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The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II

The Battle of Arnhem: The Deadliest Airborne Operation of World War II

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Author: Antony Beevor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The prizewinning historian and internationally bestselling author of D-Day reconstructs the devastating airborne battle of Arnhem in this gripping new account....
Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet

Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet

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Author: Lyndal Roper (University of London) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 From "one of the best of the new [Martin Luther] biographers" (The New Yorker), a portrait of the...
Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World

Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World

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Author: Chris Wallace Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * "Riveting." --The New York Times * "Propulsive." --Time * "Reads like a tense thriller." --The Washington Post...
All Against All: The Long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War

All Against All: The Long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War

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Author: Paul Jankowski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 A narrative history, cinematic in scope, of a process that was taking shape in the winter of 1933 as domestic passions...
The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator

The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator

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Author: Timothy C. Winegard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 **The instant New York Times bestseller.** *An international bestseller.* "Hugely impressive, a major work."-NPR A pioneering and groundbreaking work of...
Rivals Unto Death: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr

Rivals Unto Death: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr

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Author: Rick Beyer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The day was hot and sticky. The man in the rowboat was an impetuous hothead. His row across the choppy Hudson...
100 Curiosities & Inventions from the Collections of the National Trust

100 Curiosities & Inventions from the Collections of the National Trust

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Author: Katie Knowles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The National Trust looks after one of the largest and most significant holdings of fine-art and heritage objects in the world....
Saving Stalin: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Cost of Allied Victory in Europe

Saving Stalin: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Cost of Allied Victory in Europe

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Author: John Kelly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 In the summer of 1941, Harry Hopkins, Franklin Roosevelt's trusted advisor, arrived in Moscow to assess whether the US should send...
Young Rembrandt: A Biography

Young Rembrandt: A Biography

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Author: Onno Blom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 278 Rembrandt's life has always been an enigma. How did a miller's son from a provincial Dutch town become the greatest artist...
The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age

The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age

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Author: Gino Segre Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo. Called the Pope...
Miss Dior: A Story of Courage and Couture (from the acclaimed author of Coco Chanel)

Miss Dior: A Story of Courage and Couture (from the acclaimed author of Coco Chanel)

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Author: Justine Picardie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Picardie's journey to uncover the secret life of Christian Dior's beloved sister Catherine takes the reader to the heart of Occupied...
Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane

Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane

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Author: Paul Auster Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 800 A LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2021 Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times bestselling...
Idiot Wind: A Memoir

Idiot Wind: A Memoir

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Author: Peter Kaldheim Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In 1987 a massive snowstorm hits New York as Peter Kaldheim flees the city, owing drug debts to a dealer who...
Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World

Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World

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Author: Giles Milton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 From a master of popular history, the lively, immersive story of the race to seize Berlin in the aftermath of World...
Forest: Walking among trees

Forest: Walking among trees

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Author: Matt Collins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Forest celebrates the diverse ways in which trees and forests are as magnificent, economically relevant and profoundly enchanting today as they...
The Weil Conjectures: On Math and the Pursuit of the Unknown

The Weil Conjectures: On Math and the Pursuit of the Unknown

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Author: Karen Olsson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A New York Times Editors' Pick and Paris Review Staff Pick A wonderful book. --Patti Smith I was riveted. Olsson is...
Great State: China and the World

Great State: China and the World

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Author: Timothy Brook Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 The world-renowned scholar and author of Vermeer's Hat does for China what Mary Beard did for Rome in SPQR: Timothy Brook...
Young Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Memoir and a Reckoning

Young Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Memoir and a Reckoning

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Author: Alex Halberstadt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In this "urgent and enthralling reckoning with family and history" (Andrew Solomon), an American writer returns to Russia to face a...
The Good Assassin: How a Mossad Agent and a Band of Survivors Hunted Down the Butcher of Latvia

The Good Assassin: How a Mossad Agent and a Band of Survivors Hunted Down the Butcher of Latvia

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Author: Stephan Talty Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Inspiration for the hit new podcast "Hunting the Butcher" The untold story of an Israeli spy's epic journey to bring the...
Fear: An Alternative History of the World

Fear: An Alternative History of the World

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Author: Robert Peckham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 It's been said that, after 9/11, the 2008 financial crash and the Covid-19 pandemic, we're a more fearful society than ever...
Notre Dame de Paris: A Celebration of the Cathedral

Notre Dame de Paris: A Celebration of the Cathedral

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Author: Kathy Borrus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 On April 16, 2019, five days before the celebration of Easter, a blazing fire engulfed the world famous Notre-Dame de Paris....
The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground: A Memoir

The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground: A Memoir

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Author: Justus Rosenberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "Thrillingly tells the story of an Eastern European Jew's flight from the Holocaust and the years he spent fighting in the...
The Astrologer: How British Intelligence Plotted to Read Hitler's Mind

The Astrologer: How British Intelligence Plotted to Read Hitler's Mind

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Author: James Parris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 Were British Intelligence chiefs gullible or sensible to recruit an astrologer to assist in the war effort against Nazi Germany? And...
Great Generals of the Ancient World

Great Generals of the Ancient World

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Author: Professor Richard A. Gabriel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 Of the thousands of commanders who served in history's armies, why is it that only a few are remembered...
The Hitler Years: Triumph, 1933-1939

The Hitler Years: Triumph, 1933-1939

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Author: Frank McDonough Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 From historian Frank McDonough, the first volume of a new chronicle of the Third Reich under Hitler's hand. On January 30th,...
SAS Forged in Hell: From Desert Rats to Dogs of War: The Mavericks who Made the SAS

SAS Forged in Hell: From Desert Rats to Dogs of War: The Mavericks who Made the SAS

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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...
Hitler's British Isles

Hitler's British Isles

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Author: Duncan Barrett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 True-life recollections from the Channel Islanders who were the only British subjects to live under Nazi rule in WWII. 'Barrett has...
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE

All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE

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Author: Simon Garfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The encyclopaedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, adults...
Lives Reclaimed: A Story of Rescue and Resistance in Nazi Germany

Lives Reclaimed: A Story of Rescue and Resistance in Nazi Germany

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Author: Mark Roseman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From the celebrated historian of Nazi Germany, the story of a remarkable but completely unsung group that risked everything to help...
Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution

Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution

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Author: Mike Duncan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Few in history can match the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette. Over fifty incredible years at the heart of...
A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion

A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion

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Author: Tom Segev Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 816 When Tom Segev's biography of David Ben-Gurion was published in Israel in early 2018, it was a major event, making headlines...
Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut

Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut

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Author: Elsa Richardson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A Financial Times most anticipated read for 2024'A brilliant new cultural history of the gut' Daily Mail'A fascinating, erudite and entertaining...
Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future

Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future

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Author: Chun Han Wong Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 'Compelling and informative... a useful gateway into [Xi Jinping's] mind' Rana Mitter, Literary Review From one of the most admired...
The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary

The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary

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'A dream! I learnt something new and fascinating on every page' - Lucy Mangan'If you love words, the weird and the wild, I guarantee you'll crouch over this book like...
Great Scientists Wage the Great War

Great Scientists Wage the Great War

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Author: William Van Der Kloot Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Six men made major scientific breakthroughs during the First World War and in doing so altered its course. Lawrence...
Footsloggers: An Infantry Battalion at War, 1939-45

Footsloggers: An Infantry Battalion at War, 1939-45

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Author: Peter Hart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The only way to truly understand what it was like to fight in the Second World War is to listen to...
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

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Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023. A Waterstones Book of the Year 2023. An Economist Book of...
Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe

Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe

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Author: Hugh Aldersey-Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 Filled with incident, discovery, and revelation, Dutch Light is a vivid account of Christiaan Huygens's remarkable life and career, but it...
Waylon: Tales of My Outlaw Dad

Waylon: Tales of My Outlaw Dad

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Author: Terry Jennings Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In a signed copy of his autobiography, Waylon Jennings penned a personal note to his son, Terry Jennings, ending it with...
The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America

The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America

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Author: Daniel Okrent Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 NAMED ONE OF THE "100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR" BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "An extraordinary book, I...
The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: A History of Conflict

The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: A History of Conflict

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Author: Lawrence James Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Lawrence James is the doyen of Empire historians' The Spectator 'James' writing is always full of energy and animation; he has...
Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome

Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome

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Author: Guy de la Bedoyere Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient world Living...
Victory in Europe: From D-Day to the Destruction of the Third Reich, 1944-1945

Victory in Europe: From D-Day to the Destruction of the Third Reich, 1944-1945

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Author: Julian Thompson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 This book, published to celebrate the 75th anniversary of VE Day the last to be commemorated by significant numbers of surviving...
Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic: Voices from History

Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic: Voices from History

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Author: Peter Furtado Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Humanity has always been struck by pestilence and pandemics, from the plagues of ancient Egypt to the pox that ravaged Europe...
Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time

Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time

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Author: Hilary Spurling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The author of the award-winning Matisse: A Life gives us the definitive biography of writer Anthony Powell--and takes us deep into...
The Hidden History of America at War: Untold Tales from Yorktown to Fallujah

The Hidden History of America at War: Untold Tales from Yorktown to Fallujah

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Author: Kenneth C Davis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Multi-million-copy bestselling historian Kenneth C. Davis sets his sights on war stories in The Hidden History of America at War....
The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab

The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab

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Author: Marina Wheeler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 SHORT LISTED FOR THE 2021 CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE 'The Lost Homestead is a memoir of Wheeler's mother and her family, which...
Last Stands: Why Men Fight When All Is Lost

Last Stands: Why Men Fight When All Is Lost

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Author: Michael Walsh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 What is heroism? What are its moral components-altruism, love, self-sacrifice? Why was it once celebrated, and now often dismissed as anachronistic?...