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The Race Against the Stasi: The Incredible Story of Dieter Widemann, the Iron Curtain and the Greatest Cycling Race on Earth
Author: Herbie Sykes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 When the 'Iron Curtain' descended across Europe, Dieter Wiedemann was a hero of East German sport. A podium finisher in The...
The Searchers: The Quest for the Lost of the First World War
Author: Robert Sackville-West Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 **Selected as a Book of the Year by the Spectator and the Daily Telegraph** 'Fascinating ... carefully researched and beautifully written'...
Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends
Author: Linda Kinstler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 *A TABLET AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BOOK OF THE YEAR* Shortlisted for the Wingate Literary Prize 'A tremendous feat of storytelling,...
Five Days in London: May 1940
Author: John Lukacs Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The decisive importance of these five days is the focus of John Lukacs's magisterial book. The days from 24 May to...
Crabwalk
Author: Gunter Grass Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. In this new novel Grass examines a subject that has long been taboo -...
The Spear of Crom
Author: Tim Hodkinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 PREORDER SWORD OF THE WAR GOD, THE EXCITING NEW HISTORICAL EPIC FROM TIM HODKINSON, NOW! In Roman Britain, a Celtic warrior...
How Britain Kept Calm and Carried On: True stories from the Home Front
Author: Anton Rippon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 How Britain Kept Calm and Carried On is a unique, funny and sometimes heartbreakingly sad book containing a treasury of first-hand...
Speak, Silence: In Search of W. G. Sebald
Author: Carole Angier Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 A SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'The best biography I have read in years' Philippe Sands...
The Story of Russia: 'An excellent short study'
Author: Orlando Figes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects...
Dunkirk: The British Evacuation, 1940
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Author: Robert Jackson
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Number of Pages: 206
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Vietnam: a War Lost and Won
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Author: Nigel Cawthorne Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 The book offers a comprehensive and balanced account of the emotive impact of the first media war, charting not only the...
Bulletproof
Author: M Croucher Gc Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 AFGHANISTAN, FEBRUARY 2008- in an out-of-control, dangerous country torn apart by war, littered with Taliban guerrilla forces and thousands of...
England: The Making of the Myth from Stonehenge to Albert Square
Author: Maureen Duffy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'An erudite, extremely entertaining work' Jan Morris, Independent In the style of Longitude and Fermat's Last Theorem, acclaimed novelist Maureen Duffy...
The Lawless Land
Author: Boyd Morrison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 'A rollicking adventure [with] the inventive twists and turns of a satisfyingly bustling plot.' New York Times 'Fantastic... Gerard Fox could...
The Lost Decade: 2010-2020, and What Lies Ahead for Britain
Author: Polly Toynbee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The ten years from 2010 have been devastating. A decade of austerity and paralysis nurtured contempt for leaders, institutions and fellow...
The Slowworm's Song
Author: Andrew Miller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 By the Costa Award-winning author of Pure, a profound and tender tale of guilt, a search for atonement and the hard,...
Debs at War: 1939-1945
Author: Anne de Courcy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 An extraordinary account - from firsthand sources - of upper class women and the active part they took in the...
72 Hours
Author: Frank Pope Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 August 5th 2005. On a secret mission to an underwater military installation thirty miles off the coast of Kamchatka, Russian Navy...
Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in its Darkest, Finest Hour
Author: Lynne Olson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 In her latest book, Lynne Olson focuses again on Britain in World War II, this time from an American perspective. This...
Covert Warrior: C.I.A.'s Secret War in Southeast Asia and China, 1965-67
Author: Warner Smith
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 352
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Britons
Author: Linda Colley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 How was Great Britain made? And what does it mean to be British? In this brilliant and wide-ranging book, Linda Colley...
The Queen's Knight
Author: Martyn Downer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 Suppressed passion and domestic intrigue at the heart of Queen Victoria's court. Sir Howard Elphinstone, dashing hero of the Crimean War,...
Conspirator
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Author: Helen Rappaport Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Helen Rappaport's Conspirator is a vivid account of Vladimir I. Lenin's years of exile in Europe, showing that this often-overlooked period...
Wave Me Goodbye: Stories of the Second World War
Author: Anne Boston Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'Fascinating . . . a poignant book . . . an unusual and absolutely authentic view of those convulsive years' OBSERVER...
The Great Escape
Author: Paul Brickhill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 One of the most famous true stories from the last war, The GREAT ESCAPE tells how more than six hundred men...
Dangerous Days in Elizabethan England: Thieves, Tricksters, Bards and Bawds
Author: Terry Deary Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 From the author of HORRIBLE HISTORIES comes the third volume in Terry Deary's gritty and humorous history series for adults. The...
The York Patrol: The Real Story of Alvin York and the Unsung Heroes Who Made Him World War I's Most Famous Soldier
Author: James Carl Nelson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 "Exceptional military history worthy of its heroic subject." -Matthew J. Davenport In the vein of Band of Brothers and American...
Slim, Master of War: Burma, 1942-5
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The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England
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The Stray Cats of Homs: The unforgettable, heart-breaking novel inspired by extraordinary true events
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Sound from Another Room
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The City of York Companion
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Fisher's Face
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The Tories: Conservatives and the Nation State, 1922-97
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The Affair: Case of Alfred Dreyfus
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Nuclear Weapons
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The Mutiny of the "Bounty"
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The Secret History of Georgian London: How the Wages of Sin Shaped the Capital
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The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon
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In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815
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Sharp End: The Trauma of a War in Vietnam
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Bigger than Gallipoli: War, History & Memory
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The Story of Russia: 'An excellent short study'
Author: Orlando Figes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects...
The Lawless Land
Author: Boyd Morrison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 'A rollicking adventure [with] the inventive twists and turns of a satisfyingly bustling plot.' New York Times 'Fantastic... Gerard Fox could...
One Woman's War: A Novel of the Real Miss Moneypenny
Author: Christine Wells Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 ONE OF BOOKBUB'S BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOKS OF THE FALL From the author of Sisters of the Resistance comes the story...
Jump Commander: In Combat with the 82nd Airborne in World War II
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Mussolini'S War: Fascist Italy's Military Struggles from Africa and Western Europe to the Mediterranean and Soviet Union 1935-45
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