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Imagination and a Pile of Junk: A Droll History of Inventors and Inventions
Author: Trevor Norton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: Although inventors were often scientists or engineers, many were not: Samuel Morse (Morse code) was a painter, Laszlo Biro (the ballpoint pen)...
Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.
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Author: Luis J Rodriguez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East...
Down and Out in Saigon: Stories of the Poor in a Colonial City
Author: Haydon Cherry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 A moving portrait of the lives of six poor city-dwellers, set in early twentieth century colonial Saigon Historian Haydon Cherry offers...
Anatomy of a Massacre: How the SS Got Away with War Crimes in Italy
Author: Christian Jennings Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 The first account in English of the Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre and the last hunt for Nazi war criminals. On 12...
The Astrologer: How British Intelligence Plotted to Read Hitler's Mind
Author: James Parris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 Were British Intelligence chiefs gullible or sensible to recruit an astrologer to assist in the war effort against Nazi Germany? And...
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...
Empire of Silver: A New Monetary History of China
Author: Jin Xu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 This revelatory account of the ways silver shaped Chinese history shows how an obsession with "white metal" held China back from...
The Celts: First Masters of Europe
Author: Christiane Eluere Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Lovers of gold, wine and war, the Celts have no voice because they left no written records. Much of what we...
Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations
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Author: William H McRaven Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 In this instant New York Times bestseller, the celebrated author of Make Your Bed shares amazing adventure stories from his...
Victory in Europe: From D-Day to the Destruction of the Third Reich, 1944-1945
Author: Julian Thompson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 This book, published to celebrate the 75th anniversary of VE Day the last to be commemorated by significant numbers of surviving...
Mary Churchill's War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill's Youngest Daughter
Author: Emma Soames Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'It wasn't easy being a Churchill child - and only Mary managed it with serenity and aplomb, as her diary of...
A Brief History of the Atlantic
Author: Jeremy Black Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The Atlantic has borne witness to major historic events that have drastically shaped humanity with each crossing of its path. In...
The Last Train: A Family History of the Final Solution
Author: Peter Bradley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The profoundly moving and deeply intimate story of one Jewish family's fate in the Holocaust, following the thread from Germany to...
The Last 100 Years (give or take) and All That
Author: Al Murray Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'I squealed laughing at this but now worry that my knowledge of history has been dangerously ruined' Matt Forde A fascinating...
The Nine: How a Band of Daring Resistance Women Escaped from Nazi Germany - The Powerful True Story
Author: Gwen Strauss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A compelling, beautifully written story of resilience, friendship and survival.' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz As the Second...
Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape and Home
Author: Alexander Wolff (author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 In 2017, acclaimed journalist Alexander Wolff moved to Berlin to take up a long-deferred task: learning his family's history. His...
The Compatriots: The Russian Exiles Who Fought Against the Kremlin
Author: Andrei Soldatov Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The authors of The Red Web examine the shifting role of Russian expatriates throughout history, and their complicated, unbreakable relationship with...
Paths of Fire: The Gun and the World It Made
Author: Andrew Nahum Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 If you squeeze the trigger of a Kalashnikov a bullet is kicked up the barrel by an archaic chemical explosion that...
The People's Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America
Author: Lisa Z. Sigel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The first history of American handmade and homemade pornography, The People's Porn offers the backstory to the explosion of amateur...
The Salient: Ypres, 1914-18
Author: Alan Palmer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Ypres today is an international 'Town of Peace', but in 1914 the town, and the Salient, the 35-mile bulge in the...
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...
The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
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Author: Norman Eisen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa's greatest...
The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown
Author: Anna Keay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR...
Field Work: What Land Does to People & What People Do to Land
Author: Bella Bathurst Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'A priceless portrait of one of the least understood and frequently most vilified of people: farmers. It should really be read...
Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine
Author: Anna Della Subin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 How does a man become a God? It can happen by accident, or by prophesy, or through an article found...
Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival
Author: Daniel Finkelstein Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Epic, moving and important' ROBERT HARRIS 'A modern classic' OBSERVER...
In the Heat of Battle: A History of Those Who Rose to the Occasion and Those Who Didn't
Author: Donough O'Brien Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Out of the last 3,500 years of our 'civilised' world, only for 230 have we been at peace. In "The Heat...
Into the Valley of Death: The Light Cavalry at Balaclava
Author: Nick Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 "Into the Valley of Death" tells the thrilling story of the Charge of the Light Brigade in the words of the...
Rome's Sicilian Slave Wars: The Revolts of Eunus and Salvius, 136-132 and 105-100 BC
Author: Natale Barca Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In 136 BC, in Sicily (which was then a Roman province), some four hundred slaves of Syrian origin rebelled against their...
The Great Abolition Sham: The True Story of the End of the British Slave Trade
Author: Michael Jordan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Slavery and the trade that fuelled it underpinned Britain's economic position throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Unsurprisingly, when the abolition...
Fish on Friday: Feasting, Fasting, and Discovery of the New World
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Author: Brian Fagan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: What gave Christopher Columbus the confidence in 1492 to set out across the Atlantic Ocean? What persuaded the king and queen of...
The Rama Epic: Hero, Heroine, Ally, Foe
Author: Forrest McGill Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A huge number of artworks relating to the Rama legends have been made over the course of 1500 years in a...
Crusaders and Revolutionaries of the Thirteenth Century: De Montfort
Author: Darren Baker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 One of the families that dominated the thirteenth century were the de Montforts. They arose in France, in a hamlet close...
MacArthur
Author: Richard B. Frank Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 16 Douglas MacArthur is best remembered for his ability to adapt, a quality that catalyzed his greatest accomplishments. Adaptability...
Unspeakable: The Things We Cannot Say
Author: Harriet Shawcross Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 As a teenager, Harriet Shawcross stopped speaking at school for almost a year. As an adult, she became fascinated by the...
Caroline's Dilemma: A colonial inheritance saga
Author: Bettina Bradbury Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Shortlisted for the 2020 Ernest Scott Prize for History Caroline Kearney faced a heart-breaking dilemma. Caroline was a 31-year-old mother of...
Harry Styles: The Making of a Modern Man
Author: Stephen Fry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The original bestselling autobiography by the comedian, novelist and national treasure, Stephen Fry. ______________________________ The original bestselling autobiography by...
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...
Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century
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Author: Christina Riggs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A bold new history of the discovery of King Tut and the seismic impact it left on modern society. When it...
14-18: Understanding the Great War
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Author: Catherine Temerson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 With this brilliantly innovative book, reissued for the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I, Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau and Annette...
Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science
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Author: James Poskett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 "A radical retelling... Poskett deftly blends the achievements of little-known figures into the wider history of science... The book brims with...
The Lion House: The Coming of a King
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Author: Christopher de Bellaigue Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "Christopher de Bellaigue has a magic talent for writing history. It is as if we are there as the era...
Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler
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Author: Lynne Olson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The little-known true story of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, the woman who headed the largest spy network in...
Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence
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Author: Frances Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize An electrifying, revelatory new biography of D. H. Lawrence, with a focus on his...
Love and Deception: Philby in Beirut
Author: James Hanning Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'A brilliantly researched and revelatory book, written with compelling authority and great narrative drive. Completely fascinating' William Boyd Love & Deception...
The Year of Dangerous Days: Riots, Refugees, and Cocaine in Miami 1980
Author: Nicholas Griffin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 In the tradition of The Wire, the "utterly absorbing" (The New York Times) story of the cinematic transformation of Miami, one...
The Crown in Crisis: Countdown to the Abdication
Author: Alexander Larman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In December 1936, Britain faced a constitutional crisis that was the gravest threat to the institution of the monarchy since the...
Proof of Stake: The Making of Ethereum and the Philosophy of Blockchains
Author: Vitalik Buterin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 At only nineteen years old Vitalik Buterin published a visionary paper outlining the ideas behind what would become Ethereum....