Publisher SeriesPenguin Special

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Germany puts the clock back by Edgar Ansel Mowrer 44 copiesS1
Mussolini's Roman Empire by G. T. Garratt 32 copies, 2 reviewsS2
Blackmail or war by Genevieve Tabouis 25 copiesS3
Searchlight on Spain by Katharine Marjory Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl 25 copiesS4
Ballet by Arnold L. Haskell 79 copiesS5
Modern German art [A Pelican special]. by Peter Thoene 20 copiesS6
China struggles for unity by J.M.D. Pringle 6 copiesS7
The air defence of Britain by Lionel Evelyn Oswald Charlton 9 copiesS8
Europe and the Czechs by S. Grant Duff 25 copiesS9
The Jewish Problem by Louis Golding 44 copiesS10
Literary Taste: How to Form It With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature by Arnold Bennett 141 copies, 5 reviewsS11
The Mortal Storm by Phyllis Bottome 58 copies, 3 reviewsS12
What Hitler Wants by E. O. Lorimer 11 copies, 1 reviewS13
Mowrer in China by Edgar Ansel Mowrer 6 copiesS14
One Man Against Europe by Konrad Heiden 13 copiesS15
Blue Angels and Whales by Robert Gibbings 21 copies, 1 reviewS16
Warning from the West Indies by W. M. Macmillan 9 copies, 1 reviewS17
The great illusion - now by Norman Angell 12 copiesS18
The press by Henry Wickham Steed 22 copiesS20
Ourselves and Germany by Charles Stewart Henry Vane Tempest Stewart, Marquis of Londonderry. 4 copiesS21
Design (Pelican Special no.22) by Anthony Bertram 26 copiesS22
They Betrayed Czechoslovakia by G. J. George 6 copiesS24
I was Hitler's prisoner: Leaves from a prison diary by Stefan Lorant 17 copies, 1 reviewS25
Between 2 Wars? by Vigilantes 5 copiesS26
Britain's Health by S. Mervyn Herbert 4 copiesS27
Microbes by the Million by Hugh Nicol 15 copiesS28
You and the Refugee, The morals and economics of the problem, Penguin Special by Norman Angell 12 copiesS29
Germany what next? Penguin Special No S30 by Richard Keane 3 copiesS30
Why war? (Penguin special) by C. E. M. Joad 8 copiesS31
Our Food Problem and Its Relation to Our National Defences by F. Le Gros Clark 5 copiesS32
The New German Empire by Franz Borkenau 9 copiesS33
Poland by W.J. Rose 8 copies, 1 reviewS34
A hundred years of photography, 1839-1939 by Lucia Moholy 19 copies, 1 reviewS35
The attack from within; the modern technique of aggression, by Frederick Elwyn Jones 14 copiesS36
The Good Soldier Schweik - a Penguin Special by Jaroslav ; Illus by Joseph Lada; Haslek 3 copiesS37
British agriculture : the principles of future policy by Viscount Astor 7 copiesS38
The Suez Canal by Hugh Joseph Schonfield 11 copiesS39
Opera by Edward J. Dent 104 copies, 1 reviewS40
Light on Moscow ; Soviet policy analysed, with a new chapter on Finland by D. N. Pritt 15 copiesS44
Documents concerning German-Polish relations and the outbreak of hostilities between Great Britain and Germany on September 3, 1939 by Great Britain. Foreign Office 47 copiesS45
Why Britain Is At War by Harold Nicolson 37 copies, 1 reviewS47
The Penguin Political Dictionary : An ABC Of International Affairs by Walter Theimer 20 copiesS48
Must the War Spread? by D. N. Pritt 7 copies, 1 reviewS51
Good God by John Hadham 11 copiesS55
Why Freedom Matters by Norman Angell 4 copiesS62
Organised Labour in the War, A Penguin Special, foreword by Rt HonErnest Bevin,MP by John Price 5 copies, 1 reviewS70
New ways of war ... by Tom Wintringham 18 copiesS75
The real cost of the war, Penguin Special by J. Keith Horsefield 5 copiesS76
Russia by Bernard Pares 43 copiesS81
A Dictionary of Science by E. B. Uvarov 222 copiesS111
An ABC of the Pacific, by Dorothy Woodman 8 copiesS114
What the Church Teaches by A. W. F. Blunt 10 copies, 1 reviewS125
Memorandum outlining a plan of economic development for India by Purshotamdas Thakurdas 1 copyS148
Lend-Lease: Weapon for Victory by Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. 28 copiesS150
TVA : democracy on the march by David E. Lilienthal 50 copiesS151
The Profumo Affair: Aspects of Conservatism by Wayland Young 20 copies, 1 reviewS152
Politics Made Plain by T. L. Horabin 12 copies, 1 reviewS154
I choose peace by Konni Zilliacus 9 copiesS157
The Communist Technique in Britain by Bob Darke 9 copiesS160
Peaceful coexistence by Andrew Rothstein 7 copiesS162
Communism and Christianity by Martin Cyril D'Arcy 31 copies, 1 reviewS163
A Penguin Special British Economic Policy Since the War by Andrew Shonfield 0 copiesS170
The Liberal Case by Roger Fulford 8 copiesS176
The Labour case (Penguin specials series) by Roy Jenkins 10 copiesS177
The Conservative Case by Viscount Hailsham 11 copies, 1 reviewS178
Khrushchev's Russia by Edward Crankshaw 97 copies, 1 reviewS182
Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists by Robert Jungk 420 copies, 10 reviewsS184
Must Labour Lose? by Mark Abrams 7 copies, 1 reviewS188
Congo Disaster by Colin Legum 16 copiesS191
Hanged in error by Leslie Hale 10 copies, 1 reviewS196
Hanged by the neck : an exposure of capital punishment in England by Arthur Koestler 66 copies, 3 reviewsS197
What's Wrong with the Church? by Nick Earle 7 copiesS199
What's That Plane? the Handbook for Practical Aircraft Identification by Walter B. Pitkin, Jr. 12 copiesS201
Guilty Land by Patrick Van Rensburg 10 copiesS205
Has Man a Future? by Bertrand Russell 169 copies, 1 reviewS206
Communications by Raymond Williams 108 copiesS207
Christianity and Social Order by William Temple 135 copiesA207
Berlin : Hostage for the West by John Mander 13 copiesS209
Britain in the Sixties: the Family and Marriage. An analysis and moral assessment (Penguin Special. no. 210.) by Ronald Fletcher 1 copyS210
Unarmed Victory by Bertrand Russell 51 copiesS220
Traffic in Towns by Colin Buchanan 27 copiesS228
The Police by Ben Whitaker 6 copiesS232
The new Britain: Labour's plan by Harold Wilson 11 copies, 1 reviewS237
The other England (Britain in the Sixties series) by Geoffrey Moorhouse 20 copies, 1 reviewS239
Vietnam: History, Documents, and Opinions on a Major World Crisis by Marvin E. Gettleman 100 copies, 1 reviewS246
The Politics of Harold Wilson by Paul Foot 22 copiesS265
Student Power: Problems, Diagnosis, Action by Alexander Cockburn 47 copies, 1 reviewS266
America : The Mixed Curse by Andrew Kopkind 12 copiesS272
The Rise of Enoch Powell by Paul Foot 29 copiesS279
Poverty: the forgotten Englishmen by Ken Coates 19 copiesS280
How to Play the Environment Game (A Penguin special) by Theo Crosby 17 copiesS304
Women's rights : a practical guide by Anna Coote 18 copies, 2 reviewsS305
Your Disobedient Servant by Leslie Chapman 22 copies, 1 reviewS331
Heroin: Chasing the Dragon by Justine Picardie 3 copies

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Topical, quickly-produced series launched by Penguin Books in the 1930s. It continued (with a break) until the 1970s, with the distinctive S catalogue number. Revived in the 2000s -- see Penguin Specials (new series). (English, Unclassified)

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English: A Penguin Special, Penguin Specials

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