Their Promised Land

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Ian Buruma’s maternal grandparents, Bernard and Winifred (Bun & Win), wrote to each other regularly throughout their life together. The first letters were written in 1915, when Bun was still at school …

Man of Iron

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As commander of the Wellington Infantry Battalion, Lieutenant-Colonel William Malone captured and held the heights of Chunuk Bair in August 1915. Along with his men, he succeeded in holding off fierce …

Tunnel Rats vs the Taliban

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The year 2015 is the 50th anniversary of the original Australian Tunnel Rats arrival in Vietnam, one year after Australian troops were withdrawn from active duty in Afghanistan. Although on the face o …

Devotion

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***NOW A MAJOR FILM, STARRING JONATHAN MAJORS AND GLEN POWELL***’This is aerial drama at its best. Fast, powerful, and moving.’ Erik Larson’A must read.’ New York Post Devotion is the gripping story o …

The Struggle for Sea Power

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LONGLISTED FOR THE HESSELL TILTMAN PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE MEDIA MARITIME AWARDSSHORTLISTED FOR THE MILITARY HISTORY MONTHLY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDWith a cast of swaggering swashbuckling characters, …

Concorde

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In Concorde, Jonathan Glancey tells the story of this magnificent and hugely popular aircraft anew, taking the reader from the moment Captain Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in 1947 through …

Lost Relations

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In 1839, Hampshire yeoman John Hewett died prematurely and left his wife and eight children to manage on their own. Times were tough, and after their landlord put their farm up for sale, Jane Hewett e …

Reel History

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‘Reel History is a hoot! Alex von Tunzelmann writes with a blend of playful wit and delicious snark’ Greg JennerFrom ancient Egypt to the Tudors to the Nazis, the film industry has often defined how w …

The File

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZEIn 1978 Timothy Garton Ash went to live in Berlin to see what that divided city could teach him about tyranny and freedom. Fifteen years later, by then internationally …

We Are Here

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Told through the bright and unflinching eyes of Cat Thao, a daughter born in a refugee camp, We Are Here is a memoir that begins in 1975 with her family’s gripping exodus by foot out of post-war Vietn …

Charlie Wilson's War

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Two recent events have transformed the world: the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of militant Islam. This is the first book to explain the link between these two occurrences. George Crile sp …

The Invention of Russia

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The definitive and award-winning history of Vladimir Putin’s rise to power following the collapse of the Soviet Union, by The Economist’s Russia editor.’Fast-paced and excellently written’ New York Ti …

Anglomania

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With its distinctive history of civil liberties and the delicate balance between social order and the free pursuit of self-interest, England has always fascinated its continental neighbours. Buruma ex …

Anything Goes

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Bracketed by the catastrophes of the Great War and the Wall Street Crash, 1920s America was a place of drama, tension and hedonism. It glittered and seduced: jazz, flappers, wild all-night parties, th …

Finest and Darkest Hours

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‘This survey of British political crises is invaluable for anyone concerned with politics today, and it reinforces George Santayana’s dictum that those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.. …

The Endgame

The Endgame is the gripping and authoritative account of the secret military and political effort to pull Iraq from the precipice of full-scale civil war. The book fuses unrivalled access to the in-fi …