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A People's Tragedy : The Russian Revolution - centenary edition with new introduction
Unrivalled in scope and brimming with human drama, A People's Tragedy is the most vivid, moving and comprehensive history of the Russian Revolution available today. 'A modern masterpiece' Andrew MarrOpening with a panorama of Russian society, from the cloistered world of the Tsar to...- £25.00
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A Village in the Third Reich : How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed By the Rise of Fascism
by Julia Boyd (Author) & Angelika Patel (Author)Format: Paperback / softback 464 pagesPublisher: Elliott & Thompson LimitedImprint: Elliott & Thompson LimitedISBN: 9781783966639Published: 6 Oct 2022Classifications: HistoryReadership: General (US: Trade)Weight: 444gDimensions: 129 x 199 x 37 (mm) Hidden deep in the Bavarian mountains lies the...- £10.99
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At The Existentialist Cafe : Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman PrizeParis, near the turn of 1932-3. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their friend Raymond Aron, who opens their eyes to a...- £12.99
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Beauty is in the Street : Protest and Counterculture in Post-War Europe
In the aftermath of World War II, Europe witnessed a surge of grassroots activism and protest movements that challenged the status quo on both sides of the Iron Curtain. From the bustling streets of Paris to the historic squares of Prague, from the industrial...- £12.99
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Bloodlands : THE book to help you understand today's Eastern Europe
A powerful and revelatory history book about the bloodlands - the lands that lie between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany - where 14 million people were killed during the years 1933 - 1944. In the middle of Europe, in the middle of the twentieth...- £12.99
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Borderlines : A History of Europe, Told From the Edges
Beautiful. A true gem... [his] unique take on human nature through the history and heritage of the borderlands ends up being deeply moving.' - IRISH INDEPENDENT'Thrillingly unique, knowledgeable, perceptive and profound' IAN DUNT'A light-footed journey along the fault lines of history.' KATJA HOYERThe history...- £25.00
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Citizens : A Chronicle of The French Revolution
Regarded as a seminal work in the realm of modern historical publishing, Simon Schama's "Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution" stands as the most authoritative social, cultural, and narrative account of the French Revolution ever produced. This monumental tome offers a thought-provoking and...- £20.00
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East West Street : Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize
THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERWhen he receives an invitation to deliver a lecture in the Ukrainian city of Lviv, international lawyer Philippe Sands begins a journey on the trail of his family's secret history. In...- £10.99
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Free : Coming of Age at the End of History
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE ONDAATJE PRIZE'The best book I read last year by a mile. . . so beautifully written that anyone would be hooked' Laura Hackett, Sunday Times, Best Summer Books'Wonderfully funny and poignant. . . a tale of family...- £10.99
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Goodbye Eastern Europe : An Intimate History of a Divided Land
An epic history of the `other' Europe, a place of conflict and coexistence, of faith and folklore. `Do not rush to bid farewell to eastern Europe until reading this book. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this very personal story of the place that one...- £10.99
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Greece : Biography of a Modern Nation
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 AND THE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2021A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'The best history of Greece around... Beautifully written and packed with insights about the culture and the people. I will be dipping into this book for...- £14.99
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Homage to Catalonia
Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in Homage...- £8.99
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If This Is A Man/The Truce
With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was...- £12.99
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Last Days in Old Europe : Trieste '79, Vienna '85, Prague '89
With these vivid, wistful memoirs, he joins the great chroniclers of Europe - the Prousts, Zweigs, Lampedusas, Leigh-Fermors and Bassanis - and shows how some of the things those writers loved persisted as late as 1989.' (Economist)Selected as a Book of the Year in...- £10.99
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Naples 1944 : War, Liberation and Chaos
The Second World War left countless cities in Europe and Asia in ruins. Naples 1944 chronicles the story of the first major European city liberated by the Allied forces. The book delves into not only the devastation that befell Naples during the scourge of...- £25.00
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Paris '44 : The Shame and the Glory
Patrick Bishop's latest masterpiece, "Paris '44: The Shame and the Glory," is an instant Sunday Times bestseller that has been hailed as "extraordinary" by Dominic Sandbrook of the Sunday Times. Described as an "epic thriller" by the Observer, the book is "droll, moving, with...- £25.00
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Revolutionary Spring : Fighting for a New World 1848-1849
Hailed as "One of the best history books you will read this decade" by History Today, and described as "Fascinating, suspenseful, revelatory, alive" by The Times, this work delves into one of the most exhilarating and daunting epochs in European annals. The spring of...- £18.99
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Russia : Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921
A masterpiece of history'DAILY TELEGRAPHBetween 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era. An incompatible White alliance of moderate socialists...- £10.99
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Stalin : The Court of the Red Tsar
Winner of the British Book Awards History Book of the YearLonglisted for the Samuel Johnson PrizeThis thrilling biography of Stalin and his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of Stalin as Soviet dictator, Marxist leader and Russian tsar....- £14.99
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The Basque History Of The World
The Basques are Europe's oldest people, their origins a mystery, their language related to no other on Earth, and even though few in population and from a remote and rugged corner of Spain and France, they have had a profound impact on the world....- £12.99
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The Curtain and the Wall : A Modern Journey Along Europe's Cold War Border
An epic journey across 5,000 kilometres and through eight decades, to tell a new story about the old Cold War faultlinesWith the fall of the Berlin Wall, it seemed that the old divisions between East and West had been consigned to history. But with...- £10.99
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The Guns of August : The Classic Bestselling Account of the Outbreak of the First World War
Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August is a spellbinding history of the fateful first month when Britain went to war. War pressed against every frontier. Suddenly dismayed, governments struggled and twisted to fend it off. It was no use . . . Barbara Tuchman's...- £12.99
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The Hare With Amber Eyes : The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller
**WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD**Edmund de Waal uncovers the history of a family through a turbulent century through 264 objects. 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection...- £12.99
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The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire
A tour de force of accessible scholarship' The Guardian'Impressive ... It is a complicated story that still reverberates, and Gingeras narrates it with lucid authority' New StatesmanThe Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history since the Middle Ages. Stretching...- £12.99
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The Origins of Totalitarianism
How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times' Washington PostHannah Arendt's chilling analysis of the conditions that led to the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes is a warning from...- £9.99
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The Path of Peace : Walking the Western Front Way
Blackwell's Non-Fiction Book of the Month'A formidable achievement' Rory Stewart'Thoughtful [and] heartfelt' Observer'Profound [and] compelling' Spectator'A noble endeavour' New StatesmanWithout a permanent home, a wife or a job, and with no clear sense of where his life was going, Anthony Seldon set out on...- £10.99
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The Revolutionary Temper : Paris, 1748-1789
A Sunday Times, Times Literary Supplement, and The Times Book of the Year, this brilliant account delves into the genesis of the French Revolution, culminating the distinguished historian's life's work. "Events do not emerge naked into the world. They come clothed - in attitudes,...- £35.00
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The Romanovs : The Story of Russia and its Empire 1613-1918
The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all?This is the intimate story of twenty tsars...- £14.99
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The Sleepwalkers : How Europe Went to War in 1914
The pacy, sensitive and formidably argued history of the causes of the First World War, from acclaimed historian and author Christopher ClarkFINANCIAL TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014SUNDAY TIMES and INDEPENDENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2012Winner of the Los Angeles Times History Book Prize...- £18.99
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The Stasi Poetry Circle : The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War
Imagine a world where the secret police believed that writers were embedding subversive messages in their works, and their solution was to train their own poets, weaponizing poetry in the battle against their perceived enemies. This extraordinary true story takes you into the heart...- £10.99
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The Unwomanly Face of War
A must read' - Margaret Atwood'It would be hard to find a book that feels more important or original' - Viv Groskop, ObserverExtraordinary stories from Soviet women who fought in the Second World War - from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature"Why,...- £9.99
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The World of Yesterday : Memoirs of a European
In this poignant and moving memoir, Stefan Zweig transports readers to the golden age of pre-war European culture, painting a vivid portrait of the vibrant intellectual and artistic circles of Vienna in the late Austro-Hungarian Empire. With eloquent prose and keen insight, Zweig recalls...- £12.99
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The Writers' Castle : Reporting History at Nuremberg
A captivating new perspective on the Nuremberg Trials, narrated through the stories of the esteemed writers who bore witness to the proceedings Nuremberg, 1945. As the trials of Nazi war criminals commence, some of the world's most renowned writers and journalists converge in the...- £25.00
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Tomorrow Perhaps the Future : Writers, Rebels and the Spanish Civil War
In our age of political divisions, this portrait of the women outsiders who took part in the Spanish Civil War asks questions of solidarity and resistance. 'Glorious... so beautifully rendered, so powerful'ANNA FUNDER, author of WifedomIn the 1930s, women and men from across the...- £12.99
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Vertigo : The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany
This is one of the most gripping accounts of an era spanning war defeat, humiliation and failed revolution in 1918 to the violence, intimidation and propaganda of the Nazis' rise to power in 1933. It contains many lessons for the world now.' - John...- £25.00
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Young Stalin
Winner of the Costa Biography AwardWhat makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his wife's death? When did the killing start? Based on revelatory research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic cobbler's...- £12.99
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