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  • Loot

    Britain and the Benin Bronzes (Revised and Updated Edition)

    A Prospect Best Book of 2021‘A fascinating and timely book.’ William Boyd‘Gripping…a must read.’ FT‘Compelling…humane, reasonable, and ultimately optimistic.’ Evening Standard‘[A] valuable guide to a complex narrative.’ The TimesIn 1897, Britain sent a punitive expedition to the Kingdom of Benin, in what is today Nigeria, in retali... ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • Another Man's War

    The Story of a Burma Boy in Britain's Forgotten African Army

    In December 1941 the Japanese invaded Burma. For the British, the longest land campaign of the Second World War had begun. 100,000 African soldiers were taken from Britain’s colonies to fight the Japanese in the Burmese jungles. They performed heroically in one of the most brutal theatres of war, yet their contribution has been largely ignored.Isaac Fadoyebo was one of those ‘Burma Boys’. At the ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • The African Kingdom of Gold

    Britain and the Asante Treasure

    Empire. Plunder. Resistance. The forgotten history of Britain, Ghana and the Asante gold.LONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE'A compelling, challenging and important book.' William BoydKumasi, the Asante capital, burns. British soldiers prowl the palace, looting as much gold as they can find, before razing it to the ground. In Britain the soldiers are feted as ... ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

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    Loot

    Britain and the Benin Bronzes

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    In 1897, Britain responded to the killing of a group of officials by razing an empire to the ground. The men had been travelling to the ancient Kingdom of Benin, in what is now Nigeria, when they were ambushed and killed by local soldiers. Just six weeks later, the British had exacted their revenge, set Benin aflame, exiled the king and annexed the territory. They also made off with some of Africa ... En savoir plus

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    Surviving Katyń

    Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth

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    The Katyn Massacre of 22,000 Polish prisoners of war is a crime to which there are no witnesses.Committed in utmost secrecy in April–May 1940 by the NKVD on the direct orders of Joseph Stalin, for nearly fifty years the Soviet regime succeeded in maintaining the fiction that Katyn was a Nazi crime, their story unchallenged by Western governments fearful of upsetting a powerful wartime ally and ... En savoir plus

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    The Biggest Prison on Earth

    A History of the Occupied Territories

    par Ilan Pappe ...
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    From the author of the bestselling study of the 1948 War of Independence comes an incisive look at the Occupied Territories, picking up the story where The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine left off.Publishing on the fiftieth anniversary of the Six-Day War that culminated in the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Pappe offers a comprehensive exploration of one of the world's most ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

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    The Shadow Commander

    Soleimani, the US, and Iran’s Global Ambitions

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    10 heure 24 min

    Until his assassination by US drone strike in January 2020, commander Qassem Soleimani was one of the most powerful men in Iran and the military spearhead for Iranian foreign policy, enacting the wishes of the country's Supreme Leader in the region. A widely popular but also feared maverick operator, he helped to establish the Islamic Republic as a major force in the Middle East, with ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

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    In Search of a Kingdom

    Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire

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    13 heure 25 min

    In this grand and thrilling narrative, the acclaimed biographer of Magellan, Columbus, and Marco Polo brings alive the singular life and adventures of Sir Francis Drake, the pirate/explorer/admiral****whose mastery of the seas during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I changed the course of history“Bergreen masterly portrays ... the swashbuckling life and times of the explorer who achieved what ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

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    Hype

    How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are Taking Over the Internet—and Why We're Following

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    10 heure 2 min

    From former Vice journalist and executive producer of hit Netflix documentary Fyre comes an eye-opening look at the con artists, grifters and snake oil salesmen of the digital age—and why we can’t stop falling for them.We live in an age where scams are the new normal. A charismatic entrepreneur sells thousands of tickets to a festival that never happened. Respected investors pour ... ... En savoir plus

    $36.99 CAD

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    The Red Prince

    The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster

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    9 heure 34 min

    Medieval history from a rising star in the field, this is a biography of one of the most important figures of the age, John of Gaunt.John Gaunt was the son of Edward III, brother to the Black Prince, father to Henry IV, and the sire of all those Tudors. He has had pretty bad press: supposed usurper of Richard II’s crown and the focus of hatred in the Peasants’ Revolt, as they torched his home, the ... En savoir plus

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    The Story of China

    The Epic History of a World Power from the Middle Kingdom to Mao and the China Dream

    par Michael Wood ...
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    Michael Wood has travelled the length and breadth of China, the world's oldest civilization and longest lasting state, to tell a thrilling story of intense drama, fabulous creativity, and deep humanity that stretches back thousands of years.After a century and a half of foreign invasion, civil war, and revolution, China has once again returned to center stage as a global superpower and the world's ... En savoir plus

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    Nobody

    Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond

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    Protests in Ferguson, Missouri, and across the United States following the death of Michael Brown revealed something far deeper than a passionate display of age-old racial frustrations; they unveiled a public chasm that has been growing for years, as America has consistently and intentionally denied significant segments of its population access to full freedom and prosperity.In Nobody, scholar and ... En savoir plus

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