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By: David Friend
ISBN: 9781538767498
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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Featuring a new foreword by Molly Jong-Fast, THE NAUGHTY NINETIES is a sexual history of the 1990s when the tabloids, the tawdry, and the titillating took over Washington, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue.
(Hardback)
By: David Friend
ISBN: 9780446556293
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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THE NAUGHTY NINETIES is the first sexual history of the decade when the Baby Boomers took over Washington, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue, ultimately winning the culture wars.
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By: Brad Meltzer
ISBN: 9781804185292
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
UK Publication Date: 18th July 2024
Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd
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The little-known true story of a Nazi plot to kill Winston Churchill, President Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin at the height of World War II, and how it was averted.
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By: Edith Hahn Beer
ISBN: 9780349113791
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2001
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2001
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Edith Hahn was a young law student in Vienna when Hitler absorbed Austria in 1938. In love with Pepi who was half-Jewish, she was sent to a labour camp. So began her life as a 'hidden' Jew, her marriage to a Nazi, her intervention through her husband on behalf of Pepi, and her life at the end of the war in Eastern Germany.
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By: Dr Marc Lohnstein
ISBN: 9781472843524
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 24th June 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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At the end of 1941, Imperial Japan targeted The East Indies in an attempt to secure access to precious oil resources. The Netherlands East Indies Campaign featured complex Japanese and Allied operations, and included the first use of airborne troops in the war. This highly illustrated study is one of the less well-known campaigns of the Pacific War.
(Hardback)
By: Aldo Cazzullo
ISBN: 9780008700423
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
UK Publication Date: 13th February 2025
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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By: D.J. Taylor
ISBN: 9781472123930
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
UK Publication Date: 4th May 2017
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Thackeray's biographer, D.J. Taylor, updates The Book of Snobs (1848) for the twenty-first century. Waspish, acute and very funny.
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By: David A. Mindell
ISBN: 9780262049528
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
UK Publication Date: 13th February 2025
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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A historical look at why making things is a key to improving the world
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By: Chris Morris
ISBN: 9781862078659
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2007
Publisher: Granta Books
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This book examines the potential and the problems of the new Turkey, and the expectations of the people who live there, drawing on first hand interviews and observations gathered over several years.
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By: Brian Cathcart
ISBN: 9780571315260
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2016
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A wonderful historical caper, telling the farcical tale of attempts to be the first to break the news of the British victory at Waterloo.
(Hardback)
By: Chris Begley
ISBN: 9781541675285
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: Basic Books
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In this insightful book, an underwater archaeologist and survival coach shows how understanding the collapse of civilizations can help us prepare for a troubled future.
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By: Toby Wilkinson
ISBN: 9781408843567
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
UK Publication Date: 12th February 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Heather Dune Macadam
ISBN: 9781529329322
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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The untold story of the 999 young, unmarried Jewish women who were tricked into boarding a train in Poprad, Slovakia on March 25, 1942 that became the first official transport to Auschwitz.
(Hardback)
By: Gwen Strauss
ISBN: 9781838772062
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2021
UK Publication Date: 24th June 2021
Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd
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The thrilling, cinematic untold story of nine young women, WWII resistance fighters, captured by the Nazis, who launched a breathtakingly bold escape and found their way home.
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By: John W. Dean
ISBN: 9780143127383
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2017
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Marc Morris
ISBN: 9780099537441
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
UK Publication Date: 7th March 2013
Publisher: Cornerstone
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This riveting book explains why the Norman Conquest was the single most important event in English history.
Assessing the original evidence at every turn, Marc Morris goes beyond the familiar outline to explain why England was at once so powerful and yet so vulnerable to William the Conqueror's attack.
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By: Raffaele DAmato
ISBN: 9781472839466
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
UK Publication Date: 23rd July 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This title covers the history and armies of the powerful military kingdom founded by the Normans in southern Italy and Sicily, which were contemporary to William the Conqueror's invasion of England.
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By: Eric Christiansen
ISBN: 9780140266535
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1997
UK Publication Date: 4th December 1997
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The 'Northern Crusades', inspired by the Pope's call for a Holy War, are less celebrated than those in the Middle East, but they were also more successful: vast new territories became and remain Christian, such as Finland, Estonia and Prussia. This title provides an account of a tumultuous era.
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By: Aaron Edwards
ISBN: 9781472857149
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 28th September 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In this fully illustrated introduction, acclaimed historian Dr Aaron Edwards provides a concise overview of one of the most difficult and controversial actions in recent history.
(Hardback)
By: Tom Hazeldine
ISBN: 9781786634061
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2020
Publisher: Verso Books
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A history of the UK's regional inequalities, and why they matter
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By: Tom Hazeldine
ISBN: 9781786634092
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: Verso Books
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By: Philip Parker
ISBN: 9780099551843
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 4th June 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The Northmens Fury describes how and why a region at the edge of Europe came to dominate and to terrorise much of the rest of the continent for nearly three centuries and how, in the end, the coming of Christianity and the growing power of kings tempered the Viking ferocity and stemmed the tide of raids.
(Hardback)
By: Heather Pringle
ISBN: 9781426222023
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 10th September 2024
Publisher: National Geographic Society
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(Hardback)
By: Serhii Plokhy
ISBN: 9780241582862
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2025
UK Publication Date: 21st October 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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