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Ethel Rosenberg: The Short Life and Great Betrayal of an American Wife and Mother
Author: Anne Sebba Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A heart-piercingly brilliant book about a woman whose personal life put her in the cross-hairs of history' HADLEY FREEMAN 'Totally riveting....
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs
Author: Marc David Baer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic-Asian antithesis of the Christian-European West. But the reality was starkly...
Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made
Author: Matthew Gabriele Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The authors of The Bright Ages return with a real-life Game of Thrones-the story of the Carolingian Civil War, a bloody,...
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Author: Amy Stanley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A groundbreaking new history of Edo, now modern-day Tokyo, that will change our understanding of Japanese history, placing women's lives back...
Castle of the Eagles: Escape from Mussolini's Colditz
Author: Mark Felton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 High in the Tuscan hills above Florence, the menacing Vincigliata Castle - a very special prisoner-of-war camp converted on Mussolini's personal...
Unfortunately, She was a Nymphomaniac: A New History of Rome's
Author: Joan Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Pacy, witty and authoritative' Jonathan Freedland 'In her hands, ancient history becomes a vivid avenue of approach to a burning modern-world...
The Other Olympians: A True Story of Gender, Fascism and the Making of
Author: Michael Waters Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The story of the early athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who lit the flame for today's culture wars. In December 1935, Zdenek...
Exploring the World: Two centuries of remarkable adventurers and their
Author: Alexander Maitland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Explorers and travellers have always been attracted by the lure of the unknown. By traversing and mapping our planet, they have...
Eclipse
Author: Alan Moorehead Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 An eye-witness account of the allied invasion of Fortress Europe in World War II. Eclipse was the code name given by...
Invisible Child: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction 2022
Author: Andrea Elliott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Andrea Elliott, comes the unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, poverty...
The Demon of Unrest: Abraham Lincoln & America's Road to Civil War
Author: Erik Larson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between...
God's Ghostwriters
Author: Candida Moss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Monumental and eye-opening' Reza Aslan'A revelation [...and...] an intellectual triumph' Irish Independent'[A] massive achievement' Spectator'Refreshingly readable' Guardian For the past two...
Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean
Author: Katherine Pangonis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Its name means 'centre of the world', and since the dawn of history the Mediterranean Sea has formed the shared horizon...
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing
Author: Hilary Mantel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'A guide to the mind of one of the great English novelists of the last half-century' Guardian 'Like hearing the voice...
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black [...]
Author: Tiya Miles Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER ~ NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ~ WINNER OF THE...
An Aqueous Territory: Sailor Geographies and New Granada's
Author: Ernesto Bassi Arevalo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 277 In An Aqueous Territory Ernesto Bassi traces the configuration of a geographic space he calls the transimperial Greater Caribbean between...
The Hitler Bloodline: Uncovering the Fuhrer's Secret Family
Author: David Gardner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Adolf Hitler was one of six children born to his mother, and one of eight born to his father from two...
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...
Men at War: Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945
Author: Luke Turner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 As the Second World War moves beyond living memory and its last veterans leave us, we are in danger of losing...
The Invention of Russia: The Journey from Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War
Author: Arkady Ostrovsky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Winner 2016 Orwell Prize In 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev launched Perestroika, opened Russia up to the world, ended the Cold War and...
The Rescue: The True Story of the SAS Mission to Save Hostages from the Taliban
Author: Andy McNab Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The thrilling retelling of a real-life hostage rescue mission, by SAS hero and million-selling author, Andy McNab. It is 2012 and...
Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East
Author: Robert Fisk Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 672 'ROBERT FISK HAS BEEN REPORTING FROM THE MIDDLE EAST WITH INCOMPARABLE DEPTH AND UNDERSTANDING...AND EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE' NOAM CHOMSKY In this final...
Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding
Author: Joanna Wolfarth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 - 'Illuminating . . . an important book' Sunday Times - 'A fascinating journey through the social, cultural and historical meanings...
The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin
Author: Brad Meltzer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 In 1943 only three men stood in Hitler's way; Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. As the war against Nazi Germany raged, the...
Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny
Author: Edward J. Watts Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that...
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...
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: Now a major Guy Ritchie film: THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE
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...
War on the Border: Villa, Pershing, the Texas Rangers, and an American Invasion
Author: Jeff Guinn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 An "engagingly written" (The Wall Street Journal) account of the "Punitive Expedition" of 1916 that brought Pancho Villa and Gen. John...
The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War
Author: Jonathan D Wells Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Winner of a 2020-2021 New York City Book AwardIn a rapidly changing New York, two forces battled for the city's...
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
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Author: Laurence Rees Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 "Laurence Rees brilliantly combines powerful eye-witness testimony, vivid narrative and compelling analysis in this superb account of how two terrible dictators...
Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence
Author: Christian Parenti Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 312 From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis,...
African Europeans: An Untold History
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Author: Olivette Otele Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, "masterfully" (Smithsonian) revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent A finalist for the...
America's Great Game: The CIA's Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East
Author: Hugh Wilford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 "An absorbing account of romantics enchanted by Kiplingesque myths and the Lawrence of Arabia legend, who cynically harboured the self-contradictory ambition...
Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century
Author: Christian Caryl Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Few moments in history have seen as many seismic transformations as 1979. That single year marked the emergence of revolutionary Islam...
By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
Author: Rebecca Nagle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NONFICTION A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 * An Esquire Best...
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
Author: Simon Winchester Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter' New York Times 'An...
Counting: Humans, History and the Infinite Lives of Numbers
Author: Benjamin Wardhaugh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT? WHY ARE HUMANS THE ONLY SPECIES ON EARTH THAT CAN DO IT? WHERE DID COUNTING...
The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind
Author: Martin Sixsmith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 [Sixsmith] has found another way of telling the story of the Cold War, one that laces history with the mind games...
Great Hatred: The Assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP
Author: Ronan McGreevy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 'Heart-stopping . . . The book is both forensic and a page-turner, and ultimately deeply tragic, for Ireland as much as...
Antisemitism and Its Opponents in Modern Poland
Author: Robert E. Blobaum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 From the Middle Ages until World War II, Poland was host to Europe's largest and most vibrant Jewish population. By...
The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy
Author: Philippe Sands, QC Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 FROM THE WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE and author of EAST WEST STREET THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Should...
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
Author: Glory Edim Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Required reading.' - Cosmopolitan 'This should be read as a sacred text. Here, you will bear witness to a perpetual salvation...
Operation Postern: The Battle to Recapture Lae from the Japanese, 1943
Author: Ian Howie-Willis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 Japanese troops seized and brutally occupied New Guinea's capital, Lae, for 18 months - until 16 September 1943. That day Australian...
Operation Kingfisher: The cancelled rescue mission that sacrificed Sandakan POWs to the Death Marches
Author: Gary Followill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 The chain of events that led to the death of over 2,500 Prisoners of War - one of Australia's worst wartime...
The Lighthouse of Stalingrad: The Hidden Truth at the Centre of WWII's Greatest Battle
Author: Iain MacGregor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Stunning. History at its very best: a blend of impeccably researched scholarship, genuinely revelatory primary sources, and a beautifully written narrative'...
The Allies
Author: Winston Groom Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Best-selling author Winston Groom's riveting narrative tells the complex story of Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin's alliance to win...
Assassination of the Butcher of Prague: Reinhard Heydrich Hitler's Protege
Author: David W. Cameron Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 On 4 June 1942, one of the most powerful figurers of the Nazi Third Riech, Reinhard, Heydrich, the 'Butcher of...
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE
Author: Simon Garfield Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Witty and geekily eclectic' The Times An erudite and amusing exploration' Financial Times 'Full of jawdropping facts' Mail on Sunday 'Remarkable...