Sort by:
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...
Hitler's Panzer Generals: Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt and Schmidt Unguarded
Author: David Stahel (University of New South Wales, Canberra) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Germany's success in the Second World War was built upon its tank forces; however, many...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Army of Empire: The Untold Story of the Indian Army in World War I
$25.00
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...
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
$15.00
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
$30.00
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
$25.00
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
$20.00
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
$25.00
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...
1923: The Crisis of German Democracy in the Year of Hitler's Putsch
$20.00
Author: Mark William Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 How Germany's fledgling democracy nearly collapsed in 1923--and how pro-democracy forces fought back In 1923, the Weimar Republic faced a...
The Liberation Line: The Untold Story of How American Engineering and
$45.00
Author: Christian Wolmar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The epic story of the engineers and rail workers who ensured Allied victory in World War Two, published to coincide with...
Beastly: A New History of Animals and Us
Author: Keggie Carew Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 In a Polish forest a young woman befriends a boar. An Englishman sets up home with two beavers in Saskatchewan. A...
Going Mainstream: How extremists are taking over
Author: Julia Ebner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Incels. Anti Vaxxers. Conspiracy theorists. Neo-Nazis. Once, these groups all belonged on the fringes of the political spectrum. Today, accelerated by...
Expertise, Authority and Control: The Australian Army Medical Corps in
Author: Alexia Moncrieff (University of Leeds) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 236 Expertise, Authority and Control charts the development of Australian military medicine in the First World War in the...