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“gerard degroot”

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  • The Bomb

    A Life

    by Gerard DeGroot ...
    Before the Bomb, there were simply 'bombs', lower case. But it was the twentieth century, one hundred years of almost incredible scientific progress, that saw the birth of the Bomb, the human race's most powerful and most destructive discovery.In this magisterial and enthralling account, Gerard DeGroot gives us the life story of the Bomb, from its birth in the turn-of-the-century physics labs of ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Back in Blighty

    The British at Home in World War One

    by Gerard DeGroot ...
    World War One had a devastating, cataclysmic impact on the world and the British people. As its reverberations were so long-lasting and significant, it is easy to assume that the social consequences were as profound.In this highly readable and moving survey of life back at home during the First World War, Gerard DeGroot challenges this assumption, finding pre-war social structures were ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

  • Selling Ronald Reagan

    The Emergence of a President

    by Gerard DeGroot ...
    Before 1966, the idea of Reagan in politics provoked widespread scorn. To most people, he seemed a has-been actor, a right-wing extremist and a 'dunce'. Journalists therefore ridiculed his aspirations to be governor of California. No one, however, doubted his incredible ability to communicate with a crowd. In order to succeed in his campaign, Reagan had to be packaged as an outsider - an antidote ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • The Doomsday Machine

    Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner

    by Daniel Ellsberg ...
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  • Hope and Glory

    Britain 1900-2000

    by Peter Clarke ...
    Series series Penguin History of Britain
    Peter Clarke brilliantly challenges the commonly held view of Britain in the twentieth century as a nation in decline. Adopting a wide perspective, he examines the political. social and economic changes that transformed Britain. He looks at how jobs and prices, food and shelter, and education and welfare, shaped society and explores such areas as architecture, sport and popular culture. Embracing ... Read more

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  • Dark Sun

    The Making Of The Hydrogen Bomb

    by Richard Rhodes ...
    Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War.Based on secret files in the United States and the former Soviet Union, this monumental work of history discloses how and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Blitz Families

    The Children who Stayed Behind

    by Penny Starns ...
    The mass evacuation of children and new and expectant mothers during the Second World War is well documented. But over fifty per cent of children were not evacuated during the War, and it is these young people who offer an unrivalled view of what life was like during the bombing raids in Britain's cities. In Blitz Families Penny Starns takes a new look at the children whose parents refused to bow ... Read more

    $10.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Will of the People

    Churchill and Parliamentary Democracy

    by Martin Gilbert ...
    The Will of the People is an incisive, in-depth look at Winston Churchill’s lifelong commitment to parliamentary democracy. First elected at twenty-five, Churchill was still in the House of Commons sixty-four years later. By far the largest part of his life – of his working days and nights – was spent in the cut and thrust of debate in the service of the people, whose instrument he believed ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Spy Who Changed the World

    Klaus Fuchs, Physicist and Soviet Double Agent

    by Mike Rossiter ...
    The incredible true story of a British physicist who was an undercover spy for the Soviets. The world first heard of Klaus Fuchs, the head of theoretical physics at the British Research Establishment at Harwell in February 1950 when he appeared at the Old Bailey, accused of passing secrets to the Soviet Union. For over sixty years disinformation and lies surrounded the story of Klaus Fuchs as the ... Read more

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  • Britain Etc.

    by Mark Easton ...
    Mark Easton's Britain Etc.looks at the UK through its relationship to 26 subjects - one for each letter of the alphabet. From Alcohol, Beat Bobbies, Cheese and Dogs through Immigration, Justice, Knives and Murder to the Queen, Umbrellas, Vegetables and the Zzzz of a well-deserved rest, the book's meticulously researched but accessible essays map the back-story of contemporary Britain.With each ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Innovation

    The History of England Volume VI

    by Peter Ackroyd ...
    Series Book 6 - The History of England
    Innovation, the sixth and final volume in Peter Ackroyd's magnificent History of England series, takes readers from the Boer War to the Millennium Dome almost a hundred years later.Innovation brings Peter Ackroyd's History of England to a triumphant close. Ackroyd takes readers from the end of the Boer War and the accession of Edward VII to the end of the twentieth century, when his great ... Read more

    $14.99 USD