History

Author: Richard Naughton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Jack Crawford was one of Australia's great sporting heroes of the 1930s,along with Donald Bradman, Hubert Opperman and Haydn...

Author: Sonia Purnell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Without Winston Churchill's inspiring leadership Britain could not have survived its darkest hour. Without his wife Clementine, however, he might never...

Author: Ken Wharfe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 An authoritative book, written with two close friends of Diana: Inspector Ken Wharfe was Diana's police protection officer for...

Author: David Patrikarakos Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A leading foreign correspondent looks at how social media has transformed the modern battlefield, and how wars are fought Modern warfare...

Author: Hugh Aldersey-Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 Filled with incident, discovery, and revelation, Dutch Light is a vivid account of Christiaan Huygens's remarkable life and career, but it...

Author: Ronald C. Rosbottom Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The author of When Paris Went Dark returns to World War II to tell the remarkable story of the youngest...

Author: Mike Massimino Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Mike Massimino's compelling memoir takes us on a brilliant journey where the nerdiest science meets the most thrilling adventure to reveal...

Author: Francine Prose Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 In this brilliant collection, the follow-up to her New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer, the distinguished novelist, literary critic,...

Author: Peter Hart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The only way to truly understand what it was like to fight in the Second World War is to listen to...

Author: Peter Waldron Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Between the 17th century and the 1917 revolution, the Russian Tsars became absolute rulers of the largest and most diverse empire...

Author: John Grehan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 516 Dispatches in this volume include that on the Far East between October 1940 and December 1941, by Air Chief Marshal Sir...

Author: Mark Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The astonishing year when German democracy faced crisis and near destruction. 1923 was one of the most remarkable years of modern...

Author: Duncan Barrett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 True-life recollections from the Channel Islanders who were the only British subjects to live under Nazi rule in WWII. 'Barrett has...

Author: Verity Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Pierrot, Little Bo Peep, cowboy: these characters and many more form part of this colourful story of dressing up, from the...

Author: Paul Christiaan Klieger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 324 The history of Tibet has long intrigued the world, as well as the dilemma of its future - will it...

Author: Helen M. Rozwadowski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 Vast Expanses is a cultural, environmental and geopolitical history that examines the relationship between humans and oceans, reaching back across...

Author: Simon Shuster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'An intense, evocative portrait of one of the most remarkable figures of our era' ANNE APPLEBAUM 'This is...

Author: Karina Urbach Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 What happened to the books that were too valuable to burn? The story of a Jewish chef whose bestselling cookbook was...

Author: Debbie Cenziper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 In 1990, in a drafty basement archive in Prague, two American historians made a startling discovery: a Nazi roster from 1945...

Author: Sir Rodric Braithwaite Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Wise and thorough' - The Spectator 'Brisk and readable ... very valuable' -Financial Times 'He is an engaging guide ......

Author: Burkhard Bilger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration...

Author: Anthony Adolph Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Just who did the British think they were? For much of the last 1,500 years, when the British looked back to...

Author: Holly Tucker (Vanderbilt University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In the late 1600s, Louis XIV assigns Nicolas de la Reynie to bring order to the city of Paris...

Author: D.K.R. Crosswell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 1088 A valued adviser and trusted insider in the highest echelon of U.S. military and political leaders, General Walter Bedell Smith began...

Author: Thomas N. Mitchell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A history of the world's first democracy from its beginnings in Athens circa fifth century B.C. to its downfall 200...

Author: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Introducing the Martin Luther King Jr Library With a New Foreword by Amanda Gorman A beautiful collectible edition...

Author: Robert Mason Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 292 More than half a million copies of Chickenhawk have been sold since it was first published in 1983. Now with a...

Author: Michelle Morgan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'England? It seemed to be raining the whole time . . . Or maybe it was me' MARILYN MONROE In July...

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: Walter R. Borneman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 World War II changed the course of history. Douglas MacArthur changed the course of World War II. MACARTHUR AT WAR...

Author: Brent E. Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Sprawling across the Pacific, this untold story follows the crew of the newly-built "vengeance ship" USS Astoria, named for her...

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: 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: Tim Tate Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The thrilling never-before-told story of Agent Sniper, one of the Cold War's most effective counter-agents Michal Goleniewski, cover name Sniper, was...

Author: Tarana Burke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twenty-first century, the me too movement, Tarana Burke...

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: Lucy Malleson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A rediscovered classic memoir - a fascinating insight into the life of a crime writer during and after the...

Author: Julie Welch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The Fleet Street Girls is the inspiring and evocative story of the female journalists who broke down barriers in the 1970s...

Author: Marc Lynch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Less than twenty-four months after the hope-filled Arab uprising, the popular movement had morphed into a dystopia of resurgent dictators, failed...

Author: Philip Eade Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'The narrative is as suspenseful as any thriller. Truly, an excellent read' Lynn Barber, Sunday Times Married for almost...

Author: Sam Knight Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Premonitions are impossible. But they come true all the time. Most are innocent. You think of a forgotten friend....

Author: Lucasta Miller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A lost nineteenth-century literary life, brilliantly rediscovered--Letitia Elizabeth Landon, hailed as the female Byron; she changed English poetry; her novels, short...

Author: Stephen Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 ESCAPE FROM PARIS is the true story of a small group of U.S. aviators whose four B-17 Flying Fortresses were shot...

Author: Matthew Sweet Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Spies: Meet Marie-Jacqueline Lancaster, the woman from M15 who has the gravy browning licked from her legs by Dylan...

Author: Jamie Foxx Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 From Academy Award-winning multi-talent Jamie Foxx, a hilariously candid look at the joys and pitfalls of being the father...

Author: J R Moehringer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 NOW A MAJOR FILM DIRECTED BY GEORGE CLOONEY AND STARRING BEN AFFLECK 'Highly entertaining . . . constructed...

Author: Amit Katwala Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'A wonderful book' - Guardian Truth, murder and the birth of the lie detector Henry Wilkens burst through the...

Author: Susan Ronald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald reveals the truth about Joseph P. Kennedy's deeply controversial tenure as Ambassador to Great Britain on the...