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Indignity

Lea Ypi

'Beguiling and moving... a clever hybrid, happily exploiting the many possibilities of telling a life story... also an oblique history of 20th-century Albania, illuminating all its perversities, absurdities and ruthlessness' William Boyd, Observer'Stunningly...

Generation GDR

Jamie Bulloch , Peter Wensierski

A gripping account of East Germany in the late '70s and early '80s, and of one man's fated struggle for freedom.Friday, April 10th, 1981: 23-year-old Mathias Domaschk boards the fast train from Jena to Berlin, on his way to a birthday party. But he never arrives . ....

The Women Are Not Fine

Hope Reese

Reproductive Rights in Modern France

Maud Anne Bracke

The introduction of the principle of women's reproductive liberty in France, tentatively by the family planning movement after 1960 and explicitly by the women's liberation movement after 1970, marked a deep shift, transforming public discourses. Yet this principle...

Imaginary Homelands

Salman Rushdie

Drawing from two political and several literary homelands, this collection presents a remarkable series of trenchant essays, demonstrating the full range and force of Salman Rushdie's remarkable imaginative and observational powers. With candour, eloquence and...

Agatha Christie

Lucy Worsley (

'One brilliant woman writing about another: an irresistible combination.' - Antonia Fraser'One of the most delightful biographies I have ever read.' - A.N. Wilson'Reading Worsley is as enjoyable as reading Christie herself.' - Ruth Scurr'Full of unique insight, eye...

The People's War

John Willis

There was a German bomber flying right towards us – a Dornier, one of their biggest. It was so low we could see the pilot flying it and the gunner in the nose of the bomber pointing his machine gun at us…Schoolboy in Kent, during the Battle of BritainMy legs pressed...

SNAFU

Ed Helms

A New York Times Bestseller  From actor, comedian, writer, and host of the hit history podcast SNAFU, Ed Helms brings you an absurdly entertaining look at history’s biggest blunders, complete with lively illustrations.       History contains a...

Victory in Europe

Julian Thompson

Celebrate the 80th anniversary of VE Day in this fully illustrated insight into the final months of the Second World War.From the long-awaited opening of the second front in the West on D-Day, 6 June 1944, to the final surrender of Germany on 8 May 1945, the Allied...

Children of Radium

Joe Dunthorne

Off-beat, irreverent and subversive – a Jewish family memoir about convenient delusions and unsayable truths, from the acclaimed author of the cult classic novel, Submarine'The best book I’ve read in the past year . . . A masterpiece' Financial Times‘A slippery marvel...

Aliens

Jamie King

A fascinating compendium of reported alien sightings, encounters and abductions, such as the mysterious Belgian UFO wave, the unusual Lubbock lights, and the infamous Roswell incidentWhat did Kenneth Arnold see flying above Mount Rainier?What were the Phoenix...

Christian Nationalism, Nation-Building, and the Making of the Holocaust in Slovakia

Hana Kubátová

Previous scholarship on fascism in Slovakia has focused on either state actors operating from urban centres or the mechanisms of violence on a grassroots level - with the result being that the Holocaust is seen as primarily a top-down and state-centred process. In...

The End of the British Empire in the Middle East, 1952—1971

Wm. Roger Louis

The quarter century after the end of the Second World War and the transfer of power in India in 1947 marked the slow and turbulent dissolution of the British Empire in the Middle East. Seeking to capture the period in its full complexity and contradictions, acclaimed...

The End of the British Empire in the Middle East, 1952—1971

Wm. Roger Louis

The quarter century after the end of the Second World War and the transfer of power in India in 1947 marked the slow and turbulent dissolution of the British Empire in the Middle East. Seeking to capture the period in its full complexity and contradictions, acclaimed...

Cultivating Fields of Progress

Amalia Ribi Forclaz

After the First World War, the improvement of working and living conditions in agriculture became an international issue for the first time. Led by the International Labour Organization and related organizations, as well as overlapping expert networks, agrarian interest...

'Gifted Children' in Britain and the World

Jennifer Crane

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The idea that a child is intellectually 'gifted' has...

Christian Nationalism, Nation-Building, and the Making of the Holocaust in Slovakia

Hana Kubátová

Previous scholarship on fascism in Slovakia has focused on either state actors operating from urban centres or the mechanisms of violence on a grassroots level - with the result being that the Holocaust is seen as primarily a top-down and state-centred process. In...

Cultivating Fields of Progress

Amalia Ribi Forclaz

After the First World War, the improvement of working and living conditions in agriculture became an international issue for the first time. Led by the International Labour Organization and related organizations, as well as overlapping expert networks, agrarian interest...

'Gifted Children' in Britain and the World

Jennifer Crane

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The idea that a child is intellectually 'gifted' has...

Rebel Angel

Padraig Rooney

Annemarie Schwarzenbach was one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable women, possibly the greatest sexual and political radical of the 1930s. But until now she’s been largely ignored. Born to a wealthy family in Switzerland, as a teenager she rebelled against her...