History

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...

Author: Meg Foster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Bushrangers are Australian legends. Ned Kelly, Ben Hall, Captain Thunderbolt and their bushranging brothers are famous. They're remembered as folk heroes...

Author: Elizabeth Tynan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Emu Field is overshadowed by Maralinga, the larger and much more prominent British atomic test site about 193 kilometres to the...

Author: Stephanie Grisham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The most frank and intimate portrait of the Trump White House yet Stephanie Grisham rose from being a junior press wrangler...

Author: Babette Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Between 1788 and 1868, approximately 25,000 women were transported to Australia. For nearly 200 years, there has been a chorus of...

Author: Peter Waldron Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Between the 17th century and the 1917 revolution, the Russian Tsars became absolute rulers of the largest and most diverse empire...

Author: Al Murray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'My bookshelves were groaning with WW2 books, Hitler's baleful eyes staring out at me from covers and spines for any new...

Author: Gwen Strauss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A compelling, beautifully written story of resilience, friendship and survival.' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz As the Second...

Author: Tom Frame Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 'Given the importance of ability, judgment, leadership and discipline to the effective performance of any military force, the nation faces a...

Author: Jeff Maynard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Triumphs and disasters in the deep sea This is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean...

Author: Mikhail Zygar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'History is made up of myths,' writes the renowned Russian dissident journalist Mikhail Zygar. 'Alas, our myths led us to the...

Author: Anna Reid Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 FULLY UPDATED 'A fascinating and often violent odyssey, spanning more than 1,000 years of conflict and culture' INDEPENDENT Flat, fertile, and...

Author: Simon Shuster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'An intense, evocative portrait of one of the most remarkable figures of our era' ANNE APPLEBAUM 'This is...

Author: Greg Jenner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Brilliantly funny' SHAPARAK KHORSANDI 'Immensely enjoyable' BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE 'Every page contains delights' LINDSEY FITZHARRIS Why is Italy called Italy? How...

Author: Vaudine England Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A timely, well-researched, and vibrant new history of Hong Kong that reveals the untold stories of the diverse peoples who have...

Author: Lucy Adlington Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 *** The New York Times Bestseller *** 'Lucy Adlington tells of the horrors of the Nazi occupation and the concentration camps...

Author: Burkhard Bilger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration...

Author: Philip Jowett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 This volume in the Images of War series is the first photographic history of the Chinese Civil War, fought between Chiang...

Author: Peter Bradley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The profoundly moving and deeply intimate story of one Jewish family's fate in the Holocaust, following the thread from Germany to...

Author: Mark Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The astonishing year when German democracy faced crisis and near destruction. 1923 was one of the most remarkable years of modern...

Author: Roland Ennos Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 When our ancestors came down from the trees, they brought the trees with them and remade the world. 'A stunning book...

Author: Karina Urbach Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 What happened to the books that were too valuable to burn? The story of a Jewish chef whose bestselling cookbook was...

Author: Bruce Gamble Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 In early 1942, while most of the American military was still in disarray from the devastating attacks on Pearl Harbor and...

Author: Andrei Soldatov Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The authors of The Red Web examine the shifting role of Russian expatriates throughout history, and their complicated, unbreakable relationship with...

Author: Mick Wall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 This is the powerful, detailed and enlightening biography of the iconic composer, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist - the inimitable Prince. Prince...

Author: Thomas Travisano Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 1 An illuminating new biography of one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop's friend James...

Author: Jerry Brotton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Trading Territories tells the compelling story of maps and geographical knowledge in the early modern world from the fifteenth to the...

Author: Fawaz A. Gerges Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The Islamic State stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. However, its most striking and...

Author: Debbie Cenziper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 In 1990, in a drafty basement archive in Prague, two American historians made a startling discovery: a Nazi roster from 1945...

Author: Anthony Adolph Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Just who did the British think they were? For much of the last 1,500 years, when the British looked back to...

Author: Ronald C. Rosbottom Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The author of When Paris Went Dark returns to World War II to tell the remarkable story of the youngest...

Author: Minnie Driver Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 When I was six, I wrote my first short essay. The title given by the teacher was: 'When I grow up,...

Author: Paul Christiaan Klieger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 324 The history of Tibet has long intrigued the world, as well as the dilemma of its future - will it...

Author: Robert Verkaik Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 THE GRIPPING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A vastly entertaining tale, bursting with astonishing stories and extraordinary characters ... A fascinating read' Sunday...

Author: Harold T. Parker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 258 This narrative account of three Napoleonic battles adheres rather closely to the Aristotelian configuration of evolving tragedy. The historian succeeds...

Author: Jason Thompson (Bates College, USA) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 388 "A well written, informed, and at times exciting account" (Choice) of the field of Egyptology, part two of...

Author: Karina Urbach Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 "A remarkable and important story" BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour "Unputdownable . . . Urbach has also retold the tragic Holocaust...

Author: Rachel Hewitt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 In the 1790s, Britain underwent what the politician Edmund Burke called 'the most important of all revolutions ... a revolution in...

Author: Emma Soames Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'It wasn't easy being a Churchill child - and only Mary managed it with serenity and aplomb, as her diary of...

Author: Sean Connolly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 An immensely impressive, authoritative history of the Irish diaspora 'A richly detailed, scholarly and challenging history' Sunday Times 'Impressive, provocative and...

Author: Sean Connolly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 ON EVERY TIDE is a wide-ranging and challenging reassessment of the Irish diaspora. Drawing on the latest ground-breaking research, and his...

Author: Daniel Finkelstein Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Epic, moving and important' ROBERT HARRIS 'A modern classic' OBSERVER...

Author: Michael Johnstone Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Offers a detailed yet accessible history of the Freemasonic Craft and its spread to most corners of the world.

Author: Alan Philps Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 'A riveting trip down the corridors of Soviet deception' Sunday Telegraph (Five-Star Review) 'Philps' book vindicates the value of truth' Washington...

Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023. A Waterstones Book of the Year 2023. An Economist Book of...

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...

Author: Katie Hickman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The epic story of the transformation of the American west, as seen through the eyes of the women who were there...

Author: Michael Vatikiotis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The story begins with a parting of the sands - the construction of the Suez Canal that united the Mediterranean with...