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The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great
Author: Alex Rowson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a...
30-Second Napoleon: The 50 fundamentals of his life, strategies, and legacy, each explained in half a minute
Author: Charles Esdaile Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Almost two centuries since his death, Napoleon Bonaparte remains the subject of vigorous debate. On one side are those...
People of the First Crusade: The Truth about the Christian-Muslim War Revealed
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Author: Michael Foss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 In this work Michael Foss casts new light on the reality of and motives behind the Crusades in general,...
Bombs and Barbed Wire: One Man's Great Escape
Author: Jeff Steel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 392 His hatred of Nazism made him leave his six-month marriage to Miranda on hold. Over Germany his Halifax bomber is shot...
Betrayal at Little Gibraltar: A German Fortress, a Treacherous American General, and the Battle to End World War I
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Author: William Walker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A vivid, thrilling, and impeccably researched account of America's bloodiest battle ever--World War I's Meuse-Argonne Offensive--and the shocking American...
Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet
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Author: Lyndal Roper (University of London) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 From "one of the best of the new [Martin Luther] biographers" (The New Yorker), a portrait of the...
Macarthur's Spies: The Soldier, the Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in World War II
Author: Peter Eisner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A thrilling story of espionage, daring and deception set in the exotic landscape of occupied Manila during World War...
Return to Victory: MacArthur's Epic Liberation of the Philippines
Author: James P. Duffy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 It had been two and a half difficult years since General Douglas MacArthur had reluctantly obeyed a presidential order to...
Law in War: Freedom and restriction in Australia during the Great War
Author: Dr Catherine Bond Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 During the Great War law was used in everyday life as a tool to discriminate, oppress, censor and deprive many...
Edith Blake's War: The only Australian nurse killed in action during the First World War
Author: Krista Vane-Tempest Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 In the early hours of 26 February 1918, the British hospital ship Glenart Castle steamed into the Bristol Channel, heading for...
Courage and Compassion: A Stretcher-bearer's Journey from No-man's Land and Beyond
Author: Don Farrands QC Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 This is the true story of a young Australian soldier whose life of opportunity was challenged by trauma and salvaged...
Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World
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Author: Chris Wallace Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * "Riveting." --The New York Times * "Propulsive." --Time * "Reads like a tense thriller." --The Washington Post...
Hannibal's Oath: The Life and Wars of Rome's Greatest Enemy
Author: John Prevas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 According to ancient sources, Hannibal was only nine years old when his father dipped the small boy's hand in blood and...
The Changi Camera: George Aspinall's Photographs and Memories
Author: Tim Bowden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In THE CHANGI CAMERA, acclaimed author Tim Bowden presents a unique record of one Australian soldier's experience of the fall of...
Hitler's Boy Soldiers: How My Father's Generation Was Trained to Kill and Sent to Die for Germany
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Author: Helene Munson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 When Helene Munson finally reads her father, Hans Dunker's, wartime journal, she discovers secrets he kept buried for seven decades. This...
Mercenaries to Conquerors
Author: Paul Brown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 When a band of Norman adventurers arrived in southern Italy to fight in the Lombard insurrections against the Byzantine empire in...
Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die: How the Allies Won on D-Day
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Author: Giles Milton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 A ground-breaking account of the first 24 hours of the D-Day invasion told by a symphony of incredible accounts of unknown...
Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History
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Author: Saul David Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 453 The definitive account of one of the greatest Special Forces missions ever, the Raid of Entebbe, by acclaimed military...
The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War--a Tragedy in Three Acts
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Author: Scott Anderson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 "Enthralling. . . . Lying and stealing and invading, it should be said, make for captivating reading, especially in the hands...
Voices of Snipers: Eyewitness Accounts from the World Wars
Author: John Walter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 248 Based on an incredible breadth of first-hand testimony, this is a unique collection of eyewitness accounts from World War I and...
Hitler's Hangmen: The Secret German Plot to Kill Churchill
Author: Brian Lett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 264 Before and after the outbreak of the Second World War there were sizeable Fascist groups active in Britain, working to overthrow...
Letters from the Veldt: The imperial advance to Pretoria through the eyes of Edward Hutton and his brigade of colonials.
Author: Craig Stockings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 286 The South African War - or Boer War - running from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902 -was the largest...
If This Is A Man/The Truce
Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out...
Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler's Revenge, April-May 1945
Author: Lee Eric Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 In the final days of World War II in Europe, Georgians serving in the Wehrmacht on Texel island off the Dutch...
The Bohemians: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis
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Author: Norman Ohler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "A detailed and meticulously researched tale... that reads like a thriller."--New York Times Book Review From the New York Times best-selling...
The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance - A New York Times Bestseller
Author: Judy Batalion Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 'Original and compelling, an untold story of rare and captivating power' Philippe Sands 'A fascinating history about a little-known group who...
War in the Pacific: Storm Approaching 1931 - 1941
Author: Peter Harmsen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 War in the Pacific is a trilogy of books comprising a general history of the war against Japan; unlike other histories...
The New Faces of Fascism: Populism and the Far Right
Author: Enzo Traverso Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 What does Fascism mean at the beginning of the twenty-first century? When we pronounce this word, our memory goes back to...
Malice Aforethought: A History of Booby Traps from the First World War to Vietnam
Author: Ian Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 286 War has always provided a stimulus to technological development, and throughout the twentieth century this new technology was harnessed to produce...
Leadership in War: Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History
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Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A comparison of nine leaders who led their nations through the greatest wars the world has ever seen and whose unique...
God's Wolf: The Life of the Most Notorious of all Crusaders, Scourge of Saladin
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Author: Jeffrey Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In a 2010 terrorist plot, Al-Qaeda hid a bomb in a FedEx shipment addressed to a man who had been dead...
Teddy Sheean VC: A Selfless Act of Valour
Author: Doctor Tom Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 366 No-one will ever know what made him do it. In 1942, 18-year-old Edward "Teddy" Sheean was one of the youngest...
The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: A True Story About the Birth of Tyranny in North Korea
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Author: Blaine Harden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Blaine Harden, New York Times-bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, tells the riveting story of Kim Il Sung's...
Rivals Unto Death: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
Author: Rick Beyer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The day was hot and sticky. The man in the rowboat was an impetuous hothead. His row across the choppy Hudson...
War in the Pacific: Formidable Foe - 1942-1943
Author: Peter Harmsen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 War in the Pacific is a trilogy of books comprising a general history of the war against Japan; unlike other histories...
Pathfinder, 'Kriegie' and Gumboot Governor: The Adventurous Life of Sir James Rowland AC, KBE, DFC, AFC
Author: Sir James Rowland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 520 A descendant of early pioneers of New South Wales, James Rowland combined a thirst for adventure with a strong sense...
Between Five Eyes: 50 Years of Intelligence Sharing
Author: Anthony R. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 UK-US intelligence and the wider Five Eyes community of Canada, Australia and New Zealand is primarily about one...
Fear and the Freedom
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Author: Keith Lowe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 Bestselling historian Keith Lowe's The Fear and the Freedom looks at the astonishing innovations that sprang from WWII and...
Saving Stalin: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Cost of Allied Victory in Europe
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Author: John Kelly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 In the summer of 1941, Harry Hopkins, Franklin Roosevelt's trusted advisor, arrived in Moscow to assess whether the US should send...
The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis
Author: Norman Ohler (author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'An astonishing story... brilliantly told' - Antony Beevor Summertime, 1935. On a lake near Berlin, a young man is out...
The Truth About Tesla: The Myth of the Lone Genius in the History of Innovation
Author: Christopher Cooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 200 Everything you think you know about Nikola Tesla is wrong. The Truth About Tesla sets the record straight. Nikola Tesla was...
Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
Author: Maggie Haberman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 *THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *A Financial Times Book of the Year* *Economist Book of the Year* 'A...
Crucible of Hell: The Heroism and Tragedy of Okinawa, 1945
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Author: Saul David Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 From the award-winning historian, Saul David, the riveting narrative of the heroic US troops, bonded by the brotherhood and sacrifice of...
Spies, Saboteurs and Secret Missions of World War II
Author: Tony Matthews Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 406 What kind of courage does it take for an ordinary married couple to confront the Nazi regime of Hitler's vicious Third...
Desperate Valour: Triumph at Anzio
Author: Flint Whitlock Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 The Allied landings at Anzio, on the Italian coast, six months before the Normandy invasion were intended as an "end run"...
Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control
Author: Stephen Kinzer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The bestselling author of All the Shah's Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the...
Of Living Valour: The Story of the Soldiers of Waterloo
Author: Barney White-Spunner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 For the first time a modern British historian tells the story of the against-the-odds triumph through the accounts of the regimental...
Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life
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Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 752 The long-awaited biography of the genius who masterminded Henry VIII's bloody revolution in the English government, which reveals at last Cromwell's...