History

Author: Brian Lavery Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 May 2015 sees the 250th anniversary of the launch of HMS Victory, the ship that is so closely associated with Nelson...

Author: Mark Felton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 This inspiring book examines the often incredible and nearly always tragic examples of Jewish resistance in ghettos and concentration camps during...

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...

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...

Author: Jamie Kreiner (University of Georgia) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The digital era is beset by distraction, and it feels like things are only getting worse. At times...

Author: Nicholas Blincoe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 **SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZE** "Idiosyncratic and entertaining," Sunday Times "A fascinating family and social history," Catherine Taylor,...

Author: Steve Tibble Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A vivid new history of the criminal underworld in the medieval Holy Land The religious wars of the crusades are renowned...

Author: Steve Tibble Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A gripping account of the Knights Templar, challenging received wisdom to show how these devout medieval knights played a profound role...

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....

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...

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...

Author: David Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 In this groundbreaking new book from the UK's leading criminologist, David Wilson explores what our nation's most lethal murderers reveal about...

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...

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...

Author: David Montenegro Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The first official story of the Red Arrows, from their 'Top Gun' and Wing Commander, celebrating the history of Britain's world-famous...

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...

Author: Nick Higham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 Anyone interested in the real London needs to read this. - Andrew Marr No city can survive without water, and lots...

Author: Florian Illies Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Strikingly original, utterly absorbing' Julia Boyd, author of Travellers in the Third ReichA Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023'1930s Europe...

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: Marcel Gauchet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 How Robespierre's career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracy. Maximilien Robespierre (17581794) is arguably the most controversial and contradictory...

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: 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: 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: Simon Elliott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 'The order was brutal, its message unequivocal - kill the men, women and children of what is now Scotland and don't...

Author: Barbara Amiel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 Included in The Times and Daily Telegraph Book of the Year round-ups 'Friends and Enemies is an extraordinary read showing unflinching...

Author: Roderic Fenwick Owen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 'I would be most unhappy to think that any part of this memoir should be cut on grounds...

Author: Michael Coveney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'Coveney is the only writer who could get under Smith's skin, capturing her steeliness and vulnerability' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY...

Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 752 The long-awaited biography of the genius who masterminded Henry VIII's bloody revolution in the English government, which reveals at last Cromwell's...

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: Erik Hornung Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 This volume accompanies an exhibition of the same name, which includes artefacts from nearly 2000 years before the Christian era. Objects...

Author: Simon Murray Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Vintage glasses of all shapes, styles and sizes - the very best of 20th- and 21st-century spectacle design for fashion designers,...

Author: Nick Frost Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'No life can really be all black, right? Even during the darkest times, what got me through that bleakness...

Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A comparison of nine leaders who led their nations through the greatest wars the world has ever seen and whose unique...

Author: Andrew Nahum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Frank Whittle always maintained that he was held back by a lack of government support. At the very moment...

Author: James Bowen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 When James Bowen found an injured, ginger street cat curled up in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation, he...

Author: Judith Tebbutt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 This is the story of how, over a period of one hundred and ninety-two days, I was torn away...

Author: Adam Nicolson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Adam Nicolson writes popular books as popular books used to be, a breeze rather than a scholarly sweat, but humanely erudite,...

Author: Esther Schor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A rich and passionate biography of a language and the dream of world harmony it sought to realize In 1887, Ludwig...

Author: Edward Wilson-Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 This impeccably researched and "adventure-packed" (The Washington Post) account of the obsessive quest by Christopher Columbus's son to create...

Author: Gordon Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 "A terrifying and timely account of resistance in the face of the greatest of evils."--Alex Kershaw, New York Times bestselling author...