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From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is a new history of how paranoia, conspiracy and anti-Semitism was used to justify the military coup of 1936 and enabled the construction of a dictatorship built on violence and persecution.

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The vivid account of how a brilliant plan turned into an epic tragedy - made into the BAFTA award-winning film A BRIDGE TOO FAR
'Alive with the detail that evokes the smoking background' DAILY TELEGRAPH

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In this extraordinary literary debut, Christie-Miller traces the history and present of Istanbul by walking along its crumbling defensive walls and talking to those he passes.

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In 1946, Clement Attlee came to power as Labour Prime Minister with a huge landslide majority. Under his leadership some of the greatest reforms were initiated, not least the founding of the National Health Service. Attlee had a firm vision of a more just and equitable society, which the nation wanted. This book collects Attlee's writings.

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A witty and impassioned book on Ulster, which has been thrust into the centre of British and European politics and which is likely to become Britain's frontier with the wider world.

(Paperback, New edition)

Though it was banned in the UK in 1999, asbestos still kills more than 5,000 people every year. How did this happen And what can we do about it

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A history of a century of women, punishment and crime in HM Prison Holloway.

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'Graham Stewart has done a terrific job. His book brings the decade vividly to life and convincingly places it in perspective. Excellent' Mail on Sunday

(Paperback, Main - Re-issue)

A vivid account of one of the most important conflicts in British history, with a new edition to mark the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn.

(Paperback, Main)

The most powerful and moving history book of the year .

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Berlin was the nerve-centre of Hitler's Germany - the backdrop for the most lavish ceremonies, it was also the venue for Albert Speer's plans to forge a new 'world metropolis' and the scene of the final climactic bid to defeat Nazism.

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The first single-volume biography of Berlin, one of the world's great cities - told via twenty-one portraits, from medieval times to the twenty-first century.

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Twenty years after the siege of Sarajevo, BBC Samuel Johnson Prize winner Barbara Demick revisits her compelling account of living in a city under fire.

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The first book describing the terrible events of the siege of Beslan.

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As Europe's borderlands emerged from Soviet rule, the author travelled from the Baltic to the Black Sea, through Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and the Carpathian mountains. Rich in vivid characters and stories of tragedy and survival, this book illuminates the soul of a place, and the secret history of its people.

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Bestselling author of NATHANIEL'S NUTMEG, Giles Milton takes us on another fascinating and extraordinary historical adventure.

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Drawing on examples ranging from ancient Greece to Tony Blair's Britain, this title addresses 20 of questions that have asked over the centuries about the course of human events. It takes ride over continents and across centuries in search of answers that are sometimes surprising, often controversial, and of great relevance to how we live today.

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An updated edition with new material of the acclaimed re-examination of a shared history, telling the rich and revealing story of the long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa and the Caribbean.

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An unparalleled study of black British history and experience, unearthing its crucial yet largely forgotten role in shaping British history.

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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE

We have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats.

(Paperback, Revised edition)

Black Sea is a homage to an ocean and its shores and a meditation on Eurasian history, from the earliest times to the present. the growth of Russian power across the grasslands, and the centuries of war between Ottoman and Russian Empires around the Black Sea.

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How two men brought about the defeat of Louis XIV's previously unbeaten army and saved Europe from French domination - A Sunday Times Bestseller