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Churchill’s Wizards The British Genius for Deception 19141945 The British Genius for Deception 19141945 by Nicholas Rankin

Description The story of how the British really won two world wars — by conning the Kaiser, hoaxing Hitler and bluffing their way out of trouble. Pretend German radio stations broadcast outrageous British propaganda in German. British geniuses broke German secret codes and eavesdropped on their messages. Every German spy in Britain was captured and [...]

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Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady by Kate Summerscale

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Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady by Kate Summerscale

Description On a mild winter’s evening in 1850, Isabella Robinson set out for a party. Her carriage bumped across the wide cobbled streets of Edinburgh’s Georgian New Town and drew up at 8 Royal Circus, a grand sandstone house lit by gas lamps. This was the home of the rich widow Lady Drysdale, a vivacious [...]

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All Hell Let Loose The World at War 19391945 by Max Hastings

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Wild Swans Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

Description Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans: a popular bestseller which has sold more than 13 million copies and a critically acclaimed history of China; a tragic tale of nightmarish cruelty and an uplifting story of bravery and survival. Through the story of three generations of women in her own family [...]

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Double Cross The True Story of The DDay Spies by Ben Macintyre

Description D-Day, 6 June 1944, the turning point of the Second World War, was a victory of arms. But it was also a triumph for a different kind of operation: one of deceit, aimed at convincing the Nazis that Calais and Norway, not Normandy, were the targets of the 150,000-strong invasion force. The deception involved [...]

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The Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer

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In The Shadow Of The Sword The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World by Tom Holland

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Double Cross by Ben Macintyre

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The Sugar Girls Gladys’s Story Tales of Hardship Love and Happiness in Tate Lyle’s East End by Nuala Calvi

Description During the Blitz, the Sugar Girls kept Britain sweet. The work was back-breakingly hard, but the Tate & Lyle factory was more than just a workplace – it was a community, a calling, a place of love and support and an uproarious, tribal part of East London. This is Gladys’s story, one of four [...]

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