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Sir John Plumb: The Hidden Life of a Great Historian

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Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School

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Donald Rayfield

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Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia’s New Nationalism

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A Very Expensive Poison: The Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko and Russia’s War with the West

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