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Fatherland : A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets€12.99Out of stock
What do we owe the past? How to make peace with a dark family history? Burkhard Bilger hardly knew his grandfather growing up. His parents immigrated to Oklahoma from Germany after World War II, and though his mother was an historian, she rarely talked about her father or what he did during the war.
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The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes : Secrets from a Victorian Woman’s Wardrobe€15.99The hidden fabric of a Victorian woman's life told through her unique scrapbook. In 1838, Anne Sykes was given a diary on her wedding day. Using it to collect snippets of fabric, she created a record of her life and times.
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The Disappeared : Forced Disappearances in Ireland 1798-1998€19.99This book, the first of its kind, uncovers the extent to which ‘forced disappearances’ were part of the violent political conflicts that blighted Ireland for 200 years.
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The Showman : The Inside Story of the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky€26.99THIS IS THE FIRST INSIDE, INTIMATE ACCOUNT OF THE RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF PRESIDENT ZELENSKY AND HIS TEAM.
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Putin and the Return of History : How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War€29.99An original history of Russia's thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin's politics and rekindled the Cold War. Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history.
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The Russo-Ukrainian War€12.99Do you know what is at stake in Ukraine? Urgent, compelling reading from the author of Chernobyl on the defining conflict of our times. A riveting, enlightening account, this is present-minded history at its best.
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Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe€17.99Artemisia Gentileschi is by far the most famous woman artist of the pre-modern era. Her art addresses issues that resonate today, such as sexual violence and women's problematic access to political power. Her forceful paintings with their vigorous female protagonists have excited modern audiences, especially feminists.
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Personality and Power : Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe€17.99One of the great historians of our age asks: how far can a single leader alter the course of history? The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies were re-shaped and wars fought, often with a merciless contempt for the most basic norms.
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The Savage Storm : The Battle for Italy 1943€29.99With the invasion of France the following year taking shape, and hot on the heels of victory in Sicily, the Allies crossed into Southern Italy in September 1943. They expected to drive the Axis forces north and be in Rome by Christmas.
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Publius Quinctilius Varus : The Man Who Lost Three Roman Legions in the Teutoburg Disaster€29.99Publius Quinctilius Varus is famous as the incompetent commander duped into an ambush that wiped out three legions in one of the most humiliating defeats in Roman history. Yet this is the first full length biography of the man.
