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  • Sonia Delaunay

    Artist of the Lost Generation

    by Axel Madsen ...
    Sonia Delaunay, wife of painter Robert Delaunay, and co-founder of the Orphist school in 1910, was the center of a brilliant circle in Paris. Madsen offers a rich and compelling look at this fascinating and influential woman, the first living female artist to have a retrospective show at the Louvre. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • FORGED IN REBELLION

    LUCIO URTUBIA - The anarchist who fucked Citibank

    by Lucio Urtubia ...
    The banks are the real crooks,” says Lucio Urtubia decisively. “They exploit you, take your money and cause all the wars.” Lucio had no moral scruples about forging Citybank travellers’ cheques. His motivation was not his own gain, but to dent confidence in this powerful financial institution. He was arrested for this and ended up in prison, but soon got back on his feet. ‘Forged in Rebellion’ is ... Read more

    $4.27 USD

  • The Burden of Guilt

    How Germany Shattered the Last Days of Peace, Summer 1914

    A military historian’s “thought-provoking” examination of Germany’s role in the outbreak of the First World War (Soldier Magazine).The conflagration that consumed Europe in August 1914 had been a long time in coming—and yet it need never have happened at all. For though all the European powers were prepared to accept a war as a resolution to the tensions which were fermenting across the Continent, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Across the Rivers of Memory

    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    Transnistria, Romania, did not exist on a map. Yet that is where ten-year-old Felicia Steigman and her parents arrived in 1941, after a cruel deportation and death march overseen by Romanian Nazi collaborators. After surviving three years amid squalor, devastation and death, they finally returned to their pre-war idyllic hometown, Vatra Dornei, only to find their suffering being silenced. Decades ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Talking to Terrorists: A Personal Journey from the IRA to Al Qaeda

    by Peter Taylor ...
    A controversial and timely book by BBC reporter and terrorism expert Peter TaylorIn ‘Talking to Terrorists’ Peter Taylor takes us on a personal journey, quoting from diaries written at the time, as he reveals what it was like to come face-to-face with IRA terrorists and Islamic jihadis.What are terrorists really like? How do states counter them? And should governments talk to them? Drawing on more ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Girl Who Said No

    A Search in Sicily

    by Natalie Galli ...
    An eighteen-year-old woman named Franca Viola made history in 1966 as one of the first “#metoo” heroines of modern times, when she refused to go along with a centuries-old forcible marriage custom in Sicily. Having endured kidnap and rape, she publicly defied the expectation that she would marry the rapist to “restore her broken honor.” A social uproar occurred throughout the island ― and beyond ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Hour

    Armistice Day, 1918 World War I and Its Violent Climax

    November 11, 1918. The final hours pulsate with tension as every man in the trenches hopes to escape the melancholy distinction of being the last to die in World War I. The Allied generals knew the fighting would end precisely at 11:00 A.M, yet in the final hours they flung men against an already beaten Germany. The result? Eleven thousand casualties suffered–more than during the D-Day invasion of ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Ostend

    Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the Summer Before the Dark

    Translated by Carol Janeway ...
    It’s the summer of 1936, and the writer Stefan Zweig is in crisis. His German publisher no longer wants him, his marriage is collapsing, and his house in Austria—searched by the police two years earlier—no longer feels like home. He’s been dreaming of Ostend, the Belgian beach town that is a paradise of promenades, parasols, and old friends. So he journeys there with his lover, Lotte Altmann, and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Thunder at Twilight

    Vienna 1913/1914

    Thunder at Twilight is a landmark historical vision, drawing on hitherto untapped sources to illuminate two crucial years in the life of the extraordinary city of Vienna-and in the life of the twentieth century.It was during the carnival of 1913 that a young Stalin arrived in Vienna on a mission that would launch him into the upper echelon of Russian revolutionaries, and it was here that he first ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • 1950s Childhood Spangles, Tiddlywinks and The Clitheroe Kid

    Spangles, Tiddlywinks and the Clitheroe Kid

    by Derek Tait ...
    With few TVs, children in the 1950s made their own entertainment: they played conkers, built dens and go-karts, climbed trees and re-enacted fights from the latest cinema blockbuster. Food was, for many years, still rationed and bought from the local corner shop. There was no pre-packed food, frozen food or many of the other luxuries that we take for granted today. Families would gather around the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Soviet T-10 Heavy Tank and Variants

    A highly illustrated study of the T-10 Heavy Tank that served from the 1950s through to the end of the Soviet Union.When it was introduced into service in 1953, the T-10 represented a return to the “classic” Soviet heavy tank. Although considered a major threat to NATO tank forces, it also represented the end of an era. All gun heavy tanks like the T-10 would eventually be made effectively ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Origins of the Urban Crisis

    Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit - Updated Edition

    Series Book 195 - Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives
    The reasons behind Detroit’s persistent racialized poverty after World War IIOnce America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America’s racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty. He challenges the conventional wisdom that ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Speckled People

    by Hugo Hamilton ...
    ‘This is the most gripping book I've read in ages … It is beautifully written, fascinating, disturbing and often very funny.’ Roddy DoyleThe childhood world of Hugo Hamilton, born and brought up in Dublin, is a confused place. His father, a sometimes brutal Irish nationalist, demands his children speak Gaelic, while his mother, a softly spoken German emigrant who has been marked by the Nazi past, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Longest Night

    The Bombing of London on May 10, 1941

    “An emotionally stirring account of the single most devastating attack on London during the Blitz… A captivating and important contribution… History that reads like a novel.”—KirkusThe untold story of the massive bombing raid that almost brought Britain to military collapse, The Longest Night reveals just how close the Luftwaffe came to total victory. On the night of May 10, 1941, Nazi Germany ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Abyss

    World War I and the End of the First Age of Globalization--A Selection from The War of the World (Penguin Tracks)

    Excerpted from Niall Ferguson’s sprawling bestseller The War of the World, The Abyss now stands on its own as one of the most thrilling short histories of World War I ever written. This is not a conventional military history about battles and generals. Rather, The Abyss examines how World War I saw the birth of total war—fought between societies as much as armies—and must therefore be understood ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Quiet Americans

    Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War--a Tragedy in Three Acts

    *From the bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia—*the gripping story of four CIA agents during the early days of the Cold War—and how the United States, at the very pinnacle of its power, managed to permanently damage its moral standing in the world.“Enthralling … captivating reading.” —The New York Times Book Review**At the end of World War II, the United States was considered the victor over ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Ship of Dreams

    The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era

    This original and “meticulously researched retelling of history’s most infamous voyage” (Denise Kiernan, New York Times bestselling author) uses the sinking of the Titanic as a prism through which to examine the end of the Edwardian era and the seismic shift modernity brought to the Western world. “While there are many Titanic books, this is one readers will consider a favorite” (Voyage).In April ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Hell and Good Company

    The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made

    From the Pulitzer Prize–winning and bestselling author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, “The most extraordinary book about the Spanish Civil War ever encountered” (The Washington Post).The Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) inspired and haunted an extraordinary number of exceptional artists and writers, including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Martha Gellhorn, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, and John Dos ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Archipelago

    Italy Since 1945

    by John Foot ...
    'An enjoyable, highly readable history that manages to bring murky, often fiendishly complex events into the light' Sunday TimesItaly emerged from the Second World War in ruins. Divided, invaded and economically broken, it was a nation that some people claimed had ceased to exist. And yet, as rural society disappeared almost overnight, by the 1960s, it could boast the fastest-growing economy in ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • International History of the Twentieth Century and Beyond

    This hugely successful global history of the twentieth century is written by four prominent international historians for first-year undergraduate level and upward.Using their thematic and regional expertise, the authors have produced an authoritative yet accessible and seamless account of the history of international relations in the last century, covering events in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • The Troubles

    Ireland's Ordeal 1966–1995 and the Search for Peace

    The Troubles refers to a violent thirty-year conflict, at the heart of which lay the constitutional status of Northern Ireland. Over 3,000 people were killed on all sides, and many more damaged by a legacy that continued long past 1998.After looking at the roots of Catholic discrimination of the Northern Irish state, Coogan points to Orange prejudice in housing, education and jobs and the lack of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Tenuous Threads / One of the Lucky Ones

    Series series The Azrieli Series of Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
    Two Jewish girls born six months apart – Judit Grünfeld (Judy Abrams) in Hungary and Eva Felsenburg (Marx) in Czechoslovakia – are separated from their parents and forced to "pass" as Christian children. Theirs are the amazingly parallel but unique stories of two children who were able to survive when so many others perished. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • From Old Hollywood to New Brunswick

    Memories of a Wonderful Life

    Imagine receiving a mysterious invitation from Charlie Chaplin, doing jigsaw puzzles with Marilyn Monroe, having a heart-to-heart with Jack Kennedy, or being kissed by Greta Garbo. All of these and more are the sensational memories of UK-born, honorary Maritimer Charles Foster. After an unlikely childhood, his adventurous spirit brought him in 1943 to RAF pilot training school in Calgary. Through ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Politics of Judicial Independence in the UK's Changing Constitution

    Judicial independence is generally understood as requiring that judges must be insulated from political life. The central claim of this work is that far from standing apart from the political realm, judicial independence is a product of it. It is defined and protected through interactions between judges and politicians. In short, judicial independence is a political achievement. This is the main ... Read more

    $86.99 USD