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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...
Three Days In June: The Incredible Minute-by-Minute Oral History of 3 Para's Deadly Falklands War Battle
Author: James O'Connell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 *** 'If you only read one book about the Falklands make sure it's this one.' - Soldier magazine 'An extraordinarily detailed...
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...
The King is Dead, Long Live the King!: Majesty, Mourning and Modernity in Edwardian Britain
Author: Martin Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A Country Life 'Best Book of the Year' 2023 The Times Book of the Week * * * 'I could read...
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...
The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: A History of Conflict
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...
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...
Where Are You From? No, Where are You Really From?
Author: Audrey Osler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A story of migration, identity and belonging, drawing on the stories of people from Audrey Osler's mixed-heritage family, over three centuries....
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...
The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary
'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...
The Violence of Empire: The Tragedy of the Congo-Ocean Railroad
Author: J. P. Daughton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 The gruesome history of the Congo-Ocean Railway, a forgotten chapter in the story of colonial Africa. In September 1927, a...
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...
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
Author: Joshua D. Rothman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 In The Ledger and the Chain, prize-winning historian Joshua D. Rothman tells the disturbing story of the Franklin and Armfield...
North by Shakespeare: A Rogue Scholar's Quest for the Truth Behind the Bard's Work
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Author: Michael Blanding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The true story of a self-taught sleuth's quest to prove his eye-opening theory about the source of the world's most famous...
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...
Deceptions of World War II: From camouflage techniques to deception tactics
Author: Peter Darman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Discover the inner workings of many incredible, ingenious and decisive acts of military cunning in this fascinating insight into the tactics...
A Writer's House in Wales
Author: Jan Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Through an exploration of her country home in Wales, acclaimed travel writer Jan Morris discovers the heart of her fascinating country...
The Astrologer: How British Intelligence Plotted to Read Hitler's Mind
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...
Anatomy of a Massacre: How the SS Got Away with War Crimes in Italy
Author: Christian Jennings Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 The first account in English of the Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre and the last hunt for Nazi war criminals. On 12...
Great Scientists Wage the Great War
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...
Fight the Good Fight
Author: John Broom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Whilst a toxic mixture of nationalism and militarism tore Europe and the wider world apart from 1914 to 1919, there was...
A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945: Volume Five: From the fall of Rome to the end of the war 1944-1945
Author: Christopher Shores Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 526 During the final year of World War II, the defending Axis forces were steadily driven from southern skies by burgeoning Anglo-American...
Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong
Author: Vaudine England Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A timely, well-researched, and vibrant new history of Hong Kong that reveals the untold stories of the diverse peoples who have...
Jobs for the Girls: How We Set Out to Work in the Typewriter Age
Author: Ysenda Maxtone Graham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A unique take on women's history from the bestselling author of British Summer Time Begins 'Witty, clever and warm-hearted' The...
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis, as seen on BBC Two Between the Covers
Author: Maria Smilios Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remarkable true story of...
Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean
Author: Katherine Pangonis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Its name means 'centre of the world', and since the dawn of history the Mediterranean Sea has formed the shared horizon...