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A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine
Author: Andrew Harding Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 'Extraordinary.' Philippe Sands 'We are touched by the courage and dignity of Andrew Harding's characters - qualities that the author must...
The History Gossip: Was Anne of Cleves a Minger? and 365 Other Historical Curiosities
Author: Katie Kennedy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 TikTok sensation Katie Kennedy, aka @TheHistoryGossip, serves up a delicious blend of fascinating, witty and salacious history tea for every day...
Shoulder to Shoulder: The Best Queer History Book You'll Read This Year: 'Enticing and nuanced' Travis Alabanza
Author: Jake Hall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 This is a love letter to the pioneers of solidarity and coalition. It's a new global look at those bold moments...
Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America
Author: Scott Gac (Trinity College, Connecticut) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 330 Born in Blood investigates one of history's most violent undertakings: The United States of America. People the world...
On a Knife Edge: How Germany Lost the First World War
Author: Holger Afflerbach (University of Leeds) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 566 Was the outcome of the First World War on a knife edge? In this major new account of...
On a Knife Edge: How Germany Lost the First World War
Author: Holger Afflerbach (University of Leeds) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 566 Was the outcome of the First World War on a knife edge? In this major new account of...
Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato
Author: Rebecca Earle (University of Warwick) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 308 Potatoes are the world's fourth most important food crop, yet they were unknown to most of humanity before...
London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City, 1690-1800
Author: Tim Hitchcock (University of Sussex) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 478 London Lives is a fascinating new study which exposes, for the first time, the lesser-known experiences of eighteenth-century...
Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain
Author: Stuart Ward (University of Copenhagen) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 550 How did Britain cease to be global? In Untied Kingdom, Stuart Ward tells the panoramic history of the...
The Last Battle: Soldier Settlement in Australia 1916-1939
Author: Bruce Scates (Australian National University, Canberra) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 When Australian soldiers returned from the First World War they were offered the chance to settle on...
Defeat and Division: France at War, 1939-1942
Author: Douglas Porch (Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 742 Defeat and Division launches a definitive new account of France in the Second World War. In...
LBJ's America: The Life and Legacies of Lyndon Baines Johnson
Author: Mark Atwood Lawrence (LBJ Presidential Library and Museum, Austin) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 388 In innumerable ways, we still live in LBJ's America. More than half a century...
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...
Silk Roads
Author: Sue Brunning Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Filled with insights, the very latest research and plenty of surprises: a superlative catalogue of one the most ambitious and spectacular...
Horses in the British Army 1750 to 1950
Author: Janet MacDonald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 These days horses are mainly used for leisure activities the non-rider knows little about them in a modern context, let alone...
Visitor's Guide - The First Day of the Somme
Author: Jon Cooksey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Many guidebooks cover the Somme offensive in 1916, the five-month struggle that has come to be seen as one of the...
French Army in the First World War
Author: Ian Sumner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 The French army of the First World War withstood the main force of the German onslaught on the Western Front, but...
Germany in the Great War - The Opening Year: Mobilisation, the Advance and Naval Warfare
Author: Joshua Bilton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 184 Germany in the Great War Illustrated - Mobilisation and the Western Advance is the first volume of a projected six-part series...
Eagles Over North Africa and the Mediterranean 1940-1943
Author: Jeffrey Ethell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 72 This superb illustrated series charts the rise and fall of the German Air Force from 1939 to 1945. Each volume makes...
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...
Kitty's Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich
Author: Nigel Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard...
America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization: AS SEEN ON NETFLIX
Author: Graham Hancock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 ***THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER*** 'Hancock's books provide a fascinating, alternative version of prehistory. America Before, detailed and wide-ranging, turns...
In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea
Author: Danny Goldberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 'Danny Goldberg is probably one of the purest, most reasonable guides you could ask for to 1967.' - ex-Rolling Stones manager...
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...
Zero Six Bravo: 60 Special Forces. 100,000 Enemy. The Explosive True
Author: Damien Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The Sunday Times No.1 bestseller. 'Sixty special forces against 100,000 - a feat of British arms to take the breath away'...
The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival
Author: Anne Sebba Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 'Superb and timely' KATE MOSSE 'Impressive, important, deeply moving' SARAH WATERS 'Brilliant' ANTHONY HOROWITZ What role could music play in a...
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 Holocaust: Origins, History and Aftermath c.1920-1945
Author: Memorial de la Shoah Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 The Holocaust is an attempt to explain the inexplicable the systematic murder of millions of Europe's Jews by the...
Heyday: The 1850s and the Dawn of the Global Age
Author: Ben Wilson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'Excellent . . . This is narrative history of the highest quality' Andrew Lycett, Sunday Telegraph 'Wonderfully engrossing and intelligent ....
Forgotten: Searching for Palestine's Hidden Places and Lost Memorials
Author: Raja Shehadeh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Forgotten is a search for hidden or neglected memorials and places in historic Palestine - now Israel and the Occupied Palestinian...
El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary
Author: Nora Berend Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'A fascinating study of historical mythmaking . . . concise and absorbing' Paul Freedman, author of Out of the East 'Lively,...
Captain de Havilland's Moth: Tales of High Adventure from the Golden
Author: Alexander Norman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A nostalgic celebration of the golden age of aviation - and the iconic DH60 Moth in its centenary year 'Vivid and...
Where Are You From? No, Where are You Really From?
Author: Audrey Osler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 A story of migration, identity and belonging, drawing on the stories of people from Audrey Osler's mixed-heritage family, over three centuries....
The Light of Day: the moving true story of the first man to come out as gay
Author: Christopher Stephens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 * A Guardian Audiobook of the Week * 'Your book is the "really good book. Just one" that Roger Butler would...
The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler
Author: Robert Hutton Format: Paperback 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...
The Hiroshima Men: The Quest to Build the Atomic Bomb and the Fateful Decision to Use It
Author: Iain MacGregor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'Really outstanding' Jonathan Dimbleby 'Extraordinary and utterly absorbing' Patrick Bishop 'Wonderful material' Saul David 'Profoundly thought-provoking' James Holland 'Impeccably researched' Spectator...
Motherland: A Journey through 500,000 Years of African Culture and Identity
Author: Luke Pepera Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'A wonderful debut by a talented and exciting young historian' Peter Frankopan 'Simultaneously capacious and personal...a masterful achievement' Tom Holland 'Elegant...
Japan's War: Hirohito's Holy War Against the West
Author: Stewart Binns Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'A superbly revealing account of a dreadful and profoundly sad war' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL 'This extraordinary book gives us a unique insight...
Holy Places: How Pilgrimage Changed the World
Author: Kathryn Hurlock Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 This year, as they have for millennia, people will set out on pilgrimages. From Mecca to the Outer Hebrides, each of...
Collared: How We Made the Modern Dog
Author: Chris Pearson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Dogs are our constant companions: models of loyalty and unconditional love for millions around the world. But these beloved animals are...
Chasing the Dark: Encounters with the supernatural
Author: Ben Machell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'One of the best books about the paranormal I have read... Uncannily good' DANNY ROBINS 'A fascinating testimony to our nervous...
I Will Come Back for You: A powerful true story of wartime love and resilience
Author: Daniel Huhn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Extraordinary ... one of the most moving and uplifting stories of the war' Keith Lowe 'A remarkable book' - The Telegraph...
At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China: FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2025
Author: Edward Wong Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2025 'A brilliant personal account of China's borderlands and peoples' Francis Fukuyama 'Edward Wong is about...
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis, as seen on BBC Two Between the Covers
Author: Maria Smilios Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remarkable true story of...
Naples 1944: War, Liberation and Chaos
Author: Keith Lowe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 An Aspects of History Best Book of the Year; An Engelsberg Ideas Best Book of the Year Shortlisted for the HWA...
Krithia: The Forgotten Anzac Battle of Gallipoli
Author: Mat McLachlan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The Second Battle of Krithia has existed largely in the shadows of the bigger Gallipoli story. It is, however, one of...
Army of Empire: The Untold Story of the Indian Army in World War I
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Author: George Morton-Jack Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 Drawing on untapped new sources, the first global history of the Indian Expeditionary Forces in World War I While their story...
History in the House: Some Remarkable Dons and the Teaching of
Author: Richard Davenport-Hines Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A Spectator Best Book of the Year; An Aspects of History Best Book of the Year; An Engelsberg Ideas Best Book...