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The Forbidden Daughter
Author: Zipora Klein Jakob Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The unforgettable true story of one Jewish orphan's survival against impossible odds, and her lifelong quest for family, safety and...
North by Shakespeare: A Rogue Scholar's Quest for the Truth Behind the Bard's Work
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Author: Michael Blanding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The true story of a self-taught sleuth's quest to prove his eye-opening theory about the source of the world's most famous...
Defence of Sevastopol 1941-1942
Author: Clayton Donnell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In December 1941, while America was reeling from the attack on Pearl Harbor and the offensives of the German Army Groups...
Pharaohs of the Sun: Radio 4 Book of the Week, How Egypt's Despots and Dreamers Drove the Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun's Dynasty
Author: Guy de la Bedoyere Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 In 1922, a century ago, the most sensational archaeological discovery of all time was made. When Tutankhamun's tomb was...
SAS Forged in Hell: From Desert Rats to Dogs of War: The Mavericks who Made the SAS
Author: Damien Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A Waterstones Best History Book of 2023 The incredible true story of the SAS' daring mission to liberate Europe In the...
Migrants: The Story of Us All
Author: Sam Miller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Migrants cuts through the toxic debates to tell the rich and collective stories of humankind's urge to move. 'Fascinating... Miller's perspective...
Ghost Flames: Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953
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Author: Charles J. Hanley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 Although it was then perceived as a far-off and inconclusive engagement, the Korean War was a highly consequential and deeply...
Shoemaker of Dreams: The Autobiography of Salvatore Ferragamo
Author: Salvatore Ferragamo Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'Ladies and gentlemen, the least important part of this book is the life story of an Italian shoemaker. We can all...
Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding
Author: Joanna Wolfarth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 When Joanna Wolfarth was pregnant with her first child, she assumed she would breastfeed, as her mother had fed her. Yet...
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
Author: Louis Menand Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War...
Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality
Author: Manjit Kumar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 For most people, quantum theory is a byword for mysterious, impenetrable science. And yet for many years it was equally baffling...
The Waterless Sea: A Curious History of Mirages
Author: Christopher Pinney Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 184 Mirages have long astonished travellers and beguiled thirsty desert voyagers. Chinese and Japanese poetry and images depicted mirages as the exhalations...
Israeli Paratroopers 1954-2016
Author: David Campbell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 64 From the creation of the first volunteer paratroop unit shortly after the birth of Israel and of the Israeli Defense Force,...
Brave Hearted: The Dramatic Story of Women of the American West
Author: Katie Hickman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The epic story of the transformation of the American west, as seen through the eyes of the women who were there...
A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945: Volume Five: From the fall of Rome to the end of the war 1944-1945
Author: Christopher Shores Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 526 During the final year of World War II, the defending Axis forces were steadily driven from southern skies by burgeoning Anglo-American...
A Class of Their Own: Adventures in Tutoring the Super-Rich
Author: Matthew Hammett Knott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'A hilarious account of life with the children of the super rich...well written...and very funny indeed' - BOOK OF THE...
The Unnamable Present
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Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 A decisive key to help grasp some of the essential points of what is happening around us. The ninth part of...
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
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Author: Ibram X Kendi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 736 The National Book Award-winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans...
Lighting the Fuse: Stories from Britain's first female bomb disposal expert
Author: Lucy Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Imagine standing over a bomb - you need to make a choice. Remember, your life depends on it. In this extraordinary...
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought
Author: Durba Mitra Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 302 How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in IndiaDuring the...
Diaries 1907-1914: Prodigious Youth
Author: Sergey Prokofiev Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 800 Sergey Prokofiev, a compulsive diarist and gifted and idiosyncratic writer, possessed an incorrigibly sardonic curiosity about individuals and events. When he...
Dawn of the Horse Warriors
Author: Duncan Noble Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 The domestication of the horse revolutionised warfare, granting unprecedented strategic and tactical mobility, allowing armies to strike with terrifying speed. The...
Beetle
Author: Adam Dodd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 From ancient Egyptian deities to German automobiles, beetles have left an indelible mark on human cultures around the world....
Lemay
Author: Barrett Tillman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 LeMay was a terrifying, complex, and brilliant general. In World War II, he ordered the firebombing of Tokyo and...
Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times
Author: Professor Aaron Sachs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 472 Up from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American history-the novelist and...
The Names Heard Long Ago: How the Golden Age of Hungarian Soccer Shaped the Modern Game
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Author: Jonathan Wilson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The story of the vibrant and revolutionary soccer culture in Hungary that, on the eve of World War II, redefined the...
A Writer's House in Wales
Author: Jan Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Through an exploration of her country home in Wales, acclaimed travel writer Jan Morris discovers the heart of her fascinating country...