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Absent Without Leave is not a book about what Private Stanley Livingston had to say. Like many veterans, Stanley Livingston barely spoke about the war. Instead, it is an attempt by his son to discover …
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In this remarkable and groundbreaking book, Kenan Malik explores the history of moral thought as it has developed over three millennia, from Homer’s Greece to Mao’s China, from ancient India to modern …
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The Allied forces’ actions in and around Monte Cassino in Italy remain some of the most controversial of the Second World War. Adolf Hitler described them as the battles that came closest to the bitte …
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The rescue of the Danish Jews from Nazi persecution in October 1943 is a unique exception to the tragic history of the Holocaust. Over fourteen harrowing days, as they were helped, hidden and protecte …
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The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller 2014New York Times top ten bestseller 2014Amazon.com’s Top Ten History Books of the Year 2014New York Times Book of the Year 2014The Arab Revolt against the Turks i …
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What’s it like to be an outlaw biker? ‘We’re dickhead magnets,’ one of them tells Adam Shand. ‘Drunks in bars like to test themselves against a so-called outlaw.’Once seen as a free-wheeling, brawling …
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‘The book’s power stems from its devastating details; Cossins establishes a tone so vivid it’s reminiscent of Dickens.’ Publishers Weekly starred reviewIn October 1892, a one-month-old baby boy was fo …
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David Nyuol Vincent was a little boy when he fled southern Sudan with his father, as war raged in their country. He left behind his distraught mother and sisters, his village and his childhood. For mo …
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Set against the turbulent background of China in the first half of the 20th Century, this reads like a romantic novel; but it’s a true story. The reporter is the intrepid Australian journalist Will Do …
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARITIME MEDIA AWARDS 2014A monumental, wholly accessible work of scholarship that retells human history through the story of mankind’s relationship with the sea.An accomplishment …
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‘All I could do was prod the earth with my bayonet and shine the light to see if I could find anything. It doesn’t matter how small the tunnel is you never know what’s around the bend … You don’t kn …
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A hilarious look at the aging baby boomer generation from the author the Spectator labelled ‘what happens when America does Grumpy Old Men’.The Baby Boom – over-sized, overwrought, overbearing, and al …
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Alexander the Great rests in Babylon as he decides which should be his next world to conquer. A war elephant, Colossus, disturbs the peace of the camp when he is provoked to a killing rampage. Only on …
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In the Spring of 1994, Rwanda was the scene of the first acts since the Second World War to be legally defined as genocide. Two years later, Clea Koff, a twenty-three-year-old forensic anthropologist, …
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As Nelson Mandela was released from prison and the ensuing years saw the collapse of South Africa’s apartheid regime, John Carlin (‘one of the great post-apartheid chroniclers’ Financial Times) was th …
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 SPEARS BOOK AWARDS – FAMILY HISTORY CATEGORYEmpty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of nineteenth-century America with a twenty …
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