Heiresses
£25.00A survey of the world of the wealthy heiress – glittering and gleaming, flawed and fascinating – from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries.
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How to Be a Liberal
£10.99‘A tour de force.’ – THE SECRET BARRISTER
‘Urgent and engaging.’ – NICK COHEN, OBSERVER COLUMNIST
‘Courageous.’ – JAMES O’BRIEN, LBC
In a soaring narrative that stretches from the English Civil War to the 2008 financial crash and the rise of new nationalism, British political journalist Ian Dunt tells the epic story of personal freedom.Â
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Blood and Ruins
£40.00Richard Overy sets out to recast the way in which we view the Second World War and its origins and aftermath. He argues that this was the ‘great imperial war’, a violent end to almost a century of global imperial expansion which reached its peak in the ambitions of Italy, Germany and Japan in the 1930s and early 1940s, before descending into the largest and costliest war in human history and the end, after 1945, of all territorial empires. How war on a huge scale was fought, supplied, paid for, supported by mass mobilization and morally justified forms the heart of this account. Above all, Overy explains the bitter cost for those involved in fighting, and the exceptional level of crime and atrocity that marked these imperial projects, the war and its aftermath. This war was as deadly for civilians as it was for the military, a war to the death over the future of the global order.
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Empire and Jihad
£25.00A panoramic, provocative account of the clash between British imperialism and Arab jihadism in Africa between 1870 and 1920 -
Children of the Night
£25.00A darkly humorous and horrifying history of some of the strangest dictators that Europe has ever seen.
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Churchill’s Shadow
£25.00Winston Churchill towered over his own age, when he was variously described as ‘the saviour of his country’, ‘the leader of humanity’, or ‘the man of the century’. More remarkably, he has towered over fifty years and more since his since his death in 1965. He overshadows both his country, whose recent history has been called ‘an extended footnote to Churchill’, and the United States, where a great cult of Churchill has burgeoned. This account of Churchill’s life and afterlife has been more than ten years in the making. It is not a conventional biography but an account of Churchill’s long life, the cult that arose almost immediately after his death, and his place in popular culture, up to the Oscar-winning film ‘Darkest Hour’ in 2017.
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Traitor King
£25.00Here Andrea Lownie looks at the years following the abdication of Edward VIII when the former king was kept in exile, feuding with his family over status for his wife, Wallis Simpson, and denied any real job. Drawing on extensive research into hitherto unused archives and Freedom of Information requests, it makes the case that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were not the naïve dupes of the Germans but actively intrigued against Britain in both war and peace.
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Darkness Falling
£25.00A dramatic account of Germany’s slide from parliamentary democracy to dictatorship, and the history of Weimar Berlin in the three years before the Nazi takeover.
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Jet Man
£10.99The biography of Frank Whittle – RAF pilot, mathematician of genius, inventor of the jet engine and British hero.
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Bomber Command
£12.99Bomber Command is Max Hasting’s in-depth account of the RAF’s bombing offensive, one the most controversial struggles of the Second World War.
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Ethel Rosenberg
£20.00On 19 June 1953 Ethel Rosenberg became the first woman to be executed by the US government in almost a century, and the only woman in the US to be executed for a crime other than murder. She was 37 years old and the mother of 2 small children. Her case resonates more than ever today at a time of world tension and conspiracy rumours focused on a resurgent Soviet Union. Any battle to seek forgiveness for a convicted communist spy would, today, at a time when the Cold War seems all too resonant, stand little chance of success. But the story of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg refuses to die; this is an important moment to recount not simply what FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover called the ‘trial of the century’, but also a timeless human story of a supportive wife, loving mother and idealist who had her life barbarically cut short for a crime she almost certainly did not commit.
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