History

Author: Mark Roseman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From the celebrated historian of Nazi Germany, the story of a remarkable but completely unsung group that risked everything to help...

Author: Catrine Clay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 After 1933, as the brutal terror regime took hold, most of the two-thirds of Germans who had never voted for the...

Author: William Styron Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 656 Including significant previously uncollected material, My Generation is the definitive gathering of the fruits of this beloved writer's five decades of...

Author: Lyndal Roper (University of London) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 From "one of the best of the new [Martin Luther] biographers" (The New Yorker), a portrait of the...

Author: Charles Postel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The Civil War unleashed a torrent of claims for equality-in the chaotic years following the war, former slaves, women's rights activists,...

Author: Amity Shlaes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 The New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period...

Author: Sean Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Fascinating and authoritative' The Daily Express Sunday Times bestselling author Sean Smith tells the extraordinary story of a modern cultural icon:...

Author: Johan Norberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Humanity's embrace of openness is the key to our success. The freedom to explore and exchange - whether it's goods, ideas...

Author: David Sedaris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 What could be a more tempting Christmas gift than a compendium of David Sedaris's best stories, selected by the author himself?...

Author: Peter Hughes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A timely history of the world spanning every continent, religion and era, told through the creation and destruction of 21 Statues....

Author: Inazo Nitobe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: This classic text by InazoNitobe defining the moral code of the warrior class or Samurai has had a hugeimpact both...

Author: Sun Tzu Format: Paperback Number of Pages: The ancient Chinese general Sun Tzu is universally recognized as the greatest military strategist in history, a master of warfare interpretation. This condensed...

Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Written around the time that Aristotle (384_322 BCE) established his own school in Athens, this is a guide to what was...

Author: Karl Marx Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.' Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes - one...

Author: Michael Ashcroft Format: Hardback Number of Pages: Special Ops Heroes tells the extraordinary stories behind Lord Ashcroft's collection of SAS and other Special Forces medals - the largest of...

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: Susie Hodge Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Discover art that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when...

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: Stephen Fry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The original bestselling autobiography by the comedian, novelist and national treasure, Stephen Fry. ______________________________ The original bestselling autobiography by...

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: Brian Clegg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Scientifica Historica is a unique, essay-based review of those books that marked the development of science from classical times to the...

Author: Laura Jane Grace Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 "If I could have chosen, I would have been born a woman / My mother once told me she would...

Author: Kenneth C Davis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Multi-million-copy bestselling historian Kenneth C. Davis sets his sights on war stories in The Hidden History of America at War....

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: Marina Wheeler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 SHORT LISTED FOR THE 2021 CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE 'The Lost Homestead is a memoir of Wheeler's mother and her family, which...

Author: Mike Massimino Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Mike Massimino's compelling memoir takes us on a brilliant journey where the nerdiest science meets the most thrilling adventure to reveal...

Author: James Buchan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 At the summit of his power, John Law was the most famous man in Europe. Born in Scotland in...

Author: Mike Gunton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Life Story is a tale of survival, laying bare the extraordinary journey animals must make to achieve life's goal to continue...

Author: Matt Collins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Forest celebrates the diverse ways in which trees and forests are as magnificent, economically relevant and profoundly enchanting today as they...

Author: Paul Brown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 When a band of Norman adventurers arrived in southern Italy to fight in the Lombard insurrections against the Byzantine empire in...

Author: Georgia Pritchett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Funny, moving, insightful, vulnerable. A brave book and a brilliant read.' - Miranda Hart Multi-award-winning television writer and producer...

Author: Sarah Aspinall Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 For readers of Hideous Kinky, Dadland and Bad Blood; the astonishing, beguiling story of Sarah Aspinall's harum scarum childhood,...

Author: Kate Mosse Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 A deeply moving story of what it means to care for those we love, a celebration of older people and ageing,...

Author: Dr Gregory Bryan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Henry Lawson gave voice to a uniquely Australian identity and much of the Australian ethos of mateship was...

Author: Nuria Jimenez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 35 All animals and plants require clean air. In this book, children learn about why we need air, the value...

Author: Amaryllis Fox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Fast and thrilling . . . Life Undercover reads as if a John le Carre character...

Author: John C. McManus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 An engrossing, epic history of the US Army in the Pacific War "Out here, mention is seldom seen of the...

Author: Edward Posnett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 "[Strange Harvests is] an impressive addition to the modern travelogue, painting some of the world's most remote terrain in visceral and...

Author: Douglas Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing, little-known story of an American effort to save the newly formed Soviet Union from disaster...

Author: Leonard Cohen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER Named a Fall Read by Vogue, Esquire, The Washington Post, TIME, Vanity Fair and O, the...

Author: Rodrigo Garcia Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 "This is a beautiful farewell to two extraordinary people. It enthralled and moved me, and it will move and enthrall anyone...

Author: Onno Blom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 278 Rembrandt's life has always been an enigma. How did a miller's son from a provincial Dutch town become the greatest artist...

Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 A decisive key to help grasp some of the essential points of what is happening around us. The ninth part of...

Author: Marcus Chown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Marcus Chown rocks!' - Brian May How does it feel to know something about the universe that no one...

Author: Sunil Khilnani Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A classic since it was first published in 1997, The Idea of India is a magisterial historical study that...

Author: Daniel Okrent Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 NAMED ONE OF THE "100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR" BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "An extraordinary book, I...

Author: Luis J Rodriguez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East...

Author: Michael Gross (Oxford UK) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A fascinating and comprehensive look into the life of American fashion designer Ralph Lauren, now with an...