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Cutters, Pickets & Scabs
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John Foot
All the Pontiff’s Men
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R J B Bosworth
Renegades, Rebels & Racketeers
Naples 1944 and the Making of Post-War Italy
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Rory Mccarthy
Road Not Taken
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Max Lane
In Search of Indonesia
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Dorian Lynskey
Bicycle Sharers of the World Unite!
Beauty is in the Street: Protest and Counterculture in Post-War Europe
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Richard Overy
Britain’s Colony in Europe
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David Gelber
Chancellors & Chancers
Austria Behind the Mask: Politics of a Nation since 1945
By Paul Lendvai
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Barnaby Crowcroft
Things Fall Apart
Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain
By Charlotte Lydia Riley
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Piers Brendon
Ticket to Ride but No Trains
A Northern Wind: Britain 1962–65
By David Kynaston
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Richard Vinen
Dates with Destiny
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Robert Colls
That Was The Queen That Was
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Richard Vinen
Brave Old World
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Summer of ’59
Here We Are
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Caroline Moorehead
Roads to Somewhere
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By Peter Gatrell
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He Mesmerised Thatcher
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Norman Stone
Empire on Its Uppers
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By James Barr
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Robert Gildea
Continental Shifts
Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950–2017
By Ian Kershaw
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Jonathan Foreman
At the End of the Day, Bourgeois is Best
Arguing Revolution: The Intellectual Left in Postwar France
By Sunil Khilnani
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Niall Ferguson
Into the Fire?
From Empire to Europe: The Decline and Revival of British Industry since the Second World War
By Geoffrey Owen
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In 1524, hundreds of thousands of peasants across Germany took up arms against their social superiors.
Peter Marshall investigates the causes and consequences of the German Peasants’ War, the largest uprising in Europe before the French Revolution.
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The Soviet double agent Oleg Gordievsky, who died yesterday, reviewed many books on Russia & spying for our pages. As he lived under threat of assassination, books had to be sent to him under ever-changing pseudonyms. Here are a selection of his pieces:
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The Soviet Union might seem the last place that the art duo Gilbert & George would achieve success. Yet as the communist regime collapsed, that’s precisely what happened.
@StephenSmithWDS wonders how two East End gadflies infiltrated the Eastern Bloc.
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