The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
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Category: HISTORY
'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past', George Orwell wrote in Nineteen Eighty-Four. In this glorious work of history, Orlando Figes argues that the maxim is truer for Russia than for any other country in the world. The Story of Russia begins in the firs ...Show more
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by Simon Garfield
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Category: HISTORY
The encyclopaedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, a good set conveyed a sense of absolute wisdom on its reader. Contributions from Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Orville Wright, Alfred Hitchcock, Marie Curie and Indira Gan ...Show more
The Realm of the Ring Lords : Beyond the Portal of the Twilight Zone by Laurence Gardner
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
As Long As I Hope to Live by Claudia Carli
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: near fine
Through the discovery of a precious friendship album which belonged to 12-year-old Alie, a Jewish schoolgirl in Amsterdam, Claudia Carli has traced and preserved the lives of an entire class of girls, most of whom did not survive the War. Alie and her friends are brought touchingly and vividly to life, ...Show more
Katyn - The Untold Story of Stalin's Polish Massacre by Allen Paul
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Six Months in 1945 : FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman - From World War to Cold War by Michael Dobbs
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
From the bestselling author of "One Minute to Midnight", this is the riveting story of the last six months of World War II, when the hopeful Allied situation inspired by the Yalta Conference descended into the open conflict that would lead to the Cold War. When FDR, Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin ga ...Show more
A Dream of Greatness : The American People 1945-1963 by Geoffrey Perrett
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The Churchill Complex by Ian Buruma
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
A brilliant and insightful history of the special relationship between the UK and the USA, which Ian Buruma argues is now under threat with the election of Donald Trump and Brexit.
Auschwitz and the Allies : How the Allies Responded to the News of Hitler's Final Solution by Martin Gilbert
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
'A story that needs to be remembered. It is here told by a real historian.whose style is the more moving by being objective and controlled' - Hugh Trevor-Roper, The Times When Hitler announced that the result of the war in Europe would be 'the complete annihilation of the Jews', he did so in 1942, not o ...Show more