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Nagasaki: The Forgotten Prisoners
This is one of the most remarkable untold stories of the Second World war. At 11.02 am on an August morning in 1945 America dropped the world’s most powerful atomic…
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Napoleon’s Mounted Chasseurs of the Imperial Guard
A concise history of the hand-picked elite cavalry guard that served as Napoleon’s close personal escort and were committed to the most dangerous areas of combat on the battlefield. Formed…
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Ocean Cruising on a Budget
Since publication in 1990, Ocean Cruising on a Budget has been highly praised as an essential guide for all those planning a blue water voyage, whether on a budget on…
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Penguin and Pinecone
When you give love… it grows.When curious little Penguin finds a lost pinecone in the snow, their friendship grows into something extraordinary! But Grandpa reminds Penguin that pinecones can’t live…
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Restless
RESTLESS by William Boyd is now a two-part movie starring Charlotte Rampling, Michael Gambon, and Rufus Sewell, airing on the BBC in the UK and on the Sundance Channel in…
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Sevastopol 1942
In late July 1941, Hitler ordered Army Group South to seize the Crimea as part of its operations to secure the Ukraine and the Donets Basin, in order to protect…
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The Monster Hunter’s Handbook
A fascinating, eye-popping, and one-of-a-kind handbook of the monsters that have beset mankind for millennia, and the fabulous weapons with which to battle them.In this incomparable and fully illustrated compendium,…
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The Royal Navy 1793–1815
By the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 Britain was the undisputed master of the seas owing to the power and strength of the Royal Navy. Its fleets, comprising…
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The Seems: The Glitch in Sleep
Twelve-year-old Becker Drane has definitely got the coolest job of any seventh grader in Highland Park, New Jersey. He works as a Fixer for The Seems. From the Department ofWeather…
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The Truth About Food
“Pythagoras’s influence on the ideas, and therefore on the destiny, of the human race was probably greater than that of any single man before or after him,” wrote Arthur Koestler….