
Operation Ajax: The Story of the CIA Coup That Remade the Middle East
Daniel Burwen, Mike Seve and Stephen Kinzer
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The year is 1953. As the value of oil skyrockets, global power brokers are taking an increased...

Brief Encounter
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Brief Encounter (1945), adapted from Noel Coward's play Still Life, is a classic of British cinema -...

Reporting the First World War: Charles Repington, the Times and the Great War
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Charles Repington was Britain's most influential military correspondent during the first two decades...

Coast Lines: Fleet List and History
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Formed on Merseyside in 1913, Coast Lines grew from a small fleet of sixteen coastal ships operating...
Culture, Conflict and the Military in Colonial South Asia
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This book offers diverse and original perspectives on South Asia's imperial military history. Unlike...

Lapwings, Loons and Lousy Jacks: The How and Why of Bird Names
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The Lapwing once had many regional names; the Loon has a British-American identity crisis and the...

The Moscow Whisper
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“Sometimes you have to enter the death zone to save the innocent” A top-secret clique of...
British Intelligence Spies

Someone Knows My Name
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Abducted from Africa as a child and enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata Diallo thinks only of...

Dead Man's Reach (Thieftaker Chronicles #4)
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Boston, 1770. The city is a powder keg as tensions between would-be rebels and loyalist Tories...