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£12.99Based on original research and new evidence, ‘Spying and the Crown’ reveals how far their Majesties still call the shots in a hidden world and presents the British monarchy in an entirely new light.
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Hitler’s American Gamble
£12.99This work dramatises the extraordinarily compressed and terrifying period between the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Hitler’s declaration of war on the United States. These five days transformed much of the world and have shaped our own experience ever since. Simms and Laderman’s aim in the book is to show how this agonising period had no inevitability about it and that innumerable outcomes were possible. Key leaders around the world were taking decisions with often poor and confused information, under overwhelming pressure and knowing that they could be facing personal and national disaster. And yet, there were also long-standing assumptions that shaped these decisions, both consciously and unconsciously.
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Queen Elizabeth II
£22.00A lavish photographic tribute to the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth II, as seen through the lens of the BBC.
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Personality and Power
£30.00The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies were re-shaped and wars fought, often with a merciless contempt for the most basic norms. At the summit of these societies were leaders whose personalities had somehow given them the ability to do whatever they wished. Ian Kershaw’s book is a compelling, lucid and challenging attempt to understand these rulers, whether operating on the widest stage (Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini) or with a more national impact (Tito, Franco). What was it about these leaders and the times they lived in that allowed them such untrammelled and murderous power? And what brought that era to an end?
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Hitler’s Tyranny
£20.00A fresh and stimulating look at Hitler’s dictatorship through the study of ten key historical aspects. The portrait that emerges is one of a murderous fantasist and political opportunist driven by an all-embracing ideology of racial superiority.
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The Age of Uncertainty
£25.00The history of how a group of physicists toppled the Newtonian universe in the early decades of the twentieth century. Marie Curie, Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, and Albert Einstein didn’t only revolutionise physics; they redefined our world and the reality we live in. In ‘The Age of Uncertainty’, Tobias Hürter brings to life the golden age of physics and its dazzling, flawed, and unforgettable heroes and heroines.
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We Don’t Know Ourselves
£12.00Fintan O’Toole’s history of Ireland in his own time. Ireland has changed almost out of recognition during the decades since O’Toole’s birth in 1958, and this is his very personal vision of recent Irish history.
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The Dreadful Monster and Its Poor Relations
£12.99It has always been an important part of British self-image to see the United Kingdom as an ancient, organic, and sensibly managed place, in striking contrast to the convulsions of other European countries. To a limited degree this is true, but, as Julian Hoppit makes clear in this fascinating and surprising book, beneath the complacent surface the United Kingdom has in fact been in a constant, often very tense argument with itself about how it should be run and, most significantly, who should pay for what. The book takes its argument from an eighteenth century cartoon which shows the central state as the ‘Dreadful Monster’, gorging itself at the dinner table on all the taxes it can grab.
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Day of the Assassins
£10.99A forensic account of political assassinations from the late nineteenth century to the present day.
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What I Saw
£9.99In 1920 Joseph Roth produced a series of impressionistic and political writings that influenced an entire generation of writers. These pieces record the violent social and political paroxysms that threaten to undo the fragile democracy that was the Weimar Republic.
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A Woman’s World
£30.00A survey of the many roles played by women across the world from 1850-1960, using colourised photos and captions to tell to their story.