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Sarajevo, 28 June 1914: The story of the assassination that changed the world.
'Outstanding' SPECTATOR 'A fine piece of political and literary detective work, which held this reader enthralled' TRIBUNE

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Inspiration for the Netflix Film 22 July - directed by Paul Greengrass - and in the tradition of In Cold Blood, the account of a massacre and a gripping portrait of evil, by the author of The Bookseller of Kabul.

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An unsparing, unsentimental, blackly comic and brutally beautiful autobiographical account of life as a young soldier in Russia's Chechen wars, which traces the author's journey from naive innocence to brutalized experience.

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Operation Kronstadt not only reveals the early days of Britain's intelligence services but uncovers a truly dramatic story from the Russian Revolution involving a daring rescue attempt and a 'mission impossible' against the best defended naval target in Russia.

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An extraordinary assemblage of moving and revelatory documents and testimony from the Nazi forced labour camps.

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In Travis Elboroughs expertly curated collection of diaries, letters and journals, the great and the good rub shoulders with the obscure, the unsung and the everyday to bring us a unique top down and bottom up history of Britain during the twentieth century.

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75 years on from the end of the second world war, a unique collection from veteran Commonwealth voices who tell how the war changed their lives irreversibly and blew the British Empire apart.
'Vivid reading' Telegraph

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The moving and remarkable story of the wartime evacuees who were sent abroad by their families

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The Italian Renaissance in Europe and beyond

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The untold true story of two courageous, gender-norm-defying artists who undertook a dangerous counter-propaganda campaign to undermine Nazi occupation in the British Channel Island of Jersey during WWII. Captured, imprisoned, tried, and sentenced to death, they almost paid the ultimate price; their actions serve as inspiration for civilian resistance in our own times.

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A preeminent writer on Paris, John Baxter brilliantly brings to life one of the most dramatic and fascinating periods in the citys history.

From 1914 through 1918 the terrifying sounds of World War I could be heard from inside the French capital.

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Recreating the ups and downs in the history of Paris and its inhabitants, this book seeks to give a sense of the city as it was lived in and experienced over time. It is intended for habitual Paris obsessives, for first-time visitors, and for those who know the city only by repute.

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The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller from the award-winning author of The Discovery of France.

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Takes us on a 500-year journey from Parliament's earliest days in the thirteenth century through the turbulent years of the Wars of the Roses and the upheavals of the Civil Wars, and up to 1801, when Parliament - and the United Kingdom, embracing Scotland and Ireland - emerged in a modern form.

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Over the last two hundred years Parliament has witnessed and effected dramatic and often turbulent change. Political parties rose - and fell. This second volume has a cast of characters that includes some of British history's most famous names: the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, Gladstone, Disraeli, Lloyd George, Churchill and Thatcher.

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Over the last two hundred years Parliament has witnessed and effected dramatic and often turbulent change. Political parties rose - and fell. The old aristocratic order passed away. The vote was won for the working classes and, eventually, for women. This title is suitable for those with an interest in why modern Britain is the nation it is today.

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This is a compelling account of the battle for Passchendaele - from grand strategy at the highest levels right down to the very real experience of the ordinary infantrymen.

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World War I from the French point of view: an account in English.

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A reissue of Simon Schamas landmark study of the Netherlands from 17801813, this is a tale of a once-powerful nations desparate struggle to survive the treacheries and brutality of European war and politics.

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The second instalment in Jan Morris's classic Pax Britannica Trilogy.

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In late June 1942, the dispirited and defeated British Eighth Army was pouring back towards the tiny railway halt of El Alamein in the western desert of Egypt.

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From beloved historian Antonia Fraser, the two-year revolution that totally changed how Britain is governed.

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A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient world

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A compelling and evocative history of Britain through the stories of its lost or abandoned buildings; a companion to Channel 5s series of the same name.