20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
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A history of the Netherlands
£24.99A history of the Netherlands
This work offers a modern, integrated outline of Dutch history, from the period in which the country took shape as a geographical, administrative and political entity, and undermines the presumption since the 16th century it has been characterised by political consensus and religious toleration. Domestic and foreign politics take pride of place, interwoven with the broad lines of economic and cultural developments, as Friso Wielenga uses the Netherlands’ geographical location and its international relations to better understand its sometimes tumultuous past and present.
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A life of contrasts
£12.99A life of contrasts
In ‘A Life of Contrasts’, the honourable Diana Mitford, the most glamorous of Britain’s Bright Young Things, rivetingly narrates her long life in her own inimitable Mitford way. Author Evelyn Waugh and politician Oswald Mosley fell in love with her, as well as Britain’s richest man, and she knew not only Winston Churchill – her uncle – but also Adolf Hitler. She was a guest in the grandest houses in Britain but also lived in Holloway Prison, London. Later the Duke and Duchess of Windsor entered her life, followed by Nelson Mandela. Hers is a uniquely intimate memoir from an exceptional perspective.
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A short history of the Weimar Republic
£14.99A short history of the Weimar Republic
It is impossible to understand the history of modern Europe without some knowledge of the Weimar Republic. The brief 14-year period of democracy between the Treaty of Versailles and the advent of the Third Reich was marked by unstable government, economic crisis and hyperinflation and the rise of extremist political movements. At the same time, however, a vibrant cultural scene flourished, which continues to influence the international art world through the aesthetics of Expressionism and the Bauhaus movement.
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Blood on the snow
£30.00Blood on the snow
The great historian of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Russia returns with an enthralling revisionist history of the Russian Revolution.
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Comet madness
£21.99Comet madness
In Comet Madness, author and historian Richard J. Goodrich examines the 1910 appearance of Halley’s Comet and the ensuing frenzy sparked by media manipulation, bogus science, and outright deception. The result is a fascinating and illuminating narrative history that underscores how we behave in the face of potential calamity – then and now.
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Fallen
£22.00Fallen
Based on diaries, letters, memoirs and thousands of contemporary documents, ‘Fallen’ is both a forensic account of George Mallory’s last expedition to Everest in 1924 and an attempt to get under his skin and separate the man from the myth.
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Flatlands
£9.99Flatlands
Freda is a twelve-year-old evacuee from East London, who has been sent away at the start of the war, leaving behind everything familiar to her, to escape the expected German bombing. In her new temporary home in Lincolnshire, Freda finds herself billeted with a strange, cold and, ultimately, abusive couple, whose lives mirror the barren landscape in which they live a hand to mouth existence, based upon subsistence farming and poaching. There, deprived of any warmth, she meets a young man – Philip Rhayader – a conscientious objector who has left Oxford and his prospective vocation in the church following a nervous breakdown. Slowly, he introduces her to the wonders of the natural world and its enduring power to heal.
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Going solo
£7.99Going solo
‘It was truly the most breathless and in a way the most exhilarating time I have ever had in my life’. This beautiful edition of ‘Going Solo’, part of ‘The Roald Dahl Classic Collection’, features official archive material from the Roald Dahl Museum and is perfect for Dahl fans old and new. So, enter a world where invention and mischief can be found on every page and where magic might be at the very tips of your fingers.
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Imperial island
£10.99Imperial island
After World War II, Britain’s overseas empire disintegrated. But over the next seventy years, empire came to define Britain as never before. From immigration and race riots, to the Suez Crisis and the Falklands War, from the simplistic moral equation of Band Aid to the invasion of Iraq, the imperial mindset has dominated Britain’s relationship with itself and the world. The ghosts of empire are there, too, in the tragedy of Stephen Lawrence and in the response to radical Islam, in the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics and in scandal of the Windrush deportations – and of course in Brexit. Drawing on a mass of original research into the thoughts and feelings of the British people, pop culture, sport and media, this book tells a story of people on the move and of people trapped in the past, of the end of empire and the birth of multiculturalism, a chronicle of violence and a testament to togetherness.
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Letters for the ages
£12.99Letters for the ages
Here are some of the best of Churchill’s letters, many of a more personal and intimate nature, presented in chronological order, with a preface to each letter explaining the context. The recipients include a vast range of people, including his schoolmaster, his American grandmother and former President Eisenhower. They are taken from within the Churchill Archive in Cambridge, where there is a mass of Churchill’s correspondence. Several of the letters included have never appeared in book form before. Winston Churchill has become an iconic figure greatly loved the world over, but maybe especially these days in the USA. Churchill understood the power of words and he used his writing to sustain and complement his political career, publishing over 40 books and receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953. This volume concentrates on his more intimate words.
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Spain
£11.99Spain
An incisive account of modern Spain, from the death of Franco to the Catalan referendum and beyond
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