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Amazing Plot To Kill Himmler Revealed in The Hornet' Sting

Mark Ryan's new book uncovers exploits of WWII spy

Heinrich Himmler

Mark Ryan's new book The Hornet's Sting reveals the amazing exploits of Second World War spy Tommy Sneum.

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BBC Traces Life of Vera Brittain on Remembrance Sunday

Jo Brand presents 'A Woman in Love and War'

Vera Brittain

BBC One is marking the 90th anniversary of the Armistice with a drama-documentary about Vera Brittain, presented by Jo Brand.

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A Radical History of Britain: Visionaries, Rebels and Revolutionaries - the men and women who fought for our freedoms

A Radical History of Britain: Visionaries, Rebels and Revolutionaries - the men and women who fought for our freedoms

Edward Vallance

From medieval Runnymede to twentieth-century Jarrow, from King Alfred to George Orwell by way of John Lilburne and Mary Wollstonecraft, a rich and colourful thread of radicalism runs through a...

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The Imperial Cruise: A True Story of Empire and War

The Imperial Cruise: A True Story of Empire and War

James Bradley

In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Taft, his gun-toting daughter Alice and a gaggle of congressmen on a mission to Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea...

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Worse Than War: Genocide, eliminationism and the ongoing assault on humanity

Worse Than War: Genocide, eliminationism and the ongoing assault on humanity

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen has written an original and important study of genocide that reconceives its very nature. He does so not by examining a series of genocides but by exploring the nature of...

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1848: Year of Revolution

1848: Year of Revolution

Mike Rapport

In 1848, Europe was engulfed in a firestorm of revolution. The streets of cities from Paris to Bucharest and from Berlin to Palermo were barricaded and flooded by armed insurgents proclaiming...

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