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'As convoluted and deadly as the plot of a novel by John le Carre, but all too real' Daily Mail, Must Reads'With a gripping narrative and vivid interviews with those on all sides whose lives were directly affected by that grim symbol of the East-West divide that...
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Constable
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2019-10-24
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Army Ranger and bestselling author Kris Paronto reveals the values and creed shared by special forces for self-improvement and living a purposeful life.When Kris Paronto began talking with civilians about his experiences fighting the terrorist attack on the US State...
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Center Street
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2019-10-22
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Frauenhäuser, die Bordelle spätmittelalterlich-frühneuzeitlicher Städte, stellen ein Phänomen mediävistischer Forschung dar, das an Aktualität kaum verloren hat. Die Existenz der geordneten Prostitution hat nicht nur wirtschaftliche, sondern auch ordnungspolitische...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2019-10-17
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Sir Trevor McDonald is an extraordinary man - and he has led an improbable life. Now in his 80th year, he is known and loved by people the world over for his humility, charm and natural ease. As a natural storyteller and communicator, he has few equals. In An Improbable...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2019-10-17
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Unflinching dispatches of an embedded war reporter covering ISIS and the unlikely alliance of forces who came together to defeat it.The battle to defeat ISIS was an unremittingly brutal and dystopian struggle, a multi-sided war of gritty local commandos and militias....
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PublicAffairs
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2019-10-15
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This thrilling wartime adventure tells the true story of the downed American aviators who were rescued by French resistance fighters, taken to Nazi-occupied Paris, and hidden under the very noses of the Gestapo.Escape from Paris is the true story of a small group of...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2019-10-08
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The incredible true story of one of the most extraordinary and inspirational prison breaks in Australian history.New York, 1874. Members of the Clan-na-Gael - agitators for Irish freedom from the English yoke - hatch a daring plan to free six Irish political prisoners...
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Constable
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2019-10-03
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'Many books claim to tell an "unknown" story of the Second World War. Few of them actually do. Forgotten Bastards is a rare exception . . . This is gripping history' Duncan Weldon, Prospect A riveting story of World War II from the author of Chernobyl, winner of the...
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Penguin
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2019-10-03
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'An incredible portal to our past' The Sunday TimesOn 7 January 1922, Ireland became a free state. Born into that era of turbulence and hope were the twenty-six women and men whose stories and memories of a lifetime are captured by cherished Irish journalist Valerie...
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Hachette Books Ireland
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2019-09-26
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Lives Reclaimed tells an extraordinary story of resistance against the Nazi regime and help for Jews in the Third Reich. Still largely unknown today, 'The Bund' were a small left-wing group based in Germany's industrial heartland. Initially preoccupied with surviving...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-09-26
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Despite the repression, violence, and social hardship which characterised Spanish life in the 1940s and 1950s, the Franco regime sought to win popular support by promoting its apparent commitment to social justice. David Brydan reveals the vital role which the idea of...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-09-12
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Despite the repression, violence, and social hardship which characterised Spanish life in the 1940s and 1950s, the Franco regime sought to win popular support by promoting its apparent commitment to social justice. David Brydan reveals the vital role which the idea of...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-09-12
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'A compassionate, wide-ranging study.'
Terry Eagleton, The Guardian
Despite 21st-century fears of a modern 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected.
A Biography of Loneliness is the first history of its kind to be published in English, offering...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-09-12
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'A compassionate, wide-ranging study.'
Terry Eagleton, The Guardian
Despite 21st-century fears of a modern 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected.
A Biography of Loneliness is the first history of its kind to be published in English, offering...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-09-12
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Until surprisingly recently the history of the Irish Catholic Church during the Northern Irish Troubles was written by Irish priests and bishops and was commemorative, rather than analytical. This study uses the Troubles as a case study to evaluate the role of the...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-09-11
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Until surprisingly recently the history of the Irish Catholic Church during the Northern Irish Troubles was written by Irish priests and bishops and was commemorative, rather than analytical. This study uses the Troubles as a case study to evaluate the role of the...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-09-11
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A deeply researched international history and "exemplary study" (New York Times Book Review) of how a divided world ended and our present world was fashioned, as the world drifts toward another great time of choosing.Two of America's leading scholar-diplomats, Philip...
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Twelve
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2019-09-10
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE 2020A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019A revelatory new biography of Adolf Hitler from the acclaimed historian Brendan SimmsAdolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet the most important things we...
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Penguin
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2019-09-05
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A new and definitive account of the German invasion of Poland that initiated WWII in 1939, written by a historian at the height of his abilities.'Deeply researched, very well-written... This book will be the standard work on the subject for many years to come' - Andrew...
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Vintage Digital
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2019-09-05
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Today is the sound of history being made - live on air.In an era of fake news, echo chambers and new fault lines in global politics, millions of listeners turn to BBC Radio 4'sToday programme each morning to help them make sense of the world around them. The first ever...
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Brazen
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2019-09-05
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