 | Killing Hitler: The Third Reich and the Plots Against the Fuhrer by Roger Moorhouse
Buy new: £5.70 / Used from: £3.54 Fascinating examination of all the different plots to knock off Hitler.
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 | Double Lives: Stalin, Willi Munzenberg and the Seduction of the Intellectuals by Stephen Koch
Buy used from: £3.75 The Comintern and the Soviet culture assault on the West in the 1930's. Well worth a read.
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 | The Guns of August - August 1914 (Four Square books) by Barbara W. Tuchman
Buy used from: £2.37 Simply one of the finest popular histories that I have ever read. A true masterpiece.
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 | Grinding it out: The Making of Mcdonalds by Ray Kroc
Buy new: £3.94 / Used from: £0.49 The story of Ray Kroc and his stunning success in the American free market economy.
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 | The Longest Night: Voices from the London Blitz by Gavin Mortimer
Buy used from: £2.50 This volume provides a vivid description of what it was like to live through the very worst nght of the London Blitz. Riverting.
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 | The Rotten State of Britain: How Gordon Lost a Decade and Cost a Fortune by Eamonn Butler
Buy new: £4.97 / Used from: £2.00 Apt description of the decay of Britain over the past decade or so.
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 | Red Prussian: Life and Legend of Karl Marx by Leopold Schwarzschild
Buy used from: £4.00 Forget Francis Wheen, this is the finest and most revealing biography of Karl Marx ever. Beg, borrow or steal a copy!
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 | Rhodesians Never Die: The Impact of War and Political Change on White Rhodesia, c.1970-80 (State and Democracy Series) by Peter Godwin
Buy new: £34.59 / Used from: £29.99 The definative unbiased history of the last ten years of Rhodesia.
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 | Munich: The 1938 Appeasement Crisis by David Faber
Buy new: £14.89 / Used from: £8.71 Great new recounting of Chamberlain's disasterous shuttle diplomacy. Very atmospheric.
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 | Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Buy used from: £9.60 For once you can believe the hype! This a brilliant new history of Abraham Lincoln's Civil War administration. Highly readable.
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 | Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State by Gotz Aly
Buy new: £20.00 / Used from: £8.08 One of the most important pieces of research on Hitler's Germany in years. This shows how the average German benefited directly from the persecution of minorities and other nationalities. Fascinating.
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 | Rogue Male (Crime Masterworks) by Geoffrey Household
Buy new: £4.43 / Used from: £0.95 WW2 classic fiction novel: one man sets off to kill Hitler, but fails and then the chase is on!
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 | The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Pocket Penguin Classics) by G. K. Chesterton
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £1.10 More G.K. Chesterton silliness. Great fun, but with a daft and hopeless ending.
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 | Put Out More Flags (Penguin Modern Classics) by Evelyn Waugh
Buy new: £8.40 / Used from: £4.19 Waugh in the Phoney War. Some great laughs here.
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 | The Siege Of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.01 Fun yarn set at the time of the 1857 Indian Mutiny. Former Booker Prize Winner from yonks back.
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 | William Pitt the Younger: A Biography by William Hague
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £3.47 William Hague's highly impressive biography of Britain's longest serving Prime Minister. A very good read!
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 | Berlin Diary, 1934-1941: The Rise of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
Buy used from: £5.00 Shirer was one of the greatest journalists of the last century. Read here his fascinating diaries of his time at the heart of the Third Reich. A timeless classic.
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 | Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Buy new: £5.89 / Used from: £2.50 Amazing! A riverting popluar account of the life of the Stalinist regime.
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 | Bringing the House Down: A Family Memoir by David Profumo
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £0.01 The Profumo Affair through the eyes of the son. Worth reading for plenty of behind the scenes insight, but the author tends to quote extensively in different languages and liberally use obscure words.
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 | Like The Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell by Simon Heffer
Buy used from: £19.99 Masterly biography of Powell by Simon Heffer. This book is almost 1,000 pages in length, but is brilliantly readable from beginning to end.
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 | Global Warming and Other Bollocks by Stanley Feldman
Buy new: £5.57 / Used from: £4.25 An interesting read about recent science scares. Sadly, the authors, whilst exposing much nonsense, go on to introduce some of their own potty ideas on population control towards the end of the book.
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 | Neville Chamberlain (Routledge Historical Biographies) by Nick Smart
Buy new: £12.57 / Used from: £9.00 New biography published on the 70th anniversary of Chamberlain's declaration of war. Suffers from being overly critical of its' subject.
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 | The Ghost of Munich by Georges-Marc Benamou
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 French novelisation of the 1938 Munich Conference. The portrayal of Neville Chamberlain is laughable. The author thinks that he was "Sir Neville" and was Mancunian. Very poor.
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 | Sophie Scholl: The Real Story of the Woman who Defied Hitler: Heroine of the German Resistance to Hitler by Frank McDonough
Buy new: £14.04 / Used from: £13.29 Really excellent biography of the brave Miss. Scholl and her brother. A magical book. Read it!
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 | Friedrich Nietzsche by Curtis Cate
Buy new: £21.25 / Used from: £6.70 This is a wonderful new biography of Nietzche. Don't be put off by sniffy reviews. Excellent.
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