History

Author: Anna Reid Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 FULLY UPDATED 'A fascinating and often violent odyssey, spanning more than 1,000 years of conflict and culture' INDEPENDENT Flat, fertile, and...

Author: Damien Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 From bestselling true military author Damien Lewis: the incredible story of the radar wars, Britain's most secret battle. 'Nail-biting action all...

Author: Charles Morris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The Great Crash of 1929 violently disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The suddenness of the...

Author: David Taylor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 The Indonesian Confrontation that raged from 1963 to 1966 stemmed from Indonesia's opposition to the creation of Malaysia. Fighting in the...

Author: Stephen Bates Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 342 Palmer was convicted of poisoning and suspected in the murders of dozens of others, including his best friend, his wife, and...

Author: Philip Jowett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 This volume in the Images of War series is the first photographic history of the Chinese Civil War, fought between Chiang...

Author: Steven K Bailey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Bold Venture tells an important and riveting untold wartime story of the American airmen who flew combat missions over Hong...

Author: R. Keith Schoppa Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 312 Combining evocative historical description and cogent analysis, Song Full of Tears is a chronicle of nine hundred years of life...

Author: Norbert Wolf Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 Reaching its peak in the 11th and 12th centuries, the Romanesque movement was marked by a peculiar, vivid, and often monumental...

Author: Ann Patty Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 246 After thirty-five years as a book editor in New York City, Ann Patty stopped working and moved to the country. Bored,...

Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Shortly after completing THE DROWNED AND THE SAVED, Primo Levi committed suicide. The manner of his death was sudden, violent and...

Author: Alice Walker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 'These journals are a revelation, a road map and a gift to us all' TAYARI JONES, author of An American Marriage...

Author: Jonathan Clements Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 His grandfather was the bloodthirsty Mongol leader Genghis Khan, his mother a Christian princess. Groomed from childhood for a position of...

Author: Charles J. Hanley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 Although it was then perceived as a far-off and inconclusive engagement, the Korean War was a highly consequential and deeply...

Author: Nadia Wassef Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'Nadia's story is for every business owner who has ever jumped without a net, and for every reader who has found...

Author: Lady Antonia Fraser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Before biography was fashionable, Antonia Fraser made the past popular' Guardian 'As a pure storyteller, Antonia Fraser has few equals'...

Author: Anne Sebba Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 New York Times bestselling author Anne Sebba's moving biography of Ethel Rosenberg, the wife and mother whose execution for espionage-related crimes...

Author: James Wright Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 The Vietnam War is largely recalled as a mistake, either in the decision to engage there or in the nature of...

Author: Thomas Levenson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The sweeping story of the world's first financial crisis: "an astounding episode from the early days of financial markets that to...

Author: Larry Tye Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 The definitive biography of the most dangerous demagogue in American history, based on exclusive access to his papers and recently unsealed...

Author: Roxane van Iperen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Perfect for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Cilka's Journey and The Librarian of Auschwitz - this is the international...

Author: Douglas Century Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Bestselling author Douglas Century reveals the untold story of the epic rise and fall of Boris Nayfeld, also known as Biba,...

Author: Thomas Travisano Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 1 An illuminating new biography of one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop's friend James...

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: Densey Clyne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 My Encounters with Minibeasts is a collection of stories about insects and spiders by naturalist Densey Clyne, who is...

Author: Tony Kirkham Format: Cards Number of Pages: 31 Tree Vision is the ultimate card set to help you learn all about trees, their leaves, seeds, flowers and so much...

Author: Justin Spring Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2017 and a Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2017. Winner of...

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: Amber Jane Butchart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 From Chanel's coastal couture to McLaren and Westwood's punk-fuelled pirates, from Jean Paul Gaultier's beefcake camp to Tommy Hilfiger's preppy...

Author: A. N. Wilson (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Biographer and novelist A. N. Wilson, whose most recent work on the life of Queen Victoria was an enormous...

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: Tom Segev Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 816 When Tom Segev's biography of David Ben-Gurion was published in Israel in early 2018, it was a major event, making headlines...

Author: Frank Walker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Swashbuckler, daredevil racing-car champion, Winter Olympian, gambler, smuggler, scoundrel, stud and suspected spy - this is the fascinating story...

Author: Martin Marix Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 1918 examines both the Germans' tactics and the Allies' preferred solution to fighting this war, the combination of...

Author: Major Robert Lyman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Flying the notorious "Hump" route between India and China in 1943, a twin-engine plane suffered mechanical failure and crashed in...

Author: Frederic Raphael Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 376 A sharp, often surprising, view of the classical world by a major classics scholar at Cambridge and author of The Glittering...

Author: Katie Knowles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The National Trust looks after one of the largest and most significant holdings of fine-art and heritage objects in the world....

Author: Simon Jarrett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Traces the little-known lives of people with learning disabilities over 300 years The Idiot traces the little-known lives of people with...

Author: Frank Walker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The extraordinary revelations in Traitors detail the ugly side of war and power and the many betrayals of our ANZACs. In...

Author: Al Murray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'My bookshelves were groaning with WW2 books, Hitler's baleful eyes staring out at me from covers and spines for any new...

Author: Vaudine England Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A timely, well-researched, and vibrant new history of Hong Kong that reveals the untold stories of the diverse peoples who have...

Author: Bruce Gamble Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 In early 1942, while most of the American military was still in disarray from the devastating attacks on Pearl Harbor and...

Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023. A Waterstones Book of the Year 2023. An Economist Book of...

Author: Michael Scott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 294 A History Channel consultant explores how, in less than 100 years, ancient Greece went from a democratic city-state to an monarchical...

Author: Professor Richard A. Gabriel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 Of the thousands of commanders who served in history's armies, why is it that only a few are remembered...

Author: Robin Norwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Is having 'somebody to love' the most important thing in your life? Do you constantly believe that with ?the right man? you...

Author: Nicholas Reynolds Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 A New Yorker "Best Books of 2022" selection "Need to Know is the most thorough and detailed history available on the...

Author: Giles Milton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 The international bestselling historian and host of the Unknown History podcast presents a ground-breaking account of the first 24 hours of...