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  ARNHEM - THE LAST GERMAN VICTORY

  Antony Beevor

  • Viking uk
  • 31 Mai 2018
  • 9780241326763

  «THE 2ND WORLD WAR»ARDENNES 1944»D DAY, BATTLE FOR NORMANDY»STALINGRAD» TSD - IN SEPTEMBER 1944, A MIGHTY SHOCK FORCE OF BATTLE-HARDENED ALLIED TROOPS DROPPED FROM THE SKIES INTO ENEMY-OCCUPIED HOLLAND IN WHAT WAS HOPED WOULD BE THE DECISIVE FINAL BATTLE OF WORLD WAR II. LANDING MILES BEHIND THE GERMAN LINES, THEIR DARING MISSION WAS TO SECURE BRIDGES ACROSS THE RHINE SO THAT GROUND FORCES COULD MAKE A RAPID DASH INTO NAZI GERMANY. IF ALL WENT WELL, THE WAR COULD BE OVER BY CHRISTMAS. THE PLAN WENT TERRIBLY WRONG
  

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  THE COMPLETE POLYSYLLABIC SPREE - THE DIARY OF AN OCCASIONNALLY EXASPERATED BUT EVER HOPEFUL READER

  Nick Hornby

  • Viking uk
  • 8 Septembre 2006
  • 9780670916726

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  Chronicles - on our troubled times

  Thomas Piketty

  • Viking uk
  • 2 Avril 2016
  • 9780241234914

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  THE SIEGE: THREE DAYS OF TERROR INSIDE THE TAJ

  Adrian Levy, Cathy Scott-Clark

  • Viking uk
  • 7 Novembre 2013
  • 9780670922567

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  WAR GAMES: THE STORY OF AID AND WAR IN MODERN TIMES

  Linda Polman

  • Viking uk
  • 29 Avril 2010
  • 9780670918966

  Ranging from Rwanda to Afghanistan, and from Sudan to Iraq, this title shows how the humanitarian aid industry, the media and warmongers the world over, are locked in a cycle of mutual support. It introduces us to the key players in this twisted game, and to the aid-workers and the warlords themselves.
  

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  OUT OF EMPIRE - WHAT RULING THE WORLD DID TO THE ENGLISH

  Jeremy Paxman

  • Viking uk
  • 1 Septembre 2011
  • 9780670919581

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  RACE OF A LIFETIME - HOW OBAMA WON THE WHITE HOUSE

  Mark Halperin, John Heilemann

  • Viking uk
  • 7 Janvier 2010
  • 9780670918027

  President Barack Obama's triumph was not inevitable: it was the end product of a brilliant, calculated, convention-defying political campaign. In a race that will be talked about for years to come, he faced down his rivals with ruthless focus and efficiency. This title presents the inside story of those thrilling months.
  

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  THE MYSTERY OF OLGA CHEKHOVA - WAS HITLER'S FAVOURITE ACTRESS A RUSSIAN SPY ?

  Antony Beevor

  • Viking uk
  • 19 Mai 2004
  • 9780670915200

  The author has put together from many sources a fascinating account of a Russo-German family. Several members are trapped in Hitler's Berlin the rest in Moscow awaiting arrest because their niece appeared in photographs with Hitler. This is an extraordinary story of extaordinary times.
  

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  On royalty

  Jeremy Paxman

  • Viking uk
  • 12 Octobre 2006
  • 9780670916627

  What does it mean to be royal? At a time when the monarch no longer rules, the concept of royalty grows ever more elusive. The intellectual argument for the abolition of the monarchy is strong, and yet public interest in the royals continues to grow. This book seeks to find out just how important the Royal Family is to our national identity.
  

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  Krakatoa. The Day the World Exploded

  Simon Winchester

  • Viking uk
  • 16 Avril 2003
  • 9780670914289

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  MAHARANIS - THE LIVES AND TIMES OF THREE GENERATIONS OF INDIAN PRINCESSES

  Lucy Moore

  • Viking uk
  • 9 Septembre 2004
  • 9780670912872

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  A CRACK IN THE EDGE OF THE WORLD - THE GREAT AMERICAN EARTHQUAKE OF 1906

  Simon Winchester

  • Viking uk
  • 15 Octobre 2005
  • 9780670914876

  A burgeoning new city is built on the dreams of the American gold rush. It is also built upon a landscape that has been stretching, sliding and breaking apart for millennia.
  

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  D-DAY - THE BATTLE OF NORMANDY

  Antony Beevor

  • Viking uk
  • 28 Avril 2009
  • 9780670918096

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  BUSHWORLD : ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK

  Maureen Dowd

  • Viking uk
  • 27 Octobre 2004
  • 9780670915842

  From Washington to Kennebunkport to Texas to old' and new' Europe. Maureen Dowd has trained her binoculars on the Bush dynasty for the past two decades.
  

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  THE SPANISH AMBASSADOR''S SUITCASE: STORIES FROM THE DIPLOMATIC BAG

  Andrew Bryson, Matthew Parris

  • Viking uk
  • 15 Octobre 2012
  • 9780670921034

  Matthew Parris brings together some of the funniest despatches from British Ambassadors abroad, in this sequel to his acclaimed Parting Shots. Based on a new BBC Radio 4 series, it shows our representatives in their best and worst lights: rude and sympathetic, clever and confused by turns.
  

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  ARDENNES 1944 - HITLER''S LAST GAMBLE

  Antony Beevor

  • Viking uk
  • 21 Mai 2015
  • 9780670918652

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  THE FACE OF BRITAIN - THE NATION THROUGH ITS PORTRAITS

  Simon Schama

  • Viking uk
  • 15 Septembre 2015
  • 9780670922291

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