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THE WAR AND PEACE TRILOGY BUNDLECombining three books by the million-copy bestselling author Giles Milton, the War and Peace Trilogy bundle offers a thrilling chronological account of the Second World War.'The master of narrative history' Sunday TimesBOOK 1: D-DAY:THE...
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John Murray
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2026-02-26
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'One brilliant woman writing about another: an irresistible combination.' - Antonia Fraser'One of the most delightful biographies I have ever read.' - A.N. Wilson'Reading Worsley is as enjoyable as reading Christie herself.' - Ruth Scurr'Full of unique insight, eye...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2022-09-08
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'Few historians write with Serhii Plokhy’s authority, clarity or global vision... Essential reading, and a marvellous book' Peter FrankopanFrom the bestselling author of Chernobyl comes a sweeping history of the geopolitics behind the nuclear arms race, from the first...
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Penguin
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2025-10-21
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The introduction of the principle of women's reproductive liberty in France, tentatively by the family planning movement after 1960 and explicitly by the women's liberation movement after 1970, marked a deep shift, transforming public discourses. Yet this principle...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-09-26
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A penetrating history of the year World War II became a global conflict and humankind confronted both destruction and deliverance on a planetary scale, “offering an intriguing perspective on a world at war” (Richard Overy, New York Times–bestselling...
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Basic Books
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2025-09-23
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*Longlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction*Named a Book of the Year by Financial Times, Sunday Times, Prospect, TLS, Washington Post, NPR'Stunningly multilayered... explores what happens when philosophies meet history, when decisions have to be made at the...
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Penguin
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2025-09-04
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A gripping account of East Germany in the late '70s and early '80s, and of one man's fated struggle for freedom.Friday, April 10th, 1981: 23-year-old Mathias Domaschk boards the fast train from Jena to Berlin, on his way to a birthday party. But he never arrives . ....
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Maclehose Press
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2025-08-14
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Editeur :
Brazen
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2025-07-10
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The introduction of the principle of women's reproductive liberty in France, tentatively by the family planning movement after 1960 and explicitly by the women's liberation movement after 1970, marked a deep shift, transforming public discourses. Yet this principle...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-07-09
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Drawing from two political and several literary homelands, this collection presents a remarkable series of trenchant essays, demonstrating the full range and force of Salman Rushdie's remarkable imaginative and observational powers. With candour, eloquence and...
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Vintage Digital
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2025-07-03
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There was a German bomber flying right towards us – a Dornier, one of their biggest. It was so low we could see the pilot flying it and the gunner in the nose of the bomber pointing his machine gun at us…Schoolboy in Kent, during the Battle of BritainMy legs pressed...
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Bbc Digital
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2025-05-01
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A New York Times Bestseller From actor, comedian, writer, and host of the hit history podcast SNAFU, Ed Helms brings you an absurdly entertaining look at history’s biggest blunders, complete with lively illustrations. History contains a...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2025-04-29
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Celebrate the 80th anniversary of VE Day in this fully illustrated insight into the final months of the Second World War.From the long-awaited opening of the second front in the West on D-Day, 6 June 1944, to the final surrender of Germany on 8 May 1945, the Allied...
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Welbeck
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2025-04-03
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Off-beat, irreverent and subversive – a Jewish family memoir about convenient delusions and unsayable truths, from the acclaimed author of the cult classic novel, Submarine'The best book I’ve read in the past year . . . A masterpiece' Financial Times‘A slippery marvel...
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Penguin
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2025-04-03
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A visceral account of the white-knuckled bombing mission carried out on Hitler's hometown.In April 1945, Linz was one of Nazi Germany's most vital assets: a crucial transportation hub and communications centre, its railyards brimming with war materiel destined for the...
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August Books
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2025-03-27
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A fascinating compendium of reported alien sightings, encounters and abductions, such as the mysterious Belgian UFO wave, the unusual Lubbock lights, and the infamous Roswell incidentWhat did Kenneth Arnold see flying above Mount Rainier?What were the Phoenix...
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Summersdale
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2025-03-13
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'Remarkable and unique' Daily Express'I never dreamed we'd go to war with Argentina.' Rear-Admiral John WoodwardOn 2 April 1982, Argentina invaded and occupied the Falkland Islands. Britain was quick to mobilise a task force to recover its territory, but the ensuing...
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August Books
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2025-03-13
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Previous scholarship on fascism in Slovakia has focused on either state actors operating from urban centres or the mechanisms of violence on a grassroots level - with the result being that the Holocaust is seen as primarily a top-down and state-centred process.
In...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-02-26
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The quarter century after the end of the Second World War and the transfer of power in India in 1947 marked the slow and turbulent dissolution of the British Empire in the Middle East.
Seeking to capture the period in its full complexity and contradictions, acclaimed...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-26
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The quarter century after the end of the Second World War and the transfer of power in India in 1947 marked the slow and turbulent dissolution of the British Empire in the Middle East.
Seeking to capture the period in its full complexity and contradictions, acclaimed...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-20
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