History

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: 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: Philippe Girard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 The definitive biography of the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture, leader of the only successful slave revolt in world history

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: Dustin Lance Black Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'A magnificent achievement . . . I cannot remember a book where I cried so often. Brave, insightful,...

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...

Author: Hilary Spurling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The author of the award-winning Matisse: A Life gives us the definitive biography of writer Anthony Powell--and takes us deep into...

Author: Michael Idov Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 In this crackling memoir, the journalist and novelist Michael Idov recounts the tempestuous years he spent living alongside-and closely observing-the media...

Author: Minnie Driver Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 When I was six, I wrote my first short essay. The title given by the teacher was: 'When I grow up,...

Author: Nury Turkel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Anyone interested in the future of autocracy should buy it' Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Demoracy **Shortlisted for the Moore...

Author: Erik Hornung Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 This volume accompanies an exhibition of the same name, which includes artefacts from nearly 2000 years before the Christian era. Objects...

Author: Nick Frost Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'No life can really be all black, right? Even during the darkest times, what got me through that bleakness...

Author: Andrew Rader Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader--an MIT-credentialed scientist, popular podcast host, and SpaceX mission manager--an illuminating chronicle of exploration that spotlights...

Author: Elizabeth Foley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Why settle for mere mortal excellence when you could be living like a goddess? You Goddess! takes us on a colourful...

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: Brett Archibald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Solitude is terrifying and awe-inspiring in Alone. --The Wall Street Journal In April 2013, fifty-year-old Brett Archibald was on board a...

Author: Elizabeth Tynan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Emu Field is overshadowed by Maralinga, the larger and much more prominent British atomic test site about 193 kilometres to the...

Author: Ian Hoskins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 ** Shortlisted, NSW Premier's History Awards 2022, Australian History Prize ** ** Winner, Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize 2023...

Author: John Julius Norwich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'Sicily is the key to everything' Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The author of the classic book on Venice turns his...

Author: Lucy Adlington Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 *** The New York Times Bestseller *** 'Lucy Adlington tells of the horrors of the Nazi occupation and the concentration camps...

Author: Jeremy Black Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The British monarchy is at a turning point. Concise and engaging, this book charts the very beginnings of British reign through...

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: The National Maritime Museum Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 __________ Available now: the biggest and best quiz book about the deep blue! __________ Think you know the difference...

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: Richard Cohen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 784 MAKING HISTORY is an epic exploration of who writes about the past and how the biases of certain storytellers - whether...

Author: Anthony Sattin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A Spectator Book of the Year 'Sweeping . . . Poetic . . . Not only readable but also vital' Literary...

Author: Jeff Maynard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Triumphs and disasters in the deep sea This is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean...

Author: Anderson Cooper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to...

Author: Donough O'Brien Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Out of the last 3,500 years of our 'civilised' world, only for 230 have we been at peace. In "The Heat...

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: Andrew Beattie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 The story of King Arthur is one of the best known in English history: he was the boy who was schooled...

Author: Sage, Michael Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 The assassination of Emperor Commodus in 192 sparked a civil war. Septimius Severus emerged as the eventual victor and his dynasty...

Author: Sarah-Beth Watkins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Nell Gwyn, the most infamous mistress of Charles II, was a commoner raised from the dingy back alleys of London to...

Author: Paul Preston (London School of Economics) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 768 The culmination of a half-century of historical investigation, A People Betrayed is not only a definitive history...

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: Ian Howie-Willis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 386 Sexually transmitted diseases, for centuries lumped together as 'Venereal Disease', or 'VD' for short, have always marched in lock-step with soldiers...

Author: Brian Fagan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: What gave Christopher Columbus the confidence in 1492 to set out across the Atlantic Ocean? What persuaded the king and queen of...

Author: Fahim Fahim Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 227 Forced to flee his native Bangladesh, eight year-old chess prodigy Fahim Mohammad arrived in Paris with his father. Refused asylum, as...

Author: Anthony Decurtis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 The essential biography of one of music's most influential icons: Lou Reed. As lead singer and songwriter for the Velvet Underground...

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: Jordan Belfort Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 NOW AN AWARD-WINNING MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE, STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO, MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY AND JONAH HILL. 'What separates Jordan's story...

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: Gavin Mortimer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Aristocrat, gambler, innovator and special forces legend, the life of David Stirling should need no retelling. His formation of the Special...

Author: Greg Jenner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 During these extraordinary times Greg Jenner is able to sign you a personalised bookplate for your hardback. Please email info@gregjenner.com with...

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: 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: Richard Evans Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 An illumination of one of the most explosive and publicized "holocaust trials" since that of Adolf Eichmann, by a leading historian...