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Eagle Unbowed
By Halik Kochanski
Hardback
Published 04-Oct-2012
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Tells the story of Poland and the Poles in the Second World War. This title attempts to describe both the fate of those trapped within occupied Poland and of those millions of Poles who were able to escape.
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Pike
By Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Hardback
Published 17-Jan-2013
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The story of Gabriele D'Annunzio: poet, daredevil - and Fascist.
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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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All Hell Let Loose
By Max Hastings
Paperback
Published 26-Apr-2012
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A magisterial history of the greatest and most terrible event in history, from one of the finest historians of the Second World War. A book which shows the impact of war upon hundreds of millions of people around the world- soldiers, sailors and airmen; housewives, farm workers and children.
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Gardens of Stone: My Boyhood in the French Resistance
By Stephen Grady
Hardback
Published 14-Feb-2013
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An extraordinary French Resistance wartime memoir, combining the best kind of adventure story with a coming of age testimony of unforgettable resonance and poignancy.
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Train in Winter
By Caroline Moorehead
Paperback
Published 06-Sep-2012
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On an icy dawn morning in Paris in January 1943, a group of 230 French women resisters were rounded up from the Gestapo detention camps and sent on a train to Auschwitz - the only train, in the four years of German occupation, to take women of the resistance to a death camp. This title presents the story of these women.
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Black Count
By Tom Reiss
Hardback
Published 20-Sep-2012
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Born in St Dominigue in 1762, the son of a French nobleman and a sugar plantation slave, General Alexandre Dumas did not have an auspicious start in life. This book traces the almost unbelievable life of the man who inspired not only Monte Cristo, but all three of the Musketeers: the novelist's own father.
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Pompeii
By Mary Beard
Paperback
Published 16-Jul-2009
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Contains chapters that include Street Life, Earning a Living: Baker, Banker and Garum Maker (who ran the city), and The Pleasure of the Body: Food, Wine, Sex and Baths. This book offers an insight into the workings of a Roman town.
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War on Heresy
By R I Moore Moore R I
Hardback
Published 15-Mar-2012
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The great war on heresy obsessed medieval Europe in the centuries after the first millennium. This title focuses on the motives and anxieties of those who declared and conducted the war: what were the beliefs and practices they saw as heretical? How might such beliefs have arisen? And why were they such a threat?
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Homage to Catalonia
By George Orwell
Paperback
Published 30-Mar-2000
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Describes the hopes and cynical betrayals of the author's experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War.
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