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The Library: A Fragile History
$15.00
Author: Andrew Pettegree Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 A history of libraries and the people who built them, from the ancient world to the digital age "Engaging [and] ambitious"...
The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania, and Mutiny in the South
$25.00
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...
The Death Railway: The Personal Account of Lieutenant Colonel Kappe on
Author: Kappe, Charles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR They had faced the indignity of surrender and the squalor of Changi prison, so the spirits of the British...
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....
Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion
Author: Charles Townshend Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 A century on - the definitive account of the events that changed Irish history forever Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been...
A Short History of the Vietnam War
Author: DK Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 A gripping and informative visual guide to one of the bloodiest conflicts in US and world history Journey through the Vietnam War;...
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...
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...
The Rule of Laws: A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World
$12.00
Author: Fernanda Pirie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 From ancient Mesopotamia to today, an "exceptionally rich narrative" (Wall Street Journal) of how humans have used laws to forge civilizations...
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...
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...
Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea
$17.50
Author: Darrin McMahon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 Equality is in crisis. Our world is filled with soaring inequalities, spanning wealth, race, identity, and nationality. Yet how can we...
Fifty-Three Days on Starvation Island: The World War II Battle That
Author: John R Bruning Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 On August 20, 1942, twelve Marine dive-bombers and nineteen Marine fighters landed at Guadalcanal. Their mission: defeat the Japanese navy...
The Sister: North Korea's Kim Yo Jong, the Most Dangerous Woman in the
$20.00
Author: Sung-Yoon Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 This first book on Kim Jong Un's increasingly powerful sister, tapped to be his successor, offers jaw-dropping insights into the latest...
The Survivor: How I Survived Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi
Author: Josef Lewkowicz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The extraordinary true story of the Holocaust survivor who endured six death camps before joining the hunt for the Nazis and...
The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War
Author: Don Doyle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 408 "Doyle's important book reveals why the war was more than a domestic quarrel it was also a geopolitical event that shook...
The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall
Author: Mary Sarotte Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 On the night of November 9, 1989, massive crowds surged toward the Berlin Wall, drawn by an announcement that caught the...
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American
Author: Edward E. Baptist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution,the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from...
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...
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...
Battle: A History Of Combat And Culture
Author: John A Lynn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Battle: A History of Combat and Culture spans the globe and the centuries to explore the way ideas shape the...
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...
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 Forbidden Daughter
Author: Zipora Klein Jakob Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The unforgettable true story of one Jewish orphan's survival against impossible odds, and her lifelong quest for family, safety and...
North by Shakespeare: A Rogue Scholar's Quest for the Truth Behind the Bard's Work
$17.50
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...
The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China
Author: James M. Zimmerman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In May 1923, when Shanghai publisher and reporter John Benjamin Powell bought a first-class ticket for the Peking Express, he...
The Last 100 Years (give or take) and All That
Author: Al Murray Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'I squealed laughing at this but now worry that my knowledge of history has been dangerously ruined' Matt Forde A fascinating...
(R)evolution: The Autobiography
Author: Gary Numan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 A Daily Mail 'best TV and showbiz memoir' for 2020 From humble beginnings in Middlesex, where money was scarce but dreams...
King's Counsellor: Abdication and War: the Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles edited by Duff Hart-Davis
Author: Sir Alan Lascelles Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 The diaries of 'Tommy' Lascelles - as featured in the Netflix hit THE CROWN 'Brilliantly entertaining and historically priceless' Spectator...
Operation Suicide: The Remarkable Story of the Cockleshell Raid
Author: Robert Lyman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 At nightfall on December 7 1942, twelve British canoeists arrived by submarine off the coast of France, tasked with infiltrating the...
Life Story
Author: Mike Gunton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Life Story is a tale of survival, laying bare the extraordinary journey animals must make to achieve life's goal to continue...
The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century
Author: Clay Risen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2019 SELECTION The dramatic story of the most famous regiment in American history:...
Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples
Author: Dr Neil MacGregor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 The panoramic new history of belief from the celebrated author of A History of the World in 100 Objects. No...
Jimmy Page: The Definitive Biography
Author: Chris Salewicz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Founder of one of the most influential and successful rock bands of all time, legendary Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy...