Looking to London: Stories of War, Escape and Asylum
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This book looks at five communities of refugees living in London, who have travelled from the...
The Greatest Traitor: The Secret Lives of Agent George Blake
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'Sober, accurate and all the more thrilling for it. The best thing on Blake that we are likely to...
Corsets: Historic Patterns and Techniques
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Progressing through almost two centuries of corset-making, this fascinating collection showcases an...
The German Pacific Locomotive: Its Design and Development
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The German Pacific Locomotive (Its Design and Development) is David Maidments fourth book in the...
Riding Home
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Throughout history, people have loved, owned and ridden horses. They fascinate us, and we are drawn...
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955
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Germany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than half of the...
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The Only Woman in the Room: A Memoir of Japan, Human Rights, and the Arts
Beate Sirota Gordon, John W. Dower and Nicole A. Gordon
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In 1946, at age twenty-two, Beate Sirota Gordon helped to draft the new postwar Japanese...
Hearts in Atlantis
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Five interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply...
The Visitors' Book: In Francis Bacon's Shadow: The Lives of Richard Chopping and Denis Wirth-Miller
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Denis Wirth-Miller and Dicky Chopping were a couple at the heart of the mid-twentieth century art...
Walkaway: A Novel
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From New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow, an epic tale of revolution, love,...
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