg, condemned to obscurity and confined to a mental hospital, regained his sanity by studying the rituals of the Native Americans of the Southwest who, for thousands of years, practiced the ritual of the 'snake dance' in an attempt to harness the power of lightening.

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Snow and Steel will be a huge reassessment of Hitler's last great throw of the dice: 'The Battle of the Bulge', the battle for the Ardennes 16 December 1944 to 25 January 1945.

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A vivid and original portrait of a year that stands at a crossroads between two great monarchs and two ages of English history.

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The actual course given to all secret agents in SOE before working behind enemy lines. It includes everything you needed to know to go undercover from documents, cover stories and how to live off the land to how to get through an interrogation.

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The SOE (Special Operations Executive) was one of the most innovative British creations of the Second World War. This book looks at the men and women who made up the SOE, the rigorous training to which they were subjected, and their lives during and after the war.

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A deeply imaginative, street-by-street and meticulously researched biography of one of London's most vibrant and seductive districts

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Drawing extensively on the men's diaries, journals and letters, this text retells the story of a brotherhood of young men who together laid claim to one of the most notorious frontiers in the world: India's north-west frontier.

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The definitive account of GI resistance to the Vietnam War. New introduction by Howard Zinn.

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A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle Compelling Daily Mail An unmissable read Sunday Times

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An "account of Sherman's March to the Sea--the critical Civil War campaign that destroyed the Confederacy--told for the first time from the perspective of the tens of thousands of enslaved people who fled to the Union lines and transformed Sherman's march into the biggest liberation event in American history"--

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The definitive storyof the First World War'sbloodiest conflict

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The year 1916 was one of the great turning-points in British history: as the youthful hopes of a generation were crushed in a desperate struggle to survive, and traditional attitudes to authority were destroyed for ever. On paper, few battles have ever been so meticulously planned. This title tells this history.

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The amazing and controversial story of Calixa Lavallee - the composer of 'O Canada' - and the tumult of 19th-century North America.

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From the children of Victoria's reign to the kids of the new millennium, Songs of Innocence explores the seismic shift in attitudes to our formative years and reveals what has made successive generations young.

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Manners: the quintessential business of being English.

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A fascinating history of a little-known arms race, and the huge dreadnought battleships that Brazil, Argentina and Chile armed themselves with in the years before World War I.

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A "gripping and poignant" account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico (Wall Street Journal).

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Presents the 60s in McDonald's trademark vividness and accuracy.

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An authoritative history of the Red Army's armored cars, the quick and maneuverable vehicles which were used in conflicts ranging from the Spanish Civil War to the occupation of Poland.