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This Month's Featured Books
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Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts Christopher de Hamel Winner of the Wolfson History Prize 2017. Christopher de Hamel is a man happy in his work – his enthusiasm and love for his subject lights up this account of medieval manuscripts and their history. With first-rate illustrations, we too... Format: Hardback - Released: 22/09/2016 
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The House of the Dead Siberian Exile Under the Tsars Daniel Beer Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2017. One and a half times the size of Western Europe Siberia has acted as an open prison for centuries. Through physical work the mad, the bad and the dangerous were thought to find... Format: Paperback - Released: 25/05/2017
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SAS Rogue Heroes - The Authorized Wartime History Ben Macintyre 75 years after it was set up, the SAS has finally decided to tell its astonishing story. It has opened its secret archives for the first time, granting historian Ben Macintyre full access to a treasure trove of unseen reports,... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2017
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Les Parisiennes How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s Anne Sebba Anne Sebba has sought out and interviewed scores of women, and brings us their unforgettable testimonies. Her fascinating cast includes both native Parisiennes and temporary residents: American women and Nazi wives; spies, mothers, mistresses, artists, fashion designers and aristocrats. The... Format: Paperback - Released: 08/06/2017
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The Anatomy of a Traitor A History of Espionage and Betrayal Michael Smith Could you betray your country? Not only turn your back on your friends, family, everything you have ever known but actively seek to destroy it? The Anatomy of a Traitor focuses on the critical moment in a spy's life: that... Format: Hardback - Released: 08/06/2017
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Passchendaele Requiem for Doomed Youth Paul Ham Through an examination of the culpability of governments and military commanders in a catastrophe that destroyed the best part of a generation, the author argues that Battle of Passchendaele, far from being a breakthrough moment, was the battle that nearly... Format: Hardback - Released: 04/05/2017
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Farewell to the Horse The Final Century of Our Relationship Ulrich Raulff Farewell to the Horse is an engaging, brilliantly written and moving discussion of what horses once meant to us. Cities, farmland, entire industries were once shaped as much by the needs of horses as humans. The intervention of horses was... Format: Hardback - Released: 25/05/2017
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M Maxwell Knight, MI5's Greatest Spymaster Henry Hemming Known simply as M, Maxwell Knight is seen today as one of MI5's greatest spymasters. He was the first in MI5 to grasp the potential of training female agents. This book reveals the names and stories of seven men and... Format: Hardback - Released: 04/05/2017
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