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By 1936 people in Britain were recovering from the worst of the Depression. The
Nazi threat was growing, and popular forces were aligning themselves to face
the challenge.
Playing its own special role in this was the Left Book Club. Started in 1936 by Victor Gollancz the club's membership grew rapidly reaching some 57,000 by the war years, along with 1,500
organised study groups.
Its aim was "to help in the terribly urgent struggle for World Peace and
against Fascism by giving to all who are determined to play their part in this
struggle such knowledge as will immensely increase their efficiency."
The LBC continued through the war years, finally closing in 1948.
Here follows a list of the books issued. The titles in red are missing from
our collection. Donations will be gratefully received
The first book listed for each month is the main choice. Optional books are
identified in their series by the following:
(A) Additional books; (S) Supplementary books; (T) Topical books; (E)
Educational series; (R) Reprints of classics; (P) Pamphlets
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1936
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May
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Muller, H. J.
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Out of the night : a biologist's view of the future
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Thorez, Maurice
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France today and the people's front
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June
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Olden, Rudolf
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Hitler the pawn
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July
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Dutt, Rajani Palme
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World politics 1918-1936
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August
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Malraux, André;, 1901-1976
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Days of contempt
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Bernstein, Hillel
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Choose a bright morning
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September
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Macartney, Wilfred Francis Remington
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Walls have mouths : a record of ten years' penal servitude
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M'Gonigle, G. C. M. and Kirby, J.
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Poverty and public health
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A
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October
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Salvemini, Gaetano
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Under the axe of fascism
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Noel-Baker, Philip Noel-Baker, Baron, 1889-1982
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The private manufacture of armaments
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A
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November
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Strachey, John, 1901-1963
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The theory and practice of socialism
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Cripps, Sir, Stafford, 1889-1952
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The struggle for peace
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A
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December
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Gannes, Harry
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Spain in revolt : a history of the civil war in Spain in 1936 and a study of
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Horrabin, J. F.
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An atlas of current affairs
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A
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1937
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January
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Spender, Stephen, 1909-
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Forward from liberalism
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Serebrennikov, G. N.
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The position of women in the U.S.S.R.
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A
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The Nazi conspiracy in Spain / by the editor of The brown book of the Hitler
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T
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February
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Jellinek, Frank
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The Paris Commune of 1871
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Horrabin, J. F.
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An atlas of empire
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A
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Plummer, Alfred, 1896-
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Raw materials or war materials?
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A
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Cambridge Scientists' Anti-War Group
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The protection of the public from aerial attack : being a critical examination
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T
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March
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Orwell, George
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The Road to Wigan Pier
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Osborn, Reuben
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Freud and Marx : a dialectical study
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A
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Collard, Dudley
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Soviet justice and the trial of Radek and others
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T
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Cox, Geoffrey, 1910-
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Defence of Madrid
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T
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April
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Huberman, Leo
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Man's worldly goods : the story of the wealth of nations
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Cole, G. D. H., and M. I. Cole, George Douglas Howard, 1889-1959
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The condition of Britain
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A
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The road to war : being an analysis of the National Government's foreign
policy
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T
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May
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Sloan, Pat, 1908-1978
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Soviet Democracy
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A textbook of marxist philosophy / prepared by the Leningrad Institute of
Philosophy
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A
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Christianity and the social revolution / edited by John Lewis, Karl Polanyi
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S
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Donington, Robert& Barbara
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The citizen faces war / with an introduction
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S
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Orwell, George
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The Road to Wigan Pier (Part One only)
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S
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Hewlett Johnson, and others
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Report of a Religious Delegation to Spain
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T
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June
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Hutt, Allen, 1901-1973
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The post-war history of the British working class
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Erckner, S.
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Hitler's conspiracy against peace
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A
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King, Beatrice
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Changing man : the education system of the U.S.S.R
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S
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Newitt, Hilary
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Women must choose : the position of women in Europe today
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S
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Odets, Clifford, 1906-1963
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Waiting for Lefty : a play in six episodes
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S
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Malleson, Miles
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Six men of Dorset : a play in three acts
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S
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July
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Cole, G. D. H., George Douglas Howard, 1889-1959
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The people's front
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Towards the Christian revolution / by John Line...[et al.] / edited by R. B.
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A
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Griffith, Edward F., Edward Fyfe, 1895-1987
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Modern marriage and birth control
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S
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Feuchtwanger, Lion, 1884-1958
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Moscow, 1937 : my visit described for my friends
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T
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Burns, Emile (ed.)
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A Handbook of Marxism
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R
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Burns, Emile
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Money
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E
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August
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Attlee, C. R., Clement Richard, 1883-1967
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The Labour Party in perspective
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Gollan, John
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Youth in British industry : a survey of labour conditions today
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A
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National Congress of Peace and Friendship with the U.S.S.R., 2nd, 1937, London
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For peace and friendship : proceedings of the Second National Congress of
Peace and Friendship
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S
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Hammond, J. L., and Barbara, John Lawrence, 1872-1949
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The town labourer 1760-1832 : the new civilisation
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R
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Sacks, George
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The Jewish question
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E
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September
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Brady, Robert A.
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The spirit and structure of German fascism
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Harrisson, Tom, 1911-1976
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Savage civilisation
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A
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Macardle, Dorothy
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The Irish Repuiblic
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S
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Strachey, John, 1901-1963
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The coming struggle for power
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R
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Gillespie, James
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An introduction to economic botany
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E
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October
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Snow, Edgar, 1905-1972
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Red star over China
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Webb, Sidney and Beatrice
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Soviet Communism: A New Civilisation?
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R
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Arnot, R. Page, Robert Page, 1890-1986
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A short history of the Russian Revolution : from 1905 to the present day
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E
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November
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Hannington, Wal
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The problem of the distressed areas / with a preface by
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Sigerist, Henry E.
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Socialised medicine in the Soviet Union
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A
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Clark, F. Le Gros and Ida
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The Adventures of the Little Pig and Other Stories
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S
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Acland, Richard
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Only one battle
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T
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Loewenstein, Prince, Hubertus, 1906-1984
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A Catholic in republican Spain
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T
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Tawney, R. H., Richard Henry, 1880-1962
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The acquisitive society
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R
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Lewis, John, 1889-
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Introduction to philosophy
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E
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December
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Koestler, Arthur, 1905-1983
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Spanish testament
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Fraser, Geoffrey
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Leon Blum : Man and statesman : the only authorised biography
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A
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Arnot, R. Page, Robert Page, 1890-1986
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A short history of the Russian Revolution : from 1905 to the present day
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E
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January
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Levy, Hyman
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A philosophy for a modern man
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1938
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Daiches, David, 1912-
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Literature and society
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A
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Hirschfeld, Magnus
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Racism / translated and edited by Eden and Cedar Paul
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S
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Huberman, Leo
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The labour spy racket
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S
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Baker, Joseph
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The Law of Political Uniforms, Public Meetings and Private Armies
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S
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Rathbone, Eleanor F.
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War can be averted : the achievability of collective security
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T
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Collier, Henry
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An interpretation of biology
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E
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February
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Belfrage, Cedric
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Promised land : notes for a history
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Petersen, Jan
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Our street : a chronicle written in the heart of fascist Germany
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S
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Hunter, Neil
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Peasantry and crisis in France
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S
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Farrington, Benjamin, 1891-1974
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The civilisation of Greece and Rome
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E
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March
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Strachey, John, 1901-1963
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What are we to do?
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Allen, Frederick
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Can capitalism last?
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A
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The left song book / editors Alan Bush & Randall Swingler / assisted by
members of the Workers' Music Association
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S
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Mahon, John A.
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Trade unionism
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E
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April
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Brontman, L.
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On top of the world : the soviet expedition to the North pole 1937
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Osborn, Reuben
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The psychology of reaction
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A
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Thompson, W. H.
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Civil liberties
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E
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May
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Morton, A. L., Arthur Leslie, 1903-1987
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A people's history of England
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Jewkes, John and Sylvia
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The juvenile labour market
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A
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Vigilantes
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Why the League has failed
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E
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June
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Freeman, Joseph, 1897-1965
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An American testament : a narrative of rebels and romantics
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Jellinek, Frank
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The civil war in Spain
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A
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Young, Edgar P.
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Czechoslovakia : keystone of peace and democracy
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S
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Crowther, J. G., James Gerald, 1899-
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Science and life
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E
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July
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A Barrister (Mavis Hill)
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Justice in England / by a barrister
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Kolnai, Aurel
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The war against the West
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A
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Timperley, H. J.
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What war means : the Japanese terror in China: a documentary record
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T
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Salvemini, Gaetano
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Italian fascism
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E
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August
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Jones, F. Elwyn
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The battle for peace
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Fagan, Hyman
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Nine days that shook England : an account of the English people's uprising in
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A
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Brailsford, H. N.
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Why capitalism means war
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E
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Haldane, J. B. S., John Burdon Sanderson, 1892-1964
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A.R.P
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Duncan-Jones, A. S., Arthur Stuart
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The struggle for religious freedom in Germany
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A
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Hannington, Wal
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A short history of the unemployed
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E
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Greaves, H.R.G. & Thomson, David
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The truth about Spain
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P
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October
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Vespa, Amleto
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Secret agent of Japan : a handbook to Japanese imperialism / with an
introduction by
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Birtles, Bert
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Exiles in the Aegean : a personal narrative of Greek politics and travel
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A
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Janowsky, Oscar I.
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People at bay : the Jewish problem in East-Central Europe
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S
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Bibby, H. C.
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The evolution of man and his culture
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E
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November
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Allan, Seema Rynin
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Comrades and citizens : [Soviet people]
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Bartlett, Francis H.
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Sigmund Freud : a Marxian essay
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A
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Rowland, John
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Understanding the atom
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E
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Haldane, J.B.S.
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How to be safe from air raids
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P
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December
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Smedley, Agnes, 1892-1950
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China fights back : an American woman with the Eighth Route Army
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Poems of freedom / edited by John Mulgan
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A
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Moore, W. G.
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The geography of capitalism
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E
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1939
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January
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Addison, Christopher, Viscount Addison
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A policy for British agriculture / by Lord Addison of Stallingborough
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Joesten, Joachim
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Denmark's day of doom
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A
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January
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Swingler, Stephen
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An outline of political thought since the French revolution
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E
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February
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Gedye, G. E. R., George Eric Rowe
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Fallen bastions : the Central European tragedy
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Campbell, John Ross
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Soviet policy and its critics
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A
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Morris, Max, 1913-
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The people's schools
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E
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March
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Barnes, Leonard, 1895-
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Empire or democracy? : a study of the colonial question
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Vigilantes
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Why we are losing the peace : the National Government's foreign policy: its
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A
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Needham, Joseph, 1900-
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The Levellers and the English Revolution / by Henry Holorenshaw [i.e. Joseph
Needham]
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E
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Johnson, Hewlett
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Act now: An appeal to the mind and heart of Britain
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P
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April
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Werner, Max
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The military strength of the powers
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Schaffer, Gordon
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Riches and poverty
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E
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Gollancz, Victor
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Is Mr. Chamberlain saving peace?
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P
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May
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Blanco White, Amber
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The new propaganda
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Segal, Charles S.
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Penn'orth of chips : backward children in the making
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A
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Beck, Alan, 1912-
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Chemistry : a survey
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E
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June
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Coombes, Bert Lewis
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These poor hands : the autobiography of a miner working in South Wales
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Stewart, Neil
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Blanqui
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A
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Burns, Emile
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What is Marxism?
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E
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July
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Haxey, Simon
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Tory M.P.
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Schmidt, Carl T.
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The corporate state in action : Italy under fascism
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A
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Bibby, H. C.
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Heredity, eugenics and social progress
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E
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August
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Simon, Ernest Darwin, Baron Simon of Wythenshawe
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The smaller democracies
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Kuczynski, Jurgen
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The condition of the workers in Great Britain, Germany and the Soviet Union,
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Davies, Ernest
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"National" capitalism : the government's record as protector of
private monopoly
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A
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Stone, Hannah & Abraham
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A marriage manual
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S
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September
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Wilkinson, Ellen, 1891-1947
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The town that was murdered : the life-story of Jarrow
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Gruber, Ruth, 1911-
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I went to the Soviet Arctic
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A
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October
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Rader, Melvin, 1903-1981
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No compromise : the conflict between two worlds
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Ripka, Hubert
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Munich, before and after : a fully documented Czechoslovak account of the
crisis
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A
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November
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Woolf, Leonard, 1880-1969
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Barbarians at the gate
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Cole, G.D.H.
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War aims
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December
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Johnson, Hewlett, 1874-1966
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The socialist sixth of the world
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1940
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January
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Strachey, John, 1901-1963
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A programme for progress
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February
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Belfrage, Cedric
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Let my people go
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March
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Hannington, Wal
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Ten lean years : an examination of the record of the National Government in
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April
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Frölich, Paul
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Rosa Luxemburg : her life and work
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May
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Dutt, Rajani Palme
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India to-day
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June
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Verulam, Frank
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Production for the people
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July
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Burdekin, Katharine, 1896-1963
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Swastika night / by Murray Constantine
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August
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Huberman, Leo
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"We, the people"
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September
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Strachey, John, 1901-1963
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Federalism or Socialism?
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October
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Petegorsky, David W.
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Left-wing democracy in the English Civil War : a study of the social
philosophy
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November
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Laurat, Lucien
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Marxism and democracy
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December
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Paul, Oscar
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Farewell, France! : an eye-witness account of her tragedy
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1941
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January
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Strachey, John, 1901-1963
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A faith to fight for
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February
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Pied Piper
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Rats! / by the Pied Piper [i.e. J. P. W. Mallalieu]
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ed. Victor Gollancz
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The betrayal of the left : an examination & refutation of communist policy
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A
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March
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Snow, Edgar, 1905-1972
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Scorched earth, Pt. 1
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Dodd, William E., William Edward, 1869-1940
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Ambassador Dodd's diary 1933-1938
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A
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April
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Snow, Edgar, 1905-1972
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Scorched earth, Pt. 2
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Populus
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My dear Churchill, and other open letters to persons in authority
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A
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May
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Koestler, Arthur, 1905-1983
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Scum of the earth
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June
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Werner, Max
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Battle for the world : the strategy and diplomacy of the Second World War /
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July
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Evans, Jon
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The Nazi new order in Poland
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August
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Maynard, Sir, John
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Russia in flux : before October
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September
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Edelman, Maurice
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Production for victory, not profit!
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October
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Cole, G. D. H., George Douglas Howard, 1889-1959
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Europe, Russia and the future
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November
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Torrès, Henry
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Pierre Laval
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December
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Acland, Richard
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What it will be like in the new Britain
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1942
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January
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Deva, Jaya
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Japan's Kampf
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February
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Smith, Aubrey Douglas
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Guilty Germans?
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March
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Paul, Oscar
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Underground Europe calling
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April
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Oliveira, A. Ramos
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A people's history of Germany / translated by Eileen
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May
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Davies, Joseph E., Joseph Edward, 1876-1958
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Mission to Moscow : a record of confidential dispatches to the State
Department
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June
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Davies, Joseph E., Joseph Edward, 1876-1958
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Mission to Moscow : a record of confidential dispatches to the State
Department
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July
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