Categories Modern History/Current Affairs

Modern History/Current Affairs

Modern History and Current Affairs, economics and 20th century events. Major historians from TV and the academic world in print, in full, in their own words.

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THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO
KARL MARX AND F. ENGLES    Book Number: 58204
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Marx's prediction that the state would wither away of its own accord has proved inaccurate, and he did not foresee the tyrannies which have ruled large parts of the globe in his name. But some of ...
MY DEAR MR STALIN:
EDITED BY SUSAN BUTLER    Book Number: 65849
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Reproduced in its entirety including the original translations from Russian, this correspondence between two giants of the 20th century world stage makes fascinating and sometimes chilling reading....

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MEMORIES OF RESISTANCE
SHIRLEY MANGINI    Book Number: 66123
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Subtitled 'Women's Voices from the Spanish Civil War', this is the first book to focus on Spanish women's contributions to the war effort. Women, so long oppressed in Spain, were both active on th...

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GREAT BRITISH SPEECHES:
SIMON HEFFER    Book Number: 67202
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Both inspiring and thought-provoking, here is an enthusiastic celebration of the rich tradition of British oratory that offers a unique perspective on seven centuries of our nation's history. The ...

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PLEASURES AND SORROWS OF WORK
ALAIN DE BOTTON    Book Number: 67373
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Given that we spend so much of our conscious lives at, or travelling to, work, it is perhaps surprising that so little gets written about what makes employment one of the most exciting or dull, mos...

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LIVING ON TICK:
HAZEL WHEELER    Book Number: 67653
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Subtitled 'Tales from a Huddersfield Corner Shop Between the Wars'. The corner shop in the 1920s and 30s was more than just a place to buy the groceries. It was a meeting place where familiar fac...

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REMEMBER WHEN
ROBERT OPIE    Book Number: 67826
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John Betjeman said 'When you understand the past, the confusion of the present becomes clearer.' Robert Opie began his collection of tins, bottles, wrappers and packets that most people considered...

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FALLING OFF THE EDGE:
ALEX PERRY    Book Number: 67919
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Ever since the heady days of the collapse of Communism, international companies and governments the world over have embraced the idea of the Global Village, the shrinking, booming world from which ...

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CITY OF HEAVENLY TRANQUILITY:
JASPER BECKER    Book Number: 67952
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Chairman Mao intended to destroy Old Beijing and create a new capital but his rule was too chaotic for the aim to be realised before his death in 1976. Armies had been and gone - British, French,...
CENTRE OF THE CREATIVE UNIVERSE:
CHRISTOPH GRUNENBERG    Book Number: 68033
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Liverpool is a place of myths generated both by its inventive inhabitants and by those who envisage it from afar. As infamous Liverpudlian raconteur George Melly points out, '...the city is aware ...

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