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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Should We Fall to Ruin: New Guinea, 1942. The untold true story of a
Author: Harrison Christian Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 When the Japanese invade in 1942, the Australian men and women stationed at the New Guinea port of Rabaul flee into...
Men Without Country: The true story of exploration and rebellion in
Author: Harrison Christian Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'What joy to be at sea again, adrift on the vast Pacific, in the clutches of a gifted storyteller. Harrison Christian...
The Spy and the Devil: The untold story of the MI6 agent who
Author: Tim Willasey-Wilsey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 This is the forgotten tale of MI6's top spy in Nazi Germany and his bid to stop the Second World War....
Milena and Margarete: A Love Story in Ravensbruck: The Nazi's
Author: Gwen Strauss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 From the moment they met in 1940 in Ravensbruck concentration camp, Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann were inseparable. Czech Milena was...
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...
52 Times Britain was a Bellend: The History You Didn't Get Taught At School
Author: James Felton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 'Scurrilous, scandalous and frequently disgusting. I absolutely loved it' James O'Brien Twitter hero James Felton brings you the painfully funny history...
A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine
Author: Andrew Harding Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 'Extraordinary.' Philippe Sands 'We are touched by the courage and dignity of Andrew Harding's characters - qualities that the author must...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Paris '44: The Shame and the Glory
Author: Patrick Bishop Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 From the Sunday Times-bestselling author, comes a heart-stopping countdown narrative recreating the liberation of Paris in 1944, one of the great...
Zero Six Bravo: 60 Special Forces. 100,000 Enemy. The Explosive True
Author: Damien Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The Sunday Times No.1 bestseller. 'Sixty special forces against 100,000 - a feat of British arms to take the breath away'...
The Waiting Game
Author: Nicola Clark Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Written in a lively, accessible style, The Waiting Game is full of insight' Suzannah Lipscomb, Literary Review Every Tudor Queen had...
The Mad and the Brave: The Untold Story of Ukraine's Foreign Legion
Author: Colin Freeman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A Telegraph Best Book 2025 'Elegant and terrifying, the story of those who gave up life in the West for Ukraine's...
El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary
Author: Nora Berend Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'A fascinating study of historical mythmaking . . . concise and absorbing' Paul Freedman, author of Out of the East 'Lively,...
Where Are You From? No, Where are You Really From?
Author: Audrey Osler Format: Paperback 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....
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....
At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China: FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2025
Author: Edward Wong Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2025 'A brilliant personal account of China's borderlands and peoples' Francis Fukuyama 'Edward Wong is about...
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...
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...
Krithia: The Forgotten Anzac Battle of Gallipoli
Author: Mat McLachlan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The Second Battle of Krithia has existed largely in the shadows of the bigger Gallipoli story. It is, however, one of...
The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go
Author: Jeff Maynard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Triumphs and disasters in the deep seaThis is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and...
African Europeans: An Untold History
Author: Olivette Otele Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A Guardian Best Book of 2020 A History Today Book of the Year, 2020 Renowned historian Olivette Otele uncovers the untold...
The Darkest Christmas: December 1942 and a World at War
Author: Peter Harmsen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 December 1942 saw the bloodiest Christmas in the history of mankind. From the islands in the Pacific to the China front,...
The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War
Author: Giles Milton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Hugely enjoyable' The Spectator 'Delivered with flamboyance,...
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...
No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape from the Nazis, 'utterly
Author: Chris Heath Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 'A stunning book, a powerful investigation, utterly compelling,' James Holland, The Daily Telegraph, Five stars 'Terrifying' Simon Schama Ponar, Lithuania. 1944....
Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New
Author: Lizzie Wade Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A groundbreaking new perspective on catastrophes throughout human history, with vital lessons for our future 'This book upended my understanding of...
Chamber Divers
Author: Rachel Lance Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 The untold story of the D-Day scientists who changed special operations forever. 'Fascinating...a great historical military account and essential reading' John...
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 Premonitions Bureau: A Sunday Times bestseller
Author: Sam Knight Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Fascinating.' - Hilary Mantel 'Terrific.' - New Scientist 'Gripping.' - Financial Times What if you had a vision that something terrible...