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Although very different in temperament, these two great Whig figures joined to fight the slave trade, impeach the governor-general of the East India Company and support the rebellious Americ... read more

Friends Until the End: Edmund Burke and Charles Fox in the Age of Revo ...

James Grant

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A biography of the restless, dazzling and dubious Sir George Downing: Pepys was his clerk; Milton wrote his letters; Wren was his surveyor (in the eponymous street).

Turncoat: Roundhead to Royalist, the Double Life of Cromwell’s S ...

Dennis Sewell

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From Carlos the Jackal and Baader-Meinhof to the Iranian Revolution and Israel's Raid on Entebbe in which the commander Yoni Netanyahu (brother of Benjamin) was killed. Burke, an eminent war... read more

The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s ...

Jason Burke

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The heartlands of the Habsburg empire were altered by two World Wars to a Cold Ward frontier. Since 1989 what 'Central Europe' means has mutated again - and continues to evolve. This deft na... read more

Central Europe: The Death of a Civilization and the Life of an Idea ...

Luka Ivan Jukic

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The Shah was the victor in a power struggle with his prime minister in 1953, following a coup masterminded by Britain and the United States. This is the political history of that turning poi... read more

The Economic Modernisation of Iran, 1953-1968: Architects, Agents, and ...

Ali Rahnema

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Considers the precise nature of war crimes and the world's ambivalent responses - or complicity. Robertson KC has represented, amongst many others, Julian Assange, Salman Rushdie and the cur... read more

Eyeless in Gaza: Turning a Blind Eye to War Crimes

Geoffrey Robertson

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Chronicles the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, which was catalyzed by the death of Mahsa Jina Amini following her arrest and beating for not wearing her hijab properly.

For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran’s Women-led Upr ...

Nilo Tabrizy

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With an apt nod to Vasily Grossman in its subtitle, this offbeat memoir doubles as a treatise on the dangers of totalitarianism. From the annexation of Crimea in 2014, when Alyokhina was re... read more

Political Girl: Life and Fate in Russia

Maria Alyokhina

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The entanglement of Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth et al in the racial politics of their age: a fascinating and original perspective in which feeling and scholarship are deftly balanced.

The Trembling Hand: Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archi ...

Mathelinda Nabugodi

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A readable and authoritative account of what has unfolded so far.

King of Kings: The Fall of the Shah, the 1979 Iranian Revolution and t ...

Scott Anderson

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An intriguing look at the revolutions through the prism of Lenin's train journey, Mao's Long March and Castro's return to Cuba from his Mexican exile.

Three Revolutions: Russia, China, Cuba and the Epic Journeys that Chan ...

Simon Hall

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The author of one of the best books on Marie Antoinette shows how an apparently functional regime descended - how quickly! - into chaos

The French Revolution: A Political History

John Hardman

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A brilliant angle on the Cold War. By his grandson.

Peacemaker: U Thant, the United Nations and the Untold Story of the 19 ...

Thant Myint-U

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Radicals, decadents, hacks, censors, printers, spies and patrons in the French Enlightenment and Revolution. The distinguished historian's previous book was The Revolutionary Temper: Paris,... read more

The Writer’s Lot: Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century F ...

Robert Darnton

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The Decembrists are often referred to in passing in other books on Russian history, as if they were not really serious. But they were important, and their story is fascinating and moving.

The First Russian Revolution: The Decembrist Revolt of 1825 ...

Susanna Rabow-Edling

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The events of April 1980 at the Iranian Embassy in London.

The Siege: The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama ...

Ben Macintyre

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Spiced with Dickens's wit and eye for detail, this is a tautly plotted, dazzling historical thriller. Set before and during the French Revolution, it turns on a French nobleman who repudiate... read more

A Tale Of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

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Spiced with Dickens's wit and eye for detail, this is a tautly plotted, dazzling historical thriller. Set before and during the French Revolution, it turns on a French nobleman who repudiate... read more

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

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After the Armistice in 1918, the Allies' support for anyone contra-German mutated into anti-Bolshevik Intervention. Forces were deployed in Archangel, the Caucasus, the Far East and elsewher... read more

A Nasty Little War: The West’s Fight to Reverse the Russian Revo ...

Anna Reid

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A study of the way in which Vesuvius and the excavations in the Bay of Naples in 1738 and afterwards became a potent political and emotional vehicle for artists, intellectuals, Grand Tourist... read more

Volcanic: Vesuvius in the Age of Revolutions

John Brewer

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Despite its often fraught encounters with democracy, science and secular culture, the Catholic Church's story in the modern era is one of remarkable survival.

Losing a Kingdom, Gaining the World: The Catholic Church in the Age of ...

Ambrogio A. Caiani

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One of the great commentators on C18th French history (The Great Cat Massacre and others) returns to the fray.

The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789

Robert Darnton

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The evolution of the legal and financial institutions that underpinned Britain's transformation into a world power.

The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalis ...

Geoffrey M. Hodgson

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Reconsiders the Revolution as part of a longer span of change, from the outbreak of WW1 to the death of Lenin.

Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914-1924 ...

Robert Service

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A love affair and its aftermath, set in the closing years of the GDR. The girl is young, the man significantly older; the alteration in their love finds a parallel in the oppression of the r... read more

Kairos

Jenny Erpenbeck

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Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber: The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugd ...

Sean O'Driscoll

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After the Romanovs: the Extraordinary Lives of Russian Exiles in Paris ...

Helen Rappaport

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The European revolutions of 1848 and their aftermath, explored through a series of set-pieces by the renowned historian, author of The Sleepwalkers and Iron Kingdom.

Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849 ...

Christopher Clark

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A major new account of the upheavals in Russia 100 years ago, from the author of Stalingrad etc.

Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

Antony Beevor

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The Communist Manifesto unseamed by a fine brain - Mieville is better known as a highly successful novelist of ideas.

A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto

China Miéville

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Islands of banishment approached through three lives: New Caledonia in the South Pacific, where Louise Michel, grandmother of French anarchy and a leader in theParis Commune, was sent for s... read more

Exiles: Three Island Journeys

William Atkins

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From being America's most significant ally in the region, Iran suddenly became its greatest adversary: this account, from 1941 onwards, explains how the Shah himself contrived to lose suppor... read more

The Last Shah: America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty ...

Ray Takeyh

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The veteran commentator considers the 1960 coup that deposed Menderes, and traces the parallels that divide Erdogan's Turkey.

A Coup in Turkey: A Tale of Democracy, Despotism and Vengeance in a Di ...

Jeremy Seal

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Zulfikar was executed in 1979; three of his children were murdered. One can understand why the brilliant author Fatima keeps her distance from politics.

The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in Pakistan ...

Owen Bennett-Jones

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A superb account of how European imperialism in Asia was undermined by a network of ingenious radicals, who used printing presses, global travel and the colonisers' languages to spread their... read more

Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire ...

Tim Harper

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