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Crecy War
Author: Alfred H. Burne Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 266 Crecy, the Black Prince's most famous victory, was the first of two major victories during the first part of the...
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...
Eve of Destruction: The inside story of our dangerous nuclear world
Author: John Hughes-Wilson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'It is certainly a good thing for the world that Hitler's crowd or Stalin's did not discoverthis atomic bomb. It seems...
A Short History of the World in 50 Failures
Author: Ben Gazur Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Explore the failures, mistakes and missed opportunities that shaped history in this new entry in the bestselling series. From the botched...
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...
Into the Jaws of Death The True Story of the Legendary Raid on Saint-Nazaire
Author: Robert Lyman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 It is the night of 28 March 1942. Royal Navy and British commandos are poised to assault the German-held port of...
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...
Slim, Master of War: Burma, 1942-5
Author: Major Robert Lyman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Elegantly written and beautifully produced' TLS How 'Uncle Bill' won the war in Burma Defeated and demoralised, British units in...
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...
Renaissance People: Lives that Shaped the Modern Age
Author: Robert C Davis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 376 Like every era, the Renaissance brims with stories. In this book, Robert Davis and Beth Lindsmith highlight dozens of notable...
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...
Paths of Glory: The French Army, 1914-18
Author: Anthony Clayton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Anthony Clayton is an acknowledged expert on the French military and his book is a major contribution to the study and...
Willie, Willie, Harry, Stee: An Epically Short History of Our Kings
Author: Charlie Higson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 A Waterstones Best History Book 2025 A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year 2025 'Learned, entertaining and highly approachable' BOB...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Art of War and Peace: The Changing Face of 21st Century Warfare
Author: Dr David Kilcullen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 FOREWORD BY SIR NICK CARTER, FORMER UK CHIEF OF DEFENCE STAFF How have the character and technology of war changed...
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: Paperback 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...
Sword: D-Day - Trial by Battle
Author: Max Hastings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times and Waterstones Book of the Year 'The messy, dirty, bloody reality of Operation Overlord comes...
SAS Forged in Hell: From Desert Rats to Dogs of War: The Mavericks who Made the SAS
Author: Damien Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 FOR FANS OF THE BBC SERIES SAS ROGUE HEROES, THIS IS THE REAL STORY OF BLAIR 'PADDY' MAYNE A Waterstones Best...
A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Stories Behind the Lines on
Author: Jonn Elledge Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'Fascinating' TOM HOLLAND | 'A delight from start to finish' MIRANDA SAWYER 'A novel and fascinating perspective on world history' BILL...
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...
Landscape as Weapon: Cultures of Exhaustion and Refusal
Author: John Beck Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Once the playgrounds and raw material for the avant garde, abandoned places and things - decommissioned military sites, postindustrial spaces, contested...
Rome: Eternal City
Author: Ferdinand Addis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 648 A portrait of the city at the heart of Western civilization, brought to life in twenty-two scenes from its 2,500-year history....
Uhtred's Feast: Inside the world of the Last Kingdom
Author: Bernard Cornwell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 WELCOME TO UHTRED'S FEAST . . . Over the course of writing the Last Kingdom series, Bernard Cornwell discovered an increasing...
A Brief History of London
Author: Jeremy Black Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 As the United Kingdom left the European Union, during a period of international and domestic turmoil, London found itself at a...
Russian Roulette: 'A brilliant new life of Graham Greene' - Evening Standard
Author: Richard Greene Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 Probably the greatest British novelist of his generation, Graham Greene's own story was as strange and compelling as those he told...
When There Were Birds: The forgotten history of our connections
Author: Roy Adkins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Birds are a joy and solace in troubled times, as well as a reminder of past experiences and a symbol of...
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
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Author: Rick Atkinson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 800 Winner of the George Washington Prize Winner of the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History Winner of the...
Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books
Author: Hilary Mantel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror...
Amazing Expeditions: Journeys That Changed The World
Author: Anita Ganeri Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 48 Throughout history, adventurers have always wondered what is beyond the next mountain, ocean, river... or even planet. Explorers head out to...