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The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB

The compulsively readable new book from The Rest is Classified host Gordon Corera. About how one man...

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The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate the West

A pacy, character-driven history of the KGB's deepest cover spies in the West, a system that took de...

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The West: The History of an Idea

How did “the West” come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural...

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On War (Everyman's Library)

ON WAR is the most significant attempt in Western history to understand war, both in its internal dy...

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Conquest of the Useless: Fever Dreams in the Jungle

A fever-dream journal documenting the making of cinema’s most infamous production, from the world's...

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Perfect Storm: Russia's Failed Economic Opening, the Hurricane of War and Sanctions, and the Uncertain Future

The story of Russia's historic opening to the West (1992-2022), where it succeeded and why it has fa...

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Patriot

Patriot is the unforgettable life story of one of the most fearless and inspiring figures of our tim...

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Life and Afterlife in Ancient China

The three millennia up to the establishment of the first imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC cemented man...

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The Dandy: A People's History of Sartorial Splendour

A history of the dandy from below, from Beau Brummell and Baudelaire to Bowie and Bolan... and beyon...

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Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement

Celebrated reformer and proud Irish nationalist, romantic radical and vilified traitor, Roger Caseme...

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All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil

Robert Cecil, statesman and spymaster, lived through an astonishingly threatening period in English...

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Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World

The story of the sixteenth-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European mari...

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The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality?...

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Why War?

There can be few more important but also more contentious issues than attempting to unde...

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Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece's Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece

A rare biographical portrait of the philosopher Plato, showing how the ideas in his masterwork, Repu...

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