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They Fought Alone: The True Story of the Starr Brothers, British Secret Agents in Nazi-Occupied France

By Charles Glass - Published 2018

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Nonfiction

Fans of Simon Mawer’s Tightrope and Trapeze, or Susan Elia MacNeal’s Maggie Hope series, will be drawn in by this nonfiction ...Read Review

Lonely Courage: The true story of the SOE heroines who fought to free Nazi-occupied France

By Rick Stroud - Published 2018

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MilitaryNonfiction

In June 1940, Prime Minister Churchill authorised the setting-up of the Special Operations Executive to sabotage the Nazis in occupied Europe. Recruiter Selwyn Jepson ...Read Review

Dominion: The History of England from the Battle of Waterloo to Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee

By Peter Ackroyd - Published 2018

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Nonfiction

Does the world need another history of England? The fifth in Ackroyd’s series takes on a big challenge: England revels in the ...Read Review

The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War

By Andrew Delbanco - Published 2018

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Nonfiction

Scholar Andrew Delbanco argues convincingly that slavery is the basis of America being divided since its founding.  (“Slavery was in the understanding that ...Read Review

Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh

By Anna Beer - Published 2018

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Nonfiction

The man Beer describes as “a true Renaissance man” had a tenuous place in society—birth date unknown—as the fifth son of ...Read Review

Viceroys: The Creation of the British

By Christopher Lee - Published 2018

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Nonfiction

Author of the bestselling This Sceptred Isle, Christopher Lee has now turned his attention to the British in India looking at the country ...Read Review

The Bonanza King: John MacKay and the Battle Over the Greatest Riches in the American West

By Gregory Crouch - Published 2018

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Nonfiction

John Mackay is born into grinding poverty in 1831 Ireland. His little tenant farming family shares their squalid cottage with the family pig. At ...Read Review

Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man

By Lynn Vincent - Published 2018

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MilitaryNauticalNonfiction

An action film by Steven Spielberg had a moment – a hero recalled his experience from a World War Two warship. But that warship ...Read Review

Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires

By Juan Cole - Published 2018

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Nonfiction

Juan Cole, widely respected expert on the Middle East, presents Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires, against the drumbeat of ...Read Review

A History of the World in 21 Women: A Personal Selection

By Jenni Murray - Published 2018

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Nonfiction

The follow-up to Jenni Murray’s A History of Britain in 21 Women, this book broadens to cover further notable women across time and ...Read Review