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Letter To An Unknown Soldier: A New...

Kate Pullinger

Letter To An Unknown Soldier: A New Kind of War Memorial

On Platform One of Paddington Station in London, there is a statue of an unknown soldier; he’s reading a letter. On the hundredth anniversary of the declaration of war everyone in the country was invited to take a moment and write that letter. A selection of those letters are published here, in a new kind of war memorial – one made only of words.In a year of public commemoration ‘Letter to an Unknown Soldier’ invited everyone to step back from the public ceremonies and take a few private moments...

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Kate Pullinger

Beauty and Atrocity: People, Politi...

Joshua Levine

Beauty and Atrocity: People, Politics and Ireland’s Fight for Peace

An ambitious and powerful account of modern Irish history through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand.Forty years after the Provisional IRA was formed and British troops arrived in Ireland, Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness sit together as leaders of a devolved Northern Irish government, in which Sinn Féin and the Democratic Unionists share power. The Troubles appear to be over; the future promises to be quite different from the past. But recent events perhaps suggest...

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Joshua Levine

Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleo...

Adam Zamoyski

Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna

Following on from his epic ‘1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow’, bestselling author Adam Zamoyski has written the dramatic story of the Congress of Vienna.In the wake of his disastrous Russian campaign of 1812, Napoleon's imperious grip on Europe began to weaken, raising the question of how the Continent was to be reconstructed after his defeat. There were many who dreamed of a peace to end all wars, in which the interests of peoples as well as those of rulers would be taken into account....

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Adam Zamoyski

Totila, 2. Abteilung - Ein Kampf um...

Felix Dahn

Totila, 2. Abteilung - Ein Kampf um Rom, Buch 8 (Ungekürzt)

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Felix Dahn

Teja - Ein Kampf um Rom, Buch 9 (Un...

Felix Dahn

Teja - Ein Kampf um Rom, Buch 9 (Ungekürzt)

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Felix Dahn

Theoderich - Ein Kampf um Rom, Buch...

Felix Dahn

Theoderich - Ein Kampf um Rom, Buch 1 (Ungekürzt)

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Felix Dahn

Fighter: The True Story of the Batt...

Len Deighton

Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain

Hitler’s top-secret Directive No. 16 set a precondition for a landing operation: ‘The English air force must have been beaten down to such an extent … that it can no longer muster any power of attack worth mentioning against the German crossing.’ Reissued by William Collins, ‘Fighter’ is Len Deighton’s thrilling telling of the ensuing Battle of Britain – the aerial combat between the RAF and the Luftwaffe that was fought between July and October 1940.Deighton has written a compelling account of...

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Len Deighton

Fifty Things You Need To Know About...

Hugh Williams

Fifty Things You Need To Know About British History

What are the 50 key events you need to understand to grasp British history?If you could choose the 50 things that define British history, events of significance not only in themselves, but in their importance to wider themes running through our past, what would they be? Hugh Williams has made that selection, and the result is a fascinating overview of Britain’s past.He refines British history into a series of key themes that represent a crucial strand in our history, and pinpoints the seminal...

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Hugh Williams

A Daughter’s Courage: A powerful, g...

Kitty Neale

A Daughter’s Courage: A powerful, gritty new saga from the Sunday Times bestseller

Her strength is all she has left… When Dorothy meets Robbie, she falls for him quickly and it’s not long before the pair are engaged. But then an unexpected pregnancy puts everything at risk, and Dorothy is left alone – with Robbie nowhere to be seen.Heartbroken, Dorothy picks up the pieces of her life as a working girl in Battersea helping to support her mother and father. But before long, things start to become difficult. Her father’s health is worsening, money is tight and worst of all,...

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Kitty Neale

Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Gamble

Andrew Roberts

Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Gamble

Part of the ‘Making History Series’ – ‘Waterloo’ is an exciting retelling of one of the moments that shook the world – Waterloo, one of the truly decisive battles of history.The illustrious ‘Making History Series’, edited by Lisa Jardine and Amanda Foreman, explores an eclectic mix of history's tipping points.In ‘Waterloo’, Roberts provides not only a fizzing account of one of the most significant forty-eight hour periods of all time, but also a startling interrogation into the methodology of...

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Andrew Roberts

Athalarich - Ein Kampf um Rom, Buch...

Felix Dahn

Athalarich - Ein Kampf um Rom, Buch 2 (Ungekürzt)

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Felix Dahn

Amalaswintha - Ein Kampf um Rom, Bu...

Felix Dahn

Amalaswintha - Ein Kampf um Rom, Buch 3 (Ungekürzt)

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Felix Dahn

Odrodzone królestwo

Elżbieta Cherezińska

Odrodzone królestwo

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Elżbieta Cherezińska

A Little Learning

Anne Bennett

A Little Learning

Can an ordinary girl dare to be different? The compelling new bestseller from Birmingham’s Queen of FictionJanet is determined to make something of herself, instead of being chained to a sink with a baby a year like most women of her generation. She passes her eleven-plus and wins a scholarship to go to a good grammar school, but her father refuses to believe that girls have the right to do anything other than look after their husbands and raise children.Struggling to fit in at her new school...

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Anne Bennett

A Family Scandal

Kitty Neale

A Family Scandal

**A gritty and emotional family drama, from the Sunday Times bestseller. Perfect for fans of Nadine Dorries and Katie Flynn.**You can never leave a bad man behind…Mavis Pugh has had a hard life. Despised and abused throughout her teenage years, she turned to the first man who showed her kindness. But her new husband, Alec, quickly revealed himself to be a violent bully.When Mavis escapes from Alec, she thinks the worst is behind her. Moving to a large family house with her two children is more...

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Kitty Neale

A Christmas Gift

Ruby Jackson

A Christmas Gift

The third in a series of books featuring four young women whose lives will be forever changed by WWII. Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn.As the daughter of the local cinema manager, Sally Brewer has always dreamed of stardom. When she gets offered a theatre job in London, any fancy notions she has are quickly dashed when faced with the reality of long hours with no prospect of a speaking part.But all of this goes out of Sally’s mind once the nightly hail of German bombs start to rain down on...

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Ruby Jackson

India: A History

John Keay

India: A History

The first single-volume history of India since the 1950s, combining narrative pace and skill with social, economic and cultural analysis. Five millennia of the sub-continent’s history are interpreted by one of our finest writers on India and the Far East. This edition does not include illustrations.Older, richer and more distinctive than almost any other, India’s culture furnishes all that the historian could wish for in the way of continuity and diversity. The peoples of the Indian...

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John Keay