This Boy
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Alan Johnson's childhood was not so much difficult as unusual, particularly for a man who was...
The Battleship Builders: Constructing and Arming British Capital Ships
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The launch in 1906 of HMS Dreadnought, the world's first all-big-gun battleship, rendered all...
International Noir
R. Barton Palmer and Homer B Pettey
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Following World War II, film noir became the dominant cinematic expression of Cold War angst,...
When we Were Young and Brave
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Their motto was to be prepared, but nothing could prepare them for war. . . The New York Times...
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The World of James Bond: The Lives and Times of 007
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This book presents an insightful and thoroughly entertaining exploration of the political context of...
When the Skies Rained Freedom
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Captivating, gripping and relentlessly authentic...inspired by eyewitness accounts. To this day,...
Historical Fiction World War II Germany
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...
The Ultimate Family: The Making of the Royal House of Windsor
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In recent times the British monarchy has become an 'ultimate family' of international superstars,...
Wogamatter
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Wogamatter by Esther Lawson is a compelling tale of a small mixed-race girl, growing up in post-war...
Love, Madness, Fishing: A Memoir
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Soon after Dexter Petley began writing down his observations of people on the borders of rural Kent...