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My Opposition: The Diary of Friedrich Kellner - A German against the
Author: Friedrich Kellner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 520 This is a truly unique account of Nazi Germany at war and of one man's struggle against totalitarianism. A mid-level official...
Taking Liberty: Indigenous Rights and Settler Self-Government in
Author: Ann Curthoys (Australian National University, Canberra) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 444 At last a history that explains how indigenous dispossession and survival underlay and shaped the birth of...
The High Seas: Ambition, Power and Greed on the Unclaimed Ocean
Author: Olive Heffernan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 THE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER'Powerful reportage...awash with wonderful obscurities' The Sunday Times''A comprehensive investigation of the staggering damage we have done to...
The Boundless River: Stories from the Realm of the Rhine
Author: Mathijs Deen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "A joy to read" Times Literary Supplement "[A] stirring and accessible history of the mighty Rhine" Irish Times "It's easy to...
The Cleopatras: Discover the powerful story of the seven queens of
Author: Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'A thrilling biography, filled with the imperial ambitions and merciless intrigues' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE Cleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt's greatest...
London: Immigrant City
Author: Nazneen Khan-Ostrem Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 TRANSLATED BY ALISON McCULLOUGH 'One of the best books on the many diverse migrations to London . . . revealing the...
No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape from the Nazis, 'utterly
Author: Chris Heath Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 'A stunning book, a powerful investigation, utterly compelling,' James Holland, The Daily Telegraph, Five stars 'Terrifying' Simon Schama Ponar, Lithuania. 1944....
Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets: Life in the village hardware shop
Author: Tom Fort Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'A hymn to hardware, charming, lyrical' - The Sunday Times, BOOK OF THE WEEK 'A paean to DIY' - The Times...
Luck of the Draw: My Story of the Air War in Europe - A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Author: Frank Murphy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Beginning on August 17, 1942, American heavy bomber crews of the Eighth Air Force took off for combat in the hostile...
Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Author: Madeleine Pelling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 What if walls could talk? For historian Madeleine Pelling, they can - if you know where to look. A brilliant new...
The Hunt: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Catch a Taliban Warlord
Author: Andy McNab Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 From master storyteller Andy McNab, this is the opening book in an adventure-filled and action-packed new series telling, for the first...
The Traitor of Arnhem: WWII's Greatest Betrayal and the Moment That Changed History Forever
Author: Robert Verkaik Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Sunday Times Bestselling author of The Traitor of Colditz Robert Verkaik reveals the incredible never-before-told story of the role played by...
The Missing Thread: A New History of the Ancient World Through the Women Who Shaped It
Author: Daisy Dunn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 'A brilliant concept, executed with enviable elegance' Lucy Worsley 'A gem of a book. Thanks to Daisy Dunn's elegant and lively...
The Race for Mukalla: Arabian Elite Forces and the War Against Al-Qaeda
Author: Michael Knights Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The sequel to Michael Knights' successful 25 Days to Aden, The Race for Mukalla is the story of elite UAE forces...
The Memory Keeper: A Journey Into the Holocaust to Find My Family
Author: Jackie Kohnstamm Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Jackie Kohnstamm's mother rarely talked about what had happened during the war and had kept little evidence of her early life....
Kersten's Lists: A Saviour in the Depths of Hell
Author: Francois Kersaudy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The astonishing true story of Heinrich Himmler's masseur who used his influence over the S.S. commander to save the lives of...
The Reign - Life in Elizabeth's Britain: Part I: The Way It Was, 1952-79
Author: Matthew Engel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 She came to the throne in 1952 when Britain had a far-flung empire, sweets were rationed, mums stayed home and kids...
Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy for the Second Cold War
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Author: Joseph Weisberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A former CIA officer and the creator of the hit TV series The Americans makes the case that America's policy towards...
The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler
Author: Robert Hutton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Cairo, 1942: If you had asked a British officer who Colonel Clarke was, they would have been able to point him...
The Piano Player of Budapest: A True Story of Holocaust Survival, Music and Hope
Author: Roxanne de Bastion Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 One man, his piano and their miraculous survival. 'Extraordinary' Baroness Julia Neuberger 'Powerful and gruelling ... an almost unimaginable story...
All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960
Author: Virginia Nicholson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 'No one else makes history this fun' AMANDA FOREMAN 'All the Rage sits you at the dressing table of history: a...
Sailing the Graveyard Sea: The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy's Only Mutiny, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation
Author: Richard Snow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A "compelling" (The Wall Street Journal) account of the only mutiny in the history of the United States Navy-a little-known but...
The Blue Age: How the US Navy Created Global Prosperity--And Why We're in Danger of Losing It
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Author: Gregg Easterbrook Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The US Navy brought half a century of peace and free trade to the world's waterways. But climate change and rising...
The Compatriots: The Russian Exiles Who Fought Against the Kremlin
Author: Andrei Soldatov Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 From the time of the tsars to the waning days of Communist regime, Russian leaders tried to control the flow of...
Cashing Out: The Flight of Nazi Treasure, 1945-1948
Author: Neill Lochery Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 By the end of January 1945, it was clear to Germany that the war was lost. The Third Reich was in...
UKRAINE The Forging of a Nation
Author: Yaroslav Hrytsak Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'Both pioneering and fundamental. This is the essential history of Ukraine, from one of the greatest Ukrainian thinkers and scholars.' Timothy...
Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess
Author: Adam Zamoyski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 A Spectator Best Book of the Year Trawling through a vast family archive and arcane sources in half a dozen languages,...
The Rescue: The True Story of the SAS Mission to Save Hostages from the Taliban
Author: Andy McNab Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 The thrilling retelling of a real-life hostage rescue mission, by SAS hero and million-selling author, Andy McNab. It is 2012 and...
Churchill & Son
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Author: Josh Ireland Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 The intimate, untold story of Winston Churchill's enduring yet volatile bond with his only son, Randolph "Ireland draws unforgettable sketches of...
High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia's Haunted Hinterland
Author: Tom Parfitt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'A thrilling and beautiful book' Philip Marsden 'Tom Parfitt has re-invented travel writing for the 21st century' Oliver Bullough On 1...
Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival
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Author: Tom Clavin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 An American fighter pilot doomed to die in Buchenwald but determined to survive. On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off...
One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink
Author: Matthew Parker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 'Breathtaking... vital and important. A wonderful read' PETER FRANKOPAN 'Marvellous... escapes the inane, balance-sheet view of Empire and sees its full...
Harriet Quimby: Flying Fair Lady
Author: Leslie Kerr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 One of the first women to fly, the fashionable Harriet Quimby (1875-1912) came of age in the fading years of a...
Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century
Author: Simon Kuper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naif getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and...
Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome
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...
Manichaeism (Sandpiper Books)
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Author: 0 Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'A unique and thrilling insight into the brilliant mind of Anne Lister' Sally Wainwright, creator of Gentleman Jack Female Fortune is the...
Living and Dying with Marcel Proust
Author: Christopher Prendergast Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'A work buzzing with appetite and curiosity...no Proustian should be without it.' - Andrew Marr, author and broadcaster 'Literate, lively, and...
The Curtain and the Wall: A Modern Journey Along Europe's Cold War Border
Author: Timothy Phillips Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The Iron Curtain divided the continent of Europe, north to south, with the Berlin Wall as its most visible, infamous manifestation....
The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World
Author: Patrick Wyman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 In the bestselling tradition of The Swerve and A Distant Mirror, THE VERGE tells the story of a period that marked...
Last Stands: Why Men Fight When All Is Lost
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?...
Inferno: The True Story of a B-17 Gunner's Heroism and the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History
Author: Joe Pappalardo Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 There's no higher accolade in the U.S. military than the Medal of Honor, and 472 people received it for their action...
War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian Resistance
Author: Mikhail Zygar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'History is made up of myths,' writes the renowned Russian dissident journalist Mikhail Zygar. 'Alas, our myths led us to the...
The Shoulders We Stand On: How Black and Brown people fought for change in the United Kingdom
Author: Preeti Dhillon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 ** Eastern Eye's Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2023 ** The UK is grappling with big questions about belonging, equality and...
Battle for the Big Top: P. T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus
Author: Les Standiford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Millions have sat under the "big top," watching as trapeze artists glide and clowns entertain, but few know the captivating stories...
Final Verdict: A Holocaust Trial in the Twenty-first Century
Author: Tobias Buck Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 '[A] gripping and fascinating book' JAMES HOLLAND, DAILY TELEGRAPH, 5* review 'A brilliant book . . . timely . . ....
Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut
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...
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...
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...