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  • A Village in the Third Reich : How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed By the Rise of Fascism

    A Village in the Third Reich : How Ordinary Lives Were Transformed By the Rise of Fascism

    ___________A Waterstones Paperback of the Year 2022A New Statesman Book of the Year 2022`Fascinating. You'll learn more about the psychological workings of Nazism by reading this superbly researched chronicle. than you will by reading a shelf of wider-canvas volumes on the rise of Nazism.'Daily...
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  • At The Existentialist Cafe : Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails by Sarah Bakewell 9780099554882

    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...
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  • Beauty is in the Street : Protest and Counterculture in Post-War Europe by Joachim C. Haberlen 9780141994963

    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...
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  • Bloodlands : THE book to help you understand today's Eastern Europe by Timothy Snyder 9780099551799

    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...
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  • Borderlines : A History of Europe, Told From the Edges by Lewis Baston 9781399723763

    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 GBP
    £25.00 GBP
  • Citizens : A Chronicle of The French Revolution by Simon Schama 9780141017273

    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...
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    £20.00 GBP
  • East West Street : Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize

    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...
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  • Free : Coming of Age at the End of History-9780141995106

    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...
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  • Goodbye Eastern Europe : An Intimate History of a Divided Land by Jacob Mikanowski 9780861547326

    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...
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  • Greece : Biography of a Modern Nation by Roderick Beaton 9780141986524

    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...
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  • If This Is A Man/The Truce by Primo Levi 9780349100135

    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...
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  • Last Days in Old Europe : Trieste '79, Vienna '85, Prague '89 by Richard Bassett 9780141979991

    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...
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  • Naples 1944 : War, Liberation and Chaos by Keith Lowe 9780008339593

    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...
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    £25.00 GBP
  • Paris '44 : The Shame and the Glory by Patrick Bishop 9780241492963

    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...
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    £25.00 GBP
  • Russia : Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 by Antony Beevor 9781474610162

    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...
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    £10.99 GBP
  • Stalin : The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore 9781474614818

    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....
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    £14.99 GBP
  • The Basque History Of The World by Mark Kurlansky 9780099284130

    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....
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    £12.99 GBP
  • The Curtain and the Wall : A Modern Journey Along Europe's Cold War Border by Timothy Phillips 9781783785780

    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...
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  • The Guns of August : The Classic Bestselling Account of the Outbreak of the First World War

    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...
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  • The Hare With Amber Eyes : The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller-9780099539551

    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...
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  • The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire by Ryan Gingeras 9780141992778

    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...
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    £12.99 GBP
  • The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt 9780241316757

    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 GBP
    £9.99 GBP
  • The Revolutionary Temper : Paris, 1748-1789 by Robert Darnton 9780713996562

    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,...
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    £35.00 GBP
  • The Romanovs : The Story of Russia and its Empire 1613-1918

    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...
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    £14.99 GBP
  • The Sleepwalkers : How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark 9780141027821

    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...
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    £18.99 GBP
  • The Unwomanly Face of War

    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,...
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  • The Writers' Castle : Reporting History at Nuremberg by Uwe Neumahr 9506194489642

    The Writers' Castle : Reporting History at Nuremberg

    A gripping new approach to the Nuremberg Trial, told through the stories of the many great writers who came to witness itNuremberg, 1945. As the trials of Nazi war criminals begin, some of the world's most famous writers and reporters gather in the ruined...
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    £25.00 GBP
  • Tomorrow Perhaps the Future : Writers, Rebels and the Spanish Civil War by Sarah Watling 9781529920772

    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...
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    £12.99 GBP
  • Vertigo : The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany by Harald Jahner 9491568165162

    Vertigo : The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany

    *An Observer Book of the Year, 2024*'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...
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    £25.00 GBP
  • A People's Tragedy : The Russian Revolution - centenary edition with new introduction by Orlando Figes 9781847924513

    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...
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    £25.00 GBP
  • Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell 9780141183053

    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...
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    £8.99 GBP
  • Revolutionary Spring : Fighting for a New World 1848-1849 by Christopher Clark 9780141988313

    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...
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    £18.99 GBP
  • The Path of Peace : Walking the Western Front Way-9781838957421

    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...
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  • The Stasi Poetry Circle : The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War by Philip Oltermann 9780571331208

    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...
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  • Young Stalin

    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...
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    £12.99 GBP