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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....
Zero Six Bravo : 60 Special Forces. 100,000 Enemy. the Explosive True Story
Author: Damian Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: They were branded as cowards and accused of being the British Special Forces Squadron that ran away from the Iraqis. But nothing...
Because I donÕt know what you mean and what you donÕt
Author: Josie Long Format: Paperback Number of Pages: From a comic mastermind comes this brilliant collection of stories Three teenagers believe they are witches. A woman defaces a local billboard....
Seeing into the Future: A Short History of Prediction
Author: Martin van Creveld Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 If there is anything that distinguishes us from animals, it is our ability to understand that such a thing as...
Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
Author: Nicola Tallis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Following Lady Jane Grey's journey from the deadly intrigues of her childhood that led inexorably through to her trial and execution...
How Rich Countries Got Rich ... and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor
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Author: Erik S Reinert Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 A maverick economist explains how protectionism makes nations rich, free trade keeps them poor---and how rich countries make sure to...
Empireworld: How British Imperialism Shaped the Globe
Author: Sathnam Sanghera Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Bestselling author and journalist Sathnam Sanghera explores the global legacy of the British Empire, and the ways it continues to influence...
The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany
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Author: Gwen Strauss Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 THE BELOVED NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[A] narrative of unfathomable courage" Wall Street Journal The Nine follows the true story of...
Origin Africa: Safaris in Deep Time
Author: Jonathan Kingdon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 A major new look at how Africa's geological history, climate, geography and biology resulted in the wonderful diversity of life found...
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
Author: Candice Millard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A story of courage and adventure, set against the backdrop of the race to exploit Africa by the colonial powers. For...
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...
The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania, and Mutiny in the South
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Author: Brandon Presser Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 For fans of The Wager and Mutiny on the Bounty comes a thrilling true tale of power, obsession, and betrayal at...
The Death Railway: The Personal Account of Lieutenant Colonel Kappe on
Author: Kappe, Charles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR They had faced the indignity of surrender and the squalor of Changi prison, so the spirits of the British...
Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees
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Author: Jared Farmer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The epic story of the planet's oldest trees and the making of the modern world Humans have always revered long-lived trees....
Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion
Author: Charles Townshend Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 A century on - the definitive account of the events that changed Irish history forever Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been...
Shakespeare and the Resistance: The Earl of Southampton, the Essex
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Author: Clare Asquith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The 1590s were black years for England. The queen was old, the succession unclear, and the treasury empty after decades of...
We May Dominate the World: Ambition, Anxiety, and the Rise of the American Colossus
Author: Sean Mirski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 What did it take for the United States to become a global superpower? The answer lies in a missing chapter of...
The Betrayal of the Duchess: The Scandal That Unmade the Bourbon
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Author: Maurice Samuels Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Fighting to reclaim the French crown for the Bourbons, the duchesse de Berry faces betrayal at the hands of one of...
Forgotten Warriors: The Long History of Women in Combat
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Author: Sarah Percy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The definitive history of women in war, revealing how women have always been an essential part of combat From Boudicca's rebellion...
Dog's Best Friend: A Brief History of an Unbreakable Bond
Author: Simon Garfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 One of the first words we learn. Perhaps the best friend we'll have. An animal so much part of our lives...
Lonely Courage: The true story of the SOE heroines who fought to free Nazi-occupied France
Author: Rick Stroud Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'A fascinating, superbly researched and revelatory book - told with tremendous pace and excitement' William Boyd 'This compelling and complete account...
Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea
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Author: Darrin McMahon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 Equality is in crisis. Our world is filled with soaring inequalities, spanning wealth, race, identity, and nationality. Yet how can we...
Fifty-Three Days on Starvation Island: The World War II Battle That
Author: John R Bruning Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 On August 20, 1942, twelve Marine dive-bombers and nineteen Marine fighters landed at Guadalcanal. Their mission: defeat the Japanese navy...
The Sister: North Korea's Kim Yo Jong, the Most Dangerous Woman in the
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Author: Sung-Yoon Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 This first book on Kim Jong Un's increasingly powerful sister, tapped to be his successor, offers jaw-dropping insights into the latest...
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 Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War
Author: Don Doyle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 408 "Doyle's important book reveals why the war was more than a domestic quarrel it was also a geopolitical event that shook...
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American
Author: Edward E. Baptist Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution,the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from...
The Liberation Line: The Untold Story of How American Engineering and
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Author: Christian Wolmar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The epic story of the engineers and rail workers who ensured Allied victory in World War Two, published to coincide with...
Beastly: A New History of Animals and Us
Author: Keggie Carew Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 In a Polish forest a young woman befriends a boar. An Englishman sets up home with two beavers in Saskatchewan. A...
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...
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...
The Fighter of Auschwitz: The incredible true story of Leen Sanders who boxed to help others survive
Author: Erik Brouwer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 **A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'He had the dream again last night... He taps the gloves of his unbeaten Polish opponent. There...
SAS Forged in Hell: From Desert Rats to Dogs of War: The Mavericks who Made the SAS
Author: Damien Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 FOR FANS OF THE BBC SERIES SAS ROGUE HEROES, THIS IS THE REAL STORY OF BLAIR 'PADDY' MAYNE A Waterstones Best...
The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House
Author: Kate Andersen Brower Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 #1 New York Times Bestseller "A revealing look at life inside the White House. . . it's Downton Abbey for...
Expertise, Authority and Control: The Australian Army Medical Corps in
Author: Alexia Moncrieff (University of Leeds) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 236 Expertise, Authority and Control charts the development of Australian military medicine in the First World War in the...
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....
A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe
Author: Milan Kundera Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 'The people of Central Europe cannot be separated from European history; they cannot exist outside it; but they represent the wrong...
The Encyclopedia of Melbourne
Author: Andrew Brown-May (University of Melbourne) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 840 Great cities deserve great encyclopedias. A city is known by its past, its characteristic virtues and troubles, and...
A Small, Stubborn Town: Life, death and defiance in Ukraine - As heard
Author: Andrew Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 It's March 2022 and Russian tanks are roaring across the vast, snow-dusted fields of Ukraine. Their destination: Voznesensk, a town with...
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,...
Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
Author: Jozsef Debreczeni Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A lost classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first time - from journalist, poet and survivor J zsef Debreczeni A...
War & Peace & War: Twenty years in Afghanistan
Author: Andrew North Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Andrew North has a deep empathy and understanding for Afghanistan and has seen sides of it - both good and horrifying...
Anzac and Empire: George Foster Pearce and the Foundations of
Author: John Connor (University College, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 Anzac and Empire is the remarkable story of George Foster Pearce - a carpenter...
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...
The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy
Author: Stein Ringen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises,...
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...
A Brilliant Life: An Unforgettable Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz and
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Author: Rachelle Unreich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'A delicate, evocative story of strength and survival that turns on one of the most powerful forces in the known universe:...
Coalition Strategy and the End of the First World War: The Supreme War
Author: Meighen McCrae (Australian National University, Canberra) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 292 When the Germans requested an armistice in October 1918, it was a shock to the Allied political...