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A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
Author: David Gibbins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2024 'Masterful and entrancing - this is big history at its best.' Professor Alice Roberts, author...
The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
Author: Margalit Fox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp during the First World War, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, cunningly...
Hell Week and Beyond: The Making of a Navy Seal
Author: Scott McEwen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Follow America's elite warriors through the military's most grueling training and learn how they survive real special operations. Of the 18...
The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951
Author: Lord John Julius Norwich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 The long awaited and highly revealing diaries of the politician, diplomat, and socialite (married to Lady Diana Cooper) 'This...
On Every Tide: The making and remaking of the Irish world
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...
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him
Author: David Reynolds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who,...
Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery
Author: Alex Renton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'An incredible work of scholarship' - Sathnam Sanghera Through the story of his own family's...
Berlin
Author: Joseph Pearson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 Berlin is a party in a graveyard. It is Europe's youth capital, and its guilty war conscience. It is a disputed...
Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine
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...
Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment
Author: Benjamin Storey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 264 A compelling exploration of how our pursuit of happiness makes us unhappy We live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet...
ISIS: A History
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...
The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
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Author: Norman Eisen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa's greatest...
Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon
Author: Eric H. Cline Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 Seminary Co-Op, Notable books for 2020 The Federalist, Notable Books for 2020 A vivid portrait of the early years of...
On Every Tide: The making and remaking of the Irish world
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...
Dreams from My Father (Adapted for Young Adults): A Story of Race and Inheritance
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Author: Barack Obama Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 BRAND-NEW EDITION of the multi-million-copy bestseller, now adapted for YA readers and complete with never-before-seen colour photos. A revealing portrait of...
Boundary Crossers: The hidden history of Australia's other bushrangers
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...
1831: Year of Eclipse
Author: University Louis P Masur (City College of the City University of NY) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 1776, 1861, 1929. Any high-school student should know what these years...
The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal
Author: Simon Parkin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 The police came for Peter Fleischmann in the early hours. It reminded the teenager of the Gestapo's moonlit roundups he had...
Five Love Affairs and a Friendship: The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age
Author: Anne de Courcy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Born in March 1896, Nancy Cunard was a great beauty, rich, promiscuous, with a mesmeric effect on men. She was...
Ask A Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know
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...
The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler's first Mass-Murder Programme
Author: Charlie English Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A riveting tale, brilliantly told' Philippe Sands The little-known story of Hitler's war on modern art and the mentally ill. In...
Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival
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...
The Lost Shtetl: A Novel
Author: Max Gross Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 WINNER OF THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD AND THE JEWISH FICTION AWARD FROM THE ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH LIBRARIES GOOD MORNING AMERICA...
Brutus of Troy: And the Quest for the Ancestry of the British
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...
Chiang Kai-Shek versus Tse-Tung: The Battle for China 1946 - 1949
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...
Field Work: What Land Does to People & What People Do to Land
Author: Bella Bathurst Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'A priceless portrait of one of the least understood and frequently most vilified of people: farmers. It should really be read...
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...
Here Lies Hugh Glass
Author: Jon T Coleman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The true story behind The Revenant. In the summer of 1823, a grizzly bear mauled mountain man Hugh Glass in...
Love Unknown: The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop
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...
First Victory: 1941: Blood, Oil and Mastery in the Middle East, 1941
Author: Robert Lyman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 1941. Before Montgomery's victory at El Alamein and the American entry into the war, Britain and her Empire stood alone and...