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Bold Venture: The American Bombing of Japanese-Occupied Hong Kong, 1942-1945
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...
A Cruel Captivity: Prisoners of the Japanese-Their Ordeal and The Legacy
Author: Ellie Taylor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Carefully and sensitively researched, A Cruel Captivity describes the ordeals of, and lasting impact on, survivors of Japanese captivity. Differing in...
The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime
Author: Bradley Hope Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A gripping account of an Ivy League activist-turned-fugitive and his clandestine effort to subvert the North Korean regime, a heart-pounding tale...
Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfinished Business of World War II
Author: Stuart Eizenstat Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 In the second half of the 1990s, Stuart Eizenstat was perhaps the most controversial U.S. foreign policy official in Europe. His...
The Hidden History of America at War: Untold Tales from Yorktown to Fallujah
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Author: Kenneth C Davis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Multi-million-copy bestselling historian Kenneth C. Davis sets his sights on war stories in The Hidden History of America at War....
Beetle: The Life of General Walter Bedell Smith
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...
Clementine Churchill: A Life in Pictures
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...
Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets
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...
Hit The Target: Eight Men Who Led the Eighth Air Force to Victory Over the Luftwaffe
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...
Churchill & Son
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Author: Josh Ireland Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 The intimate, untold story of Winston Churchill's enduring yet volatile bond with his only son, Randolph "Ireland draws unforgettable sketches of...
The Queen: The Life and Times of Elizabeth II
Author: Catherine Ryan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II has reigned for 64 years, longer than any British monarch in history. During that time...
The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
Author: David E. Hoffman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary feel.' Ben...
Fate of War: Fredericksburg, 1862
Author: Duane Schultz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The Union assault on the critical Confederate stronghold of Fredericksburg, Virginia, along the Rappahannock River in December 1862 was one of...
The Allies: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Unlikely Alliance That Won World War II
Author: Winston Groom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Best-selling author Winston Groom tells the complex story of how Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin--the three iconic and vastly...
War and Peace: Fdr's Final Odyssey: D-Day to Yalta, 1943-1945
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Author: Nigel Hamilton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 To mark the 75th Anniversary of D-Day, the stirring climax to Nigel Hamilton's three-part saga of FDR at war--proof that he...
Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy: How the Allies Won on D-Day
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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...
The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
Author: Margalit Fox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp during the First World War, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, cunningly...
The Shadow War: Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America
Author: Jim Sciutto Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Are we losing a war few of us realize we're fighting Jim Sciutto, CNN's Chief National Security Correspondent, reveals the invisible...
Days of Steel Rain: The Epic Story of a WWII Vengeance Ship in the Year of the Kamikaze
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...
Sudden Courage: Youth in France Confront the Germans, 1940-1945
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...
Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
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Author: Barack Obama Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 An international bestseller which has sold over a million copies in the UK, Dreams From My Father is a refreshing, revealing...
To the Manner Born: Wm. H.T. Walker
Author: Russell K. Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 436 Making use of personal correspondence official documents, contemporary newspaper articles and eye witness narratives, the book includes details of Walker's...
Fire And Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943
Author: John C. McManus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 An engrossing, epic history of the US Army in the Pacific War "Out here, mention is seldom seen of the...
Hitler's Spies: Lena and the Prelude to Operation Sealion
Author: Mel Kavanagh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 September 1940: Britain stands alone against the might of the advancing German Army and the spectre of invasion looms. Using a...
MacArthur
Author: Richard B. Frank Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 16 Douglas MacArthur is best remembered for his ability to adapt, a quality that catalyzed his greatest accomplishments. Adaptability...
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
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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...
The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World
Author: Patrick Wyman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 In the bestselling tradition of The Swerve and A Distant Mirror, THE VERGE tells the story of a period that marked...
War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian Resistance
Author: Mikhail Zygar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'History is made up of myths,' writes the renowned Russian dissident journalist Mikhail Zygar. 'Alas, our myths led us to the...
Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends
Author: Sarah Knights Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The life of pioneering photographer Barbara Ker-Seymer 'Thoroughly entertaining... Knights expertly evokes this hedonistic period' The Times 'A picturesque portrayal of...
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him
Author: David Reynolds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who,...
Caroline's Dilemma: A colonial inheritance saga
Author: Bettina Bradbury Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Shortlisted for the 2020 Ernest Scott Prize for History Caroline Kearney faced a heart-breaking dilemma. Caroline was a 31-year-old mother of...
The Berlin Mission: The American Who Resisted Nazi Germany from Within
Author: Richard Breitman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Raymond Geist was sent to Berlin as a consul in 1929. He was not from the right social class to become...
Hell Week and Beyond: The Making of a Navy Seal
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Author: Scott McEwen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 HELL WEEK AND BEYOND will take the reader to the sands of Coronado Beach in San Diego, where Navy SEALS are...
Special Ops Heroes
Author: Michael Ashcroft Format: Hardback Number of Pages: Special Ops Heroes tells the extraordinary stories behind Lord Ashcroft's collection of SAS and other Special Forces medals - the largest of...
The Disappearance of Emile Zola: Love, Literature, and the Dreyfus Case
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Author: Michael Rosen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 It is the evening of July 18, 1898 and the world-renowned novelist Emile Zola is on the run. His crime? Taking...
The Churchill Sisters: The Extraordinary Lives of Winston and Clementine's Daughters
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Author: Dr Rachel Trethewey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 As complex in their own way as their Mitford cousins, Winston and Clementine Churchill's daughters each had a unique relationship...
Black Ops: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior
Author: Ric Prado Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 A memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil of secrecy and offer a glimpse into the shadow wars...
The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity
Author: Andrew Gailey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2016 Frederick Hamiton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, enjoyed a glittering...
On to Rome: Anzio and Victory at Cassino, 1944: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Author: Jon Diamond Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Early in 1944 the Allied advance was halted by the German defence of the Gustav Line. Even with the deployment of...
Bound by War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America's First Pacific Century
Author: Christopher Capozzola Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 Ever since US troops occupied the Philippines in 1898, generations of Filipinos have served in and alongside the US armed forces....
The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious Terrorists
Author: Tracy Walder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 When Tracy Walder enrolled at the University of Southern California, she never thought that one day she would offer her pink...
Royal Renegades: The Children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars
Author: Linda Porter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The fact that the English Civil War led to the execution of King Charles I in January 1649 is well known,...
Lethal Shot: A Royal Marine Commando in Action
Author: Rob Driscoll Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Rob Driscoll, former sergeant with 42 Commando, Royal Marines, served tours in Iraq, Kuwait and Kosovo. A born leader of fighting...
The Blue Age: How the US Navy Created Global Prosperity--And Why We're in Danger of Losing It
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Author: Gregg Easterbrook Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The US Navy brought half a century of peace and free trade to the world's waterways. But climate change and rising...
Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds
Author: Simon Ings Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow...
White Knights in the Black Orchestra: The Extraordinary Story of the Germans Who Resisted Hitler
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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...
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
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,...
Voices of World War II: New Zealanders Share Their Stories
Author: Renee Hollis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 'We are only a small and young nation, but we are one and all a band of brothers and we march...