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Eleven years when Britain had no king.
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From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is a new history of how paranoia, conspiracy and anti-Semitism was used to justify the military coup of 1936 and enabled the construction of a dictatorship built on violence and persecution.
‘A narrative of startling originality … As discussions of Britain’s colonial legacy become increasingly polarised, we are in ever more need of nuanced books like this one’ SAM DALRYMPLE, SPECTATOR
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A radical reckoning with the racial inequality of America’s past and present, by one of the country’s leading scholars of policing and mass incarceration
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‘Saul David is a brilliant historian … In shocking and jaw-dropping detail, he brings a battle that deserves far greater prominence and understanding vividly back to life’ James Holland
London was reborn in the fires of the Viking Age, transformed by immigrants and natives, kings and commoners, warriors and saints.
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