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The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti: IBM, the CIA, and the Cold War Conspiracy to Shut Down Production of the World's First Desktop Computer
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Author: Meryle Secrest Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The never-before-told true account of the design and development of the first desktop computer by the world's most famous high-styled typewriter...
Undreamed Shores: The Hidden Heroines of British Anthropology
Author: Nick Frost Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'No life can really be all black, right? Even during the darkest times, what got me through that bleakness...
You Goddess!: Lessons in Being Legendary from Awesome Immortals
Author: Elizabeth Foley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Why settle for mere mortal excellence when you could be living like a goddess? You Goddess! takes us on a colourful...
Genuine Authentic: The Real Life of Ralph Lauren
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Author: Michael Gross (Oxford UK) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A fascinating and comprehensive look into the life of American fashion designer Ralph Lauren, now with an...
Young Prince Philip: His Turbulent Early Life
Author: Philip Eade Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'The narrative is as suspenseful as any thriller. Truly, an excellent read' Lynn Barber, Sunday Times Married for almost...
Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History
$15.00
Author: Sunil Amrith (University of Cambridge) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 From a MacArthur Genius, a bold new perspective on the history of Asia, highlighting the long quest to...
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...
A Naval History of the Peloponnesian War: Ships, Men and Money in the War at Sea, 431-404 BC
Author: Marc G. DeSantis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 261 Naval power played a vital role in the Peloponnesian War. The conflict pitted Athens against a powerful coalition including the...
The Good Germans: Resisting the Nazis, 1933-1945
Author: Catrine Clay Format: Paperback 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...
The Hidden History of America at War: Untold Tales from Yorktown to Fallujah
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Author: Kenneth C Davis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Multi-million-copy bestselling historian Kenneth C. Davis sets his sights on war stories in The Hidden History of America at War....
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...
Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
Author: Richard Cohen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 784 MAKING HISTORY is an epic exploration of who writes about the past and how the biases of certain storytellers - whether...
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...
A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain
Author: Paul Preston (London School of Economics) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 768 The culmination of a half-century of historical investigation, A People Betrayed is not only a definitive history...
The Wood Age: How one material shaped the whole of human history
Author: Roland Ennos Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 When our ancestors came down from the trees, they brought the trees with them and remade the world. 'A stunning book...
Trading Territories: Mapping the Early Modern World
Author: Jerry Brotton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Trading Territories tells the compelling story of maps and geographical knowledge in the early modern world from the fifteenth to the...
The Orange Balloon Dog: Bubbles, Turmoil and Avarice in the Contemporary Art Market
Author: Erik Hornung Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 This volume accompanies an exhibition of the same name, which includes artefacts from nearly 2000 years before the Christian era. Objects...
Rome: Eternal City
Author: Ferdinand Addis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 648 A portrait of the city at the heart of Western civilization, brought to life in twenty-two scenes from its 2,500-year history....
White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain's Legacy of Slavery
Author: Thomas Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 When Thomas Harding discovered that his mother's family had made money from plantations worked by enslaved people, what began as an...
My Nonidentical Twin: One ordinary girl. One life-changing condition. How Tourette's changes your world.
Author: Evie Meg - This Trippy Hippie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 *Order now to read the long-awaited debut book from the huge TikTok sensation Evie Meg | This...
Charles II's Favourite Mistress: Pretty, Witty Nell Gwyn
Author: Sarah-Beth Watkins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Nell Gwyn, the most infamous mistress of Charles II, was a commoner raised from the dingy back alleys of London to...
Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia
Author: Jeevan Vasagar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Lion City tells the extraordinary story of Singapore - the world's most successful city state. In 1965, Singapore's GDP per capita...
Fire And Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943
Author: John C. McManus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 An engrossing, epic history of the US Army in the Pacific War "Out here, mention is seldom seen of the...
Strategist in Exile
Author: Rainer Nickel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Thucydides was the chronicler of the almost 30-year long Peloponnesian war, which came to a close with Sparta's victory over Athens...
Siege of Brest 1941
Author: Rostislav Aliev Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 235 On 22 June 1941, soon after 3am, the first German shells smashed into the Soviet frontier fortress of Brest Hitler's Operation...
A Cruel Captivity: Prisoners of the Japanese-Their Ordeal and The Legacy
Author: Ellie Taylor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Carefully and sensitively researched, A Cruel Captivity describes the ordeals of, and lasting impact on, survivors of Japanese captivity. Differing in...
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 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...
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Author: Anderson Cooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to...
Behind the Crown: My Life Photographing the Royal Family
Author: Arthur Edwards Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 For 45 years I've chronicled the Royal Family for the Sun newspaper with my camera. I've witnessed their triumphs and disasters,...
The Warrior and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation
Author: Peter Cozzens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 'Marvellous... One of the best pieces of Native American history I have read.' - S.C. Gwynne, bestselling author of Empire of...
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...
Glass: The life and art of Klaus Moje
Author: Nola Anderson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'It is always based on what I see, what is touching me.' For more than fifty years, Klaus Moje devoted his...
Between Friends: Letters of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby
Author: Elaine Showalter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 These fascinating letters between Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby tell the story of an extraordinary friendship. 'A beautiful collection' Daisy Dunn,...
Firepower: How Weapons Shaped Warfare
Author: Paul Lockhart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 The history of warfare cannot be fully understood without considering the technology of killing. In Firepower, acclaimed historian Paul Lockhart tells...
City of Light: The Making of Modern Paris
$25.00
Author: Rupert Christiansen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century reinvention of Paris as the most beautiful, exciting city in the world In 1853, French...
Henry Viii Revealed: the Legacy of Holbein's Portraits
Author: Xanthe Brooke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 Hans Holbein's portrait of Henry VIII perished in fire in 1698, yet has remained the definitive image of the English monarch,...
When We Rise: My Life in the Movement
Author: Cleve Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was part of the last generation of gay people who grew up not knowing if there...
Society and Puritanism in Pre-Revolutionary England
Author: Christopher Hill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 In order to understand the English Revolution and Civil War we need to understand Puritanism. In this classic work of social...
We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
Author: Simu Liu Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The star of Marvel's first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own origin story...
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,...
The Berlin Mission: The American Who Resisted Nazi Germany from Within
Author: Richard Breitman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Raymond Geist was sent to Berlin as a consul in 1929. He was not from the right social class to become...
Will She Do?: Act One of a Life on Stage
Author: Eileen Atkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Will She Do? is the story of a girl from a council estate in Tottenham, born in 1934 to...
The Messenger
Author: Shiv Malik Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The Messenger tells the story of an unlikely friendship between two men looking to change the world - a...
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
Author: Natasha Trethewey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2020 WINNER OF THE ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 CARNEGIE...
Mama's Boy: A Memoir
Author: Dustin Lance Black Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'A magnificent achievement . . . I cannot remember a book where I cried so often. Brave, insightful,...
Managing Expectations: A Memoir
Author: Minnie Driver Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 When I was six, I wrote my first short essay. The title given by the teacher was: 'When I grow up,...