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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival
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Author: Tom Clavin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 An American fighter pilot doomed to die in Buchenwald but determined to survive. On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off...
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...
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...
Antisemitism and Its Opponents in Modern Poland
Author: Robert E. Blobaum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 From the Middle Ages until World War II, Poland was host to Europe's largest and most vibrant Jewish population. By...
The Curtain and the Wall: A Modern Journey Along Europe's Cold War Border
Author: Timothy Phillips Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The Iron Curtain divided the continent of Europe, north to south, with the Berlin Wall as its most visible, infamous manifestation....
The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World
Author: Patrick Wyman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 In the bestselling tradition of The Swerve and A Distant Mirror, THE VERGE tells the story of a period that marked...
Last Stands: Why Men Fight When All Is Lost
Author: Michael Walsh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 What is heroism? What are its moral components-altruism, love, self-sacrifice? Why was it once celebrated, and now often dismissed as anachronistic?...
Inferno: The True Story of a B-17 Gunner's Heroism and the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History
Author: Joe Pappalardo Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 There's no higher accolade in the U.S. military than the Medal of Honor, and 472 people received it for their action...
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
Author: Glory Edim Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Required reading.' - Cosmopolitan 'This should be read as a sacred text. Here, you will bear witness to a perpetual salvation...
War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian Resistance
Author: Mikhail Zygar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'History is made up of myths,' writes the renowned Russian dissident journalist Mikhail Zygar. 'Alas, our myths led us to the...
The Shoulders We Stand On: How Black and Brown people fought for change in the United Kingdom
Author: Preeti Dhillon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 ** Eastern Eye's Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2023 ** The UK is grappling with big questions about belonging, equality and...
Operation Kingfisher: The cancelled rescue mission that sacrificed Sandakan POWs to the Death Marches
Author: Gary Followill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 The chain of events that led to the death of over 2,500 Prisoners of War - one of Australia's worst wartime...
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE
Author: Simon Garfield Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Witty and geekily eclectic' The Times An erudite and amusing exploration' Financial Times 'Full of jawdropping facts' Mail on Sunday 'Remarkable...
The Traitor of Colditz: The Definitive Untold Account of Colditz Castle: 'Truly revelatory' Damien Lewis
Author: Robert Verkaik Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 THE GRIPPING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A vastly entertaining tale, bursting with astonishing stories and extraordinary characters ... A fascinating read' Sunday...
The Hunt: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Catch a Taliban Warlord
Author: Andy McNab Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 From master storyteller Andy McNab, this is the opening book in an adventure-filled and action-packed new series telling, for the first...
Battle for the Big Top: P. T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus
Author: Les Standiford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Millions have sat under the "big top," watching as trapeze artists glide and clowns entertain, but few know the captivating stories...
Final Verdict: A Holocaust Trial in the Twenty-first Century
Author: Tobias Buck Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 '[A] gripping and fascinating book' JAMES HOLLAND, DAILY TELEGRAPH, 5* review 'A brilliant book . . . timely . . ....
Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut
Author: Elsa Richardson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A Financial Times most anticipated read for 2024'A brilliant new cultural history of the gut' Daily Mail'A fascinating, erudite and entertaining...
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023. A Waterstones Book of the Year 2023. An Economist Book of...
Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times
Author: Professor Aaron Sachs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 472 Up from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American history-the novelist and...
White Terror: A True Story of Murder, Bombings and Germany's Far Right
Author: Jacob Kushner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A shocking story of serial killers, twisted idealism and a country that looked away' Rory Carroll, bestselling author of Killing Thatcher...
Been There, Done That: A Rousing History of Sex
Author: Rachel Feltman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Roman physicians told female patients they should sneeze out as much semen as possible after intercourse to avoid pregnancy. Historical treatments...
Anatomy of a Massacre: How the SS Got Away with War Crimes in Italy
Author: Christian Jennings Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 The first account in English of the Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre and the last hunt for Nazi war criminals. On 12...
Great Scientists Wage the Great War
Author: William Van Der Kloot Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Six men made major scientific breakthroughs during the First World War and in doing so altered its course. Lawrence...
With Napoleon's Guns: The Military Memoirs of an Officer of the First Empire
Author: Jean-Nicolas-Auguste Noel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In 1795 the year Napoleon Bonaparte was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the French army in Italy the seventeen-year-old Jean-Nicolas-Auguste Noel entered the...
Fight the Good Fight
Author: John Broom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Whilst a toxic mixture of nationalism and militarism tore Europe and the wider world apart from 1914 to 1919, there was...
The Two Lost Mountains: An Action-Packed Jack West Thriller
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Author: Matthew Reilly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'THE HOTTEST ACTION WRITER AROUND' EVENING TELEGRAPH THE LATEST ADVENTURE IN THE WILDLY ENTERTAINING, ACTION-PACKED JACK WEST SERIES Against all the...
SAS Band of Brothers: The Last Stand of the SAS and Their Hunt for the Nazi Killers
Author: Damien Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'Riveting. Extraordinary. A real-life thriller.' Dan Snow June 1944: the SAS parachute deep into occupied France, to wreak havoc and bloody...
Sarn Helen: A Journey Through Wales, Past, Present and Future
Author: Tom Bullough Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Sarn Helen - Helen's Causeway - is the old Roman Road that runs from the south of Wales to the north....
The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy
Author: Philippe Sands, QC Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER After the Second World War, new international rules heralded an age of human...
Jobs for the Girls: How We Set Out to Work in the Typewriter Age
Author: Ysenda Maxtone Graham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A unique take on women's history from the bestselling author of British Summer Time Begins 'Witty, clever and warm-hearted' The...
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis, as seen on BBC Two Between the Covers
Author: Maria Smilios Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remarkable true story of...
Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and China's Superpower Future
Author: Chun Han Wong Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 'Compelling and informative... a useful gateway into [Xi Jinping's] mind' Rana Mitter, Literary Review From one of the most admired...
The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
Author: Margalit Fox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp during the First World War, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, cunningly...