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'Darkly glamorous. Your summer read is sorted' Sunday Times Style'Glamorous, exuberant and propulsive' Daisy Buchanan'Mad Men meets White Lotus' Red'Stylish and twisting' The Times'A wild ride and a heck of...
Crisis
We had been there for over 12 hours. The man was still 30 feet up a tree, balancing on a branch directly over one of the main railway lines out...
A Thousand Miles From Care: A hunt for a brother's killer - a new compelling Australian true crime story about murder & corruption for readers of The Boy in the Dress and Getting Away With Murder
A gripping and heartbreaking story, A Thousand Miles From Care tells the 30 year quest Steve Johnson undertook to uncover the truth about his brilliant brother's brutal murder in Manly....
The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
Dava Sobel, acclaimed and bestselling author of Longitude, chronicles the life and work of the most famous woman in the history of science - and the untold story of the...
The Radio Hour: the charming and funny new novel of 2024 from bestselling author of The Nurses War, for readers of LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY and HIDDEN FIGURES
From the bestselling author of The Nurses' War comes this charming, funny, pointed look at the golden years of radio broadcasting in post-war Australia, celebrating the extraordinary unseen women who...
Operation Whisper: The Capture of Soviet Spies Morris and Lona Cohen
Meet Morris and Lona Cohen, an ordinary-seeming couple living on a teacher's salary in a nondescript building on the East Side of New York City. On a hot afternoon in...
DC Through the 80s: The Experiments
For the first time, DC offers a retrospective of the 1980s, a monumental decade that introduced some of DC's all-time bestselling titles. For the first time, DC offers a retrospective...
Wang Guangyi: Works and Thoughts 1985-2012
The first monograph conceived for the international market devoted to one of the most important Chinese contemporary artists. Wang Guangyi is considered one of the emblems of new China, because...
The God of the Woods
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF JIMMY FALLON'S SUMMER READS BOOK CLUBSELECTED FOR BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER 2024 READING LIST'I was totally gripped' DOUGLAS STUART'Immersive and enthralling' PAULA HAWKINS ___________'If you...
Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East
'ROBERT FISK HAS BEEN REPORTING FROM THE MIDDLE EAST WITH INCOMPARABLE DEPTH AND UNDERSTANDING...AND EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE' NOAM CHOMSKYIn this final work from renowned journalist Robert Fisk, he picks up reporting...
Down and Out in Saigon: Stories of the Poor in a Colonial City
A moving portrait of the lives of six poor city-dwellers, set in early twentieth century colonial Saigon Historian Haydon Cherry offers the first comprehensive social history of the urban poor...
The Luftwaffe: A Study in Air Power 1933-1945
There has not been an in-depth history of the Luftwaffe published for many years and and this scholarly one-volume survey of the history of the Luftwaffe will become the leading...
Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea
In the past two decades, there have been major developments in Korean art, as the country has opened up under the influence of globalization. This unprecedented book focuses on the...
The Astrologer: How British Intelligence Plotted to Read Hitler's Mind
Were British Intelligence chiefs gullible or sensible to recruit an astrologer to assist in the war effort against Nazi Germany? And was the astrologer genuine or a charlatan? In the...
Double Agent Victoire: Mathilde Carre and the Interallie Network
On 28.2.42 there arrived in the U.K. a remarkable woman agent: Mathilde Lucie (or Lily) CARRE.' Her codename was VICTOIRE, although she became better known as 'La Chatte' - the...
The Austrian Revolution
The definitive work on Eastern Europe's revolutionary period and the unique working-class experiment of Red Vienna.This is the story of the decline and fall of an empire, a region devastated...
The Hidden Perspective: The Military Conversations 1906-1914
In 1905, British Foreign Secretary Edward Grey agreed to speak secretly with his French counterparts about sending a British expeditionary force to France in the event of a German attack....
Operation Damocles: Israel's Secret War Against Hitler's Scientists, 1951-1967
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From 1951 to 1967, Egypt pursued a secret program to build military rockets that could have conceivably posed a threat to neighboring Israel. Because such an ambitious project required Western...
Men Who Gave Us Wings: Britain and the Aeroplane 1796-1914
Author: Peter ReeseFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 272 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014Why did the British, then the leading nation in science and technology, fall far...
The Boundaries of Desire: A Century of Good Sex, Bad Laws, and Changing Identities
Author: Eric BerkowitzFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 228mm, 304 pagesPublished: Counterpoint, United States, 2015The act of reproduction, and its variants, never change much, but our ideas about the meaning of sex...
Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago
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Author: Max Allan CollinsFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 998g, 736 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2018The new definitive history of gangster-era Chicago-a landmark work that is as riveting as...
Building for Battle: U-Boat Pens of the Atlantic Battle
Author: Philip KaplanFormat: Hardback, 172mm x 246mm, 240 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2018The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat...
No God But God
Author: Geneive AbdoFormat: Hardback, 236 pagesPublished: Oxford University Press Inc, United States, 2000In Egypt, a new type of Islamic revival - a hidden revolution - has been quietly taking shape....
The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China
Author: Peter B. LavelleFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 304 pagesPublished: Columbia University Press, United States, 2020In the nineteenth century, the Qing empire experienced a period of profound turmoil caused by...
Goldstar Century: 31 Squadron RAF 1915-2015
Author: Ian HallFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 304 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Number 31 Squadron RAF will celebrate its centenary in 2015; a pivotal milestone for...
Wingate Pasha: the Life of General Sir Francis Reginald Wingate 1861-1953
Author: R. J. M. PughFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 320 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2011Wingate Pasha is the first biography of an emminent Scottish soldier-statesman who...
Secrets of a German POW: The Capture and Interrogation of Hauptmann Herbert Cleft
Author: Brian BrinkworthFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014This is the riveting and extraordinary story of Kapitan Herbert Cleff, presented here for...
Operation Crusader: Tank Warfare in the Desert, Tobruk 1941
Author: Hermann BuschlebFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 228mm, 128 pagesPublished: Casemate Publishers, United States, 2019First English translation of a Geman account of Operation Crusader. The port of Tobruk, Libya, was besieged...
The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle
Author: Geoff AndrewsFormat: Hardback, 155mm x 226mm, 553g, 288 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2015James Klugmann appears as a shadowy figure in the legendary history of the Cambridge spies....
Fighters Over Malta: Gladiators and Hurricanes 1940-1942
Author: Brian CullFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 900g, 512 pagesPublished: Fonthill Media Ltd, United Kingdom, 2018Brian Cull's definitive `Fighters over Malta: Gladiators and Hurricanes 1940-1942' is a highly detailed account...
Spanish Air Force During World War II: Germany'S Hidden Ally?
Author: Eduardo MartinezFormat: Hardback, 178mm x 254mm, 184 pagesPublished: Kagero Oficyna Wydawnicza, Poland, 2019Continuing with the study of the lesser known Air Forces that fought in the skies of Europe...
The United States Navy in the Pacific, 1897-1909
Author: William R. BraistedFormat: Paperback, 156mm x 234mm, 295 pagesPublished: Naval Institute Press, United States, 2008Professor William R. Braisted tells the story of the twelve important years during which the...
Queen Elizabeth II: A Celebration of Her Life and Reign in Pictures
Author: David SoudenFormat: Hardback, 198mm x 252mm, 970g, 240 pagesPublished: Ebury Publishing, United Kingdom, 2022A lavish photographic tribute to the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth II, as seen through...
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
Author: Mike DavisFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 235mm, 1074g, 800 pagesPublished: Verso Books, United Kingdom, 2020Histories of the US sixties invariably focus on New York City, but Los Angeles was an...
Children of Marx and Coca-Cola: Chinese Avant-garde Art and Independent Cinema
Author: Xiaoping LinFormat: Hardback, 670g, 320 pagesPublished: University of Hawai'i Press, United States, 2009Children of Marx and Coca-Cola affords a deep study of Chinese avant-garde art and independent cinema from...
Goldstar Century: 31 Squadron RAF 1915-2015
Author: Ian HallFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 304 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015Number 31 Squadron RAF will celebrate its centenary in 2015; a pivotal milestone for...
Men Who Gave Us Wings: Britain and the Aeroplane 1796-1914
Author: Peter ReeseFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 272 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014Why did the British, then the leading nation in science and technology, fall far...
Operation Crusader: Tank Warfare in the Desert, Tobruk 1941
Author: Hermann BuschlebFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 228mm, 128 pagesPublished: Casemate Publishers, United States, 2019First English translation of a Geman account of Operation Crusader. The port of Tobruk, Libya, was besieged...
Secrets of a German POW: The Capture and Interrogation of Hauptmann Herbert Cleft
Author: Brian BrinkworthFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 256 pagesPublished: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2014This is the riveting and extraordinary story of Kapitan Herbert Cleff, presented here for...
The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China
Author: Peter B. LavelleFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 229mm, 304 pagesPublished: Columbia University Press, United States, 2020In the nineteenth century, the Qing empire experienced a period of profound turmoil caused by...
The Mosques of Colonial South Asia: A Social and Legal History of Muslim Worship
Author: Sana HaroonFormat: Hardback, 156mm x 234mm, 534g, 248 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2021In a series of legal battles starting in 1882, South Asian Muslims made up of...
Legacies in Steel: Personalized and Historical German Military Edged Weapons 1800-1990
Author: Hermann HampeFormat: Hardback, 254mm x 318mm, 612 pagesPublished: Casemate Publishers, United States, 2019A sumptuous collection of nearly 100 German military edged weapons, predominantly swords and daggers, are displayed in...
The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle
Author: Geoff AndrewsFormat: Hardback, 155mm x 226mm, 553g, 288 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2015James Klugmann appears as a shadowy figure in the legendary history of the Cambridge spies....
The Trump Indictments: The 91 Criminal Counts Against the Former President of the United States
Author: Ali VelshiFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 203mm, 263g, 320 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 Edited and introduced by MSNBC's Ali Velshi, The Trump Indictments collects the complete charging...
Throwback: Out of Time
Author: Peter LerangisFormat: Paperback, 130mm x 194mm, 177g, 272 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2021 Peter Lerangis, the New York Times bestselling author of the Seven Wonders and Max...
Operation Swallow: American Soldiers' Remarkable Escape From Berga Concentration Camp
Author: Mark FeltonFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 386g, 320 pagesPublished: Icon Books, United Kingdom, 2019Operation Swallow is the true story of how a small group of American soldiers, inspired by...
The Spies of Winter: The GCHQ codebreakers who fought the Cold War
Author: Sinclair McKayFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 352 pagesPublished: Quarto Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2017Once victory was declared, many of the individuals who had achieved the seemingly impossible at Bletchley...
Small Fry
Author: Lisa Brennan-JobsFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 357g, 416 pagesPublished: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, United States, 2019'A remarkable book, much more than the lurid celebrity tell-all it might...