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Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule

Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule

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Author: Gordon Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 "A terrifying and timely account of resistance in the face of the greatest of evils."--Alex Kershaw, New York Times bestselling author...
Beyond Good and Evil

Beyond Good and Evil

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Author: Frederich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: After kicking open the doors to twentieth-century philosophy in Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche refined his ideal of the superman...
30-Second Napoleon: The 50 fundamentals of his life, strategies, and legacy, each explained in half a minute

30-Second Napoleon: The 50 fundamentals of his life, strategies, and legacy, each explained in half a minute

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Author: Charles Esdaile Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Almost two centuries since his death, Napoleon Bonaparte remains the subject of vigorous debate. On one side are those...
The Global Age: Europe 1950-2017

The Global Age: Europe 1950-2017

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Author: Ian Kershaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 704 The final chapter in the Penguin History of Europe series from the acclaimed scholar and author of To Hell and Back...
Aussie Grit: My Formula One Journey

Aussie Grit: My Formula One Journey

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Author: Mark Webber Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Mark Webber was at the centre of one of the most captivating chapters in the history of Formula One. In 2010,...
A Sultry Month: Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846: 'Sizzles and steams . . . Beautifully written.' (The Times)

A Sultry Month: Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846: 'Sizzles and steams . . . Beautifully written.' (The Times)

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Author: Francesca Wade Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Though she loved the heat she could do nothing but lie on the sofa and drink lemonade and read Monte Cristo......
Paris: The Memoir

Paris: The Memoir

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Author: Paris Hilton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 PARIS: A MILLION MEANINGS IN A SINGLE NAME Heiress. Party girl. Problem child. Selfie taker. Model. Reality star. Self-created....
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD

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Author: Steven L. Davis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'It's a rollicking tale that brings to life the antic atmosphere of America in the 'Me' Decade' Wall...
HAVOC-06: A Combat Controller on Operations

HAVOC-06: A Combat Controller on Operations

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Author: Troy Knight Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 324 I received a target indication from one of the rear team members and observed movement coming from the left of the...
The Wolf of Wall Street

The Wolf of Wall Street

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Author: Jordan Belfort Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 NOW AN AWARD-WINNING MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE, STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO, MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY AND JONAH HILL. 'What separates Jordan's story...
Access All Areas: A Backstage Pass Through 50 Years of Music And Culture

Access All Areas: A Backstage Pass Through 50 Years of Music And Culture

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Author: Barbara Charone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 First as a journalist and then a publicist at Warner Brothers Records for nearly twenty years, Barbara Charone has experienced, first-hand,...
Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body - Shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic Runciman Award

Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body - Shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic Runciman Award

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Author: Caroline Vout Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The Greek and Roman body is often seen as flawless - cast from life in buff bronze and white marble, to...
SAS Forged in Hell: From Desert Rats to Dogs of War: The Mavericks who Made the SAS

SAS Forged in Hell: From Desert Rats to Dogs of War: The Mavericks who Made the SAS

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Author: Damien Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A Waterstones Best History Book of 2023 The incredible true story of the SAS' daring mission to liberate Europe In the...
Hitler's British Isles

Hitler's British Isles

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Author: Duncan Barrett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 True-life recollections from the Channel Islanders who were the only British subjects to live under Nazi rule in WWII. 'Barrett has...
The Drowned And The Saved

The Drowned And The Saved

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Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Shortly after completing THE DROWNED AND THE SAVED, Primo Levi committed suicide. The manner of his death was sudden, violent and...
Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World

Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World

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Author: John Walsh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young...
The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy

The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy

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Author: John Henry Phillips Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 When archaeologist John Henry Phillips volunteered with a charity that took D-Day veterans back to Normandy, due to an administrative...
Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe

Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe

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Author: Mike Massimino Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Mike Massimino's compelling memoir takes us on a brilliant journey where the nerdiest science meets the most thrilling adventure to reveal...
A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion

A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion

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Author: Tom Segev Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 816 When Tom Segev's biography of David Ben-Gurion was published in Israel in early 2018, it was a major event, making headlines...
The Forbidden Daughter

The Forbidden Daughter

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Author: Zipora Klein Jakob Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The unforgettable true story of one Jewish orphan's survival against impossible odds, and her lifelong quest for family, safety and...
The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives

The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives

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Author: Jude Rogers Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Too often we treat popular music as wallpaper surrounding us as we live our lives. Jude Rogers shows the emotional and...
Alice's Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook

Alice's Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook

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Author: Karina Urbach Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 What happened to the books that were too valuable to burn? The story of a Jewish chef whose bestselling cookbook was...
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker

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Author: Alice Walker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 'These journals are a revelation, a road map and a gift to us all' TAYARI JONES, author of An American Marriage...
Between Friends: Letters of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby

Between Friends: Letters of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby

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Author: Elaine Showalter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 These fascinating letters between Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby tell the story of an extraordinary friendship. 'A beautiful collection' Daisy Dunn,...
Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen

Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen

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Author: Greg Jenner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 During these extraordinary times Greg Jenner is able to sign you a personalised bookplate for your hardback. Please email info@gregjenner.com with...
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX

Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX

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Author: Eric Berger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'Just read it.' Elon Musk The dramatic inside story of the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX-and Elon...
When Marilyn Met the Queen: Marilyn Monroe's Life in England

When Marilyn Met the Queen: Marilyn Monroe's Life in England

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Author: Michelle Morgan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'England? It seemed to be raining the whole time . . . Or maybe it was me' MARILYN MONROE In July...
The Last 100 Years (give or take) and All That

The Last 100 Years (give or take) and All That

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Author: Al Murray Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'I squealed laughing at this but now worry that my knowledge of history has been dangerously ruined' Matt Forde A fascinating...
Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science

Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science

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Author: James Poskett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 "A radical retelling... Poskett deftly blends the achievements of little-known figures into the wider history of science... The book brims with...
Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir

Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir

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Author: Marina Warner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave,...
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America

The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America

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Author: Joshua D. Rothman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 In The Ledger and the Chain, prize-winning historian Joshua D. Rothman tells the disturbing story of the Franklin and Armfield...
Brave Hearted: The Dramatic Story of Women of the American West

Brave Hearted: The Dramatic Story of Women of the American West

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Author: Katie Hickman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The epic story of the transformation of the American west, as seen through the eyes of the women who were there...
A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945: Volume Five: From the fall of Rome to the end of the war 1944-1945

A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945: Volume Five: From the fall of Rome to the end of the war 1944-1945

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Author: Christopher Shores Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 526 During the final year of World War II, the defending Axis forces were steadily driven from southern skies by burgeoning Anglo-American...
Pharaohs of the Sun: Radio 4 Book of the Week,  How Egypt's Despots and Dreamers Drove the Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun's Dynasty

Pharaohs of the Sun: Radio 4 Book of the Week, How Egypt's Despots and Dreamers Drove the Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun's Dynasty

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Author: Guy de la Bedoyere Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 In 1922, a century ago, the most sensational archaeological discovery of all time was made. When Tutankhamun's tomb was...
Migrants: The Story of Us All

Migrants: The Story of Us All

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Author: Sam Miller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Migrants cuts through the toxic debates to tell the rich and collective stories of humankind's urge to move. 'Fascinating... Miller's perspective...
Ghost Flames: Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953

Ghost Flames: Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953

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Author: Charles J. Hanley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 Although it was then perceived as a far-off and inconclusive engagement, the Korean War was a highly consequential and deeply...
Shoemaker of Dreams: The Autobiography of Salvatore Ferragamo

Shoemaker of Dreams: The Autobiography of Salvatore Ferragamo

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Author: Salvatore Ferragamo Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'Ladies and gentlemen, the least important part of this book is the life story of an Italian shoemaker. We can all...
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

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Author: Ibram X Kendi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 736 The National Book Award-winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans...
Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding

Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding

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Author: Joanna Wolfarth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 When Joanna Wolfarth was pregnant with her first child, she assumed she would breastfeed, as her mother had fed her. Yet...
Trafficked: The Terrifying True Story of a British Girl Forced into the Sex Trade

Trafficked: The Terrifying True Story of a British Girl Forced into the Sex Trade

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Author: Sophie Hayes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 He'd been her friend for years. He said he loved her. Then she realised she didn't know him at...
Lighting the Fuse: Stories from Britain's first female bomb disposal expert

Lighting the Fuse: Stories from Britain's first female bomb disposal expert

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Author: Lucy Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Imagine standing over a bomb - you need to make a choice. Remember, your life depends on it. In this extraordinary...
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought

Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought

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Author: Durba Mitra Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 302 How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in IndiaDuring the...
A Class of Their Own: Adventures in Tutoring the Super-Rich

A Class of Their Own: Adventures in Tutoring the Super-Rich

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Author: Matthew Hammett Knott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'A hilarious account of life with the children of the super rich...well written...and very funny indeed' - BOOK OF THE...
The Unnamable Present

The Unnamable Present

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Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 A decisive key to help grasp some of the essential points of what is happening around us. The ninth part of...
Beetle

Beetle

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Author: Adam Dodd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 From ancient Egyptian deities to German automobiles, beetles have left an indelible mark on human cultures around the world....
Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times

Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times

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Author: Professor Aaron Sachs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 472 Up from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American history-the novelist and...
A Writer's House in Wales

A Writer's House in Wales

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Author: Jan Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Through an exploration of her country home in Wales, acclaimed travel writer Jan Morris discovers the heart of her fascinating country...