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The Siege: The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama
Author: Ben Macintyre Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Britain's best-selling historian writes the first definitive account of the famous televised SAS storming of the Iranian embassy in London in...
The History Gossip: Was Anne of Cleves a Minger? and 365 Other Historical Curiosities
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Author: Katie Kennedy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'History's hottest gossip' - You Magazine 'A tongue-in-cheek whirlwind through 365 days of history' - Sunday Post TikTok sensation Katie Kennedy,...
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...
Paris: A Short History
Author: Jeremy Black Format: Paperback 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...
Imagining England's Past: Inspiration, Enchantment, Obsession
Author: Susan Owens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Imagining England's Past takes a long look at the country's invented histories, from the glamorous to the disturbing, from the eighth...
Great Kingdoms of Africa
Author: John Parker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 An essential overview of great kingdoms in African history and their legacies, written by world-leading experts. From the ancient Nile Valley...
Brief Histories: Ancient Egypt: Everything you wanted to know but forgot to ask
Author: Dr Campbell Price Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Journey back in time to explore one the most fascinating and influential periods of ancient history. In this concise and...
Angkor and the Khmer Civilization
Author: Michael D. Coe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'The best account of Angkor available in English ... takes the reader on a panoramic tour of Cambodian history from...
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...
Visitor's Guide - The First Day of the Somme
Author: Jon Cooksey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Many guidebooks cover the Somme offensive in 1916, the five-month struggle that has come to be seen as one of the...
A Brief History of the British Monarchy: From the Iron Age to King Charles III
Author: Jeremy Black Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The British monarchy is at a turning point. Concise and engaging, this book charts the very beginnings of British reign through...
Ancient Ivory: Masterpieces of the Assyrian Empire
Author: Georgina Herrmann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Ivory is a wonderful material: tactile, beautiful, workable into many different forms and the strongest in the animal kingdom. Unfortunately for...
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...
Zulu Victory: The Epic of Isandlwana and the Cover-up
Author: Ron Lock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A fascinating read beyond the scholarly debate about who won the battle.' Sunday Times The battle of Isandlwana - a great...
French Army in the First World War
Author: Ian Sumner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 The French army of the First World War withstood the main force of the German onslaught on the Western Front, but...
Germany in the Great War - The Opening Year: Mobilisation, the Advance and Naval Warfare
Author: Joshua Bilton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 184 Germany in the Great War Illustrated - Mobilisation and the Western Advance is the first volume of a projected six-part series...
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...
Battle for the Escaut 1940: The France and Flanders Campaign
Author: Jerry Murland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 162 On 10 May 1940 the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), under the command of Lord Gort, moved forward from the Franco-Belgian border...
Battle for the Crimea 1941 - 1944: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Author: Anthony Tucker-Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 The selection of over 150 rare wartime photographs in this volume in Pen & Sword's Images of War series offers a...
The Mammoth Book of Native Americans
Author: Jon E. Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 608 Native Americans make up less than one per cent of the total US population but represent half the nation's languages...
The Holocaust Codes: The Untold Story of Decrypting the Final Solution
Author: Christian Jennings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Massive, groundbreaking new research that sheds more truth on the Holocaust.' - Helen Fry Never told in detail before, this is...
Kitty's Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich
Author: Nigel Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard...
Murder: The Biography
Author: Kate Morgan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 THE CRIMES. THE STORIES. THE LAW 'Fascinating' - Sunday Times 'Masterful' - Judith Flanders 'A page-turning read' - Prof. David Wilson...
In Search of the Lost Chord: 1967 and the Hippie Idea
Author: Danny Goldberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 'Danny Goldberg is probably one of the purest, most reasonable guides you could ask for to 1967.' - ex-Rolling Stones manager...
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...
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...
The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens
Author: Nicola Clark Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Every Tudor Queen had ladies-in-waiting. They were her confidantes and her chaperones. Only the Queen's ladies had the right to enter...
The Daughter of Auschwitz: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - a heartbreaking true story of courage, resilience and survival
Author: Tova Friedman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A Sunday Times bestseller (May 2023) - the incredible story of courage, resilience and survival. 'I am a survivor. That comes...
Naples 1944: War, Liberation and Chaos
Author: Keith Lowe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 An Aspects of History Best Book of the Year; An Engelsberg Ideas Best Book of the Year Shortlisted for the HWA...
Vital Organs
Author: Suzie Edge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 ...a bracing adventure, and one where our ancestors are not reduced to characters of myth and legend, but real people of...
The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality
Author: Hanno Sauer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 For almost five million years, humans have been locked in a relationship with morality, inventing and reinventing the concepts of 'Good'...
The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler
Author: Robert Hutton Format: Paperback 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...
Changing Altitudes: Stories of Australian Air Force Women
Author: Air Commodore Kirrily Dearing AM Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 In the early years of the Second World War, Australian women began lobbying to contribute to the nation's...
Because I donÕt know what you mean and what you donÕt
Author: Josie Long Format: Paperback Number of Pages: From a comic mastermind comes this brilliant collection of stories Three teenagers believe they are witches. A woman defaces a local billboard....
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
Author: Candice Millard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A story of courage and adventure, set against the backdrop of the race to exploit Africa by the colonial powers. For...
The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania, and Mutiny in the South
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Author: Brandon Presser Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 For fans of The Wager and Mutiny on the Bounty comes a thrilling true tale of power, obsession, and betrayal at...
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...
Lonely Courage: The true story of the SOE heroines who fought to free Nazi-occupied France
Author: Rick Stroud Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'A fascinating, superbly researched and revelatory book - told with tremendous pace and excitement' William Boyd 'This compelling and complete account...
The Bone Chests: Unlocking the Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons
Author: Cat Jarman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A diligent historian and a superb writer' THE TIMES A gripping new history of...
Hurricane: The Plane that Won the War
Author: Jacky Hyams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Britain's first-ever wartime fighter plane, the Hawker Hurricane, shot down more enemy planes than any other fighter. It was the true...
Kitty's Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich
Author: Nigel Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard...
The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy
Author: Stein Ringen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises,...
A Brilliant Life: An Unforgettable Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz and
$22.50
Author: Rachelle Unreich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'A delicate, evocative story of strength and survival that turns on one of the most powerful forces in the known universe:...
God's Ghostwriters
Author: Candida Moss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Monumental and eye-opening' Reza Aslan'A revelation [...and...] an intellectual triumph' Irish Independent'[A] massive achievement' Spectator'Refreshingly readable' Guardian For the past two...
Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East
Author: Robert Fisk Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 672 'ROBERT FISK HAS BEEN REPORTING FROM THE MIDDLE EAST WITH INCOMPARABLE DEPTH AND UNDERSTANDING...AND EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE' NOAM CHOMSKY In this final...
The Traitor of Arnhem: WWII's Greatest Betrayal and the Moment That Changed History Forever
Author: Robert Verkaik Format: Paperback 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...
War on the Border: Villa, Pershing, the Texas Rangers, and an American Invasion
Author: Jeff Guinn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 An "engagingly written" (The Wall Street Journal) account of the "Punitive Expedition" of 1916 that brought Pancho Villa and Gen. John...
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
Author: Simon Winchester Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter' New York Times 'An...