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Crecy War
Author: Alfred H. Burne Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 266 Crecy, the Black Prince's most famous victory, was the first of two major victories during the first part of the...
Waterloo Letters: A Collection of Accounts from Survivors of the
Author: H. T. Siborne Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 490 This collection of letters from survivors of the Waterloo Campaign was gathered in the 1830s and 1840s when Captain William...
Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary and the Crisis That Shook the World
Author: Alex von Tunzelmann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 Over sixteen extraordinary days in October and November 1956, the twin crises of Suez and Hungary pushed the world to...
Eve of Destruction: The inside story of our dangerous nuclear world
Author: John Hughes-Wilson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'It is certainly a good thing for the world that Hitler's crowd or Stalin's did not discoverthis atomic bomb. It seems...
A Short History of the World in 50 Failures
Author: Ben Gazur Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Explore the failures, mistakes and missed opportunities that shaped history in this new entry in the bestselling series. From the botched...
The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate
Author: Shaun Walker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The Cold War had been over for two decades when, in 2010, ten Russian agents were arrested in the United States...
Into the Jaws of Death The True Story of the Legendary Raid on Saint-Nazaire
Author: Robert Lyman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 It is the night of 28 March 1942. Royal Navy and British commandos are poised to assault the German-held port of...
The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom
Author: Marcus Rediker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 314 On 28 June 1839, the Spanish slave schooner La Amistad set sail from Havana to make a routine delivery of human...
The Secret Life of the Savoy: and the D'Oyly Carte family
Author: Olivia Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 THE STORY OF THE SAVOY HOTEL'S FOUNDERS, THROUGH A CENTURY OF LUXURY. "For The Gondoliers-themed birthday dinner, the hotel obligingly flooded...
Slim, Master of War: Burma, 1942-5
Author: Major Robert Lyman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Elegantly written and beautifully produced' TLS How 'Uncle Bill' won the war in Burma Defeated and demoralised, British units in...
In Our Time: Celebrating Twenty Years of Essential Conversation
Author: Melvyn Bragg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Melvyn not only makes you think ... he makes it enjoyable too. He's brilliant.' - John Humphrys, the Today Programme. 'In...
Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium
Author: Lucy Inglis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 'Lucy Inglis has done a wonderful job bringing together a wide range of sources to tell the history of the most...
History Hit Story of England: The entertaining and enthralling guide
Author: Dan Snow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 From battlefields, cathedrals and museums to castles and stately homes, from the Lancastrians and Yorkists to the Roundheads, Royalists and an...
Her Secret Service: The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence
Author: Claire Hubbard-Hall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Groundbreaking' Sunday Times 'Beautifully written and elegiac . . . a masterpiece' Damien Lewis, Sunday Times bestselling author Since the inception...
Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China
Author: Jack Weatherford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "Astonishing...Brings to life a thriving - and rather civilized - empire" - The Telegraph "sparkles with energy, insight and passion... difficult...
Upon A White Horse: A Financial Times Best Book of 2025 and Radio 4
Author: Peter Ross Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 *A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK, FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2025, SCOTSMAN BOOKS OF 2025, COUNTRY LIFE BOOKS OF...
Renaissance People: Lives that Shaped the Modern Age
Author: Robert C Davis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 376 Like every era, the Renaissance brims with stories. In this book, Robert Davis and Beth Lindsmith highlight dozens of notable...
Paris: A Short History
Author: Jeremy Black Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A concise history of Paris and the great events and personalities, from prehistory to the present, that have shaped its unique...
A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class and
Author: Edna Bonhomme Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'If everyone read Edna Bonhomme's incredible, humane, insightful book-and I hope they do-we might stand a chance' Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize-winning...
When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation,
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Author: Ronald C Rosbottom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The spellbinding and revealing chronicle of Nazi-occupied Paris. On June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a silent and nearly deserted...
Paths of Glory: The French Army, 1914-18
Author: Anthony Clayton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Anthony Clayton is an acknowledged expert on the French military and his book is a major contribution to the study and...
Willie, Willie, Harry, Stee: An Epically Short History of Our Kings
Author: Charlie Higson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 A Waterstones Best History Book 2025 A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year 2025 'Learned, entertaining and highly approachable' BOB...
Russian Eyewitnesses of the Campaign of 1807
Author: Alexander Mikaberidze Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 After his crushing defeat of Prussia in 1806, Napoleon marched into Poland to forestall any Russian attempts to come to the...
Introducing the Holocaust: A Graphic Guide
Author: Haim Bresheeth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Who needs yet another book on the Holocaust? Sadly, most of us. The vast amount of serious research work on the...
I Will Come Back for You: A powerful true story of wartime love and
Author: Daniel Huhn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Extraordinary ... one of the most moving and uplifting stories of the war' Keith Lowe 'A remarkable book' - The Telegraph...
Red Dawn Over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity
Author: Frank Dikoetter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A FINANCIAL TIMES HIGHLIGHT FOR 2026 'The most important reappraisal of modern China to appear in years' PETER FRANKOPAN, author of...
Unknown Enemy: The Hidden Nazi Force That Built the Third Reich
Author: Dr Charles Dick (Independent Scholar, UK) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Riveting, timely and truly revelatory. The Organisation Todt is the Nazi-era secret that still needs to emerge...
Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Author: Yuan Yang Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP FIVE BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE A Financial...
Scouse Republic: An Alternative History of Liverpool
Author: David Swift Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Liverpool beguiles, Liverpool bewilders. Swift's superb analysis gets to the scarred heart of this troubled, beautiful and spirited city' Paul Du...
The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugenie of France, Power
Author: Nancy Goldstone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 From the acclaimed author of In the Shadow of the Empress comes the thrilling chronicle of two of the most influential...
Notorious: History's Villains and Why They Matter
Author: Otto English Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 History loves a villain. Across the entire span of human civilisation, certain people and groups have been identified as being responsible...
Solving Stonehenge: The New Key to an Ancient Enigma
Author: Anthony Johnson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Anthony Johnson reveals in this astonishing book that the clues to the enigma of Stonehenge lie not in the surrounding landscape,...
The Universe: A Biography
Author: Paul Murdin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The story of our Universe, from its beginning in the first milliseconds of the Big Bang right up to our present...
Nelson's Victory
Author: Brian Lavery Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 May 2015 sees the 250th anniversary of the launch of HMS Victory, the ship that is so closely associated with Nelson...
Holocaust Heroes : Resistance to Hitler's Final Solution
Author: Mark Felton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 This inspiring book examines the often incredible and nearly always tragic examples of Jewish resistance in ghettos and concentration camps during...
Should We Fall to Ruin: New Guinea, 1942. The untold true story of a
Author: Harrison Christian Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 When the Japanese invade in 1942, the Australian men and women stationed at the New Guinea port of Rabaul flee into...
Men Without Country: The true story of exploration and rebellion in
Author: Harrison Christian Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'What joy to be at sea again, adrift on the vast Pacific, in the clutches of a gifted storyteller. Harrison Christian...
The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction
Author: Jamie Kreiner (University of Georgia) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The digital era is beset by distraction, and it feels like things are only getting worse. At times...
Oliver Twist & Me: The True Story of Charles Dickens's best-loved
Author: Nicholas Blincoe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 **SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZE** "Idiosyncratic and entertaining," Sunday Times "A fascinating family and social history," Catherine Taylor,...
Crusader Criminals: The Knights Who Went Rogue in the Holy Land
Author: Steve Tibble Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A vivid new history of the criminal underworld in the medieval Holy Land The religious wars of the crusades are renowned...
Templars: The Knights Who Made Britain
Author: Steve Tibble Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A gripping account of the Knights Templar, challenging received wisdom to show how these devout medieval knights played a profound role...
The Spy and the Devil: The untold story of the MI6 agent who
Author: Tim Willasey-Wilsey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 This is the forgotten tale of MI6's top spy in Nazi Germany and his bid to stop the Second World War....
Milena and Margarete: A Love Story in Ravensbruck: The Nazi's
Author: Gwen Strauss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 From the moment they met in 1940 in Ravensbruck concentration camp, Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann were inseparable. Czech Milena was...
This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (and Why it Matters)
Author: Map Men Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER A Waterstones Best Nature & Travel Writing Book 2025 'Educational, smart and funny' Richard Osman 'This...
Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent
Author: Iain Pears Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 This is the simplest tale in the world. Two people meet and fall in love. But the route which brought Larissa...
The Traitor of Arnhem: WWII's Greatest Betrayal and the Moment That
Author: Robert Verkaik Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 NOW WITH NEW MATERIAL - the first book to analyse government documents released in January 2025. 'Sensational' Daily Express 'A bombshell...
A History of Modern Britain in Twenty Murders
Author: David Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 In this groundbreaking new book from the UK's leading criminologist, David Wilson explores what our nation's most lethal murderers reveal about...
52 Times Britain was a Bellend: The History You Didn't Get Taught At School
Author: James Felton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 'Scurrilous, scandalous and frequently disgusting. I absolutely loved it' James O'Brien Twitter hero James Felton brings you the painfully funny history...