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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...
A Brief History of the British Monarchy: From the Iron Age to King Charles III
Author: Jeremy Black Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The British monarchy is at a turning point. Concise and engaging, this book charts the very beginnings of British reign through...
Ancient Ivory: Masterpieces of the Assyrian Empire
Author: Georgina Herrmann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Ivory is a wonderful material: tactile, beautiful, workable into many different forms and the strongest in the animal kingdom. Unfortunately for...
The Life of Henrietta Anne: Daughter of Charles I
Author: Melanie Clegg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Henrietta Anne Stuart, youngest child of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, was born in June 1644 in the besieged city of...
Zulu Victory: The Epic of Isandlwana and the Cover-up
Author: Ron Lock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A fascinating read beyond the scholarly debate about who won the battle.' Sunday Times The battle of Isandlwana - a great...
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 Escaut 1940: The France and Flanders Campaign
Author: Jerry Murland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 162 On 10 May 1940 the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), under the command of Lord Gort, moved forward from the Franco-Belgian border...
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...
The Holocaust Codes: The Untold Story of Decrypting the Final Solution
Author: Christian Jennings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Massive, groundbreaking new research that sheds more truth on the Holocaust.' - Helen Fry Never told in detail before, this is...
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...
Murder: The Biography
Author: Kate Morgan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 THE CRIMES. THE STORIES. THE LAW 'Fascinating' - Sunday Times 'Masterful' - Judith Flanders 'A page-turning read' - Prof. David Wilson...
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 ....
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....
Trelawny's Cornwall: A Journey through Western Lands
Author: Petroc Trelawny Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'I can't think of a more enjoyable or more illuminating guide to Cornwall than Petroc Trelawny, who knows it intimately, loves...
The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens
Author: Nicola Clark Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Every Tudor Queen had ladies-in-waiting. They were her confidantes and her chaperones. Only the Queen's ladies had the right to enter...
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 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...
The High Seas: Ambition, Power and Greed on the Unclaimed Ocean
Author: Olive Heffernan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 THE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER'A comprehensive investigation of the staggering damage we have done to the world's oceans and its life forms'...
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...
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 Daughter of Auschwitz: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - a heartbreaking true story of courage, resilience and survival
Author: Tova Friedman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A Sunday Times bestseller (May 2023) - the incredible story of courage, resilience and survival. 'I am a survivor. That comes...
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...
The King and the Christmas Tree: A heartwarming story and beautiful festive gift for young and old alike
Author: A.N. Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Every year, a huge Norway spruce, twenty metres and more in height, is erected in Trafalgar Square. Many who see it...
With Wellington's Outposts
Author: John Vandeleur Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 John Vandeleur's letters home to his parents are a lively and engaging account of active service during the Napoleonic Wars, recounting...
Burgoyne Diaries
Author: Gerald Achilles Burgoyne Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 These are the diaries of Gerald Achilles Burgoyne, wrote from the trenches just south of Ypres while he was with...
Vital Organs
Author: Suzie Edge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 ...a bracing adventure, and one where our ancestors are not reduced to characters of myth and legend, but real people of...
Brooding over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women's Lethal Resistance
Author: Nikki M. Taylor (Howard University, Washington DC) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 250 From the colonial through the antebellum era, enslaved women in the US used lethal force as...