
Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918
Louis Barthas, Edward M. Strauss, Remy Cazals and Robert Cowley
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The harrowing first-person account of a French foot soldier who survived four years in the trenches...

Sons of the Seas
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Royal Naval stories and tales of foreign seaports, from 1910-1966. This book follows the career of...

Blood in the Trenches: A Memoir of the Battle of the Somme
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Written by Captain A. Radclyffe Dugmore of the King's Own Light Infantry, this personal memoir...

Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn
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Born in Brussels in 1929, Audrey Hepburn was the daughter of a British father and a Dutch Baroness....

Joseph Goebbels
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Coming generations will ask themselves how it was possible that millions of people, victims of an...

Martin Luther
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2017. Selected as a Book of the Year by the New Statesman,...

The Encyclopaedia of Liars and Deceivers
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No one likes to be taken in, but stories of deception concerning others are compelling. It can be...

City of Refuge: Separatists and Utopian Town Planning
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The vision of Utopia obsessed the nineteenth-century mind, shaping art, literature, and especially...

The Age of Electroacoustics: Transforming Science and Sound
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At the end of the nineteenth century, acoustics was a science of musical sounds; the musically...

The Rhinoceros and the Megatherium: An Essay in Natural History
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One animal left India in 1515, caged in the hold of a Portuguese ship, and sailed around Africa to...