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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
On the Edge: Ireland's off-shore islands: a modern history
Author: Diarmaid Ferriter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The islands off the coast of Ireland have long been a source of fascination. Seen as repositories of an ancient Irish...
Sum of Us: A History of the UK in Data
Author: Georgina Sturge Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 What has data ever done for us? Georgina Sturge, House of Commons Library statistician and author of the critically acclaimed Bad...
Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era
Author: Alwyn Turner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 'The very best sort of panoramic portrait' David Kynaston 'The Edwardians have long been the lost decade of British history, yet...
Island Stories: An Unconventional History of Britain
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Author: David Reynolds (University of Plymouth UK) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 This history of Britain set in a global context for our times offers a new perspective on...
Seeing into the Future: A Short History of Prediction
Author: Martin van Creveld Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 If there is anything that distinguishes us from animals, it is our ability to understand that such a thing as...
Origin Africa: Safaris in Deep Time
Author: Jonathan Kingdon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 A major new look at how Africa's geological history, climate, geography and biology resulted in the wonderful diversity of life found...
Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees
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Author: Jared Farmer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The epic story of the planet's oldest trees and the making of the modern world Humans have always revered long-lived trees....
Shakespeare and the Resistance: The Earl of Southampton, the Essex
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Author: Clare Asquith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The 1590s were black years for England. The queen was old, the succession unclear, and the treasury empty after decades of...
We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus
Author: Sean Mirski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 What did it take for the United States to become a global superpower? The answer lies in a missing chapter of...
One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink
Author: Matthew Parker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 624 This critical historical exploration shows a portrait of the British Empire at both the peak of its global reach--and the moment...
The Betrayal of the Duchess: The Scandal That Unmade the Bourbon
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Author: Maurice Samuels Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Fighting to reclaim the French crown for the Bourbons, the duchesse de Berry faces betrayal at the hands of one of...
Forgotten Warriors: The Long History of Women in Combat
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Author: Sarah Percy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The definitive history of women in war, revealing how women have always been an essential part of combat From Boudicca's rebellion...
Dog's Best Friend: A Brief History of an Unbreakable Bond
Author: Simon Garfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 One of the first words we learn. Perhaps the best friend we'll have. An animal so much part of our lives...