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Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Author: Madeleine Pelling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 What if walls could talk? For historian Madeleine Pelling, they can - if you know where to look. A brilliant new...
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 Hunt: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Catch a Taliban Warlord
Author: Andy McNab Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 From master storyteller Andy McNab, this is the opening book in an adventure-filled and action-packed new series telling, for the first...
The Traitor of Arnhem: WWII's Greatest Betrayal and the Moment That Changed History Forever
Author: Robert Verkaik Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Sunday Times Bestselling author of The Traitor of Colditz Robert Verkaik reveals the incredible never-before-told story of the role played by...
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...
City of Light, City of Shadows: Paris in the Belle Epoque
Author: x Mike Rapport Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Paris in the Belle Epoque is remembered as a golden age of cultural flourishing and political progress. The period between...
The Missing Thread: A New History of the Ancient World Through the Women Who Shaped It
Author: Daisy Dunn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 'A brilliant concept, executed with enviable elegance' Lucy Worsley 'A gem of a book. Thanks to Daisy Dunn's elegant and lively...
The Race for Mukalla: Arabian Elite Forces and the War Against Al-Qaeda
Author: Michael Knights Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The sequel to Michael Knights' successful 25 Days to Aden, The Race for Mukalla is the story of elite UAE forces...
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...
The Reign - Life in Elizabeth's Britain: Part I: The Way It Was, 1952-79
Author: Matthew Engel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 She came to the throne in 1952 when Britain had a far-flung empire, sweets were rationed, mums stayed home and kids...
Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy for the Second Cold War
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Author: Joseph Weisberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A former CIA officer and the creator of the hit TV series The Americans makes the case that America's policy towards...
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...
All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960
Author: Virginia Nicholson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 'No one else makes history this fun' AMANDA FOREMAN 'All the Rage sits you at the dressing table of history: a...
Sailing the Graveyard Sea: The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U.S. Navy's Only Mutiny, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation
Author: Richard Snow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A "compelling" (The Wall Street Journal) account of the only mutiny in the history of the United States Navy-a little-known but...
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...
Three Days In June: The Incredible Minute-by-Minute Oral History of 3 Para's Deadly Falklands War Battle
Author: James O'Connell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 *** 'If you only read one book about the Falklands make sure it's this one.' - Soldier magazine 'An extraordinarily detailed...
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,...
The Blue Age: How the US Navy Created Global Prosperity--And Why We're in Danger of Losing It
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Author: Gregg Easterbrook Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The US Navy brought half a century of peace and free trade to the world's waterways. But climate change and rising...
The Compatriots: The Russian Exiles Who Fought Against the Kremlin
Author: Andrei Soldatov Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 From the time of the tsars to the waning days of Communist regime, Russian leaders tried to control the flow of...
Cashing Out: The Flight of Nazi Treasure, 1945-1948
Author: Neill Lochery Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 By the end of January 1945, it was clear to Germany that the war was lost. The Third Reich was in...
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...
The King is Dead, Long Live the King!: Majesty, Mourning and Modernity in Edwardian Britain
Author: Martin Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A Country Life 'Best Book of the Year' 2023 The Times Book of the Week * * * 'I could read...
UKRAINE The Forging of a Nation
Author: Yaroslav Hrytsak Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'Both pioneering and fundamental. This is the essential history of Ukraine, from one of the greatest Ukrainian thinkers and scholars.' Timothy...
We Are Not One: A History of America's Fight Over Israel
Author: Eric Alterman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Fights about the fate of the state of Israel, and the Zionist movement that gave birth to it, have long been...
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...
Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess
Author: Adam Zamoyski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 A Spectator Best Book of the Year Trawling through a vast family archive and arcane sources in half a dozen languages,...
The Rescue: The True Story of the SAS Mission to Save Hostages from the Taliban
Author: Andy McNab Format: Hardback 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...
A Short History of Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce
Author: Massimo Montanari Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Pasta is an iconic symbol of Italy and its cuisine. Hundreds of shapes and thousands of recipes give expression to the...
Churchill & Son
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Author: Josh Ireland Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 The intimate, untold story of Winston Churchill's enduring yet volatile bond with his only son, Randolph "Ireland draws unforgettable sketches of...
High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia's Haunted Hinterland
Author: Tom Parfitt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'A thrilling and beautiful book' Philip Marsden 'Tom Parfitt has re-invented travel writing for the 21st century' Oliver Bullough On 1...
The Churchill Sisters: The Extraordinary Lives of Winston and Clementine's Daughters
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Author: Dr Rachel Trethewey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 As complex in their own way as their Mitford cousins, Winston and Clementine Churchill's daughters each had a unique relationship...
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...
One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink
Author: Matthew Parker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 'Breathtaking... vital and important. A wonderful read' PETER FRANKOPAN 'Marvellous... escapes the inane, balance-sheet view of Empire and sees its full...
Harriet Quimby: Flying Fair Lady
Author: Leslie Kerr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 One of the first women to fly, the fashionable Harriet Quimby (1875-1912) came of age in the fading years of a...
Where Are You From? No, Where are You Really From?
Author: Audrey Osler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A story of migration, identity and belonging, drawing on the stories of people from Audrey Osler's mixed-heritage family, over three centuries....
Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century
Author: Simon Kuper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naif getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and...
Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome
Author: Guy de la Bedoyere Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient world Living...
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...
Manichaeism (Sandpiper Books)
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Author: 0 Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'A unique and thrilling insight into the brilliant mind of Anne Lister' Sally Wainwright, creator of Gentleman Jack Female Fortune is the...
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...