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Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast
Author: Marjoleine Kars Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize Winner of the 2021 Frederick Douglass Prize 'A richly detailed account of a gripping...
Paris '44: The Shame and the Glory
Author: Patrick Bishop Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 From the Sunday Times-bestselling author, comes a heart-stopping countdown narrative recreating the liberation of Paris in 1944, one of the great...
Chamber Divers
Author: Rachel Lance Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 The untold story of the D-Day scientists who changed special operations forever. 'Fascinating...a great historical military account and essential reading' John...
Free Market: The History of an Idea
Author: Jacob Soll Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 After two government bailouts of the American economy in less than twenty years, free market thought is due for serious reappraisal....
Morrissey: Alone and Palely Loitering
Author: Kevin Cummins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'One of the greatest music photographers of all time...this book is indispensable to anyone who is a fan of Morrissey, or...
Five Love Affairs and a Friendship: The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age
Author: Anne de Courcy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Born in March 1896, Nancy Cunard was a great beauty, rich, promiscuous, with a mesmeric effect on men. She was...
No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape from the Nazis, 'utterly
Author: Chris Heath Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 'A stunning book, a powerful investigation, utterly compelling,' James Holland, The Daily Telegraph, Five stars 'Terrifying' Simon Schama Ponar, Lithuania. 1944....
Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain
Author: Matthew Green Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the forgotten history of Britain's lost cities, ghost...
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
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Author: Laurence Rees Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 "Laurence Rees brilliantly combines powerful eye-witness testimony, vivid narrative and compelling analysis in this superb account of how two terrible dictators...
Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
Author: Nadia Wassef Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'Nadia's story is for every business owner who has ever jumped without a net, and for every reader who has found...
Brutus of Troy: And the Quest for the Ancestry of the British
Author: Anthony Adolph Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Just who did the British think they were? For much of the last 1,500 years, when the British looked back to...
Beetle: The Life of General Walter Bedell Smith
Author: D.K.R. Crosswell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 1088 A valued adviser and trusted insider in the highest echelon of U.S. military and political leaders, General Walter Bedell Smith began...
I Have a Dream
Author: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Introducing the Martin Luther King Jr Library With a New Foreword by Amanda Gorman A beautiful collectible edition...
Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
Author: Larry Tye Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 The definitive biography of the most dangerous demagogue in American history, based on exclusive access to his papers and recently unsealed...
Five Love Affairs and a Friendship: The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age
Author: Anne de Courcy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Dazzlingly beautiful, highly intelligent and an extraordinary force of energy, Nancy Cunard was an icon of the Jazz Age, said...
My Encounters with Minibeasts: From Purple Moonbeams to Itchy Cows
Author: Densey Clyne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 My Encounters with Minibeasts is a collection of stories about insects and spiders by naturalist Densey Clyne, who is...
The Siege: The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama
Author: Ben Macintyre Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Britain's best-selling historian writes the first definitive account of the famous televised SAS storming of the Iranian embassy in London in...
The Tango War: The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America During World War II
Author: Mary Jo McConahay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The Tango War fills an important gap in WWII history. Beginning in the thirties, both sides were well aware of...
A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine - As heard
Author: Andrew Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 It's March 2022 and Russian tanks are roaring across the vast, snow-dusted fields of Ukraine. Their destination: Voznesensk, a town with...
The Missing Thread: A New History of the Ancient World Through the Women Who Shaped It
Author: Daisy Dunn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 'A brilliant concept, executed with enviable elegance' Lucy Worsley 'A gem of a book. Thanks to Daisy Dunn's elegant and lively...
The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal
Author: Simon Parkin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 The police came for Peter Fleischmann in the early hours. It reminded the teenager of the Gestapo's moonlit roundups he had...
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023. A Waterstones Book of the Year 2023. An Economist Book of...
Song Full Of Tears: Nine Centuries Of Chinese Life Around Xiang Lake
Author: R. Keith Schoppa Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 312 Combining evocative historical description and cogent analysis, Song Full of Tears is a chronicle of nine hundred years of life...
Hell Is Round the Corner: The Unique No-Holds Barred Autobiography
Author: Tricky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Tricky is one of the most original music artists to emerge from the UK in the past 30 years. His signature technique...
The Traitor of Colditz: The Definitive Untold Account of Colditz Castle: 'Truly revelatory' Damien Lewis
Author: Robert Verkaik Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 THE GRIPPING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A vastly entertaining tale, bursting with astonishing stories and extraordinary characters ... A fascinating read' Sunday...
With Napoleon's Guns: The Military Memoirs of an Officer of the First Empire
Author: Jean-Nicolas-Auguste Noel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In 1795 the year Napoleon Bonaparte was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the French army in Italy the seventeen-year-old Jean-Nicolas-Auguste Noel entered the...
Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen
Author: Greg Jenner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 During these extraordinary times Greg Jenner is able to sign you a personalised bookplate for your hardback. Please email info@gregjenner.com with...
The Waiting Game
Author: Nicola Clark Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Written in a lively, accessible style, The Waiting Game is full of insight' Suzannah Lipscomb, Literary Review Every Tudor Queen had...
The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler
Author: Robert Hutton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Cairo, 1942: If you had asked a British officer who Colonel Clarke was, they would have been able to point him...
Mary Churchill's War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill's Youngest Daughter
Author: Emma Soames Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'A daily love letter from a brave young woman to her adored father . . . immensely evocative of...
Ready for a Brand New Beat: How "Dancing in the Street" Became the Anthem for a Changing America
Author: Mark Kurlansky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Ready for a Brand New Beat chronicles that extraordinary summer of 1964 and showcases the momentous role that a simple song...
Forgotten Warriors: The Long History of Women in Combat
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Author: Sarah Percy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The definitive history of women in war, revealing how women have always been an essential part of combat From Boudicca's rebellion...
The Cleopatras: Discover the powerful story of the seven queens of
Author: Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'A thrilling biography, filled with the imperial ambitions and merciless intrigues' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE Cleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt's greatest...
Last Stands: Why Men Fight When All Is Lost
Author: Michael Walsh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 What is heroism? What are its moral components-altruism, love, self-sacrifice? Why was it once celebrated, and now often dismissed as anachronistic?...
Disaster in the Far East 1941-1942
Author: John Grehan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 516 Dispatches in this volume include that on the Far East between October 1940 and December 1941, by Air Chief Marshal Sir...
Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic: Voices from History
Author: Peter Furtado Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Humanity has always been struck by pestilence and pandemics, from the plagues of ancient Egypt to the pox that ravaged Europe...
On Every Tide: The making and remaking of the Irish world
Author: Sean Connolly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 ON EVERY TIDE is a wide-ranging and challenging reassessment of the Irish diaspora. Drawing on the latest ground-breaking research, and his...
Hot Carbon: Carbon-14 and a Revolution in Science
Author: Professor John Marra Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 There are few fields of science that carbon-14 has not touched. A radioactive isotope of carbon, it stands out for...
The Allies: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Unlikely Alliance That Won World War II
Author: Winston Groom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Best-selling author Winston Groom tells the complex story of how Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin--the three iconic and vastly...
The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton: A 19th Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women
Author: Lady Antonia Fraser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Before biography was fashionable, Antonia Fraser made the past popular' Guardian 'As a pure storyteller, Antonia Fraser has few equals'...
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
Author: Peniel Joseph Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense versus nonviolence, Black Power versus civil rights,...
N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia
Author: Mark Piesing Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 "GRIPPING. ... One of the greatest polar rescue efforts ever mounted." -Wall Street Journal The riveting true story of the largest...
Battle for the Crimea 1941 - 1944: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Author: Anthony Tucker-Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 The selection of over 150 rare wartime photographs in this volume in Pen & Sword's Images of War series offers a...
Sword: D-Day - Trial by Battle
Author: Max Hastings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times and Waterstones Book of the Year 'The messy, dirty, bloody reality of Operation Overlord comes...
Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets: Life in the village hardware shop
Author: Tom Fort Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'A hymn to hardware, charming, lyrical' - The Sunday Times, BOOK OF THE WEEK 'A paean to DIY' - The Times...
Three-a-Penny: Radio 4 Book of the Week
Author: Lucy Malleson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A rediscovered classic memoir - a fascinating insight into the life of a crime writer during and after the...
The Sunday Times A Life in the Day: Words of wisdom and domestic details from the rich and famous
Author: Richard Woods Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Meet 100 of the most remarkable people from The Sunday Times Magazine's acclaimed column, A Life in the Day. Wonderfully intimate,...
A History of Royal Britain in 100 Objects
Author: Gill Knappett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 126 From the glory of coronation regalia to coins, from imposing statues to stamps, from distinguished medals to monuments, and from beautiful...