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The first full biography for more than forty years of Hollywood legend, Carole Lombard

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The Scarlet Ribbon follows James Quinn, a young Irish surgeon battling prejudice, suspicion and p...

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The first full biography of one of the Second World War's most notorious secret agents

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A history of the beliefs and customs of the Scottish Highalands

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Of all the Allied generals in the Middle East and Europe in the Second World War, Bernard Montgom...

The Siege of Derry

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Capability Brown

The story through objects of the SOE, an undercover outfit of fifth columnists tasked to mobilise...

The Greeks speak for themselves, both in the formal language of public office and in the colloqui...

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