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The Holocaust: A new history by Doris Bergen Doris Bergen reveals how the Holocaust extended beyond the Jews to engulf millions of other victims in related programmes of mass-murder. The Nazi killing machine began with the disabled, and went on to target Afro-Germans, Gypsies, non-Jewish Poles, French African soldiers, Soviet prisoners of war, homosexual men and Jehovah's Witnesses. Using the testimonies of both survivors and eyewitnesses, as well as a wealth of rarely seen photographs, Doris Bergen shows the true extent of the catastrophe that overwhelmed Europe during the Second World War.
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Humankind: A hopeful history by Rutger Bregman The author of the best-selling Utopia for Realists challenges popular conceptions of an innately selfish human race to offer new historical and evolutionary perspectives that argue we are more hardwired for kindness, cooperation and trust.
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Napoleon's greatest triumph: The Battle of Austerlitz by Gregory Fremont-Barnes In August 1805, Napoleon abandoned his plans for the invasion of Britain and diverted his army to the Danube valley to confront Austrian and Russian forces in a bid for control of central Europe. The campaign culminated with the Battle of Austerlitz. Military historian Gregory Fremont-Barnes uses detailed profiles to explore the leaders, tactics and weaponry of the clashing French, Austrian and Russian forces.
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| Dark mirror: Edward Snowden and the American surveillance state by Barton GellmanIn 2014, journalist Barton Gellman won the Pulitzer Prize for reporting on Edward Snowden's leak of classified National Security Agency (NSA) documents. Gellman reflects on the pressures of his white-knuckle investigation and his complicated relationship with Snowden in this propulsive deep dive into the modern surveillance state. |
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Climate crisis and consciousness: Re-imagining our world and ourselves by Sally Gillespie Sally Gillespie writes about the challenges, dilemmas, opportunities and transformations of engaging with climate and ecological crises. With discussions about worldviews, cultural myths, emotional resilience, social connectedness, nature relatedness and collective action this book explores consciousness change in those most engaged with climate issues.
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An Alice girl by Tanya Heaslip Growing up on a vast and isolated cattle property just north of Alice Springs, Tanya tells of wild rides, of making far-flung friends over the Air, of the dangers, the fun and the back-breaking work. Tanya's parents were pioneers and developed Bond Springs Station where water was scarce, power was dependent on generators and a trip to town for supplies meant a full day's journey. Tanya tells of this precious time with raw honesty, humour, love and kindness.
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| The last kings of Shanghai: The rival Jewish dynasties that helped create modern China by Jonathan KaufmanThe Sassoons and the Kadoories were two Jewish families originally from Baghdad whose business pursuits had a powerful impact on the economy of 19th- and 20th-century Shanghai. This sweeping history confronts the darker aspects of the families' prosperity, including their willful ignorance of China's political troubles and their participation in the opium trade. |
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The ratline: Love, lies and justice on the trail of a Nazi fugitive by Philippe Sands As Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadefuhrer Otto Freiherr von Wachter presided over an authority on whose territory hundreds of thousands of Jews and Poles were killed, including the family of the author's grandfather. By the time the war ended in May 1945, he was indicted for 'mass murder'. Hunted by the Soviets, the Americans, the Poles and the British, as well as groups of Jews, Wachter went on the run while preparing to get away via the 'ratline'.
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History of Africa by Kevin Shillington Now fully revised and updated, this classic text offers an illustrated and critical narrative introduction to the history of Africa Beginning with the evolution of mankind itself, the book traces the history of Africa through the millennia of the ancient world to the centuries of medieval and modern Africa.
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I go where most men go: The history of the British Section, New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Great War by Clement Wareham Tells the history of an Anglo-New Zealand infantry company formed in London in the early days of the Great War. Some worked in England, others were merely visiting relatives when war was declared, and then there were those who travelled to England just to serve King and Country. After years of research the author, Clement Wareham, provides a fuller account of this company and their achievements during the Great War.
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Operation eagle claw 1980: The disastrous bid to end the Iran hostage crisis by Justin W. Williamson Following months of negotiations after the seizure of the US Embassy in Tehran on 4 November 1979, President Jimmy Carter ordered the newly formed Delta Force to conduct a raid into Iran to free the hostages. This book tells the full story of Operation Eagle Claw operation, supported by maps, photographs, and specially-commissioned bird's-eye-views and battle scenes.
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