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The battle of Verdun lasted ten months. It was a battle in which at least 700,000 men fell, along a front of fifteen miles. This book shows that Verdun is a key to understanding the First World War to the minds of those who waged it, the traditions that bound them and the world that gave them the opportunity.

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An incisive account of the tumultuous relationship between Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, and of the origins of our wealthy yet highly unequal nation

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From the author of the bestselling The First Fifty Years of Private Eye comes a collection of state secrets that those in power might have preferred to go unnoticed . . .

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Weaves an exceptional and thrilling hidden history of an ordinary girl who became one of the OSSs most daring spies in World War II before marrying into European nobility.

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The story of four maverick brothers, and a thrillingly ambitious portrait of Britain in an era of technological and political revolution.

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A new history of Hodder & Stoughton, published to celebrate the publisher's 150th birthday.

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*As read on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week*

'A genius for a certain kind of social history that, in shining a light on one small place, illuminates a huge amount' Sunday Telegraph

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From a beloved former NPR reporter comes a news-breaking eyewitness account of how the U.S. government and armed forces allowed, and even abetted, the tragic return to violent warlordism in Afghanistan following the defeat of the Taliban.

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Brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in European history - from the battered, introvert continent after the Thirty Years War to the dynamic one that experienced the French Revolution and the wars of Napoleon.

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Explaining the extraordinary course of Italian history, this book traces the history of the Italian peninsula and gives a clear-eyed view of the Risorgimento, the pivotal event in modern Italian history, debunking the influential myths which have grown up around it.

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The Middle Ages inherited a tradition of prophesy which, during those centuries, took on fresh vitality. This tradition foretold a millennium in which the world would be inhabited by happy people. This book tells the story of those millenarian fanaticism and points to their persistence today.

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The dramatic debates at the heart of the English Revolution

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The perenially fascinating Egyptian pyramids introduced by a world expert.

'A fascinating and comprehensive book... The Pyramids is a portrait, not only of the pyramids themselves, but of an entire civilization, the first in history to build in stone, and thereby aim for eternity... Exceedingly welcome and timely' Literary Review

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The Quarantine Atlas is a poignant collection of more than 65 homemade maps created by people around the globe that reveal how the coronavirus pandemic has transformed our world, in ways both universal and unique. Along with eight original essays, it's a celebration of wayfinding through a crisis that altered the way we experience our environment.

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From the author of How Paris Became Paris, a sweeping history of high finance, the origins of high fashion, and a pair of star-crossed lovers in 18th century France.

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There have been many books on the soldiers who fought and died in the First World War - The Quick and the Dead is the first history of the wives and children who were left behind.

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The Rainborowes bridges two generations and two worlds, weaving together the lives of the Rainborowe clan as they struggle to forge a better life for themselves and a better future for humankind in the New World.

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Former Army Ranger Kris Paronto, a survivor of the 2012 Benghazi siege that was subject of the book and movie 13 Hours, provides powerful, motivational tools for surviving and thriving to bring readers discipline, motivation, success, and peace to life.