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Aelfred's Britain by Max AdamsIn their responses to the Viking threat, the modern kingdoms of Britain forged their identities as hybrid cultures: vibrant and entrepreneurial peoples adapting to instability and opportunity. Traditionally, AElfred the Great is cast as the central player in the story of Viking Age Britain, but Max Adams, while stressing the genius of AElfred as war leader, law-giver, and forger of the English nation, has a more nuanced and variegated narrative to relate.
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The white king: Charles I, traitor, murderer, martyr by Leanda De LisleTransporting readers back to England in the first half of the 17th century, a dramatic portrait of a monarch in a country on the verge of executing its king draws on previously unseen manuscripts to depict a man who was not cruel enough for his cruel times, and who paid a terrible price for his personal honour he so valued.
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In this fascinating book, Jem Duducu shines light on the almost forgotten, wonderfully strange, and often hilarious moments of history that would otherwise be lost forever. Split into four main eras ancient, medieval, early modern and twentieth century this light-hearted and easy-to-read fact book is full to bursting with the bits from history that even a history enthusiast may otherwise have never known. Take a journey through time and discover weird and wonderful history.
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Veteran CIA officer Duan Evans is dispatched to Pakistan to "get something going in the South, still under the Taliban's sway and al-Qa'ida. He is part of the advanced element of the CIA's Echo team supporting Hamid Karzai, and eventually the leader of the under-resourced and often overlooked Foxtrot team. The book concludes with an analysis of opportunities lost in the years since his time in Afghanistan.
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This engaging and practical travel guide takes you on a journey through the best of Tudor London, to sites built and associated with this fascinating dynasty, and to the museums and galleries that house tantalising treasures from this rich period of history. Join the author as she explores evocative historical sites, including the magnificent great hall of Eltham Palace, the most substantial surviving remnant of the medieval palace where Henry VIII spent time as a child, and the lesser-known delights of St Helen's Church, dubbed the 'Westminster Abbey of the City' for its impressive collection of Tudor monuments.
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A river in darkness: One man's escape from North Korea by Masaji IshikawaHalf-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa's family moved from Japan to North Korea when he was just thirteen years old, and unwittingly his family became members of the lowest social caste. A memoir translated from the original Japanese, Ishikawa candidly recounts his tumultuous upbringing and the brutal thirty-six years he spent living under a crushing totalitarian regime, as well as the challenges he faced repatriating to Japan after barely escaping North Korea with his life.
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Gaza: Preparing for dawn
by Donald Macintyre
In a book based on stories of its people and interviews with international and Israeli policymakers, The Independent's former Jerusalem bureau chief explores Gaza’s history, conflicts and struggles and proposes radical new ways in which Gaza could help spearhead a more hopeful future for the Middle East.
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Siddharth Kara investigates the mechanics of the global sex trafficking business across four continents and takes stock of its devastating human toll. Since first encountering the horrors of sexual slavery in a Bosnian refugee camp in 1995, Kara has taken multiple research trips to India, Nepal, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, the United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands, Albania, Moldova, Mexico, and the United States. Drawing on his background in finance and economics, Kara provides a rare business analysis of sex trafficking, focusing on the local drivers and global macroeconomic trends that gave rise to the industry after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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This book addresses the legal and ethical rules that have dictated the results of restitution claims between competing claimants to the same works of art. It provides an introduction to the most significant collections in Europe to be targeted by the Nazis, and a narrative of the efforts to reclaim looted artwork; including Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, Camille Pissarro's Rue Saint-Honoré, après-midi, effet de pluit, and Egon Schiele's Portrait of Wally.
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We crossed a bridge and it trembled: Voices from Syria by Wendy PearlmanChronicles the lives of ordinary Syrians during the 2011 Arab Spring through the ensuing civil war and resulting humanitarian catastrophe, based on the first-hand testimonies of displaced citizens who face their uncertain future with hope, courage and conviction. Together, they cohere into a chronicle that is not only a testament to the power of storytelling but to the strength of those who face darkness with hope, courage, and moral conviction.
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Reflecting on the fate of the Russian Revolution one hundred years after October, Ronald Grigor Suny, one of the world's leading historians of the period, explores the historiographical controversies over 1917, Stalinism, and the end of "Communism" and provides an assessment of the achievements, costs, losses and legacies of the choices made by Soviet leaders. He ponders what lessons 1917 provides for Marxism and the alternatives to capitalism and bourgeois democracy.
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This masterly study sets out to show Mary as she really was - not a romantic heroine, but the ruler of a European kingdom with far greater economic and political importance than its size or location would indicate. Wormald also shows that Mary's downfall was not simply because of the 'crisis years' of 1565-7, but because of her way of dealing, or failing to deal, with the problems facing her as a renaissance monarch.
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Why? : Explaining the Holocaust
by Peter Hayes
A timely exploration of the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust challenges common misconceptions and discusses how no single theory fully explains the tragedy, drawing on a wealth of scholarly research and experience to offer new insights to future generations.
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| Irena's children: A true story of courage by Tilar J. MazzeoA gripping and succinct profile of the "female Schindler," Polish social worker Irena Sendler, who smuggled thousands of children out of the Warsaw ghetto and falsified paperwork to give them new lives. Tilar J. Mazzeo reveals Sendler's smuggling strategies, which included hiding children in coffins and toolboxes. Those who are drawn to stories of courage and survival will find Irena's Children compelling. |
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The Jewish women of Ravensbruck concentration camp by Rochelle G. SaidelLocated about fifty miles north of Berlin, Ravensbruck was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women. During its six years of operation, there were a total of about 20,000 Jewish women in the camp. Reclaiming the lost voices of the victims and the personal accounts of the survivors, here is the story of daily camp life with the women's thoughts about food, friendships, fear of sexual abuse, hygiene issues, slave labor, resistance, and, most importantly, staying alive.
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Black earth: The Holocaust as history and warning by Timothy SnyderIn this provocative analysis of the lessons to be learned from the Holocaust, historian Timothy Snyder argues that the weakening of national states opens up the possibility of history repeating itself -- and for genocides like the Holocaust to happen again. Further reading: Snyder's critically acclaimed Bloodlands, to which Black Earth serves as a companion volume.
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