History
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PROLOGUE
The 20th century had just dawned when Sir Arthur Evans first swung his pickaxe on Kephala Hill, south- east of the city of Heraklion on the island of Crete, at the same location where Minos Kalokairinos had excavated 22 years earlier. Soon, the remains of an advanced civilisation which had..
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15 August 1943.
Gradou, Kefalonia. A little after midnight.
The British submarine, the HMS D. Anderson, secretly drops off British Lieutenant & Royal Navy Special Unit Commander, Gerasimos Zapantis. He’s on an undercover and dangerous mission. Greece is suffering from the triple occupation..
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WINNER OF THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2022 A NEW STATESMAN AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 'Deserves to remain the standard treatment of the subject in English for many decades to come' Roderick Beaton, Times Literary Supplement In the exhausted,..
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"THE SUNDAY TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'The ultimate Holocaust testimony.' HEATHER MORRIS, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey Afterword by JOHN BOYNE, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas _______________ Eddy de Wind, a Dutch doctor and psychiatrist, was shipped to ..
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Un jeune promeneur agressé par des voyous, des SDF transis, délogés avec perte et fracas des bains publics, un cordonnier astucieux qui gruge allègrement le fisc, des réfugiés montrés du doigt en pleine pandémie, une mère désespérée par son cancre de fils : au gré d’instantanés souvent malicieux, le..
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Since its original publication by Little, Brown and Company in 1942, Edith Hamilton's Mythology has sold millions of copies throughout the word and established itself as a perennial bestseller in its various available formats: hardcover, trade paperback, mass market paperback, and e-book. For 75 yea..
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**THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER** Sapiens showed us where we came from. In uncertain times, Homo Deus shows us where we're going. 'Homo Deus will shock you. It will entertain you. It will make you think in ways you had not thought before' Daniel Kahneman, bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow ..
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With the end of the Second World War, a new world was born. The peace agreements that brought the conflict to an end implemented decisions that not only shaped the second half of the twentieth century, but continue to affect our world today and impact on its future. In 1946 the Cold War began, the s..
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A new bestseller from the immensely popular Lindsey Kelk Being arrested in your own bedroom is never a good start to the day. Tess Brookes really needs to sort out her back-stabbing flatmate - and her life. Should she gamble all on the new photography job she's landed, or snap up the offer from long..
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This is the pacy, sensitive and formidably argued history of the causes of the First World War, from acclaimed historian and author Christopher Clark. This book was the winner of the Financial Times Books of the Year 2014. It was a winners of Sunday Times and Independent Books of the Year 2012. This..
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A Short History of Byzantium is renowned historian, and author of A History of Venice, John Julius Norwich's classic history of Byzantium Constantine the Great moved the seat of Roman power to Constantinople in AD 330 and for eleven brutal, bloody centuries, the Byzantine Empire became a beacon of g..
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George Psychoundakis was a young shepherd boy who knew the island of Crete intimately when the Nazis invaded by air in 1941. He immediately joined the resistance and took on the crucial job of war-time runner. It was not only the toughest but the most dangerous job of all. It involved immense journe..
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Paperback. Pub Date :2005-10-17 Pages: 352 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK The history of a bewilderingly exotic city. rarely written about: five hundred years of clashing cultures and peoples. from the glories of Suleiman the Magnificent to its nadir under Nazi occupation.Salonica is ..
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The Germans expected their airborne attack on Crete in 1941 - a unique event in the history of warfare - to be a textbook victory based on tactical surprise. They had no idea that the British, using Ultra intercepts, knew their plans and had laid a carefully-planned trap. It should have been the fir..
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