History

Author: Steve Heaney, MC Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 For three decades one of the most secretive units in the British military has been a mystery force known as...

Author: Michael Waters Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The story of the early athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who lit the flame for today's culture wars. In December 1935, Zdenek...

Author: Friedrich Kellner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 520 This is a truly unique account of Nazi Germany at war and of one man's struggle against totalitarianism. A mid-level official...

Author: Alexander Maitland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Explorers and travellers have always been attracted by the lure of the unknown. By traversing and mapping our planet, they have...

Author: Andrea Elliott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Andrea Elliott, comes the unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, poverty...

Author: Janina Ramirez Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 Skulduggery, power struggles and politics. A fascinating re-examination of Anglo-Saxon England told through the secret lives of the saints. From the...

Author: Erik Larson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between...

Author: Candida Moss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Monumental and eye-opening' Reza Aslan'A revelation [...and...] an intellectual triumph' Irish Independent'[A] massive achievement' Spectator'Refreshingly readable' Guardian For the past two...

Author: Ann Curthoys (Australian National University, Canberra) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 444 At last a history that explains how indigenous dispossession and survival underlay and shaped the birth of...

Author: Hilary Mantel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'A guide to the mind of one of the great English novelists of the last half-century' Guardian 'Like hearing the voice...

Author: Tiya Miles Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER ~ NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ~ WINNER OF THE...

Author: Olive Heffernan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 THE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER'Powerful reportage...awash with wonderful obscurities' The Sunday Times''A comprehensive investigation of the staggering damage we have done to...

Author: Mathijs Deen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "A joy to read" Times Literary Supplement "[A] stirring and accessible history of the mighty Rhine" Irish Times "It's easy to...

Author: Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'A thrilling biography, filled with the imperial ambitions and merciless intrigues' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE Cleopatra: lover, seductress, and Egypt's greatest...

Author: Nazneen Khan-Ostrem Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 TRANSLATED BY ALISON McCULLOUGH 'One of the best books on the many diverse migrations to London . . . revealing the...

Author: Ernesto Bassi Arevalo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 277 In An Aqueous Territory Ernesto Bassi traces the configuration of a geographic space he calls the transimperial Greater Caribbean between...

Author: Sam Miller Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Migrants cuts through the toxic debates to tell the rich and collective stories of humankind's urge to move< 'Fascinating... Miller's perspective...

Author: David Gardner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Adolf Hitler was one of six children born to his mother, and one of eight born to his father from two...

Author: Daisy Dunn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Oxford thought it was at war. And then it was. After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like...

Author: Chris Heath Format: Hardback 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....

Author: Luke Turner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 As the Second World War moves beyond living memory and its last veterans leave us, we are in danger of losing...

Author: Tom Fort Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'A hymn to hardware, charming, lyrical' - The Sunday Times, BOOK OF THE WEEK 'A paean to DIY' - The Times...

Author: Frank Murphy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Beginning on August 17, 1942, American heavy bomber crews of the Eighth Air Force took off for combat in the hostile...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Author: Jackie Kohnstamm Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Jackie Kohnstamm's mother rarely talked about what had happened during the war and had kept little evidence of her early life....

Author: Robert Verkaik Format: Paperback 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...

Author: Francois Kersaudy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The astonishing true story of Heinrich Himmler's masseur who used his influence over the S.S. commander to save the lives of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Author: Robert Hutton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Cairo, 1942: If you had asked a British officer who Colonel Clarke was, they would have been able to point him...

Author: Roxanne de Bastion Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 One man, his piano and their miraculous survival. 'Extraordinary' Baroness Julia Neuberger 'Powerful and gruelling ... an almost unimaginable story...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Author: John A Lynn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Battle: A History of Combat and Culture spans the globe and the centuries to explore the way ideas shape the...