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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...
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...
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...
D-Day Remembered: From the Invasion to the Liberation of Paris - 80th Anniversary Edition
Author: Imperial War Museum Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 80th ANNIVERSARY EDITION Produced in collaboration with Imperial War Museums Relive the day that changed the course of history. On...
Badly Behaved Women: The History of Modern Feminism
Author: Anna-Marie Crowhurst Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Badly Behaved Women is the illustrated story of the past 100 years of the women's movement, from suffrage, alleged bra burning...
The D-Day Atlas: Anatomy of the Normandy Campaign
Author: Charles Messenger Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 A vivid re-creation of the D-Day invasion and its aftermath, told through detailed maps, authoritative text by a noted military historian...
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...
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: 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...
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 Mad and the Brave: The Untold Story of Ukraine's Foreign Legion
Author: Colin Freeman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A Telegraph Best Book 2025 'Elegant and terrifying, the story of those who gave up life in the West for Ukraine's...
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...
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...
All Consuming: The instant Sunday Times bestseller: Why We Eat the Way
Author: Ruby Tandoh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The iconic New Yorker and Vittles food writer asks: Why do we eat the way we eat now? Being into food...
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...