The Species That Changed Itself: How Prosperity Reshaped Humanity by Edwin Gale
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Category: History
Other species adapt to their environments; we alone create ours. Over generations, we have remade the world to suit ourselves - using improved knowledge and technology to confront the traditional scourges - and for the most part we enjoy prosperity beyond the dreams of our ancestors. What's more, in cha ...Show more
Fugitives: A History of Nazi Mercenaries During the Cold War by Danny Orbach
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Category: History
From Spain to Syria, the thrilling, untold history of Nazi fugitives turned postwar agents--for America, the Soviets, the Third World, or themselves. After the Second World War, the Allies vowed to hunt Nazi war criminals "to the ends of the earth." Yet many slipped away--or were shielded by the West, ...Show more
The Medici by Mary Hollingsworth
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Category: History
'This forensic study of the Renaissance banking dynasty conjures up a world of art, literature, philosophy - and brutality' Telegraph 'Likely to become the standard work of reference on the members of the family that dominated Florence' TLS 'A lucid and beautifully illustrated family history' The Times ...Show more
Mission France - The True History of the Women of SOE by Kate Vigurs
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Category: History
The full story of the thirty-nine female SOE agents who went undercover in France Formed in 1940, Special Operations Executive was to coordinate Resistance work overseas. The organization's F section sent more than four hundred agents into France, thirty-nine of whom were women. But while some are widel ...Show more
The Far Land by Brandon Presser
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Category: History
A thrilling tale of power, obsession and betrayal at the edge of the world. In 1808, an American merchant ship happened upon an uncharted island in the South Pacific and unwittingly solved the biggest nautical mystery of the era: the whereabouts of a band of fugitives who, after seizing their vessel, ha ...Show more
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan: The Battle for Afghanistan by William Dalrymple
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Category: History
From William Dalrymple--award-winning historian, journalist and travel writer--a masterly retelling of what was perhaps the West's greatest imperial disaster in the East, and an important parable of neocolonial ambition, folly and hubris that has striking relevance to our own time.With access to newly d ...Show more
Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister by Nicholas Shakespeare
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Category: History
*** Selected as a 2017 Book of the Year in the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Observer and The Economist *** 'A gripping story of Churchill's unlikely rise to power' Observer London, May 1940. Britain is under threat of invasion and Neville Chamberlain's government is about to fall. It is hard for us to i ...Show more
Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King Jr.
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Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'He changed the course of history' Barack Obama 'Lightning makes no sound until it strikes' This is the momentous story of the Civil Rights movement, told by one of its most powerful and eloquent voices. Here Martin Luther King, Jr. recounts the pivotal events in the city of Birmingham, Alabama in 196 ...Show more
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
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Category: History | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF THE YEARA NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION'A beautifully readable reminder of how much of our urgent, collective history resounds in places all around us that have been hidden in plain sight.' Afua Hirsch, ...Show more
Hitler: Volume I: Ascent 1889-1939 by Volker Ullrich
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Category: History | Series: Hitler Biographies Ser.
Selected as a Book of the Year by the New York Times, Times Literary Supplement and The TimesDespite his status as the most despised political figure in history, there have only been four serious biographies of Hitler since the 1930s. Even more surprisingly, his biographers have been more interested in ...Show more
1923: The Forgotten Crisis in the Year of Hitler's Coup by Mark Jones
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Category: History
A BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Excellent' Richard Evans'A vivid, crisp, impressively sustained narrative' Financial Times'Riveting' Irish Independent'Refreshing and readable' Irish Times'Gripping . . . thoroughly researched and beautifully written . . . a warning for our times' Alex Watson, aut ...Show more
Waterloo Sunrise - London from the Sixties to Thatcher by John Davis
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Category: History
A kaleidoscopic history of how the 1960s and 1970s changed London forever Waterloo Sunrise is a panoramic and multifaceted account of modern London during the transformative years of the sixties and seventies, when a city still bearing the scars of war emerged as a vibrant yet divided metropolis. John D ...Show more