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Waterloo Letters: A Collection of Accounts from Survivors of the
Author: H. T. Siborne Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 490 This collection of letters from survivors of the Waterloo Campaign was gathered in the 1830s and 1840s when Captain William...
Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary and the Crisis That Shook the World
Author: Alex von Tunzelmann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 Over sixteen extraordinary days in October and November 1956, the twin crises of Suez and Hungary pushed the world to...
The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate
Author: Shaun Walker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The Cold War had been over for two decades when, in 2010, ten Russian agents were arrested in the United States...
The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom
Author: Marcus Rediker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 314 On 28 June 1839, the Spanish slave schooner La Amistad set sail from Havana to make a routine delivery of human...
The Secret Life of the Savoy: and the D'Oyly Carte family
Author: Olivia Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 THE STORY OF THE SAVOY HOTEL'S FOUNDERS, THROUGH A CENTURY OF LUXURY. "For The Gondoliers-themed birthday dinner, the hotel obligingly flooded...
In Our Time: Celebrating Twenty Years of Essential Conversation
Author: Melvyn Bragg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Melvyn not only makes you think ... he makes it enjoyable too. He's brilliant.' - John Humphrys, the Today Programme. 'In...
Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium
Author: Lucy Inglis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 'Lucy Inglis has done a wonderful job bringing together a wide range of sources to tell the history of the most...
History Hit Story of England: The entertaining and enthralling guide
Author: Dan Snow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 From battlefields, cathedrals and museums to castles and stately homes, from the Lancastrians and Yorkists to the Roundheads, Royalists and an...
Her Secret Service: The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence
Author: Claire Hubbard-Hall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Groundbreaking' Sunday Times 'Beautifully written and elegiac . . . a masterpiece' Damien Lewis, Sunday Times bestselling author Since the inception...
Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China
Author: Jack Weatherford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "Astonishing...Brings to life a thriving - and rather civilized - empire" - The Telegraph "sparkles with energy, insight and passion... difficult...
Upon A White Horse: A Financial Times Best Book of 2025 and Radio 4
Author: Peter Ross Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 *A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK, FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2025, SCOTSMAN BOOKS OF 2025, COUNTRY LIFE BOOKS OF...
Paris: A Short History
Author: Jeremy Black Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A concise history of Paris and the great events and personalities, from prehistory to the present, that have shaped its unique...
A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class and
Author: Edna Bonhomme Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'If everyone read Edna Bonhomme's incredible, humane, insightful book-and I hope they do-we might stand a chance' Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize-winning...
When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation,
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Author: Ronald C Rosbottom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The spellbinding and revealing chronicle of Nazi-occupied Paris. On June 14, 1940, German tanks entered a silent and nearly deserted...
Russian Eyewitnesses of the Campaign of 1807
Author: Alexander Mikaberidze Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 After his crushing defeat of Prussia in 1806, Napoleon marched into Poland to forestall any Russian attempts to come to the...
I Will Come Back for You: A powerful true story of wartime love and
Author: Daniel Huhn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Extraordinary ... one of the most moving and uplifting stories of the war' Keith Lowe 'A remarkable book' - The Telegraph...
Scouse Republic: An Alternative History of Liverpool
Author: David Swift Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Liverpool beguiles, Liverpool bewilders. Swift's superb analysis gets to the scarred heart of this troubled, beautiful and spirited city' Paul Du...
The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugenie of France, Power
Author: Nancy Goldstone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 From the acclaimed author of In the Shadow of the Empress comes the thrilling chronicle of two of the most influential...
Notorious: History's Villains and Why They Matter
Author: Otto English Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 History loves a villain. Across the entire span of human civilisation, certain people and groups have been identified as being responsible...
Solving Stonehenge: The New Key to an Ancient Enigma
Author: Anthony Johnson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Anthony Johnson reveals in this astonishing book that the clues to the enigma of Stonehenge lie not in the surrounding landscape,...
The Universe: A Biography
Author: Paul Murdin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The story of our Universe, from its beginning in the first milliseconds of the Big Bang right up to our present...
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 History Gossip: Was Anne of Cleves a Minger? and 365 Other Historical Curiosities
Author: Katie Kennedy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 TikTok sensation Katie Kennedy, aka @TheHistoryGossip, serves up a delicious blend of fascinating, witty and salacious history tea for every day...
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...
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...
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...
German submarine U-1105 'Black Panther': The naval archaeology of a
Author: Aaron Stephan Hamilton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 136 Now in its final resting place at the bottom of the Potomac River in Maryland, the U-Boat U-1105 is unique...
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...