Major Thomas: The Bush Lawyer who Defended Breaker Morant and Took on the British Empire by Greg Growden
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Category: History
Opinion is still sharply divided on whether Breaker Morant and his Australian co-defendants were criminals who got what they deserved, or scapegoats used by the British Empire. Major Thomas, the bush lawyer drafted in at the last minute to defend them, is invariably depicted either as a hero or an incom ...Show more
Isabella: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England by Alison Weir
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Category: History
In Newgate Street, in the city of London, stand the meagre ruins of Christ Church. On the same site once stood a royal mausoleum set to rival Westminster Abbey in the fourteenth century. Among the many crowned heads buried there was Isabella of France, Edward II's queen - one of the most notorious femme ...Show more
The King's War by Mark Logue; Peter Conradi
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Category: History
The broadcast that George VI made to the nation on the outbreak of war in September 1939 - which formed the climax of the multi Oscar-winning film The King's Speech - was the product of years of hard work with Lionel Logue, his iconoclastic Australian-born speech therapist. Yet the relationship between ...Show more
The State of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence by Martin Meredith
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Category: History
Africa is forever on our TV screens, but the bad-news stories (famine, genocide, corruption) massively outweigh the good (South Africa). Ever since the process of de-colonialisation began in the mid-1950s, and arguably before, the continent has appeared to be stuck in a process of irreversible decline. ...Show more
Kafka's Last Trial: The Strange Case of a Literary Legacy by Benjamin Balint
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Category: History
The story of the international struggle to preserve Kafka's literary legacy. Kafka's Last Trial begins with Kafka's last instruction to his closest friend, Max Brod: to destroy all his remaining papers upon his death. But when the moment arrived in 1924, Brod could not bring himself to burn the unpubli ...Show more
The Tunnels - Escapes under the Berlin Wall and the Historic Films the JFK White House Tried to Kill by Greg Mitchell
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Category: History
In the summer of 1962, one year after the rise of the Berlin Wall, a group of daring young West Germans risked prison, Stasi torture and even death to liberate friends, lovers, and strangers in East Berlin by digging tunnels under the Wall. Then, as the world's press heard about the secret projects, tw ...Show more
LIBERATION OF EUROPE 1944-1945 by BARNES MARK
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Category: History
The Liberation of Europe showcases the extraordinary and highly significant archive of photographs taken by Times photographers as Europe was liberated from 1944-1945. The Second World War presented a huge range of challenges to press photography both in terms of its execution and getting the results i ...Show more
A Royal Experiment: The Private Life of King George III by Janice Hadlow
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Category: History
The surprising, deliciously dramatic, and ultimately heartbreaking story of King George III's radical pursuit of happiness in his private life with Queen Charlotte and their 15 childrenIn the U.S., Britain's George III, the protagonist of "A Royal Experiment," is known as the king from whom Americans wo ...Show more
Law's Strangest Cases - Extraordinary but True Tales from over Five Centuries of Legal History by Peter Seddon
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Category: History
A rollicking collection of barely believable stories from five centuries of legal history - you'll be gripped by these tales of murder, intrigue, crime, punishment and the pursuit of justice. Meet the only dead parrot ever to give evidence in a court of law, the doctor with the worst bedside manner of a ...Show more
A Brief History of China by Jonathan Clements
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Category: History
A comprehensive, yet entertaining look at China's history through a modern lens. For millennia, China was the largest and richest nation on earth. Two centuries ago, however, its economy sank into a depression from which it had not fully recovered--until now. China's modern resurgence as the world' ...Show more
Working with Winston by Cita Stelzer
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Category: History
To maintain the pace at which he worked as a parliamentarian, cabinet minister, war leader, writer and painter, Churchill required a vast female staff of secretaries, typists and others. For these women Churchill was an intimidating boss; he was a man of prodigious energy, who imposed unusual and demand ...Show more
The Book of Yokai - Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore by Michael Dylan Foster; Shinonome Kijin (Illustrator)
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Category: History
Monsters, ghosts, fantastic beings, and supernatural phenomena of all sorts haunt the folklore and popular culture of Japan. Broadly labeled yokai, these creatures come in infinite shapes and sizes, from tengu mountain goblins and kappa water spirits to shape-shifting foxes and long-tongued ceiling-lick ...Show more