Recollections: The French Revolution of 1848 and its Aftermath
Olivier Zunz and Arthur Goldhammer
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Alexis de Tocqueville's Souvenirs was his extraordinarily lucid and trenchant analysis of the 1848...

Brothers in Arms: The Unique Collection of Letters and Photographs from Two Brothers at the Front During the First World War
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Hidden away in the back of an old desk drawer was a dusty pile of school-style exercise books. In...

Dodging the Devil
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On the 21st August 1914, George Martindale, along with many of his peers, enlisted for the war in...

Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections on Dying and Living
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In the fall of 2005, Mark C. Taylor, the controversial public intellectual and widely respected...

Nikitta: A Mother's Story: The Tragic True Story of My Daughter's Murder
Marcia Grender and Geraldine McKelvie
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On 5 February 2011, Marcia Grender received a phone call which changed her life forever. The flat...

Hero or Tyrant? Henry III, King of France, 1574-89
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King Henry III of France has not suffered well at the hands of posterity. Generally depicted as at...

Hope: A Memoir of Survival
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"We have written here about terrible things that we never wanted to think about again...Now we want...

Fragments of the Lost
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From the New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls and The Perfect Stranger comes a...
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Above Head Height: A Five-a-Side Life
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'The Fever Pitch of five-a-side' TONY PARSONS A must-have for anyone who has ever played and enjoyed...

Incidents
Roland Barthes and Teresa Lavender Fagan
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French philosopher and literary theorist Roland Barthes was one of the leading influences on the...