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The astonishing true story of the Berlin Tunnel, one of the West's greatest espionage operations of the Cold War-and the dangerous Soviet mole who betrayed it.
Its code name was "Operation Gold," a wildly audacious CIA plan to construct a clandestine tunnel into East Berlin to tap into critical KGB and Soviet military telecommunication lines. The tunnel, crossing the border between the American and Soviet sectors, would have to be 1,500 feet (the...
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When the young amateur naturalist Charles Darwin boarded the HMS Beagle in 1831, he had no idea what lay in store on his five-year voyage across the world. Darwin was disenchanted, moved, scandalised and awestruck by the vast discoveries that he made on his journey. On his return, he wrote his famous and controversial theory on the evolution of species. This long, perilous exploration was a journey that changed a man, and in doing so, the course of...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur Margaret Thatcher en moins d'une heure !
Surnommée la Dame de fer, Margaret Thatcher est l'une des personnalités politiques incontournables du XXe siècle. Premier ministre britannique de 1979 à 1990, et de tendance ultralibérale, elle met sur pied une politique économique stricte, connue sous le nom de thatchérisme. Ce faisant, elle redresse la situation financière du Royaume-Uni en crise, mais...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Margaret Thatcher, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:
• Descubrir el contexto en el que se enmarca la vida de Margaret Thatcher en un Reino Unido en plena crisis económica, heredada tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial
• Profundizar en su biografía y en los momentos clave de sus mandatos, como la guerra...
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It's 1983 and best friends Vicky and Lucy swear that they will always be there for each other, that they'll never let anyone come between them. But fast-forward 4 years and life on the Canterbury Estate has gotten very messy.
Lucy has fallen for local policeman's son, Jimmy. And Vicky is madly in love with Paddy, the charming but ruthless local bad boy. The boys are bitter enemies and determined to keep the two girls apart. But then Vicky is accused...
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Discover:
– The 12th century #MeToo scandal of Abelard & Heloise
– Why a medieval feminist condemned the bestselling 'Romance of the Rose'
– The secret heartache behind Dante's seminal work, 'Divine Comedy'
– Bawdy tales from Chaucer and Boccaccio
– Why men were banned from the mysterious City of Ladies
– How Queen Guinevere's affair with Sir Lancelot brought down the legendary King Arthur
– The tear-jerking twists and turns of Portuguese...
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This beautifully presented Little Book is an excellent introduction to the world of craft beer including the major UK, US, and European microbreweries. It includes a fascinating history of the product, how it's made, how best to drink it and details of the world's finest craft beers.
The book includes a description of more than 100 of the very best craft beers in the world including details of the different varieties and what distinguishes them....
5310) We'll Have a Laugh
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The Cleveland Way is one of Britain's oldest long distance walks. The 100 mile route starts in Helmsley skirting the western edge of the North York Moors National Park. On reaching the coastal town of Saltburn-by-the-Sea, at its northern extremity, the path turns south-east and then goes down the coastal section of the National Park, finishing up at Filey. We'll Have a Laugh is the amusing and well written story of seven Leicestershire lads who took...
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It's 1983 and best friends Vicky and Lucy swear that they will always be there for each other, that they'll never let anyone come between them. But fast-forward 4 years and life on the Canterbury Estate has gotten very messy.
Lucy has fallen for local policeman's son, Jimmy. And Vicky is madly in love with Paddy, the charming but ruthless local bad boy. The boys are bitter enemies and determined to keep the two girls apart. But then Vicky is accused...
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"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year" Michael B. Gill is professor of philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Humean Moral Pluralism and The British Moralists on Human Nature and the Birth of Secular Ethics.
An engaging account of how Shaftesbury revolutionized Western philosophy
At the turn of the eighteenth century, Anthony Ashley Cooper, the third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671–1713), developed the first comprehensive...
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It's 1983 and best friends Vicky and Lucy swear that they will always be there for each other, that they'll never let anyone come between them. But fast-forward 4 years and life on the Canterbury Estate has gotten very messy.
Lucy has fallen for local policeman's son, Jimmy. And Vicky is madly in love with Paddy, the charming but ruthless local bad boy. The boys are bitter enemies and determined to keep the two girls apart. But then Vicky is accused...
5314) The White Ship
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The sinking of the White Ship on the 25th November 1120 is one of the greatest disasters that England has ever suffered. Its repercussions would change English and European history for ever. King Henry I was sailing for England in triumph after four years of fighting the French. Congregating with the king at the port of Barfleur on that freezing November night was the cream of Anglo-Norman society: three of his children, including the only legitimate...
5316) Golden dreams
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Jubilee Lake saga volume 2
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Lancashire, 1895. Lillian Hesketh has taken a new name, and a brave step towards a happier life. Suddenly widowed after an unhappy marriage, and pursued by her unscrupulous in-laws, Lillian finds a fresh start in the beautiful Ollindale valley. Thanks to the kindness of her new neighbours, Walter Crossley and his family, she finally has a home to call her own - but the threat of discovery by her husband's family still casts a shadow over her new life....
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Did you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry? That the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 was started and propelled by women who were protesting a tax on women? Or that celebrated naturalist Charles Darwin believed not just that women were inferior to men, but that they'd evolve to become ever more inferior? These are just a few of the startling findings you will learn from reading Philippa Gregory's "Normal Women". In this ambitious...
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Tudor Rose volume 2
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"Young Henry began his rule as a magnificent and chivalrous Renaissance prince who embodied every virtue. He had all the qualities to make a triumph of his kingship, yet we remember only the violence. Henry famously broke with the Pope, founding the Church of England and launching a religious revolution that divided his kingdom. He beheaded two of his wives and cast aside two others. He died a suspicious, obese, disease-riddled tyrant, old before...
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