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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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| SIMON CHASE & RALPH PEZZULLO Book Number: 86855 |
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Armoured cars, burner phones, cutting-edge weaponry, top-secret missions - this is the life of today's private military contractor. Like Simon Chase, many PMCs were once the world's top military o...
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| MAURICE CHITTENDEN Book Number: 87030 |
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"A hilarious romp through the dying days of Fleet Street from one of its most colourful characters." - Andrew Neil. On a sunny day in August 2016, the final newspaper still working from an office ...
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| PETER POMERANTSEV Book Number: 87036 |
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A prize-winning book about adventures in modern Russia and a dizzying tour of a world of post-modern cynicism and corruption. Take a trip deep into the glittering, surreal world of 21st century Ru...
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| BEN WRIGHT Book Number: 87037 |
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Like being the only sober guest at an uproarious party, here is a fascinating account of politics and drink. Alcohol breaks the ice, oils the wheels, enlivens conversations, perks one up, boosts o...
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| JOHN KAY Book Number: 87038 |
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In most Western economies today, the assets and liabilities of banks exceed those of the government and the annual income of everyone in the country. But these assets and liabilities are mainly ob...
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| CAT BANYARD Book Number: 87039 |
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Never before have prostitution, strip clubs and pornography been as profitable, widely used or embedded in mainstream culture as they are today. This prompts many questions - should it be legal to...
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| CHRISTOPHER FRAYLING Book Number: 87041 |
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Sir Christopher Frayling turns his wide-ranging cultural interest to Chinaphobia and how it arose in the West with his deep knowledge of Edwardian Sinophobia and its cultural manifestations. Richl...
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| STEVE WARD Book Number: 87010 |
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A book dedicated to the author's grandchildren so that they too may tell the magical story of the circus to their grandchildren. Here is a social history of the circus in Britain: from ancient roo...
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| DOUGLAS BOYD Book Number: 86715 |
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"A spectre is haunting Europe, the spectre of Communism." Douglas Boyd's research into Russian history began at the secret Joint Services School for Linguists, where the instructors included forme...
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| WAYNE & GERARDINE HEMINGWAY Book Number: 86795 |
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Sub-titled 'The Style Guide To Vintage Looks 1920s-1990s', here is women's and men's daywear, women's and men's eveningwear, shoes, sportswear and accessories for every decade from the 1920s, 30s, ...
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| CHARLIE ENGLISH Book Number: 87056 |
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When Jihadists invaded Mali in 2012 threatening destruction to Timbuktu's libraries, a remarkable thing happened. A team of librarians and archivists joined forces to spirit the precious manuscrip...
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| LINDA GORDON Book Number: 87091 |
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Sub-titled 'The Rise of The Ku Klux Klan In The 1920s: A Warning from History'. Boasting four to six million members, the reassembled Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s dramatically changed preconceptions ...
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| ANDREW KEEN Book Number: 87176 |
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Sub-titled 'Staying Human in the Digital Age', "Keen offers tools for righting our societies and principals" - in the words of Steve Jobs. He has been described as 'a visionary critic' and 'one of...
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| SHIMON PERES Book Number: 87182 |
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Sub-titled 'Courage, Imagination and the Making of Modern Israel' in the words of Barack Obama "All of us have much to learn from his story, which now belongs to the ages." In 1934, 11 year old Sh...
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| MICHAEL WOLFF Book Number: 87183 |
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"The President made his familiar stink-in-the-room face, then waved his hands as though to ward off a bug". Just one year into Donald Trump's term as President, Michael Wolff told the electrifying...
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| ANDREW DUFF Book Number: 87184 |
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Here is the incredible true story of Sikkim, a tiny Buddhist kingdom in the Himalayas that survived the end of the British Empire only to be annexed by India in 1975. Sikkim's last ruler was Thond...
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| QUENTIN LETTS Book Number: 85387 |
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The Parliamentary sketch writer and theatre critic for the Daily Mail loves gossip as well as hymn-singing and cricket. His target is the plotters and schemers, the "technocrats who dehumanise our...
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| PETER CROSS & ASTRID PROLL Book Number: 86966 |
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Astrid Proll is a name that many will recall from the 1970s. Arrested and imprisoned in her native Germany in 1971 for her associations with the Baader-Meinhof group, she escaped in 1974 and fled t...
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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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| T. J. ENGLISH Book Number: 87246 |
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The story of Cuban organised crime in America has its roots in what would become known as the Bay of Pigs invasion. Eisenhower and the CIA had a goal to take back Cuba and the invasion would becom...
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| AMMONITE PRESS Book Number: 87323 |
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High quality Press Association images, just the first three photos in the first three pages are of a penny-farthing race at Herne Hill 1932, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth riding in a gold stat...
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| IAN PENBERTHYM & C. WATSON Book Number: 87353 |
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Mary Quant, the Beatles, Carnaby Street, King's Road, the mini, Ready-Steady-Go! and Top of the Pops, here are the fashions, the music and the groovy baby years of the sixties. Fashion and the cul...
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| ARKADY OSTROVSKY Book Number: 87467 |
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Winner of the Orwell Prize, revised and updated, the book is subtitled 'The Journey From Gorbachev's Freedom To Putin's War' and is a real insider's story of Russia's post-Soviet 'counter-revolutio...
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| NORMAN EISEN Book Number: 87469 |
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Sub-titled 'Europe's Extraordinary Century Through Five Lives and One House In Prague'. When Norman Eisen moved into the US Ambassador's residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had f...
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| CHRISTOPHER HILTON Book Number: 87394 |
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Sub-titled 'Putting Two Germanys Back Together Again', in the aftermath of the Second World War, Germany would be divided and Germans forced to live in different countries, East and West, with a wa...
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| JOHN MANN Book Number: 87396 |
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Ranging from the writings of Charlie Chaplin, Albert Einstein, Jean-Paul Sartre to George Washington, Jesse Jackson, Nelson Mandela, Barack Obama, Emile Zola and on Zionism Anwar Sadat and others, ...
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| BRYAN RAY Book Number: 87386 |
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In 1948 Somaliland, in Northeast Africa, was then a British Protectorate where the author enjoyed National Service as a subaltern in the Royal Fusiliers. Part one of his book describes the life of...
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| ANDREW MORTON Book Number: 85539 |
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"What a smug stinking lot my relations are," wrote the former King Edward VIII to his wife Wallis Simpson in 1953, the year the playboy King was not invited to the Coronation. What few people knew ...
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| SASHA GUSOV & AMANDA RENSHAW Book Number: 87370 |
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This candid-camera collection of photos from round the world covers just about every important aspect of life: eating, sleeping, texting, shopping, dressing, undressing, sunbathing, ogling, changin...
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| MARY WARNER MARIEN Book Number: 87371 |
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Lee Miller's study of herself in Hitler's bathtub, Ansel Adams's "Winter Sunrise on the Sierra Nevada", Margaret Bourke-White's "Liberation of Buchenwald" are photos you can never forget. But this...
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