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£14.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781783782147 | ISBN 10: 1783782145
When Kapka Kassabova was a child, the borderzone between Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece was rumoured to be an easier crossing point into the West than the Berlin Wall so it swarmed with soldiers, spies and fugitives. On holidays close to the border on t ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781782272977 | ISBN 10: 1782272976
A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week
It's as if they're made for each other. Two men, both falling, but holding each other up for a time.
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Ostend, 1936: the Belgian seaside town is playing host to a coterie of artists, intellectuals and madmen ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784780548 | ISBN 10: 1784780545
Reclaiming the legacy of the Paris Commune for the twenty-first century.
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Kristin Ross�s new work on the thought and culture of the Communard uprising of 1871 resonates with the motivations and actions of contemporary protest, which has found ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784293352 | ISBN 10: 1784293350
The Celts are one of the world's most mysterious ancient people. In this compelling account, Alice Roberts takes us on a journey across Europe, uncovering the truth about this engimatic tribe: their origins, their treasure and their enduring legacy t ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408834329 | ISBN 10: 1408834324
The mud-filled, blood-soaked trenches of the Low Countries and North-Eastern Europe were essential battlegrounds during the First World War, but the war reached many other corners of the globe, and events elsewhere significantly affected its course.
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781846683817 | ISBN 10: 1846683815
Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller
Ancient Rome matters.Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves. Its myths and stories - from Romulus and Remus to the Rape of Lucretia - still strik ... more
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£15.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780199671168 | ISBN 10: 0199671168
The twentieth century in Europe was an urban century: it was shaped by life in, and the view from, the street.
Women were not liberated in legislatures, but liberated themselves in factories, homes, nightclubs, and shops. Lenin, Hitler, and ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780300177831 | ISBN 10: 0300177836
Anne Applebaum wields her considerable knowledge of a dark chapter in human history and presents a collection of the writings of survivors of the Gulag, the Soviet concentration camps. Although the opening of the Soviet archives to scholars has made ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781609803469 | ISBN 10: 1609803469
A fascinating document of an extraordinary life, Memoirs of A Breton Peasant reads with the liveliness of a novel and bristles with the vigor of an opinionated autodidact from the very lowest level of peasant society. Brittany during the nineteenth c ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780571225248 | ISBN 10: 0571225241
Once upon a time in the Soviet Union...
Strange as it may seem, the grey, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairytale. It was built on the 20th-century magic called ‘the planned economy’, which was going to gush forth an abundance of good thi ... more
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£23.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781844677054 | ISBN 10: 1844677052
A radical guide to Paris through art, literature and revolution.
The Invention of Paris is a tour through the streets and history of the French capital under the guidance of radical Parisian author and publisher Eric Hazan.
Hazan rev ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099542032 | ISBN 10: 009954203x
A magisterial and acclaimed history of Europe in our time, by one of our leading historians.
Europe in 1945 was prostrate. Much of the continent was devastated by war, mass slaughter, bombing and chaos. Large areas of Eastern Europe were fal ... more
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£16.00 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781904859970 | ISBN 10: 1904859976
From the First International to the 1872 Anti-Authoritarian International, from government suppression and anarchist insurrection to Errico Malatesta's prominent role in resurrecting the anarchist movement, Nunzio Pernicone's Italian Anarchism provid ... more
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£13.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780349118642 | ISBN 10: 0349118647
In 1848, Europe was engulfed in a firestorm of revolution. The streets of cities from Paris to Bucharest and from Berlin to Palermo were barricaded and flooded by armed insurgents proclaiming political liberties and national freedom. The conservative ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781843549604 | ISBN 10: 1843549603
In Wages of Guilt, Ian Buruma explores the duplicity of feeling towards World War II amongst the people of two very different participant countries: Germany and Japan. In this highly original and now classic text, Ian Buruma explores and compares ho ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781906021597 | ISBN 10: 1906021597
With everything from Achilles’ heel to Pythagoras’ theorem, from
Oedipus and his complex to Margaret Thatcher and Thucydides, this book aims to unlock the richness of the Greek world and show just
how profoundly it has informed our own.
Conside ... more
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£15.00 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781904859826 | ISBN 10: 1904859828
David Berry's study is the first English-language evaluation of the development and lessons of the French anarchist movement between the wars. Using an impressive array of archival sources and personal interviews, Berry's original research explores t ... more
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£8.99 hardback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781851243228 | ISBN 10: 1851243224
Between 1945 and 1961, an estimated 2.5 million people fled East Germany in search of the political and economic freedom offered by West Germany. To thwart this tide of defections, on the morning of 13th August 1961, hundreds of East German troops be ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781840467949 | ISBN 10: 1840467940
From the railway in Hungary run entirely by children to the British comedy sketch, unknown in the UK but watched by millions across Europe every New Year’s Eve, Emma Hartley discusses the idiosyncrasies and absurdities of Europe today.
Did D ... more
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£28.00 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780226319643 | ISBN 10: 0226319644
On December 18, 1499, the Muslims in Granada revolted against the Christian city government's attempts to suppress their rights to live and worship as followers of Islam. Although the Granada riot was a local phenomenon that was soon contained, subse ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780007232079 | ISBN 10: 0007232071
No modern war has inspired the idealism and horror of civilians, soldiers and scholars alike as much as the Spanish civil conflict of 1936-1939. The Spanish Civil War is burned into our historical consciousness. It not only prefigured the Second ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780747568735 | ISBN 10: 0747568731
Of all the great paintings in the world, Picasso's Guernica has had a more direct impact on our consciousness than perhaps any other. This absorbing and revealing book tells the story of this masterpiece, from its origin in the destruction of the Ba ... more
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£13.00 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781904859055 | ISBN 10: 1904859054
The story of the Warsaw ghetto is one of the most heartbreaking and tragic in all of recorded history. Bernard Goldstein, who was already a semi-legendary figure as a socialist and leader of the Jews in Poland, was a central figure in this story. He ... more
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£19.00 hardback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781564784018 | ISBN 10: 1564784010
On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history occured in Chernobyl and contaminated as much as three quarters of Europe. Although the Soviet government claims that only 31 people died as a result, the aftermath of the event is asto ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780863567261 | ISBN 10: 0863567266
Set at the outbreak of the war in Bosnia, this diary penned by an award-winning journalist, the late Mladen Vuksanovic, records the extraordinary unfolding of events. He lived in the ski resort of Pale, 15km above Sarajevo. When Radovan Karadzic la ... more
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£22.00 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780141011615 | ISBN 10: 0141011610
Since it's first publication, The Spanish Civil War has become established as the definitive one-volume history of a conflict that continues to provoke intense controversy today. What was it that roused left-wing sympathizers from all over the ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780006386940 | ISBN 10: 0006386946
"Four extraordinary women whose personal histories should dispel any illusions that the Spanish Civil War was an all male war .. The book is full of wonderful stories and acute observations. But above all these are compelling human dramas in which m ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780141184388 | ISBN 10: 0141184388
George Orwell's first published work, Down and Out in Paris and London, is a vivid, sensitive account of the time he lived as one of the poor in the late twenties. In a bug-infested hotel, surviving only between the pawnbroker and a little teac ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780141183053 | ISBN 10: 0141183055
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism as I understand it."Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish C ... more
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£25.50 paperback (1992) - ISBN 13: 9780226319629 | ISBN 10: 0226319628
This is a richly detailed account of Muslim life throughout the kingdoms of Spain, from the fall of Seville, which signaled the beginning of the retreat of Islam, to the Christian reconquest.
"Harvey not only examines the politics of the Na ... more
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£6.00 paperback (1983) - ISBN 13: 9780900384233 | ISBN 10: 0900384239
It was the revolutionary movement in Spain which took up Franco's challenge in July 1936, not as supporters of the Popular Front Government but in the name of the Social Revolution. This book examines to what extent the revolutionary movement was res ... more
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