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Winston Churchill dominates our view of the history of Britain in the twentieth century – the brash, brave and ambitious young aristocrat who sought out danger in late Victorian wars, the mercurial First Lord of the Admiralty who was responsible for the Dardanelles disaster in 1915, the Home Secretary who crushed the General Strike in 1926, the Colonial Secretary who rode with T.E. Lawrence and Gertrude Bell at the Pyramids, the Chancellor who took the country back to the Gold Standard and then spent more than ten years in the political wilderness – and who, finally, was summoned to save his country in 1940.
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‘The World Broke in Two’ tells the fascinating story of the intellectual and personal journeys four legendary writers – Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forster and D.H. Lawrence – make over the course of one pivotal year. The literary ground is shifting, as ‘Ulysses’ is published in February and Proust’s ‘In Search of Lost Time’ begins to be published in England in the autumn. Yet, by the end of the year, Woolf has started ‘Mrs Dalloway’, Forster returned to work on ‘A Passage to India,’ Lawrence has written ‘Kangaroo,’ his unjustly neglected and most autobiographical novel, and Eliot has finished ‘The Waste Land.’
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A family story of blood and memory and the haunting power of the past.
2018 WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER EWART-BIGGS MEMORIAL PRIZE
2017 WINNER OF THE NON-FICTION IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
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When Winston Churchill suffered most severely from his ‘black dog’ he took to painting in order to express the inexpressible. Throughout his life he would withdraw to paint. His paintings throw fascinating light upon his character and its vicissitudes and thus are key to understanding his personality as a great statesman. As fellow artist Sir Oswald Birley said of him: ‘If Churchill had given the time to art that he has given to politics, he would have been by all odds the world’s greatest painter’. This book, generously illustrated in full colour with examples of his painting, consists of a substantial introduction of great critical and historic importance by Professor David Cannadine but also Churchill’s own writings about painting.
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A brilliant artist, working with a bestselling historian, uses digital techniques to bring vividly to life 200 photographs of the defining events and personalities of the modern world.
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Anne Applebaum’s books have explained the history of Russia and Eastern Europe as compellingly as any other historian. Based on a mass of previous untranslated documents and hundreds of testimonies, Anne Applebaum’s ‘Red Famine’ tells the story of the Bolshevik war on Ukraine, from the brief moment of Ukrainian independence in 1917 to Stalin’s deliberately engineered famine in 1932-33. That genocide killed nearly five million people, destroyed the national aspirations of Ukraine for two generations and has real echoes in the politics of the present.
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The funny and tragic, bestselling biography of The Queen’s sister, Princess Margaret, perfect for fans of Netflix’s The Crown.
A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE YEAR
‘I honked so loudly the man sitting next to me dropped his sandwich’ Observer
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This is the definitive biography of the greatest French statesman of modern times. In six weeks in the early summer of 1940, France was over-run by German troops and quickly surrendered. The French government of Marshal Pétain sued for peace and signed an armistice. One little-known junior French general, refusing to accept defeat, made his way to England. On 18th June he spoke to his compatriots over the BBC, urging them to rally to him in London. ‘Whatever happens, the flame of French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished.’ At that moment, Charles de Gaulle entered into history.
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Kim Philby joined the Secret Intelligence Service in 1940, rose to the head of Soviet counterintelligence, and, as MI6’s liaison with the CIA and the FBI, betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the Russians. This is a fascinating insight into the mind and motivations of this master spy and Soviet double agent.
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At the last count, the Blue Plaque Guide honours 903 Londoners, and a walking tour of these sites brings to life the London of a bygone era. But only 111 of these blue plaques commemorate women. Over the centuries, London has been home to thousands of truly remarkable women who have made significant and lasting impacts on every aspect of modern life: from politics and social reform, to the Arts, medicine, science, technology and sport. Many of those women went largely unnoticed, even during their own lifetimes, going about their lives quietly but with courage, conviction, skill and compassion. Others were fearless, strident trail-blazers. Many lived in an era when their achievements were given a male name, clouding the capabilities of women in any field outside of the home or field. ‘A Woman Lived Here’ shines a spotlight on some of these forgotten women to redress the balance.
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In 1954 in Carlisle lived an ordinary 15-year-old schoolgirl called Margaret. She would go on to become an acclaimed writer, the author of the novels ‘Georgy Girl’ and ‘Diary of an Ordinary Woman’ as well as biographies and memoirs. But this is her diary from that year; her life. Hers might be a lost world, but her daily observations bring it back in vivid, irresistible detail.
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An exhaustive biographical portrait of one of the most enigmatic and important figures of the twentieth century.
