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The author's Jewish great-grandfather was not simply a chemist who happened to get out of Germany in good time: he was involved in developing chemical weapons. An uncomfortable trail for the... read more

Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance

Joe Dunthorne

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Larissa Salmina was a wild child of the USSR who rose to be Keeper of Italian Drawings at the Hermitage; Francis Haskell was a distinguished, deracinated Cambridge art historian. They met in... read more

Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent

Iain Pears

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The author, a scholar of C19th literature at Edinburgh, grew up Romani in the post-Communist Romania of the 1990s. She weaves memoir and travel writing into a wider, potted history of a peop... read more

The Roma: A Travelling History

Madeline Potter

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An exploration of the unique conjuncture of preconditions that gave us - happily - the Renaissance.

The World at First Light: A New History of the Renaissance ...

Bernd Roeck

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A fascinating study of art and national identity which considers the influence of foreign artists such as Holbein and Gentileschi, and foreign influences in the work of Hogarth, Kauffman and... read more

The Foreign Invention of British Art: From Renaissance to Enlightenmen ...

Leslie Primo

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Nearly 600 pieces of glass from the Mediterranean, Central Europe and the Middle East dating between 1500 BCE and 1000 CE: the lavishly ilustrated catalogue of the stupendous Getty collectio... read more

Ancient Glass in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Anastassios Antonaras

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Mercier, a French journalist, travelled to London in 1780 and began writing his account of his experiences there. (He seems to have felt about London much as we tend to about Paris!). First ... read more

Neighbours and Rivals: An Eighteenth-Century Journey Between Paris and ...

Louis-Sebastian Mercier

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Following the path of a wolf who crossed the Alps from Slovenia to Verona and was tracked by GPS provides AW with a most particular view of wildness, culture, habitat and climate change - ab... read more

Lone wolf

Adam Weymouth

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Married respectively to Franz Joseph and Napoleon III, these two young, beautiful, dynamic empresses were involved in most of the major aspects of their times. Looking at them in parallel - ... read more

The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugenie of France, Power ...

Nancy Goldstone

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RB is the ne plus ultra of Habsburg chroniclers. Readers will recall his bestselling memoir Last Days in Old Europe: Trieste '79, Vienna '85, Prague '89. Here is a biography of exemplary ele... read more

Maria Theresa: Empress: The Making of the Austrian Enlightenment ...

Richard Bassett

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Pevsner, Gombrich, Weidenfeld... the list of 1930s' émigrés who profoundly enriched British culture is extraordinary and very long. OH argues that we forget our proud tradition of asylum a... read more

The Alienation Effect: How Central European Emigres Transformed the Br ...

Owen Hatherley

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The history of the Baltic states, how they differ from one another, and their individual and collective significance to the West.

Baltic: The Future of Europe

Oliver Moody

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Apparently they ruled the ancient world, yet vanished during the Middle Ages - only to be reinvented across Europe as national forefathers.

The Celts: A Modern History

Ian Stewart

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The 1,500-mile watershed stretching from Austria to Romania is still home to a third of Europe's wildlife, including lynx, chamois, bears, and bison that roam its high alpine meadows and its... read more

Walking Europe’s Last Wilderness: A Journey through the Carpathi ...

Nick Thorpe

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One married the Tsar, another wed Kaiser Wilhelm's brother, another a Russian Grand Duke, the fourth a Battenberg. Their lives were overshadowed (and some cut short) by the Russian Revolutio... read more

The Lives and Deaths of the Princesses of Hesse: The curious destinies ...

Frances Welch

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Marie de France, Julian of Norwich, Christine de Pizan, Margery Kempe: a spirited look at the lives of these four women that also illuminates the world around them, by a bright young academi... read more

Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women ...

Hetta Howes

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What is freedom and how do we achieve it? The acclaimed historian of the C20th travels The Road to Unfreedom in reverse: freedom understood as the freedom to do and to be, rather than freedo... read more

On Freedom

Timothy Snyder

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A fascinating study of the evidence that craftsmen from North Africa, Islamic Spain and Sicily were deeply instrumental in the Romanesque architecture of places such as Durham Cathedral, Mon... read more

Islamesque: The Forgotten Craftsmen Who Built Europe’s Medieval ...

Diana Darke

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The man who walked everywhere spent a year in Italy with his family, and later lived in Paris and Switzerland; he travelled to America and Canada too. By his great-great granddaughter.

Dickens and Travel: The Start of Modern Travel Writing ...

Lucinda Hawksley

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What early British tourists - women as well as men - made of Abroad: a collection of essays.

Travellers in Eighteenth Century Europe: The Sexes Abroad ...

Julie Peakman

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A scholarly collection of essays in memory of this remarkable man and his work. Contributions range from woodland studies in England to old-growth forests in the Eastern Alps, oak agro-fores... read more

Countryside History: The Life and Legacy of Oliver Rackham ...

Ian D. Rotherham

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One of the most pleasing private publications in recent years has been The Balkans by Bicycle, a reprint of a book from 1937 by Hamsher's father recounting a journey from Vienna to Istanbul.... read more

A European Journey: William Papel Hamsher & Magda Marie Skoupilov ...

Mark Hamsher

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Meticulously researched, beautifully written, scholarly yet intimate, this narrative history of what was once called Eastern Europe will inform and delight. JM sweeps through two millennia w... read more

Goodbye Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land ...

Jacob Mikanowski

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A fascinating look at the way 29 European internal borders were made and have shifted; while some of these reflect the faultlines of old horrors, they also offer new hope. Perceptive and ext... read more

Borderlines: A History of Europe, Told From the Edges ...

Lewis Baston

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VM was the author of The Map of Knowledge, a compelling account of the survival of the ancient classics in the Muslim world, and their re-emergence in the West. Now she turns her attention t... read more

Inside the Stargazer’s Palace: The Transformation of Science in ...

Violet Moller

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The third part of his compelling political 'trilogy', after All Out War and Fall Out (pbk, ?9.99 each)...

No Way Out: Brexit: From the Backstop to Boris

Tim Shipman

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Tumultuous events led to a 4th vol - from May's resignation to the final deal.

Out: How Brexit Got Done and Four Prime Ministers Were Undone ...

Tim Shipman

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This fascinating account of a forgotten moment in history is part family memoir, part the telling of a Texan offshoot of the early Zionist movement, when 10,000 Jews set sail for Galveston b... read more

Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for the Promised Land ...

Rachel Cockerell

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Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-39 ...

Florian Illies

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The Wandering Jews

Joseph Roth

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Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of Wor ...

Ben Macintyre

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Napoleon’s Plunder and the Theft of Veronese’s Feast ...

Cynthia Saltzman

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Sharpe’s Eagle: The Talavera Campaign, July 1809 (The Sharpe Ser ...

Bernard Cornwell

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Saladin: The Life, the Legend and the Islamic Empire ...

John Man

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Civilisations

Laurent Binet

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Heiresses: The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies

Laura Thompson

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