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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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| STEPHEN PARKINSON Book Number: 80294 |
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Founded in 1815, the Cambridge Union immediately became the subject of controversy when an attempt was made to shut it down on the grounds that it was interfering with students' studies. The real f...
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| DEB OLIN UNFERTH Book Number: 80231 |
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Sub-titled 'The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the Sandinistas' this is a very funny, honest memoir of being young, semi-idealistic, stupid and in love. It is an utterly captivating memoir o...
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| NELSON MADELA & JOHN CARLIN Book Number: 80658 |
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In 2005, Reader's Digest spoke with Nelson Mandela and explored his hopes, concerns and faiths for the future of his beloved South Africa. In 1990 he walked out of prison, free after 27 years, to ...
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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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| GAIL SHEEHY Book Number: 80487 |
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Literary Manhattan and the world of New Journalism at the fledgling New York magazine is the setting for this memoir. Gail Sheehy was the author of Passages, a book that changed millions of lives ...
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| JEREMY BLACK Book Number: 80790 |
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The period between the wars is often seen as a time of learning from the mistakes and successes of World War I and preparation for the next global conflict. But Black argues that British political ...
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| JOHN FRANCE Book Number: 80909 |
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An opinionated and crisply argued single volume history of the not-only-Western way of war, this expansive history surveys warfare from ancient times to the current wars in the Middle East. It cha...
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| GEOFFREY BLAINEY Book Number: 80933 |
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Is it possible to condense the history of the most tumultuous century the world has ever known into one volume? Geoffrey Blainey is Australia's most prominent historian and in his previous book, A ...
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| DIANA PRESTON Book Number: 81560 |
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Poison gas, the torpedo, the Zeppelin, here is a startling new window onto World War One with Diana Preston's chronicle of the birth of weapons of mass destruction. Between April 22nd and May 30th...
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| THOMAS KENEALLY Book Number: 81583 |
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Tragically, famine is rarely out of the news. Taking three of the most devastating food crises in modern history - the Great Hunger of British-ruled Ireland in the 1840s, the great famine of Briti...
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| KELLY MURPHY & HALLIE FRYD Book Number: 81777 |
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Here is a completely new way of doing history: work your way through the movers and shakers by giving them a rating out of five for sexiness. Che Guevara is the irresistible intellectual on a motor...
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| JANE MILLER Book Number: 81838 |
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By the author of 'Thoughts on Being Old' and the acclaimed 'Crazy Age', Jane Miller first worked in publishing then as an English teacher in a London comprehensive and finally as a Professor at the...
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| MATT POTTER Book Number: 82205 |
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Goodbyes are always hard, but this collection of resignation letters is a witty and at times dangerously analytical example of goodbyes that are seemingly easy to make. Potter categorises such resi...
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| MARC ALLUN Book Number: 82606 |
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A regular on BBC's Antiques Roadshow, here is a delightful nest of insights from a professional who knows the game and who can weave it into words. Go in search of stolen masterpieces, learn the s...
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| EDITED BY RUTH WINSTONE Book Number: 82467 |
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Radical statesman and MP for over 50 years, Tony Benn was the pre-eminent diarist of his generation. His political activity continued after 'retirement' through mass meetings, broadcasts and socia...
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| CHARLES YEATS Book Number: 82513 |
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The author was brought up in Basutoland at a time when it was part of Britain's Empire and he spent a term at Harrow School, which gives him a unique insight into what the current struggle for glob...
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| EDITED BY NIGEL FOUNTAIN Book Number: 82528 |
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During the First World War, newspapers were eagerly perused by millions, all anxious to know what was happening, especially to those fighting at the front. This collection of extracts from various ...
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| BEN WILSON Book Number: 82916 |
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The 1850s saw a great many world-changing events. As well as the Australian Gold Rush, the Crimean War and the Indian Rebellion, there were huge technological advances, not least the advent of inte...
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| LAWRENCE JAMES Book Number: 82681 |
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Africa, a prize coveted by the Europeans. It was a magnet for the high-minded, philanthropic, the unscrupulous and insane: missionaries and explorers to big-game hunters. Britain, France, Belgium...
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| NINA WILLNER Book Number: 82686 |
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When the author was five years old she realised that, unlike her friends, she had no grandparents. Where were they? Her mother, Hanna, explained they were behind an iron curtain, and Nina couldn't ...
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| ORLANDO & CLAUDIO VILLAS BOAS Book Number: 83027 |
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The classic account of the Xingu Indians and their culture, the greatest ecological challenge of the 20th century. In 1941 the Villas Boas brothers joined an expedition to chart and open up the li...
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| TIM GLYNNE-JONES Book Number: 82040 |
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From steeplejacks in flat caps scaling London's monuments to a floor full of women in Liverpool processing Pools coupons, these fabulous photographs bring to life the human side of Britain's ever-c...
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| ALEX BELLOS Book Number: 83046 |
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Sub-titled 'How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life', this is by the bestselling author of 'Alex's Adventures in Numberland'. He is a man who can talk about numbers without being intimi...
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| PETER STOTHARD Book Number: 83121 |
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During the 2010 Arab Spring, Sir Peter Stothard's memoir on discovering Cleopatra was disturbed by the intense conflict occurring around the Middle East and revolution in Egypt. This personal recol...
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| EDITED BY GRAYDON CARTER Book Number: 83125 |
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The American magazine Vanity Fair recently celebrated its centenary, and here its editor introduces its leading lights. This dazzling collection of articles from its first incarnation 1913-1936 in...
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| HENRY THOREAU Book Number: 83178 |
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"I have an appointment with Spring" wrote Henry Thoreau in March, 1853, and this gorgeous book is a selection of excerpts from his diaries describing the "vernal pools" that form in New England wit...
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| BARNABY ROGERSON Book Number: 83190 |
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Sub-titled 'The Culture of Numbers - From 1001 Nights to The Seven Wonders of the World' we have here a US first edition. The book is based on a numerical array of virtues, spiritual attributes, g...
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| ADAM POWLEY Book Number: 83248 |
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Front page banner headlines scream the news at us each day, whether tragedy, scientific breakthroughs, light hearted happenings or the misdemeanours of a famous personality. Compelling conflicts, ...
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| VICTOR SEBESTYEN Book Number: 83288 |
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The acclaimed historian and journalist Sebestyen reported widely when Communism and the Berlin Wall collapsed and was Foreign Editor at the Evening Standard. While never ignoring the politics, her...
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| RICHARD INGRAMS Book Number: 83291 |
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Sub-titled 'Ludovic Kennedy's Campaigns for Justice' the book is a fine testament to the tradition of investigative journalism. The world first heard of Ludovic Kennedy when he married the beautif...
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