History & nostalgia
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How many British people know that Glasgow was founded by the Welsh in a period when neither England nor Scotland existed? How many of us will remember the former Soviet Union in a few generations' tim...
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Portrays the German experience of the Second World War, not through an examination of grand politics, but from the viewpoint of the capital's streets and homes. This title provides a flavour of life i...
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Landing on the beach at Peleliu in 1944 as twenty-year-old new recruit to the US Marines, Eugene Sledge can only try desperately to survive. This memoir tells the cruelty, bravery and deaths of the me...
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A comprehensive survey of Jansenism and Convulsionism in France. It provides biographical sketches of its key leaders, analyses their major writings, and highlights both the movement's internal confli...
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Looks at the Chinese experience over the last several decades, told through personal stories and astute analysis that illuminates the country's meteoric economic and social transformation....
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