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RUDOLF HESS
Truth at LastJOHN HARRIS and RICHARD WILBOURN
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You Save: 54%There is now little doubt that MI6 were heavily involved in the Hess affair and this involvement is here clearly described and explained. What is not clear is whether MI6 was acting alone, outside of ... Learn More -
ISTANBUL
Memories and the City: The Illustrated EditionORHAN PAMUK
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You Save: 61%The author’s bestselling Istanbul: Memories of a City is a triumphant encounter of place and sensibility, beautifully written and immensely moving. Since its publication, Pamuk has continu... Learn More -
GERMANY AND THE OTTOMAN RAILWAYS
Art, Empire and InfrastructurePETER H CHRISTENSEN
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You Save: 50%The complex political and cultural relationship between the German state and the Ottoman Empire is explored through the lens of the Ottoman Railway network, its architecture and material culture. With... Learn More -
THE FUTURE IS HISTORY
How Totalitarianism Reclaimed RussiaMASHA GESSEN
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You Save: 56%The author follows the lives of four Russians, born as the Soviet Union crumbled, at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children o... Learn More -
FISHING
How the Sea Fed CivilizationBRIAN FAGAN
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You Save: 57%Fishing’s role in the development of civilisation has not received the merit that history bestows upon hunting and farming. Gently scholarly, this history of the long interaction of humans and the s... Learn More -
A DEADLY LEGACY
German Jews and the Great WarTIM GRADY
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You Save: 45%This book, the first to offer a full account of the varied contributions of German Jews to Imperial Germany’s endeavours during the Great War, will unsettle deterministic perspectives on the Holocau... Learn More -
THE BOOK THIEVES
The Nazi Looting of Europe’s Libraries and the Race to Return a Literary InheritanceANDERS RYDELL
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You Save: 56%The hunt for the millions of books stolen by the Nazis during World War II has been pursued quietly and diligently for decades, but it has been largely ignored; the plundered volumes seldom carried th... Learn More -
ARCHITECTS OF DEATH
The Family Who Engineered the HolocaustKAREN BARTLETT
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You Save: 56%J A Topf and Sons began life as a well-respected, but unremarkable, engineering firm in the provincial German city of Erfurt. A family-owned business, it produced heating systems, as well as brewing a... Learn More -
THE TUNNELS
Escapes Under the Berlin WallGREG MITCHELL
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You Save: 58%In the summer of 1962, a group of young West Germans risked prison, Stasi torture and even death to liberate friends, lovers and strangers by digging tunnels under the Berlin Wall. This narrative incl... Learn More -
ROME
A History in Seven SackingsMATTHEW KNEALE
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You Save: 41%This love letter to Rome comes in the form of a vivid chronicle of the city’s repeated catastrophes and recoveries, from the early Roman Republic to the German occupation. It has been ravaged by fir... Learn More
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