Fracture: Life and Culture in the West 1918-1938 by Philipp Blom
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Category: HISTORY | Reading Level: very good
A sweeping and vibrant history of Europe and America during the inter-war years, by the acclaimed author of The Vertigo Years.
The Great Explosion: Gunpowder, the Great War, and a Disaster on the Kent Marshes by Brian Dillon
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Category: HISTORY
The Great Explosion by Brian Dillon: a masterful account of a terrible disaster in a remarkable placeIn April 1916, shortly before the commencement of the Battle of the Somme, a fire started in a vast munitions works located in the Kentish marshes. The resulting series of explosions killed 108 people an ...Show more
1956 - The World in Revolt by Simon Hall
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
Vibrantly and sympathetically told, this is the story of one remarkable year - a capsule history of exhilarating triumphs and shattering defeats around the world. "Vivid, powerful and panoramic...I loved it." (Dominic Sandbrook). 1956 was one of the most remarkable years of the twentieth century. All ac ...Show more
The Dark Valley by Piers Brendon
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
"Piers Brendon's magisterial overview of the 1930s is the story of the dark dishonest decade, child of one world war and parent of the next, that determined the course of the twentieth century. Dealing individually with each of the period's great powers - the USA, Germany, Italy, France, Britain, Japan, ...Show more
In Churchill's Shadow by David Cannadine
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Once Britannia ruled the waves and everyone knew what it meant to be British. But now things are not so clear. What defines Britishness in the modern age? Can we let go of our history? In Churchill's Shadow is a brilliant, provocative examination of a realm caught between the past and the present, which ...Show more
The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England by Antonia Fraser (ed)
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer
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Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE
We think of Queen Elizabeth I as 'Gloriana': the most powerful English woman in history. We think of her reign (1558-1603) as a golden age of maritime heroes, like Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Richard Grenville and Sir Francis Drake, and of great writers, such as Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe and Willi ...Show more
A History of the English Speaking Peoples Since 1900 by Andrew Roberts
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
Winston Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples, in four volumes, ended in 1900. Andrew Roberts, Wolfson History prizewinner and superb narrative historian, has been inspired by Churchill's example to write the story of the 20th century.. In his preface Churchill wrote: 'Every nation or grou ...Show more