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Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe, you would have been most impressed by the civilizations of the Orient. The Forbidden City was under construction and the Ottomans were closing in on Constantinople. The idea that the West would have come to dominate the rest would have struck you as wildly fanciful.
Author
Publisher
Blink Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
In this incredible companion to the second and third seasons of Netflix's acclaimed series The Crown, renowned biographer and the show's historical consultant Robert Lacey takes us through the real history that inspired the drama. Covering two tumultuous decades in the reign of Elizabeth II, Lacey looks at the key social, political and personal moments and the effect they had not only on the royal family, but also on the world around them. From the...
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
In the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, conservative politicians and intellectuals across Europe and America celebrated a great achievement, felt a common purpose and, very often, forged personal friendships. The euphoria quickly evaporated, the common purpose and centre ground gradually disappeared and eventually - as this book compellingly relates - the relationships soured too. Anne Applebaum traces a familiar history in...
5) Black sun
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Description
"Black Sun is fascinating and has fearsome authenticity." --Frederick Forsyth, #1 New York Times bestselling author "Thrilling and suspenseful." --Simon Sebeag Montefiore, New York Times bestselling author of The Romanovs "To call the novel chilling is an understatement." --Booklist (starred review) It is the dawn of the 1960s. In order to investigate the gruesome death of a brilliant young physicist, KGB officer Major Alexander Vasin must leave Moscow...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Description
How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What should we teach our children? Yuval Noah Harari takes us on a thrilling journey through today?s most urgent issues. The golden thread running through his exhilarating new book is the challenge of maintaining our collective and individual focus in the face of constant and...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
From one of the best-loved and bestselling authors of all time comes and irresistible tale of swashbuckling pirates in the New World - a classic story of adventure and betrayal. Jamaica, in 1665 a lone outpost of British power amid Spanish waters in the sunbaked Caribbean. Its capital, Port Royal, a cuthroat town of taverns, grog shops and bawdy houses - the last place imaginable from which to launch an unthinkable attack on a nearby Spanish stronghold....
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
Hadley Freeman knew her grandmother Sara lived in France just as Hitler started to gain power, but rarely did anyone in her family talk about it. Long after her grandmother?s death, she found a shoebox tucked in the closet containing photographs of her grandmother with a mysterious stranger, a cryptic telegram from the Red Cross, and a drawing signed by Picasso. This discovery sent Freeman on a decade-long quest to uncover the significance of these...
10) Cilka's journey
Author
Series
The Tattooist of Auschwitz volume 2
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Description
Based on the heart-breaking true story of Cilka Klein, Cilka's Journey is the sequel to the internationally No.1 bestselling phenomenon, The Tattooist of Auschwitz In 1942 Cilka Klein is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces her separation from the other women prisoners. Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
Four Hundred Souls is an epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, told by ninety leading Black voices -- co-curated by Ibram X. Kendi, author of the million-copy bestseller How To Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire. The story begins with the arrival of twenty Ndongo people on the shores of the first British colony in mainland America in 1619, the year before the arrival of...
Author
Publisher
William Collins
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
In 1889, thousands of hopeful people raced southward from the Kansas state line and westward from the Arkansas boundary to stake claims on the thousands of acres of unclaimed pastures and meadows. Across the twentieth century, water was dammed and drained in Holland so that a new province, Flevoland, rose up, unchartered and requiring new thinking. In 1850, California legislated the theft of land from Native Americans. An apology came in 2019 from...
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Ursula Kuczynski Burton was a spymaster, saboteur, bomb-maker and secret agent. Codenamed 'Agent Sonya', her story has never been told - until now. Born to a German Jewish family, as Ursula grew, so did the Nazis' power. As a fanatical opponent of the fascism that ravaged her homeland, Ursula was drawn to communism as a young woman, motivated by the promise of a fair and peaceful society. From planning an assassination attempt on Hitler in Switzerland,...
Author
Publisher
Manilla Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
The Tattooist of Auschwitz is one of the bestselling books of the 21st Century. An international phenomenon, The Tattooist of Auschwitz has sold over five million copies. Cilka's Journey has sold over a million copies worldwide. 'Stories are what connect us, and remind us that hope is always possible.' Heather Morris Heather Morris will explore her extraordinary talents as a listener - a skill she employed when she first met Lale. It was this ability...
15) A promised land
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Language
English
Description
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency-a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil. Obama takes readers on a compelling journey from his earliest...
Author
Publisher
Elliott & Thompson
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
'I can't imagine reading a better book this year? Daily Mirror Tim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation?s choices are limited by mountains, rivers, seas and concrete. Since then, the geography hasn?t changed. But the world has. In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in a new age of great-power rivalry: Australia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the UK, Greece, Turkey,...
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