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“jonathan dimbleby”

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  • Endgame 1944

    How Stalin Won the War

    by Jonathan Dimbleby ...
    A gripping account of the Soviet victories of 1944 The year 1944 was the turning point of World War Two, and nowhere was this more evident than on the Eastern Front. For three years, following the onslaught of the German Army during Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, the Red Army had retreated and then eventually held, fighting to a stalemate while the Germans occupied and ravaged large parts of ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The Battle of the Atlantic

    How the Allies Won the War

    by Jonathan Dimbleby ...
    "The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril," wrote Winston Churchill in his monumental history of World War Two. Churchill's fears were well-placed-the casualty rate in the Atlantic was higher than in any other theater of the entire war. The enemy was always and constantly there and waiting, lying just over the horizon or lurking beneath the waves. In many ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • The Last Governor

    Chris Patten and the Handover of Hong Kong

    by Jonathan Dimbleby ...
    "Interesting conclusions about the conduct of British foreign policy on Hong Kong . . . an extraordinary diplomatic, political and personal drama."—Julian Stockwin, author of To the Eastern Seas1 July 1997 marked the end of British rule of Hong Kong, whereby this territory was passed into the hands of the People's Republic of China.In 1992, Chris Patten, former chairman of the Conservative Party, ... Read more

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  • Operation Barbarossa

    The History of a Cataclysm

    by Jonathan Dimbleby ...
    Author of an acclaimed history of the Battle of the Atlantic during World War Two (OUP 2016), Jonathan Dimbleby now offers a compelling account of the largest military operation not only of World War Two but of all time--the invasion of Russia by Nazi Germany in 1941. Often seen as the turning point of the war in Europe, Operation Barbarossa turned allies into mortal enemies, triggering the ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • The Palestinians

    by Jonathan Dimbleby ...
    In 1979, Jonathan Dimbleby wrote a seminal book on the plight of the Palestinian people from the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 onwards. It chronicled their struggles and their dreams of a homeland. Through extensive interviews, along with peerless intimate Photographs from Don Mccullin it gave a voice to the people: to the old men who were children when the Balfour Declaration prepared ... Read more

    $17.69 USD

  • Creating Change for Vulnerable Teens

    Lessons from a Therapeutic Farm Making a Difference to the Lives of Young People

    by Tish Feilden ...
    Creating Change for Vulnerable Teens tells the story of Tish Feilden and Jamie's Farm - a network of therapeutic farms dedicated to transforming the lives of disadvantaged children.Documenting Tish's experiences of working with truly remarkable teens who have faced huge challenges in their lives, the book describes how the farms help young people to thrive academically, socially and emotionally. ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

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  • The Hong Kong Diaries

    by Chris Patten ...
    The diaries of the last British Governor of Hong Kong, published on the 25th anniversary of the handoverIn June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to try to prepare it not (as other British colonies over the decades) for independence, but for handing back in 1997 to the Chinese, from whom most of its territory had been leased 99 years previously. Over the next five ... Read more

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  • Among the Braves

    Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy

    by Shibani Mahtani, Timothy McLaughlin ...
    Through the eyes of two frontline journalists comes a gripping narrative history of the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement centered around a cast of four core activists, culminating in the 2019 mass protests and Beijing's brutal crackdown.Hong Kong was an experiment in governance. Handed back to China in 1997 after 156 years of British rule, it was meant to be a carve-out between hostile systems: a ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Impossible City

    A Hong Kong Memoir

    by Karen Cheung ...
    A boldly rendered—and deeply intimate—account of Hong Kong today, from a resilient young woman whose stories explore what it means to survive in a city teeming with broken promises.“[A] pulsing debut . . . about what it means to find your place in a city as it vanishes before your eyes.”—The New York Times Book ReviewONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington PostHong Kong is known as a ... Read more

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  • Never Give an Inch

    Fighting for the America I Love

    by Mike Pompeo ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFormer Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spearheaded the Trump Administration’s most significant foreign policy breakthroughs. In this compelling political memoir, he reveals how he did it, and how it could happen again.As the only four-year national security member of President Trump’s Cabinet, he worked to impose crushing pressure on the Islamic Republic of Iran, avert a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Nexus

    A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

    by Yuval Noah Harari ...
    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.“Strikingly original . . . A historian whose arguments operate on the scale of millennia has managed to capture the zeitgeist perfectly.”—The Economist“This deeply important book comes at a critical time as we all think through the implications of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • First Confession

    A Sort of Memoir

    by Chris Patten ...
    Chris Patten was a cradle Catholic (hence First Confession), became on the most prominent Tory 'Wets' of the 1980s and 1990s, and went on to hold a series of prominent public offices - Chairman of the Conservative Party, the last Governor of Hong Kong, European Commissioner for External Affairs, Chancellor of Oxford University, Chairman of the BBC, advisor to the Pope - as he self-deprecatingly ... Read more

    $11.59 USD