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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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| DAVID HOWARTH, M. MATTHEWS Book Number: 82915 |
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Tort is a rich, complicated and fluid area of the law designed to afford civil redress for victims of wrongs. It provides legal remedies, often the payment of money, to those who have been damaged...
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| GRAHAM VINEY Book Number: 89368 |
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The Royal Tour of Southern Africa, 17 February - 23 April 1947, marked both the high-water mark of the British Empire and the point at which it began to unravel. Ostensibly the purpose of the tour,...
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| JOHN BROICH Book Number: 89669 |
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Sub-titled 'The Allied Resistance Against A Fascist State in Iraq and the Levant, 1941' this work of history is poised to become the definitive chronicle of the Axis's menacing play for the territo...
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| DONNA MARSH Book Number: 89796 |
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Sub-titled 'A Cultural and Practical Guide for All Business Professionals', this new edition updates and expands valuable cultural and practical information and is necessary reading for all profess...
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| JEREMY VINE Book Number: 90220 |
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'What My Listeners Say and Why We Should Take Note' is the premise of this enjoyable memoir from an entertaining raconteur. A keen candidate on Strictly Come Dancing, presenter of Eggheads, Points...
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| DANIEL ELLSBERG Book Number: 90236 |
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Former presidential advisor Daniel Ellsberg famously took the Pentagon Papers and also took with him a cache of Top-Secret documents related to America's nuclear programme in the 1960s. Here for t...
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| ASA BENNETT Book Number: 90267 |
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With a Prime Minister who is constantly quoting the classics it comes as no surprise that our politicians can learn a thing or two from their Roman ancestors. Take the most famous backstabber of t...
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| DON CHAPMAN Book Number: 90279 |
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Sub-titled 'Fashion, Freedom and the Rise of the Modern Woman', in the 1850s a craze swept through the wardrobes of the women of British and American society. These 'bloomers', wearing their new l...
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| BORIS STARLING & D. BRADBURY Book Number: 90302 |
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Sub-titled 'Our Story In Numbers as Told by the Office for National Statistics' from the Census 2021. What official data past and present tells us about our nation is who we are, what we do and wh...
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| PIERS MORGAN Book Number: 90312 |
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Love him or loath him, the journalist Piers Morgan shouts loud a rallying cry for a united future to consider what really matters in life. It's time to get back some common sense, time to cancel t...
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| JOHN BURNHAM SCHWARTZ Book Number: 90414 |
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Stalin's daughter was a difficult, complicated and deeply sympathetic woman. In one of the most momentous events of the Cold War, Svetlana Alliluyeve, the only daughter of Joseph Stalin, abandoned...
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| ROBERT STONE Book Number: 90514 |
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"3... 2... 1... We have lift off!" It was thirty two minutes past the hour and Apollo 11 saw humanity take a giant leap forward as the mission took off, shown on live television across the world. F...
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| HENRY HEMMING Book Number: 90545 |
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Spying is the art of knowing who to trust, and who to betray. Maxwell Knight was perhaps the greatest spymaster in history, rumoured to be the real-life inspiration for the James Bond character 'M'...
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| 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 ...
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| CALLUM WILLIAMS Book Number: 90856 |
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This is an education on economics wrapped up in the fascinating history of 20 people who have shaped nations through their philosophy, all written with an engaging but clear tone that draws in both...
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| PAUL BETTS Book Number: 90883 |
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Kenneth Clark and Mary Beard both presented television programmes entitled "Civilisation", 50 years apart, and both admitted the difficulty of defining what the term actually means. The author of ...
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| DINNY MCMAHON Book Number: 89744 |
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Sub-titled 'Shadow Banks, Ghost Cities, Massive Loans and the End of the Chinese Miracle' this is a penetrating examination of the country's opaque financial system and the complex factors of demog...
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| ED WEST Book Number: 89760 |
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Sub-titled 'The Decline, Fall and Unlikely Return of Conservatism' the book asks what is wrong with conservatism? Why is that, no matter how many elections they win, Conservatives tend to lose alm...
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| MOHANDAS K. GANDHI Book Number: 91012 |
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Known as Mahatma Gandhi, this popular and influential book covers the period from his birth in 1869 to the year 1921, describing his childhood, schooldays, early marriage, journeys abroad, legal st...
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| STEVEN LEVITSKY & D. ZIBLATT Book Number: 91021 |
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Two Harvard Professors of Government, Levitsky and Ziblatt turn to the histories of countries where democracy has fallen foul of dictatorial regimes, such as Pinochet's in Chile and Erdogan's Turke...
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| SCOTT ELLSWORTH Book Number: 91133 |
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Sub-titled 'The British, The Americans, The Nazis and the Race to Summit the Himalayas', this gripping book was shortlisted in 2020 for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year. It is an unforgett...
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| JOHN HUMPHRYS Book Number: 91134 |
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The bombshell book that everyone was talking about by the radio genius and maestro of Mastermind, John Humphrys has been a journalist with the BBC for a record-breaking 50 years. He has reported f...
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| BERNARD LEWIS Book Number: 91145 |
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For the first time in almost 200 years, the rulers, and to some extent the peoples of the Middle East, must accept responsibility for their own affairs, to make and recognise their own mistakes, an...
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| FIONA REYNOLDS Book Number: 91147 |
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A passionately written clarion call to all who value the quality of beauty in their surroundings which shines light on those inspired to try to reverse the damage done to wildlife and the landscape...
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| FRANCOISE FRENKEL Book Number: 90782 |
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A French equivalent to the anonymous 'A Woman In Berlin' (which we stock code 91513), and a non-fiction counterpoint to Suite Française, the author who died in 1975 writes that it is 'the duty of ...
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| BRIAN O'CONNELL Book Number: 91317 |
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'Charming and often moving...The Personals is full of great stories - from sad to quirky to funny to the odd time baffling - as Brian tracks down the back-story to such unusual items for sale as a ...
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| MARTIN GAYFORD Book Number: 91486 |
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Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, David Hockney, Bridget Riley, Gillian Ayres, Frank Bowling and Howard Hodgkin were among a number of acclaimed artists painting in London from the Secon...
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| JOHN WOOLF Book Number: 91514 |
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Long underestimated in history, here are the details of extraordinary lives which turn our notions of Victorian prudery, propriety and voyeurism upside down. Dwarfs, giants, bearded ladies, Siames...
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| SELWYN PARKER Book Number: 91524 |
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Sub-titled 'How the Stock Market Crash of 1929 Plunged the World Into Depression', this 2008 book has been updated in 2021 with a new epilogue that covers the Covid-19 Collapse. It is the story of...
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| JAMES HOLLAND Book Number: 91321 |
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Bestselling historian James Holland uses new research to challenge our assumptions and reframe our understanding of this momentous conflict. This stand alone monumental volume is actually volume t...
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