Europe - Great Britain - 20th Century
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Churchill’s Citadel: Chartwell and the Gatherings Before the Storm
$20.00 Add to cartA major new history of Churchill in the 1930s, showing how his meetings at Chartwell, his country home, strengthened his fight against the Nazis
In the 1930s, amidst an impending crisis in Europe, Wi- Author: Carter, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0300284926
- Language: English
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Churchill’s Citadel: Chartwell and the Gatherings Before the Storm
$30.00 Add to cartA major new history of Churchill in the 1930s, showing how his meetings at Chartwell, his country home, strengthened his fight against the Nazis
In the 1930s, amidst an impending crisis in Europe, Wi- Author: Carter, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0300270194
- Language: English
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Empireworld: How British Imperialism Shaped the Globe
$35.00 Read moreBestselling author and journalist Sathnam Sanghera explores the global legacy of the British Empire, and the ways it continues to influence economics, politics, and culture around the world.
2.6 bill- Author: Sanghera, Sathnam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1541704975
- Language: English
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Good Trouble: The Selma, Alabama and Derry, Northern Ireland Connection 1963-1972
$24.95 Add to cartGood Trouble is the story of the strong connection between the Black Civil Rights Movement in the United States and the Catholic Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland – specifically, the influence… [more below]
- Author: Issac Jones, Forest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1839994622
- Language: English
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The Big Hop: The First Non-Stop Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean and Into the Future
$29.99 Add to cartIn 1919, in Newfoundland, four teams of aviators came from Britain to compete in “the Big Hop” an audacious race to be the first to fly, nonstop, across the Atlantic Ocean. One pair of competitors was
- Author: Rooney, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1324050969
- Language: English
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Under Cover of Darkness: Murders in Blackout London
$30.00 Add to cartA gripping new history of London during the Blackout–revealing the violent crime that spread across the capital under the cover of darkness
Fear was the unacknowledged spectre haunting the streets o- Author: Bell, Amy Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 300270054
- Language: English
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Paper Bullets: Two Women Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis
$16.95 Add to cart“A Nazi resistance story like none you’ve ever heard or read.” –Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers and On Desperate Ground
“Every page is gripping, and the amount of new research is nothing shor- Author: Jackson, Jeffrey H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1643752057
- Language: English
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Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World’s Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything
$28.99 Read moreNamed one of the Best Books of 2022 by the New Yorker and the Economist
In his forceful follow-up to Moneyland, Oliver Bullough unravels the dark secret of how Britain placed itself at the center of t- Author: Bullough, Oliver
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 125028192X
- Language: English
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The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold
$28.00 Read more“This is rich, florid, funny history, with undertones of human grief . . . Knight is shrewd and perceptive . . . [he] pushes his material into neurobiology, into the nature of placebos and expectation… [more below]
- Author: Knight, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1984879596
- Language: English
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Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire
$19.99 Read moreWINNER OF THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE 2023
Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing
Longlisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding
A Guardian Book of the- Author: Koram, Kojo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1529338646
- Language: English
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Coronation: A History of the British Monarchy
$34.99 Read moreThe definitive history of coronations and the Royal Family, from acclaimed writer Roy Strong.
‘What is the finest sight in the world? A Coronation.
What do people talk most about? A Coronation.
What is- Author: Strong, Roy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0008550069
- Language: English
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Victory to Defeat: The British Army 1918-40
$35.00 Read moreA compelling history of the decline of an army from the triumph of victory in 1918 to defeat in 1940 and why this happened. A salutary warning for modern Britain.
‘Both [authors] are former soldiers,- Author: Dannatt, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1472860861
- Language: English
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Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves
$19.99 Add to cartAdam Hochschild’s Bury the Chains is the taut, gripping account of one of the most brilliantly organized social justice campaigns in history–the fight to free the slaves of the British Empire.
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- Author: Hochschild, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: December 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0618619070
- Language: English
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Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves
$19.99 Read moreAdam Hochschild’s Bury the Chains is the taut, gripping account of one of the most brilliantly organized social justice campaigns in history–the fight to free the slaves of the British Empire.
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- Author: Hochschild, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: December 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0618619070
- Language: English
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Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War’s Most Audacious Espionage Operation
$19.99 Read more“A riveting and vivid account. … A remarkable story. … It reads like a Hollywood screenplay.” —Foreign Affairs
The astonishing true story of the Berlin Tunnel, one of the West’s greatest espionage
- Author: Vogel, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0062449605
- Language: English
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Hitler’s Girl: The British Aristocracy and the Third Reich on the Eve of WWII
$19.99 Add to cartA timely, riveting book that presents for the first time an alternative history of 1930s Britain, revealing how prominent fascist sympathizers nearly succeeded in overturning British democracy–using
- Author: Young, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0062936743
- Language: English
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Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England
$32.00 Add to cartA riveting history of the daring politicians who challenged the disastrous policies of the British government on the eve of World War II
On May 7, 1940, the House of Commons began perhaps the most cru- Author: Olson, Lynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0374531331
- Language: English
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The Churchill Sisters: The Extraordinary Lives of Winston and Clementine’s Daughters
$18.99 Add to cartAs complex in their own way as their Mitford cousins, Winston and Clementine Churchill’s daughters each had a unique relationship with their famous father. Rachel Trethewey’s biography, The Churchill
- Author: Trethewey, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 125086111X
- Language: English
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Hitler’s Aristocrats: The Secret Power Players in Britain and America Who Supported the Nazis, 1923-1941
$32.50 Read moreSusan Ronald, acclaimed author of Hitler’s Art Thief takes readers into the shadowy world of the aristocrats and business leaders on both sides of the Atlantic who secretly aided Hitler and Nazi Germa
- Author: Ronald, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250276551
- Language: English
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One Fine Day: Britain’s Empire on the Brink
$35.00 Read moreThis critical historical exploration shows a portrait of the British Empire at both the peak of its global reach–and the moment it began to topple.
September 29, 1923. Once the Palestine Mandate off- Author: Parker, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 1541703820
- Language: English
