26 Modern History


75053 NOTEBOOK: Green and Gold Celtic Fans Design by Alexander Hendry


In gold foil embossed is an Art Deco scrollwork ‘fan’ design on a dark green background decorating the softback cover of this 160 page lined toughened notebook. With green elastic fastener, an ideal gift for gentlemen or ladies and


a beautiful notebook or gift idea. First time bargain discount price. 3½” x 5½”. ONLY £4


75054 NOTEBOOK: Orange and Gold Foil Fans Design


by Alexander Hendry With burnt orange elasticated fastening strip, gold embossed Art Deco style fan design on a burnt orange background, the softback lined book measures just under 4" x 6" and slips easily into the pocket. 80pp. ONLY £4


74901 BLACK CLOTH A5 BLANK BOOK With red satin bookmark, approximately 80 blank pages, quality white paper, ideal for doodles, as a notebook, pressing flowers, to keep by the phone or in the office for your lists or to fill with ideas and characters for your next book - or at least notes! Bargain price. ONLY £2.50


75062 PURPLE LEAF WEEKLY PLANNER by Alexander Hendry


Week starting: Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat with To Do list on the right hand page, this is a unique weekly planner, a one-of-a-kind any year, any week diary. It could be the run up to exams, used for shopping lists, busy weeks, holiday planning, big projects or just little reminder lists that we all need when there is a lot to remember to do. We counted 31 weeks, so buy two at this bargain price and you will have a whole year covered! Pretty leaf design on softback purple cover, 5" x 7" approx. ONLY £3.50


74377 ANGELS: Exclusive Giftwrapping Paper by Ullmann Publishing


Ten sheets of quality gift wrap folded into a large softback book, the sheets measure 27 x 19" or 50 x 70cm each. The angel motifs are beautifully coloured and decorative and there is original packing suggestions depending on the shape of the gift - a beautiful gift bag, ice cream cone, open book, locomotive or heart shape packaging or to cover boxes etc.. Softback. ONLY £5


74780 CLASSIC POOH COLLECTION DOOR STOP by Pepper Pot


Based on the A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard design, this quality doorstop is jolly heavy (it would have to be!), measures 5½” x 3" high with little pads beneath to stop slipping, a wedge shape with pretty pink border and design, a small pink delicate butterfly on top with the unmistakeable figure of our favourite Pooh Bear in yellow resting on top gazing at his butterfly friend. Beautifully wrapped and packaged in polystyrene for safe delivery. Suit children. ONLY £4


74794 PETER RABBIT TIN GIFT BOX by Élite Gift Boxes


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4¼” wide by 7½” tall, the unmistakeable Beatrix Potter character of Peter Rabbit is embossed and painted on a turquoise blue sturdy tin. Lift the lid and his shape is on the reverse of the tin box, which could be used for drizzling warm chocolate and making a mould to eat later, or use the box to fill with sweets, pencils and other bits and bobs for a gift or to keep your things tidy in the desk. Not just suitable for children! ONLY £4


75064 SKETCHBOOK: Blue


Geometric Design by Alexander Hendry 8½” square and with a sturdy hardback blue geometric design cover and on a black spiral binding, this sketchbook contains bright white heavy quality art paper, easily detachable for framing or


giving away your doodles, artworks, handwritten poems and more. Difficult to find art supplies at a bargain price, we are thrilled to have this range discounted. 80 sheets. ONLY £5


75065 SKETCHBOOK: Japanese Red Flower Design


by Alexander Hendry Spiral bound hardback of quality art paper, 80 single sheets easily detachable from this elegant hardback, possibly more suited to ladies with a Japanese red flower


and leaf design on a dark green background. Quality stationery first time discounted. ONLY £5


75060 GRAPHBLOC by Alexander Hendry A 8" square softback with matching orange and black simple cover design. This time the blank pages are tiny grids of graph paper, unusual to find ever at a bargain price. 64 sheets on which to compile your crosswords if you are a budding crossword setter, draw your trigonometry, practise handwriting, share with your grandchildren or many more uses. ONLY £4


75061 SKETCHBLOC by Alexander Hendry Measuring 8" square and in a softback is bright white cartridge paper, ideal for sketches and doodles when out and about or even of good enough quality (should your picture be!) to frame. 32 sheets. ONLY £4


75334 SKETCHBLOC AND GRAPHBLOC: Set of Two by Alexander Hendry


Buy both 8" square softbacks and save even more. ONLY £6


ORDER HOTLINE: 020 74 74 24 74 MODERN HISTORY


I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government, “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”


- Sir Winston Churchill


75216 HELLO GOODBYE HELLO: A Circle of 101


Remarkable Meetings by Craig Brown


Many of the UK’s most pernickety reviewers loved this book, and we are sure that our readers will too. Stephen Fry described the author as ‘the wittiest writer in Britain today’. London Evening Standard wrote that ‘it is partly a huge karmic parlour game, partly a dance to the music of


chaos’. From an opening story in which Adolf Hitler survives being knocked down by a careless English driver in 1931, to the Duchess of Windsor’s meeting with the Fuehrer over tea, this book is the perfect example that truth is stranger than fiction. In it, Marilyn Monroe meets Nikita Khushchev, Igor Stravinsky meets Walt Disney, Salvador Dali meets Sigmund Freud, President Richard Nixon meets Elvis Presley. There are 96 other successful or disastrous or indifferent encounters to enjoy. We can cite just a few to whet your appetite: Madonna induces queasiness in Michael Jackson, Jackie Kennedy is ill-at-ease with Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, Francis Bacon heckles Her Royal Highness Princess Margaret, and Paul McCartney is congratulated by Noel Coward. 356 hard-to-believe pages. $26.95 NOW £6


75303 HISTORY OF THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST - Fourth Edition


by William Cleveland and Martin Bunton


This comprehensive work provides a penetrating analysis of modern Middle Eastern history, from the Ottoman and Egyptian reforms, through the challenge of Western imperialism, to the American invasion of Iraq and Iran’s new


influence in the region. After introducing readers to the region’s history from the origins of Islam in the 7th century onwards, it focuses on the past two centuries of profound and often dramatic change. Although it is built around a framework of political history, the book also carefully integrates social, cultural and economic developments into a single, expertly crafted account. In updating this fourth edition of the late William Cleveland’s popular introductory text, Martin Bunton addresses recent transformative developments in the Middle East, charting the decline in the peace prospects between Israelis and Palestinians, elaborating upon the resurgence of Islam and devoting a new chapter to ‘America’s Troubled Moment in the Middle East’, which details the aftermath of the Iraq war and Iran’s nuclear ambitions. This updated text includes a new chapter on the tumultuous Arab uprisings and Islamist parties today. It does an excellent job of weaving together various strands of a very complex and controversial subject into a coherent narrative, without sacrificing cogent and insightful analysis of the social and political disruptions in the area today. A huge 618 paperback pages illustrated in b/w with maps, tables, glossary and a note about place names and transliteration. £34.95 NOW £7


75666 DEVIL AND MR CASEMENT


by Jordan Goodman


Sir Roger Casement is notorious for arming the Irish rebels in 1916 and being executed for treason as a result, but less famous is his fight to free thousands of rubber-workers in the depths of the Amazon from slavery, degradation and bestial inhumanity, a struggle which undoubtedly influenced his views on


the necessity for Irish self-determination. As a young diplomat Casement became Consul for the Congo region in Africa at a time when king Leopold of Belgium was perpetrating untold cruelty in the rubber trade. It was estimated that three million Congolese had died. Casement’s report made him a humanitarian hero in England and led to his posting to investigate similar atrocities in the Peruvian Amazon, where the devilish Julio Cesar Arana of the Peruvian Amazon Rubber Company was perpetrating untold cruelty on the Putumayo. Casement’s damning research was only the first part of the struggle: the next step was to influence international opinion so that action would be taken. When the London Morning Post broke the silence, public opinion began to respond, and finally Canon Herbert Henson of Westminster Abbey named the directors of the company, who identified Arana as the torturer. Meanwhile Casement moved on to the Irish cause and within a few years had changed from public hero to public menace. 298pp, paperback, photos. £10.99 NOW £4


74566 UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST by Tim Harford


Written by the presenter of TV’s ‘Trust Me, I’m an Economist’, this entertaining volume answers such frequently asked questions as: ‘Who pays for your coffee? Why are poor countries poor? Why is it so difficult getting a foot on the property ladder? The witty and knowledgeable author exposes the forces that shape our day-to-day lives, and reveals how supermarkets, airlines and coffee chains - to name just a few - are vacuuming money from our wallets, often without our being aware of it. 368 paperback pages. Updated. £9.99 NOW £3


75479 THEY MADE AMERICA by Harold Evans


The sheer weight of this high-quality book tells you that it is bursting with fascinating facts: Evans brings to the history of his adopted country the keen, dispassionate eye of a man who has been voted the best British newspaper editor of all time. The volume features 50 innovators whose contribution to American and world history has been out of all proportion to what an individual can normally expect to achieve, and the research behind each entry is exceptional. Here are globally recognised names such as Walt Disney, Henry Ford, Charles Goodyear and Estee Lauder, and there are also major inventors and researchers who have not hit the headlines. No American export is more universal than blue jeans, and in the mid-19th century Levi Strauss created the iconic American look, arriving as a refugee during the gold rush and starting a business selling tough trousers to prospectors and other physical labourers, including women in trades such as railway work. Larry Page and Sergey Brin were two Stanford University dropouts who created the most mathematically sophisticated search engine on the Web: the name “Google” comes from the mathematical tern “googol”, the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. Gary Kildall was the true founder of the personal computer revolution, and Evans describes the sequence of events which meant he lost the credit for it, scoring only just over 6,000 references on Google when the author checked. An inventor who missed a


deserved Nobel Prize was Raymond Damadian,


developer of the MRI scanner. 496pp,


bibliography, colour photos.


$50 NOW £10


75473 SILENT STEPPE by Mukhamet Shayakhmetov In a rare and very special book, here is the tragic forgotten story of the Kazakh nomadic herdsmen of Central Asia and how they suffered under Stalin’s brutal rule. In somewhat the same way in which Wild Swans laid bare the truth about Mao’s China, so this volume awakens readers to the plight of millions of people in Soviet central


Asia. The author is a Kazakh born in 1922 and brought up in Oskemen, a mining city of eastern Kazakhstan, near the country’s border with China. Here, he experienced the system which eliminated his people’s traditional life and suppressed its Islamic religion. With ideological ruthlessness, a way of life which relied on interdependence between man and nature was brought to an end. Collectivisation of agriculture was forcibly imposed, and famine ensued. In the years 1932-1934 alone, well over one million Kazakhs died, more than a quarter of the indigenous population across a territory as great as Western Europe. Designated as a kulak, Mukhamet’s father was imprisoned as ‘an enemy of the people’ and his family were stripped of all their possessions, including livestock, and were ostracised. Of all of this, the outside world knew - or chose to know - nothing. The heart-breaking story continues up to Mukhamet’s recruitment in the Red Army, his wounding at Stalingrad, and his long trek home as a discharged soldier. 345 pages with b/w archive photos, maps. £19.95 NOW £6


75091 PATRIOT OF PERSIA: Muhammad Mossadegh and a Very British Coup


by Christopher de Bellaigue Muhammad Mossadegh was an upper-class Persian politician who became prime minister after a series of confrontations with the Shah, who had a deal to give the western powers the major part of Iran’s rich oil revenues. Iranian oil had fuelled


the Allied victory in World War II, and public resentment of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company came to a head in 1951 when Mossadegh nationalised the AOIC and went on to lead the most enlightened government the country had ever known. Using the Iranian communist party, the Tudeh as a pretext, Britain enlisted the support of the US in mounting a coup to topple Mossadegh, and his removal in August 1953 was orchestrated by the British intelligence services and the CIA. Years later the US would recognise publicly that they had made a mistake. Mossadegh’s principles led him to refuse America’s demands that he should lock up communists. Mossadegh stood up to the west for a few years, earning him the enthusiastic support of his freedom- minded fellow-citizens. £20 NOW £6


310pp, photos. 71747 JFK IN IRELAND: Four Days that


Changed a President by Ryan Tubridy The idolised, handsome and glamorous John Fitzgerald Kennedy, great-grandson of Irish immigrants, was the first and only Irish-Catholic American to be elected President of the USA. Here is the story of JFK’s memorable four day trip to his homeland in June 1963, five months before he was tragically assassinated. In this seminal historical publication, Tubridy captures the affection Kennedy felt for his fellow Irishmen and his Irish heritage and portrays how these sentiments were reciprocated by a nation enchanted by the young President. There was his much-vaunted visit for lunch with distant family in Dunganstown, the garden party that descended into chaos, formal speeches to the Dáil, and the casual encounters as he stopped to shake the hands with the waiting public. 302pp heavyweight paperback, colour illus. £12.99 NOW £4.50


74623 GREEN PHILOSOPHY by Roger Scruton Subtitled ‘How to Think Seriously About the Planet’. The environment has long been the territory of the political Left, however here Roger Scruton argues that conservatism is far better suited to tackle environmental problems than either liberalism or socialism. He shows that rather than entrusting the environment to unwieldy NGOs and international committees, we must assume personal responsibility and to affirm ourselves through the kind of local associations that have been the traditional goal of Conservative politics. There is a path to ensure the future safety of our planet and our species. 457pp in paperback. £12.99 NOW £3.50


74682 BURNED BRIDGE: How East and West


Germans Made the Iron Curtain by Edith Sheffer


Both East and West Germans became part of and helped to perpetuate the barriers that divided them. The building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 shocked the world. Ever since, the image of the impenetrable barrier between East and West, imposed by Communism has been a central symbol of the Cold War. In an astonishing study, Professor Sheffer focuses on Burned Bridge, the intersection between two sister cities, Sonneberg and Neustadt bei Coburg, Germany’s largest divided population outside Berlin. She demonstrates that, as Soviet and American forces occupied each city after the Second World War, townspeople who historically had much in common quickly formed opposing interests and identities. She describes how smuggling, kidnapping, rape and killing during the early post-war years led citizens to demand greater border control on both sides, long before East Germany fortified its 1,393 km border with West Germany. 357 pages, illus, maps. £18.99 NOW £6


75100 WHAT DID THE BABY BOOMERS EVER


DO FOR US? by Francis Beckett The sixties really began in 1956, when John Osborne’s working class hero Jimmy Porter strutted onto the stage with his jazz trumpet and denounced the conservatism of the Edwardian twilight. By the time the Beatles had their first hit in 1963, the baby boomers, a generation conceived in post-war optimism, knew that they had never had it so good: not only sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, but also full employment, free healthcare, schooling and university education. So where did it all go? The author of this book argues that the baby boomers have betrayed their heritage, rolling back the principles of the welfare state and imposing the debt and inequality from which their generation briefly freed itself. Baby boomer Charles Clarke removed grants from students and imposed tuition fees. In this gutsy polemic the author lays bare the massive betrayals of the past half-century. 218pp, paperback. £12.99 NOW £5


74698 BERLIN 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Frederick Kempe


In June 1961, Nikita Khrushchev called Berlin ‘the most dangerous place on earth’. Much has been written about the Cuban Missile Crisis a year later, but the Berlin Crisis was more decisive and more perilous in shaping the Cold War. For the first time in history, American and Soviet fighting men and tanks stood arrayed against each other, only yards apart. On one side was a young untested US president still reeling from the Bay of Pigs disaster and a humiliating summit meeting that left him grasping for ways to respond. On the other, a Soviet premier hemmed in by the Chinese, East Germans and hard- liners in his own government. With an all-important Party Congress approaching, he knew Berlin meant the difference not only for the Kremlin’s hold on its empire, but for his own hold on the Kremlin. Both tried cynically to manipulate events. And so, week by week, they crept closer to the brink. An enormous and compelling 579 pages with archive b/w photos and coloured maps. $29.95 NOW £7


73817 FAMILY BRITAIN: 1951-1957 by David Kynaston


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This heavyweight doorstopper actually comprises two books, The Certainties of Place and A Thicker Cut, which are themselves part of David Kynaston’s magnificent four volume history of Britain from 1945 to 1979, entitled Tales of a New Jerusalem. In this colourful tapestry events like the death of George VI and coronation of Elizabeth II, the Festival of Britain, the hanging of Ruth Ellis and the Suez Crisis are seamlessly interwoven with everything that gave 1950s Britain its distinctive flavour; Butlins, teddy boys, Hancock’s Half Hour, skiffle and some of the best war films ever made. Diarist Nella Last shops assiduously at Barrow market and bemoans the drunken and lewd behaviour of the “rough” families from the Yorkshire mill towns as they descend upon Scarborough. Here too are Doris Lessing, John Arlott and the David Beckham of his day, Roy “of the Rovers”. A magisterial account of British society. 808pp, 32 pages, photos. £20 NOW £7


73957 GREAT SILENCE: Britain from the Shadow of the First World War to the Dawn of the Jazz Age by Juliet Nicolson


Between two landmark occasions two years apart, a rich slice of British history unfolds. The first, Armistice Day 1918, brings cheering crowds into the streets. Revolutionary surgeon Harold Gillies brings hope with his miraculous skin-grafting procedure. Women win the vote, skirt hems leap from ankle to knee and aristocrats and servants alike forget their troubles at packed dance halls. November 11th 1920 brings closure. The Great Silence, the two minutes observed in memory of those lost, halts an entire nation as Big Ben strikes 11. A lively cast of characters from the Prince of Wales to T. E. Lawrence and from Nancy Astor to Vera Brittain bring these two years to life. 302 pages, archive photos. $25 NOW £3.75


73973 NOTES TO THE FUTURE: Words of Wisdom by Nelson Mandela


The definitive book of quotations from one of the great leaders of our time, here gathered from privileged access to Mandela’s vast personal archive of private papers, speeches, correspondence and audio recordings, are


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