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Russian Eyewitnesses of the Campaign of 1807
Author: Alexander Mikaberidze Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 After his crushing defeat of Prussia in 1806, Napoleon marched into Poland to forestall any Russian attempts to come to the...
Introducing the Holocaust: A Graphic Guide
Author: Haim Bresheeth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Who needs yet another book on the Holocaust? Sadly, most of us. The vast amount of serious research work on the...
I Will Come Back for You: A powerful true story of wartime love and
Author: Daniel Huhn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Extraordinary ... one of the most moving and uplifting stories of the war' Keith Lowe 'A remarkable book' - The Telegraph...
Red Dawn Over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity
Author: Frank Dikoetter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A FINANCIAL TIMES HIGHLIGHT FOR 2026 'The most important reappraisal of modern China to appear in years' PETER FRANKOPAN, author of...
Unknown Enemy: The Hidden Nazi Force That Built the Third Reich
Author: Dr Charles Dick (Independent Scholar, UK) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Riveting, timely and truly revelatory. The Organisation Todt is the Nazi-era secret that still needs to emerge...
Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Author: Yuan Yang Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP FIVE BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE A Financial...
Scouse Republic: An Alternative History of Liverpool
Author: David Swift Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Liverpool beguiles, Liverpool bewilders. Swift's superb analysis gets to the scarred heart of this troubled, beautiful and spirited city' Paul Du...
The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugenie of France, Power
Author: Nancy Goldstone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 From the acclaimed author of In the Shadow of the Empress comes the thrilling chronicle of two of the most influential...
Notorious: History's Villains and Why They Matter
Author: Otto English Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 History loves a villain. Across the entire span of human civilisation, certain people and groups have been identified as being responsible...
Solving Stonehenge: The New Key to an Ancient Enigma
Author: Anthony Johnson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Anthony Johnson reveals in this astonishing book that the clues to the enigma of Stonehenge lie not in the surrounding landscape,...
The Universe: A Biography
Author: Paul Murdin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The story of our Universe, from its beginning in the first milliseconds of the Big Bang right up to our present...
The Force: The Legendary Special Ops Unit and WWII's Mission
Author: Saul David Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 December 1943. A German fort sits impregnable atop a mountain. Standing between the Allied forces and their path to Rome is...
This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (and Why it Matters)
Author: Map Men Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER A Waterstones Best Nature & Travel Writing Book 2025 'Educational, smart and funny' Richard Osman 'This...
The Traitor of Arnhem: WWII's Greatest Betrayal and the Moment That
Author: Robert Verkaik Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 NOW WITH NEW MATERIAL - the first book to analyse government documents released in January 2025. 'Sensational' Daily Express 'A bombshell...
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...
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 High Seas: Ambition, Power and Greed on the Unclaimed Ocean
Author: Olive Heffernan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 THE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER'A comprehensive investigation of the staggering damage we have done to the world's oceans and its life forms'...
Skies of Thunder: The deadly World War II mission over the roof of the world
Author: Caroline Alexander Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 'Riveting' - The New York Times THE LITTLE-KNOWN STORY OF THE ALLIES' FIGHT IN WWII'S CHAOTIC AND LETHAL CHINA BURMA-INDIA THEATER....
The Secret History of Soviet Russia's Police State: Cruelty, Co-operation and Compromise, 1917-91
Author: Martyn Whittock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 '[R]eadable and thoughtful . . . does an excellent job of exploring how the murderous political police in all its incarnations...
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...
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,...
Surviving the Great War: Australian Prisoners of War on the Western
Author: Aaron Pegram (Australian War Memorial) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 284 Between 1916 and 1918, more than 3,800 men of the Australian Imperial Force were taken prisoner by German...
Command: How the Allies Learned to Win the Second World War
Author: Al Murray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Al Murray's passion for military history and the Second World War in particular has always run parallel with his comedy and...
SAS Daggers Drawn: In For the Kill: The Third in the Blair 'Paddy' Mayne Trilogy
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 Summer 1944: the...
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, now a Major Guy Ritchie Film: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Downfall, Giving Birth To Modern-Day Black Ops
Author: Damien Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 One of the most remarkable stories in the history of Special Forces' operations - Daily Express In the bleak moments after...
Been There, Done That: A Rousing History of Sex
Author: Rachel Feltman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Roman physicians told female patients they should sneeze out as much semen as possible after intercourse to avoid pregnancy. Historical treatments...
The Two Lost Mountains: An Action-Packed Jack West Thriller
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Author: Matthew Reilly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'THE HOTTEST ACTION WRITER AROUND' EVENING TELEGRAPH THE LATEST ADVENTURE IN THE WILDLY ENTERTAINING, ACTION-PACKED JACK WEST SERIES Against all the...
Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine
Author: Anna Reid Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Centre of the first great Slav civilisation in the tenth century, then divided between warring neighbours for a millennium, Ukraine finally...
Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain
Author: Matthew Green Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the forgotten history of Britain's lost cities, ghost...
Fish on Friday: Feasting, Fasting, and Discovery of the New World
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Author: Brian Fagan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: What gave Christopher Columbus the confidence in 1492 to set out across the Atlantic Ocean? What persuaded the king and queen of...
William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll
Author: Casey Rae Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 William S. Burroughs's fiction and essays are legendary, but his influence on music's counterculture has been less well documented-until now. Examining...
L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron"
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Author: Lucasta Miller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A lost nineteenth-century literary life, brilliantly rediscovered--Letitia Elizabeth Landon, hailed as the female Byron; she changed English poetry; her novels, short...
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
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Author: Malcolm Gladwell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A "truly compelling" (Good Morning America) New York Times bestseller that explores how technology and best intentions collide in the heat...
How to Think Like a Fish: And Other Lessons from a Lifetime in Angling
Author: Jeremy Wade Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Jeremy Wade has caught an unparalleled array of outsize and outlandish fish from challenging locations all over the world - goliath...
Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet
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Author: Lyndal Roper (University of London) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 From "one of the best of the new [Martin Luther] biographers" (The New Yorker), a portrait 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...
The Way of the Samurai
Author: Inazo Nitobe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: This classic text by InazoNitobe defining the moral code of the warrior class or Samurai has had a hugeimpact both...
Adele: The Biography
Author: Chas Newkey-Burden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 With only two albums to her name, Adele is one of the biggest singer-songwriters on the planet. Her last...
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City
Author: Russell Shorto Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Amsterdam is not just any city. Despite its relative size it has stood alongside its larger cousins - Paris,...
Dancing on Ropes: Translators and the Balance of History
Author: Anna Aslanyan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Would Hiroshima have been bombed if Japanese contained a phrase meaning 'no comment'? Is it alright for missionaries to replace the...
The New Girl: A Trans Girl Tells It Like It Is
Author: Rhyannon Styles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Inspiring and heart-wrenching' Paloma Faith 'Love Rhyannon. Love this book' Grace Dent The remarkable transgender memoir you won't stop...
Antiquity Matters
Author: Frederic Raphael Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 376 A sharp, often surprising, view of the classical world by a major classics scholar at Cambridge and author of The Glittering...