History

Author: Kathryn Bonsella Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan, or Hotel K, Bali's most notorious jail. Its walls touch paradise; sparkling oceans, surf beaches and palm trees...

Author: Jeremy Black Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 As the United Kingdom left the European Union, during a period of international and domestic turmoil, London found itself at a...

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: Christina Riggs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A bold new history of the discovery of King Tut and the seismic impact it left on modern society. When it...

Author: Jeremy Black Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Despite being relatively brief, this very readable history covers environmental, political, social, economic, cultural and artistic elements, and is very open...

Author: Katie Hickman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The extraordinary, dramatic story of the women of the American west 'Brave Hearted is not just history, it is an incredibly...

Author: Bella Bathurst Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'A priceless portrait of one of the least understood and frequently most vilified of people: farmers. It should really be read...

Author: Julian Manyon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 On 12 May 1982 as the Falklands conflict became a shooting war, ITN journalist Julian Manyon and his TV crew were...

Author: Laurence Rees Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 An award-winning historian plumbs the depths of Hitler and Stalin's vicious regimes, and shows the extent to which they brutalized the...

Author: Bruce de Mesquita Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Western exceptionalism-the idea that European civilizations are freer, wealthier, and less violent-is a widespread and powerful political idea. It has...

Author: Brandon Presser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 For fans of The Wager and Mutiny on the Bounty comes a thrilling true tale of power, obsession, and betrayal at...

Author: Linda Kinstler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In 1965, five years after the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, one of his Mossad abductors was sent back...

Author: Brendan Simms Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The Battle of Midway was, on paper, an improbable victory for the smaller, less experienced American navy and air force, so...

Author: Paul Halpern Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 In the past decade, Paul Halpern has brought readers three stunning histories of science -- Einstein's Dice and Schroedinger's Cats, The...

Author: Rupert Christiansen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century reinvention of Paris as the most beautiful, exciting city in the world In 1853, French...

Author: Joe Moshenska Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 An innovative and elegant new biography of John Milton from an acclaimed Oxford professor John Milton was once essential reading for...

Author: Peniel Joseph Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense versus nonviolence, Black Power versus civil rights,...

Author: Richard Russell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'If sound is the fifth element, then Richard has nurtured and enhanced some of the most important soundwaves of our time'...

Author: Jacob Soll Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 After two government bailouts of the American economy in less than twenty years, free market thought is due for serious reappraisal....

Author: Tom Dunkel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 They were a small group of conspirators who risked their lives by plotting relentlessly to obstruct and destroy the Third Reich...

Author: Ethan Chorin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Ten years after an attack on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, cries...

Author: Rebecca Donner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 Born and raised in America, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD programme in Berlin and witnessed the...

Author: Andrew Nagorski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'An intimate, touching portrait of a genius as an old man' -SYLVIA NASAR, author of A BEAUTIFUL MIND 'A gripping masterpiece'...

Author: Danielle Friedman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Author of The Cut's viral article shared thousands of times unearthing the little-known origins of barre workouts, Danielle Friedman explores the...

Author: Lesley Chamberlain Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 When Rilke died in 1926, his reputation as a great poet seemed secure. But as the tide of the critical avant-garde...

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: Casey Rae Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 William S. Burroughs's fiction and essays are legendary, but his influence on music's counterculture has been less well documented-until now. Examining...

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: Richard Greene Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 Probably the greatest British novelist of his generation, Graham Greene's own story was as strange and compelling as those he told...

Author: Frances Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize An electrifying, revelatory new biography of D. H. Lawrence, with a focus on his...

Author: Christopher de Bellaigue Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "Christopher de Bellaigue has a magic talent for writing history. It is as if we are there as the era...

Author: Mark Piesing Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 "GRIPPING. ... One of the greatest polar rescue efforts ever mounted." -Wall Street Journal The riveting true story of the largest...

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: Bret Baier Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 #1 New York Times Bestseller Fox News Channel's Chief Political Anchor illuminates the heroic life of Ulysses S. Grant "To Rescue...

Author: James Hanning Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'A brilliantly researched and revelatory book, written with compelling authority and great narrative drive. Completely fascinating' William Boyd Love & Deception...

Author: William H McRaven Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 In this instant New York Times bestseller, the celebrated author of Make Your Bed shares amazing adventure stories from his...

Author: Kitty Ferguson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Kitty Ferguson, the award-winning and international bestselling author of Stephen Hawking's biography, presents an even deeper portrait of the legendary physicist's...

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: Martyn Ware Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 This is a music autobiography to remember. This is the story of Martyn Ware. The Human League and Heaven 17 were...

Author: Judy Batalion Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Also on the USA Today, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Globe and Mail, Publishers Weekly, and...

Author: Nikola Tesla Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Serbian inventor NIKOLA TESLA (1857-1943) was a revolutionary scientist who forever changed the scientific fields of electricity and magnetism. Tesla's greatest invention,...

Author: Craig Taylor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Terror Blackout Hurricane Recession Pandemic A symphony of contemporary New York told through the magnificent words of its people - from...

Author: Katherine Tamiko Arguile Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 For Katherine Tamiko Arguile, the Japanese food her mother cooked was a portal to a part of her that sometimes...

Author: Bill Yenne Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 370 From Bill Yenne, author of the military histories Big Week and Aces High, come the stirring true story of the Eight...

Author: Xanthe Brooke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 Hans Holbein's portrait of Henry VIII perished in fire in 1698, yet has remained the definitive image of the English monarch,...

Author: Marjoleine Kars Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize Winner of the 2021 Frederick Douglass Prize 'A richly detailed account of a gripping...

Author: Jay Jayamohan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'There are two ways to open a child's head. The pretty way and the quick way. Usually I shave the hair,...

Author: Thomas Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 When Thomas Harding discovered that his mother's family had made money from plantations worked by enslaved people, what began as an...