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Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy: How the Allies Won on D-Day

Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy: How the Allies Won on D-Day

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Author: Giles Milton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 The international bestselling historian and host of the Unknown History podcast presents a ground-breaking account of the first 24 hours of...
Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy

Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy

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Author: Larry Tye Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 The definitive biography of the most dangerous demagogue in American history, based on exclusive access to his papers and recently unsealed...
Electronically Yours: Vol. I: My Autobiography

Electronically Yours: Vol. I: My Autobiography

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Author: Martyn Ware Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 This is a music autobiography to remember. This is the story of Martyn Ware. The Human League and Heaven 17 were...
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos

The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos

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Author: Judy Batalion Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Also on the USA Today, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Globe and Mail, Publishers Weekly, and...
New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time

New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time

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Author: Craig Taylor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Terror Blackout Hurricane Recession Pandemic A symphony of contemporary New York told through the magnificent words of its people - from...
Meshi: A personal history of Japanese food

Meshi: A personal history of Japanese food

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Author: Katherine Tamiko Arguile Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 For Katherine Tamiko Arguile, the Japanese food her mother cooked was a portal to a part of her that sometimes...
Hit The Target: Eight Men Who Led the Eighth Air Force to Victory Over the Luftwaffe

Hit The Target: Eight Men Who Led the Eighth Air Force to Victory Over the Luftwaffe

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Author: Bill Yenne Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 370 From Bill Yenne, author of the military histories Big Week and Aces High, come the stirring true story of the Eight...
Henry Viii Revealed: the Legacy of Holbein's Portraits

Henry Viii Revealed: the Legacy of Holbein's Portraits

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Author: Xanthe Brooke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 Hans Holbein's portrait of Henry VIII perished in fire in 1698, yet has remained the definitive image of the English monarch,...
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: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'Fizzes with clever vignettes and juicy tidbits... [a] joyous romp of a book.' Guardian 'A fascinating, rollicking book in search of...
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast

Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast

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Author: Marjoleine Kars Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize Winner of the 2021 Frederick Douglass Prize 'A richly detailed account of a gripping...
Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine

Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine

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Author: Anna Della Subin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 How does a man become a God? It can happen by accident, or by prophesy, or through an article found...
White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain's Legacy of Slavery

White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain's Legacy of Slavery

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Author: Thomas Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 When Thomas Harding discovered that his mother's family had made money from plantations worked by enslaved people, what began as an...
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....
Happy-Go-Lucky: 'Unquestionably the king of comic writing' Guardian

Happy-Go-Lucky: 'Unquestionably the king of comic writing' Guardian

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Author: David Sedaris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The latest installment from always funny, sometimes bizarre comic David Sedaris. Praise for Theft By Finding The writing here...
Yearbook

Yearbook

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Author: Seth Rogen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 THE NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Hi! I'm Seth! I was asked to describe my book, Yearbook, for the...
The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War

The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War

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Author: Philip Oltermann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'Liebe Mitstreiter', he says. Dear comrades in arms. Today we are going to learn about the sonnet. Berlin, 1962. Morale is...
Friendship & Other Essays

Friendship & Other Essays

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Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most well-known American nature writers, essayists and poets.
Five Love Affairs and a Friendship: The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age

Five Love Affairs and a Friendship: The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age

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Author: Anne de Courcy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Dazzlingly beautiful, highly intelligent and an extraordinary force of energy, Nancy Cunard was an icon of the Jazz Age, said...
Three-a-Penny: Radio 4 Book of the Week

Three-a-Penny: Radio 4 Book of the Week

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Author: Lucy Malleson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A rediscovered classic memoir - a fascinating insight into the life of a crime writer during and after the...
The Crown in Crisis: Countdown to the Abdication

The Crown in Crisis: Countdown to the Abdication

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Author: Alexander Larman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In December 1936, Britain faced a constitutional crisis that was the gravest threat to the institution of the monarchy since the...
Confess: The year's most touching and revelatory rock autobiography' Telegraph's Best Music Books of 2020

Confess: The year's most touching and revelatory rock autobiography' Telegraph's Best Music Books of 2020

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Author: Rob Halford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Most priests take confessions. This one is giving his. 'The most hotly anticipated hard-rock autobiography of the year' 'Rob Halford has...
The Ox: The Last of the Great Rock Stars: The Authorised Biography of The Who's John Entwistle

The Ox: The Last of the Great Rock Stars: The Authorised Biography of The Who's John Entwistle

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Author: Paul Rees Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'A highly entertaining read' The Times Music Books of the Year 'Eye-popping' The Times best summer books The definitive no-holds-barred biography...
The Fleet Street Girls: The women who broke down the doors of the gentlemen's club

The Fleet Street Girls: The women who broke down the doors of the gentlemen's club

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Author: Julie Welch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The Fleet Street Girls is the inspiring and evocative story of the female journalists who broke down barriers in the 1970s...
The Easy Day Was Yesterday: Life, The SAS and 24 Days in Jail

The Easy Day Was Yesterday: Life, The SAS and 24 Days in Jail

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Author: Paul Jordan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 My SAS selection course instructor, was as hard as nails. At the start of each day's training, he would...
The Last Assassin

The Last Assassin

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Author: Peter Stothard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'A political thriller, and a human story that astonishes' Hilary Mantel Many men killed Julius Caesar. Only one man was determined...
The Price of Victory: The Red Army's Casualties in the Great Patriotic War

The Price of Victory: The Red Army's Casualties in the Great Patriotic War

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Author: Boris Kavalerchik Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 193 The Red Army's casualties during the Second World War and the casualties sustained by the German army they fought are a...
Gentleman Jack: The Jack Crawford Story

Gentleman Jack: The Jack Crawford Story

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Author: Richard Naughton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Jack Crawford was one of Australia's great sporting heroes of the 1930s,along with Donald Bradman, Hubert Opperman and Haydn...
Adam Smith: Father of Economics

Adam Smith: Father of Economics

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Author: Jesse Norman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A dazzlingly original, "remarkable" account of the life and thought of legendary economist Adam Smith (Financial Times). Adam Smith (1723-1790) is...
Ticket to the World: My 80s Story

Ticket to the World: My 80s Story

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Author: Martin Kemp Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Ticket to the World is a joyous, nostalgic celebration of 80s culture from one man at the centre of...
Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

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Author: Maggie Haberman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 *THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *A Financial Times Book of the Year* *Economist Book of the Year* 'A...
Between Five Eyes: 50 Years of Intelligence Sharing

Between Five Eyes: 50 Years of Intelligence Sharing

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Author: Anthony R. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 UK-US intelligence and the wider Five Eyes community of Canada, Australia and New Zealand is primarily about one...
The Warrior and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation

The Warrior and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation

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Author: Peter Cozzens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 'Marvellous... One of the best pieces of Native American history I have read.' - S.C. Gwynne, bestselling author of Empire of...
Bound by War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America's First Pacific Century

Bound by War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America's First Pacific Century

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Author: Christopher Capozzola Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 Ever since US troops occupied the Philippines in 1898, generations of Filipinos have served in and alongside the US armed forces....
Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal

Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal

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Author: Julie Metz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 344 A breathtakingly honest memoir about the complexities of forgiveness that begins when a young widow discovers her husband's secret...
Jet Girl: My Life in War, Peace, and the Cockpit of the Navy's Most Lethal Aircraft, the F/A-18 Super Hornet

Jet Girl: My Life in War, Peace, and the Cockpit of the Navy's Most Lethal Aircraft, the F/A-18 Super Hornet

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Author: Hof Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Caroline Johnson was an unlikely aviation candidate. A tall blonde debutante from Colorado, she could have just as easily gone into...
Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century

Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century

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Author: Christina Riggs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 When it was found in 1922, the 3,300-year old tomb of Tutankhamun sent shockwaves around the world, turning the boy-king into...
Caroline's Dilemma: A colonial inheritance saga

Caroline's Dilemma: A colonial inheritance saga

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Author: Bettina Bradbury Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Shortlisted for the 2020 Ernest Scott Prize for History Caroline Kearney faced a heart-breaking dilemma. Caroline was a 31-year-old mother of...
Law in War: Freedom and restriction in Australia during the Great War

Law in War: Freedom and restriction in Australia during the Great War

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Author: Dr Catherine Bond Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 During the Great War law was used in everyday life as a tool to discriminate, oppress, censor and deprive many...
Sea Monsters: Savage Submarine Commanders of World War Two

Sea Monsters: Savage Submarine Commanders of World War Two

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Author: Tony Matthews Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 348 The true story of a deeply murderous intent that lurked menacingly beneath the waves during World War Two. The torpedoes strike...
Courage and Compassion: A Stretcher-bearer's Journey from No-man's Land and Beyond

Courage and Compassion: A Stretcher-bearer's Journey from No-man's Land and Beyond

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Author: Don Farrands QC Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 This is the true story of a young Australian soldier whose life of opportunity was challenged by trauma and salvaged...
Letters from the Veldt: The imperial advance to Pretoria through the eyes of Edward Hutton and his brigade of colonials.

Letters from the Veldt: The imperial advance to Pretoria through the eyes of Edward Hutton and his brigade of colonials.

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Author: Craig Stockings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 286 The South African War - or Boer War - running from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902 -was the largest...
The Mafia at War: Allied Collusion with the Mob

The Mafia at War: Allied Collusion with the Mob

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Author: Tim Newark Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The Mafia is the most powerful criminal organisation the world has ever known. This book tells the epic story of how...
Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler's Revenge, April-May 1945

Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler's Revenge, April-May 1945

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Author: Lee Eric Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 In the final days of World War II in Europe, Georgians serving in the Wehrmacht on Texel island off the Dutch...
Pathfinder, 'Kriegie' and Gumboot Governor: The Adventurous Life of Sir James Rowland AC, KBE, DFC, AFC

Pathfinder, 'Kriegie' and Gumboot Governor: The Adventurous Life of Sir James Rowland AC, KBE, DFC, AFC

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Author: Sir James Rowland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 520 A descendant of early pioneers of New South Wales, James Rowland combined a thirst for adventure with a strong sense...
Fatal Mission: The Life and Death of the Crew of the Naughty Nan 467 SQN RAAF

Fatal Mission: The Life and Death of the Crew of the Naughty Nan 467 SQN RAAF

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Author: Mal Elliott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Fatal Mission is the story of Australian navigator Oscar Furniss, just one of 55,000 young men who perished while flying for...
An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler

An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler

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Author: Peter Fritzsche Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 376 World War II reached into the homes and lives of ordinary people in an unprecedented way. Civilian men, women, and children...
Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War

Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War

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Author: Matthew Avery Sutton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 What makes a good missionary makes a good American spy, or so thought Office of Special Services (OSS) founder "Wild"...
Return to Victory: MacArthur's Epic Liberation of the Philippines

Return to Victory: MacArthur's Epic Liberation of the Philippines

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Author: James P. Duffy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 It had been two and a half difficult years since General Douglas MacArthur had reluctantly obeyed a presidential order to...