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This is the last untold story of BletchleyPark. Using recently declassified information, Paul Gannon has written a gripping account of the invention of the world's first true computer, Colossus.

September 1932. Gerasimovka, Western Siberia. Two children are found dead in the forest outside a remote village, both have been repeatedly stabbed - a crime that was never solved. Catriona Kelly asks how it was that Stalin's regime turned one of the victims into a hero of the Soviet Empire.

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The first full biography of the five remarkable daughters of Edward I.

The remarkable story of the enduring friendship between David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill, Britain's two greatest statesmen in peace and war

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Marion Meade portrays Eleanor of Aquitaine as a woman of enormous intelligence and titanic energy who lived in a passionate and creative age.

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Scenes from the turbulent life of the rich, glamorous and beautiful Nancy Cunard

This text offers a revisionist view of World War I. The author contends that the popular view that World War I was tragic and unnecessary, is wrong. Based on 20 years of research, this book aims to challenge the assumptions underpinning the traditional belief that World War I was a futile conflict.

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The third volume of the dramatic story of England, from ancient times to modern, by the No. 1 bestselling author of THE YEAR 1000

This text provides an insight into the life of Hildegard of Bingen, a nun in medieval Germany. Hildegard was a religious leader, poet, visionary, a writer of medical treatises, and a composer. Through her writings, this book presents her views on sex, love and marriage, medicine and music.

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A book about the story behind the historic meeting between Franklin D Roosevelt and King George VI on the eve of the Second World War, now the subject of a major Hollywood movie, Hyde Park on Hudson, starring Bill Murray as FDR.

Published in Antwerp in 1570, the "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" did something no previous book had done: here was the world in all its component parts. Paul Binding introduces its author, Abraham Ortelius, and examines the economic, cultural, religious and political backdrop to his atlas.

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Bringing great writing back into print - a Faber Finds book.

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Reissued with a striking new cover, the classic account of one of the most dramatic final acts in modern history: the collapse of the Third Reich.

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A fascinating cornucopia of facts about Ireland and the Irish, covering its history, culture, land and people.

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Acclaimed biographer Linda Porter on Henry VIII's last queen, showing her to have been a more human, complex and modern figure than has hitherto been realized.

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This text provides an account of the secret aerospace technology which was developed in Nazi Germany and had the potential to drastically affect the outcome of World War II.

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* Tom Holland, author of RUBICON and PERSIAN FIRE, gives a thrilling panoramic account of the birth of the new Western Europe in the year 1000

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Roam the bright lights, the backstage whispers, and the brittle political consensus of 1920s Berlin. This uniquely evocative book brings together illustration from Robert Nippoldt, descriptive texts by Boris Pofalla, and a CD of 26 rare original recordings into one vivid portrait of the people, places, and ideas of an effervescent metropolis in...

In June 1940 Britain expected enemy invasion. Despite Churchill's determination to fight on the beaches, many parents made desperate efforts to send their families abroad to safety.

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Bringing great writing back into print - a Faber Finds book.

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Early historic Scotland was home to a variety of diverse peoples and cultures, all competing for land and supremacy. Yet by the eleventh century it had become a single, unified kingdom, known as Alba, under a stable and successful monarchy. How did this happen, and when A new and revised edition of a highly regarded book.

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Politics in the Age of Peel, first published in 1953, is concerned with the ordinary working world of politicians in England during the stormy period between 1830 and 1850: the age of the railway, the Chartists, the Anti-Corn Law League and the Irish famine.