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Helga's Diary
By Helga Weiss
Hardback
Published 14-Feb-2013
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In 1941, Helga and her parents are sent to the concentration camp of Terezin. In her dairy, Helga documents their daily life - the harsh conditions, disease and suffering, as well as moments of friendship, creativity and hope - until, in 1944, they are sent to Auschwitz. This title presents her diary in its entirety.
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Keeping Up with the Germans
By Philip Oltermann
Paperback
Published 02-Feb-2012
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Presents ten key Anglo-German encounters from the last 200 years: an encounter between Joe Strummer and the Baader Meinhof gang, Helmut Kohl trying to explain the virtues of German cuisine to a sceptical Margaret Thatcher and philosophers Theodor Adorno and A J Ayer clashing over jazz.
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If This is a Man/The Truce
By Primo Levi
Paperback
Published 04-Apr-2013
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I am Spain
By David Haycock
Hardback
Published 23-Oct-2012
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Invisible Romans
By Robert Knapp
Paperback
Published 07-Feb-2013
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Shows how everyday Romans sought to survive and thrive under the afflictions of disease, war, and violence, and to control their fates under powers that both oppressed and ignored them. In this book, the author seeks out the ordinary people who formed the fabric of everyday life in ancient Rome and the outlaws and pirates who lay beyond it.
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Iron Curtain
By Anne Applebaum
Hardback
Published 04-Oct-2012
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Once the Nazis were defeated in 1945, the people of Central and Eastern Europe expected to recover the lives they had led before 1939. This book explains how Communism was imposed on these previously free societies in the decade after the end of the Second World War.
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Vanished Kingdoms
By Norman Davies
Paperback
Published 04-Oct-2012
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Europe's history is littered with kingdoms, duchies, empires and republics which have now disappeared but which were once fixtures on the map of their age. What happened to the once-great Mediterranean Empire of Aragon? This title lets you discover the stories of lost realms across the centuries.
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Keeping Up with the Germans
By Philip Oltermann
Paperback
Published 07-Feb-2013
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In 1996, in the middle of watching an ill-tempered football match between England and Germany, the author's parents tell him that they are going to leave their home city Hamburg behind and move to London. A number of worrying questions arise. How would English schoolboys take to a lanky 16-year-old German?
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Swerve
By Stephen Greenblatt
Paperback
Published 06-Sep-2012
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Almost six hundred years ago, a short, genial man took a very old manuscript off a library shelf. With excitement, he saw what he had discovered and ordered it copied. This book details how one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, made possible the world as we know it.
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Franco's Friends
By Peter Day
Paperback
Published 04-Oct-2012
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The extraordinary true story of Britain's influential role in the Spanish Civil War
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