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Now a major film starring GEORGE CLOONEY, MATT DAMON, CATE BLANCHETT, BILL MURRAY, JOHN GOODMAN, HUGH BONNEVILLE, BOB BALABAN, JEAN DUJARDIN and DIMITRI LEONIDAS.
What if I told you that there was an epic story about World War II that has not been told, involving the most unlikely group of heroes

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A thrilling account of the life of Spain's last Moorish king and the ending of seven centuries of Spanish Islam.

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British intellectual life between the wars stood at the heart of modernity; it was the golden age of the public intellectual and scientist: Arnold Toynbee, Aldous and Julian Huxley, H G Wells, Marie Stopes and a host of others. This title opens a window onto the creative but anxious period between the First and Second World Wars.

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Theodore Roosevelt largely is known today by stereotypes and his many accomplishmentsbut the full and fascinating essence of the man is fading. In this book, TR charges back!

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A history of the Industrial Revolution and the steam engine, as well as an account of how inventors first came to own and profit from their ideas and how invention itself springs forth from logic and imagination. It takes us into the human mind, explaining how 'eureka' moments occur - when the brain is most relaxed.

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A narrative history of the great Mughal rulers of India.

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The Mughal emperors were larger-than-life figures who exercised absolute power. The three centuries of their rule, as laid out in Eraly's previous volume, THE MUGHAL THRONE, mark one of the most crucial and fascinating periods of Indian history.

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From tools and devices to construction and artistic expression, Max Adams explores wood the material that shaped human history.

The relentless rise of the Muslim Brotherhood has secured them a leading role in the unsettled and uncertain landscapes of Egypt, a country shaken by revolution and revolt. Delving into the tangle of Egyptian politics from Nasser to Mubarak, the author unpicks the troubled relationship between the Muslim Brotherhood and the state.

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Professor Bernard Lewis examines the sources and nature of Muslim knowledge of the West. His book explores the subtle ways in which Europe and Islam have influenced each other over seven centuries. Retelling familiar historical events such as the battle of Lepanto and the siege of Vienna from an Arab perspective.

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A provocative challenge to Darwin's theory of evolution.

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The Myth of the Blitz was nurtured at every level of society. Britain was not bombed into classless democracy.

Angus Calder provides a compelling examination of the events of 1940 and 1941 - when Britain 'stood alone' against the Luftwaffe - and of the Myth which sustained her 'finest hour'.

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'He is as funny as Bryson and as wise as Orwell' Observer

It was the spirit of our finest hour, the backbone of our post-war greatness, and it promoted some of the boldest and most brilliant schemes this isle has ever produced: it was the Welfare State, and it made you and I.

New research on Napoleon's Mediterranean empire and influence

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Includes rare illustrations and documents of historic importance.

Includes rare illustrations and documents of historic importance.

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Known collectively as the 'Great War', for over a decade the Napoleonic Wars engulfed not only a whole continent but also the overseas possessions of the leading European states.

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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.

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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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In 1945, an improbable relationship between the fallen Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goering, and ambitious US Army physician, Douglas Kelley, becomes a hazardous quest into the nature of evil, amid the devastation of Europe at the end of World War II

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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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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.

Tells the story of the rise and fall of the Third Reich. This book offers accounts of life under Adolf Hitler, spoken through the words of those who experienced the Nazi regime at every level of society. It provides an insight into Nazi mentality during the most bloody conflict in history.

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