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Spymaster: The Life of Britain's Most Decorated Cold War Spy and Head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield
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"I cannot think of a better biography of a spy chief." (Richard Davenport-Hines, The Spectator). The...
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Telegram from Guernica: The Extraordinary Life of George Steer, War Correspondent
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On 26 April 1937, in the rubble of the bombed city of Guernica, the world's press scrambled to...
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Beyond the Call: The True Story of One World War II Pilot's Covert Mission to Rescue Pows on the Eastern Front
Jeremy Dronfield and Lee Trimble
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As the Red Army advanced across Poland in 1945, thousands of freed Allied POWs - viewed by the...
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Foxtrot in Kandahar: A Memoir of a CIA Officer in Afghanistan at the Inception of America's Longest War
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Kandahar. An ancient desert crossroads, and as of fall of 2001, ground zero for the Taliban and...
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Fighting for the News: The Adventures of the First War Correspondents from Bonaparte to the Boers
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It is now two centuries since a newspaper conceived the idea of sending a reporter overseas to...
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Laughter in the Trenches: Humour and Front Experience in German First World War Narratives
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Laughter in the Trenches: Humour and Front Experience in German First World War Narratives explores...
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Mobilizing Nature: The Environmental History of War and Militarization in Modern France
Penny Summerfield, Chris Pearson, Bertrand Taithe and Peter Gatrell
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Mobilizing nature traces the environmental history of war and militarization in France, from the...
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Portugal and the War of the Spanish Succession: A Bibliography with Some Diplomatic Documents
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Originally published in 1938, this bibliography was compiled by the historian and Portuguese scholar...
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Words, Works, and Ways of Knowing: The Breakdown of Moral Philosophy in New England Before the Civil War
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Crime writer Sara Paretsky is known the world over for her acclaimed series of mysteries starring...