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Agent Sniper
Tim Tate
The thrilling never-before-told story of Agent Sniper, one of the Cold War's most effective counter-agents...
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Vital Organs
Suzie Edge
...a bracing adventure, and one where our ancestors are not reduced to characters of myth...
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The Plots Against Hitler
Danny Orbach
"[A] gripping look at a historical counternarrative that remains relevant and disturbing." -- Kirkus Reviews...
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Hitler's Greatest Defeat
Paul Adair
How the Nazis lost the war 1944 was a year of trial for the German...
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The Berlin Shadow
Jonathan Lichtenstein
A deeply moving memoir that confronts the defining trauma of the twentieth century, and its...
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Pax
Tom Holland
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Holland, who co-hosts the podcast The Rest Is History, is...
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Elizabeth & Margaret
Andrew Morton
They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a...
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Red Star Over Russia
Natalia Sidlina
David King (1943-2016) amassed one of the world's largest collections of Soviet political art and...
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Hollywood Double Agent: The True Tale of Boris Morros, Film Producer Turned Cold War Spy
Jonathan Gill
The Cold War and the Golden Age of Hollywood meet in this story of the...
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Zinky Boys
Svetlana Alexievich
From 1979 to 1989 a million Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan...
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Zeebrugge Raid 1918: Voices from the Past
Paul Kendall
Approximately a third of all Allied merchant vessels sunk during the First World War were...
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Young Heroes of the Soviet Union
Alex Halberstadt
In this "urgent and enthralling reckoning with family and history" (Andrew Solomon), an American writer...
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Wonderland
Steven Johnson
"A house of wonders itself. . . . Wonderland inspires grins and well-what-d'ya-knows" -The New...
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Walls
David Frye
"A lively popular history of an oft-overlooked element in the development of human society" (Library...
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Viva la Revolucion
Eric Hobsbawm
In his autobiography Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life, published in 2002 when he was...
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Venice
Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd at his most magical and magisterial-a glittering, evocative, fascinating, story-filled portrait of Venice,...
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Tolstoy's False Disciple
Alexandra Popoff
On the snowy morning of February 8, 1897, the Petersburg secret police were following Tolstoy's...
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Thinking the Twentieth Century
Tony Judt
"Ideas crackle" in this triumphant final book of Tony Judt, taking readers on "a wild...
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The Zhivago Affair
Peter Finn
The Zhivago Affair is the dramatic, never-before-told story-drawing on newly declassified files-of how a forbidden...
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The Young Alexander
Alex Rowson
'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written...
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The Unnamable Present
Roberto Calasso
A decisive key to help grasp some of the essential points of what is happening...
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The Terracotta Warriors
Edward Burman
A history of the famous Terracotta Army in Xi'an, China, exploring what we now know...
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The Strategy of Victory
Thomas Fleming
Led by the Continental Congress, the Americans almost lost their war for independence because their...
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The Stonemason
Andrew Ziminski
A stonemason's story of the building of Britain: part archaeological history, part deeply personal insight...
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The Silent Day
Max Arthur
On 6 June 1944 Britain woke up to a profound silence. Overnight, 160,000 Allied troops...
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The Shadow King
Jo Marchant
More than 3,000 years ago, King Tutankhamun's desiccated body was lovingly wrapped and sent into...
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The Munich Art Hoard
Catherine Hickley
In February 2012, in a Munich flat belonging to an elderly recluse, German customs authorities...
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The Magic Lantern
Timothy Garton Ash
The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that define a historic moment, written...