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Franci's War
Franci's War
Franci Epstein

What are you willing to do to survive? What are you willing to endure if it means you might live?'Achingly moving, gives...

Historical Brewing Techniques
Historical Brewing Techniques
Lars Marius Garshol

Historical brewing traditions and techniques have been passed generation to generation on farms throughout remote areas ...

Active Measures by Thomas Rid
Active Measures by Thomas Rid
Thomas Rid

This revelatory and dramatic history of disinformation traces the rise of secret organized deception operations from the...

Cilka's Journey
Cilka's Journey
Heather Morris

In 1942 Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. The Commandant at Bi...

The Cut Out Girl
The Cut Out Girl
Bart van Es

The extraordinary true story of a young Jewish girl in Holland under Nazi occupation who finds refuge in the homes of an...

Blowout by Rachel Maddow
Blowout by Rachel Maddow
Rachel Maddow

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Big Oil and Gas Versus Democracy--Winner Take All In 2010, the words "earthquake swarm"...

999 by Heather Dune Macadam
999 by Heather Dune Macadam
Heather Dune Macadam

A Pen America Literary Award FinalistA Goodreads Choice Awards NomineeAn Amazon Best of the Year Selection The untold s...

The Gulag Archipelago
The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

'[The Gulag Archipelago] helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday...

The Spy and the Traitor
The Spy and the Traitor
Ben Macintyre

Thorough and highly entertaining. It would be nigh on impossible to praise it too highly * Daily Express on 'SAS' * Thri...

SPQR : A History of Ancient Rome
SPQR : A History of Ancient Rome
Mary Beard

"Ancient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis of more than a million inha...

The Invention of Nature
The Invention of Nature
Andrea Wulf

WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDWINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2016'A thrilling adventure story'...

Red Notice : How I Became Putin's No. 1 Enemy
Red Notice : How I Became Putin's No. 1 Enemy
Bill Browder

November 2009. An emaciated young lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, is led to a freezing isolation cell in a Moscow prison, hand...

Stalin, Vol. 1 : Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
Stalin, Vol. 1 : Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
Stephen Kotkin

"A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world. It has the quality of myth: ...

Catherine the Great : Portrait of a Woman
Catherine the Great : Portrait of a Woman
Robert K. Massie

This narrative biography tells the extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at fou...

Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Ultimately a celebration of triumph over adversity, the author's story tells how a bright little girl evolved out of dut...

Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Simon Sebag Montefiore

Stalin remains, like Hitler, the personification of evil. This enthralling biography reads like a thriller and reveals t...

The Twelve Caesars
The Twelve Caesars
Suetonius

An essential primary source on Roman history and a fascinating achievement of scholarship covering a critical period in ...

Eichmann in Jerusalem
Eichmann in Jerusalem
Hannah Arendt

The controversial journalistic analysis of the mentality that fostered the Holocaust   Originally appearing as a series...

Night by Elie Wiesel
Night by Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel

A New Translation From The French By Marion WieselNight is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poi...

A Brief History of the Vikings
A Brief History of the Vikings
Jonathan Clements

'From the Fury of the Northmen deliver us, O Lord.' Between the eighth and eleventh centuries, the Vikings surged from t...

A Brief History of the Celts by Peter Ellis
A Brief History of the Celts by Peter Ellis
Peter Berresford Ellis

For centuries the Celts held sway in Europe. Even after their conquest by the Romans, their culture remained vigorous, e...

The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-56
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-56
Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn

The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, ...

Homage to Catalonia
Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell

'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitaria...

The Long Walk
The Long Walk
Slavomir Rawicz

'I hope The Long Walk will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all those who for man...

Anne Frank : The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank : The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank

1. a) After the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands in May 1940, the Dutch people were immediately faced with the question ...