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The Idea of India: 20th Anniversary Edition
$12.00
Author: Sunil Khilnani Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A classic since it was first published in 1997, The Idea of India is a magisterial historical study that...
Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
Author: Mike Massimino Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Mike Massimino's compelling memoir takes us on a brilliant journey where the nerdiest science meets the most thrilling adventure to reveal...
Out of the Box: The crazy true story of the Australian champion athlete who posted himself home, became a drug smuggler and found himself on death row in a Sri Lankan prison
Author: Julie McSorley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Reg Spiers arrived in England in 1964 as a world-class athlete. He returned to Australia in a box ... ALIVE! And...
The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground: A Memoir
$17.50
Author: Justus Rosenberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "Thrillingly tells the story of an Eastern European Jew's flight from the Holocaust and the years he spent fighting in the...
(R)evolution: The Autobiography
Author: Gary Numan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 A Daily Mail 'best TV and showbiz memoir' for 2020 From humble beginnings in Middlesex, where money was scarce but dreams...
Antiquity Matters
Author: Frederic Raphael Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 376 A sharp, often surprising, view of the classical world by a major classics scholar at Cambridge and author of The Glittering...
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
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Author: Laurence Rees Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 An award-winning historian plumbs the depths of Hitler and Stalin's vicious regimes, and shows the extent to which they brutalized the...
Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future
Author: Chun Han Wong Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 'Compelling and informative... a useful gateway into [Xi Jinping's] mind' Rana Mitter, Literary Review From one of the most admired...
Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
Author: Mike Duncan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Few in history can match the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette. Over fifty incredible years at the heart of...
Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome
Author: Guy de la Bedoyere Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient world Living...
SAS Forged in Hell: From Desert Rats to Dogs of War: The Mavericks who Made the SAS
Author: Damien Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A Waterstones Best History Book of 2023 The incredible true story of the SAS' daring mission to liberate Europe In the...
In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust
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Author: Jeffrey Veidlinger Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD * SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE "The mass killings of Jews from 1918...
Ferdinand Magellan (Little Guides to Great Lives)
Author: Isabel Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 Explorer, sailor and navigator, Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition to sail all the way around the world. He encountered lands...
New York Fashion
Author: Simon Murray Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Vintage glasses of all shapes, styles and sizes - the very best of 20th- and 21st-century spectacle design for fashion designers,...
Access All Areas: A Backstage Pass Through 50 Years of Music And Culture
Author: Barbara Charone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 First as a journalist and then a publicist at Warner Brothers Records for nearly twenty years, Barbara Charone has experienced, first-hand,...
The Fighter of Auschwitz: The incredible true story of Leen Sanders who boxed to help others survive
Author: Erik Brouwer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 **A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'He had the dream again last night... He taps the gloves of his unbeaten Polish opponent. There...
The Good Germans: Resisting the Nazis, 1933-1945
Author: Catrine Clay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 After 1933, as the brutal terror regime took hold, most of the two-thirds of Germans who had never voted for the...
Hit The Target: Eight Men Who Led the Eighth Air Force to Victory Over the Luftwaffe
Author: Bill Yenne Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 370 From Bill Yenne, author of the military histories Big Week and Aces High, come the stirring true story of the Eight...
Luck of the Draw: My Story of the Air War in Europe - A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Author: Frank Murphy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Beginning on August 17, 1942, American heavy bomber crews of the Eighth Air Force took off for combat in the hostile...
ISIS: A History
Author: Fawaz A. Gerges Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The Islamic State stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. However, its most striking and...
Hitler's British Isles
Author: Duncan Barrett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 True-life recollections from the Channel Islanders who were the only British subjects to live under Nazi rule in WWII. 'Barrett has...
Dunkirk to D-Day: A Commando's War
Author: Jeff Steel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 360 Another rip-roaring World War II history by prize-winning author Jeff Steel. Bill Adlam's hair-raising escape from Dunkirk, his dramatic commando raids...
To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876
Author: Bret Baier Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 #1 New York Times Bestseller Fox News Channel's Chief Political Anchor illuminates the heroic life of Ulysses S. Grant "To Rescue...
Adventures on Earth
Author: Simon Tyler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 Graphic illustrator Simon Tyler explores the extremes of our planet - and the people who venture there - in his bold...
The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy
Author: John Henry Phillips Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 When archaeologist John Henry Phillips volunteered with a charity that took D-Day veterans back to Normandy, due to an administrative...
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
$22.50
Author: Jung Chang Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled through a hundred years of wars, revolutions and seismic...
Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Author: Madeleine Pelling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 What if walls could talk? For historian Madeleine Pelling, they can - if you know where to look. A brilliant new...
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker
Author: Alice Walker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 'These journals are a revelation, a road map and a gift to us all' TAYARI JONES, author of An American Marriage...
Mates: The Friendship that Sustained Henry Lawson
Author: Dr Gregory Bryan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Henry Lawson gave voice to a uniquely Australian identity and much of the Australian ethos of mateship was...
The Hitler Years: Disaster, 1940-1945
Author: Frank McDonough Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 656 The Second Volume of a new chronicle of the Third Reich under Hitler's hand, ending with his death and Germany's disastrous...
Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut
Author: Elsa Richardson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A Financial Times most anticipated read for 2024'A brilliant new cultural history of the gut' Daily Mail'A fascinating, erudite and entertaining...
The Price of Victory: The Red Army's Casualties in the Great Patriotic War
Author: Boris Kavalerchik Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 193 The Red Army's casualties during the Second World War and the casualties sustained by the German army they fought are a...
Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World
Author: John Walsh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young...
A Brief History of Khubilai Khan
Author: Jonathan Clements Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 His grandfather was the bloodthirsty Mongol leader Genghis Khan, his mother a Christian princess. Groomed from childhood for a position of...
1918: The Year of Victories
Author: Martin Marix Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 1918 examines both the Germans' tactics and the Allies' preferred solution to fighting this war, the combination of...
John Law: A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century
Author: James Buchan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 At the summit of his power, John Law was the most famous man in Europe. Born in Scotland in...
Expertise, Authority and Control: The Australian Army Medical Corps in
Author: Alexia Moncrieff (University of Leeds) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 236 Expertise, Authority and Control charts the development of Australian military medicine in the First World War in the...
The Mafia at War: Allied Collusion with the Mob
Author: Tim Newark Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The Mafia is the most powerful criminal organisation the world has ever known. This book tells the epic story of how...
Chiang Kai-Shek versus Tse-Tung: The Battle for China 1946 - 1949
Author: Philip Jowett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 This volume in the Images of War series is the first photographic history of the Chinese Civil War, fought between Chiang...
Great Scientists Wage the Great War
Author: William Van Der Kloot Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Six men made major scientific breakthroughs during the First World War and in doing so altered its course. Lawrence...
Bold Venture: The American Bombing of Japanese-Occupied Hong Kong, 1942-1945
Author: Steven K Bailey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Bold Venture tells an important and riveting untold wartime story of the American airmen who flew combat missions over Hong...
War and Peace: Fdr's Final Odyssey: D-Day to Yalta, 1943-1945
$17.50
Author: Nigel Hamilton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 To mark the 75th Anniversary of D-Day, the stirring climax to Nigel Hamilton's three-part saga of FDR at war--proof that he...
Electronically Yours: Vol. I: My Autobiography
Author: Martyn Ware Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 This is a music autobiography to remember. This is the story of Martyn Ware. The Human League and Heaven 17 were...
Lives Reclaimed: A Story of Rescue and Resistance in Nazi Germany
$15.00
Author: Mark Roseman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From the celebrated historian of Nazi Germany, the story of a remarkable but completely unsung group that risked everything to help...
On the Edge: Ireland's off-shore islands: a modern history
Author: Diarmaid Ferriter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The islands off the coast of Ireland have long been a source of fascination. Seen as repositories of an ancient Irish...
Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
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Author: Hilary Spurling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The author of the award-winning Matisse: A Life gives us the definitive biography of writer Anthony Powell--and takes us deep into...
The Demon of Unrest: Abraham Lincoln & America's Road to Civil War
Author: Erik Larson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between...
Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East
Author: Robert Fisk Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 672 'ROBERT FISK HAS BEEN REPORTING FROM THE MIDDLE EAST WITH INCOMPARABLE DEPTH AND UNDERSTANDING...AND EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE' NOAM CHOMSKY In this final...