
Victoria: Queen, Matriarch, Empress
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This title is part of the Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers...

His Finest Hour: A Brief Life of Winston Churchill
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A new and dynamic reappraisal of Winston Churchill, and his finest hour in 1940-1. Who was Winston...

Warhorses of Letters
Robert Hudson and Marie Philips
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This book is evidence of the world's greatest gay, equine, military, epistolary romance. These...

The Gun in Central Africa: A History of Technology and Politics
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Why did some central African peoples embrace gun technology in the nineteenth century, and others...

Black Water
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John Harper lies awake at night in an isolated hut on an Indonesian island, listening to the rain on...

Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948
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In Comrades and Enemies Zachary Lockman explores the mutually formative interactions between the...

Race, Sexuality and Identity in Britain and Jamaica: The Biography of Patrick Nelson, 1916-1963
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This is the first biography of the extraordinary, but ordinary life of, Patrick Nelson. His...

The Zeppelin
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This new publication from Michael Belafi offers some truly intriguing content. Photographs of the...

The Memoirs of Field Marshal Kesselring
James Holland, Kenneth Macksey and Albert Kesselring
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Field-Marshal Albert Kesselring was the only high-ranking German officer to have held continuous...

Franklin D. Roosevelt: The War Years, 1939-1945
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Having guided the nation through the worst economic crisis in its history, Franklin Delano Roosevelt...