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Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A lasting work of social history' THE TIMES'A genuinely new history of our nation' DAN JONES'This celebration of women is a triumph of popular history' SPECTATOR...
The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham
*PLUTARCH AWARD FOR THE BEST BIOGRAPHY OF 2024* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE* ' SUBLIME ' A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 ' STUNNINGLY GOOD ' THE...
Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire
A cultural history of the goddess of love, from a New York Times bestselling and award-winning historian.Aphrodite was said to have been born from the sea, rising out of a...
UKRAINE The Forging of a Nation
'Both pioneering and fundamental. This is the essential history of Ukraine, from one of the greatest Ukrainian thinkers and scholars.' Timothy Snyder #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday...
London: City of Cities
Author: Phil Baker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 City of cities, the modern world's first great metropolis, London has shaped everything from clothing to youth culture. It has a...
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
"Laurence Rees brilliantly combines powerful eye-witness testimony, vivid narrative and compelling analysis in this superb account of how two terrible dictators led their countries in the most destructive and inhumane...
Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany
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AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the ashes of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall, "an expansive and generous history" of East Germany ( New Republic...
A Brief History of the British Monarchy: From the Iron Age to King Charles III
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...
Auschwitz: A History
A short, devastating study of history's most notorious killing ground At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz. In a total inversion of earlier hopes about the use...
Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths
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A witty, inspiring reckoning with the ancient Greek and Roman myths and their legacy, from what they can illuminate about #MeToo to the radical imagery of Beyonce . The picture...
Budapest: Between East and West
Author: Victor Sebestyen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Budapest has always been an important place. Almost at the centre of Europe, it is at the crossroads of geographical regions...
D-Day Through German Eyes: How the Wehrmacht Lost France
Everyone is familiar with the story of D-Day and the triumphal liberation of France by the Allies: a barbaric enemy was defeated by Allied ingenuity, courage and overwhelming military force,...
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Ancient Rome matters.Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves. Its myths and stories - from Romulus and Remus to the Rape...
Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean
WINNER OF THE 2024 SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARDIts name means 'centre of the world', and since the dawn of history the Mediterranean Sea has formed the shared horizon of innumerable cultures....
Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome
A Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient worldLiving in ancient Rome was superbly and vividly recorded by Rome's historians, philosophers,...
The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
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Author: Norman Eisen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa's greatest...
Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages That Shaped Europe
A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted the most international power and influence: as a matchmaking grandmother. As her reign approached its sixth decade, Queen Victoria's...
The Gates of Europe (Revised Edition): A History of Ukraine
A New York Times bestseller, this definitive history of Ukraine is "an exemplary account of Europe's least-known large country" ( Wall Street Journal). As Ukraine is embroiled in an ongoing...
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
The astounding history that masterfully and decisively rewrites the causes of the First World War as we know them The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to...
Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the West - 'Magisterial' Books of the Year, Independent
Author: Tom Holland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality....
1923: The Forgotten Crisis in the Year of Hitler's Coup
Author: Mark Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The astonishing year when German democracy faced crisis and near destruction. 1923 was one of the most remarkable years of modern...
A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe
'The people of Central Europe cannot be separated from European history; they cannot exist outside it; but they represent the wrong side of this history; they are its victims and...
The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England
The Sunday Times bestseller ' A clever, lively ... splendid new book' DAN JONES, SUNDAY TIMES 'A big gold bar of delight' SPECTATOR Sixteen hundred years ago Britain left the...
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 11 and the Final Solution in
Ordinary Men has been admired all over the world and is now published in the UK for the first time. It takes as its basis the detailed records of one...
Courtiers: The Sunday Times bestselling inside story of the power
FEATURING A BRAND NEW CHAPTER ON KING CHARLES III AND HIS CORONATION'Fascinating' The Times'Tantalising' Telegraph The gripping account of how the royal family really operates. Valentine Low, royal correspondent for...
The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed, 1600-1900
The definitive history of the terrible process by which much of Scotland was 'cleared' of many inhabitants, written by Scotland's foremost living historian Eighteenth-century Scotland is famed for generating many...
Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: An Untold Story of World War
From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, the incredible true story of one of the most audacious and little-known operations of WW2 In November 1943, with the outcome of...
The Histories
One of the masterpieces of classical literature, the Histories describes how a small and quarrelsome band of Greek city states united to repel the might of the Persian empire. But...
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning
The Sunday Times Bestseller A new assessment of the West's colonial record In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived...
MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...
Storm's Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney
'A surprising page-turner, full of humour and startling details' THE TIMES ' If I read a better history this year, I will be lucky' TOM HOLLAND 'An astonishing tour de...
Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day
Through compelling eye-witness testimony and renowned historian James Holland's expert analysis Brothers In Arms brings to vivid life the final bloody scramble across Europe from the powerful perspective of one...
My Opposition: The Diary of Friedrich Kellner - A German against the
This is a truly unique account of Nazi Germany at war and of one man's struggle against totalitarianism. A mid-level official in a provincial town, Friedrich Kellner kept a secret...
The Celts - Search for a Civilisation
Alice Roberts goes in search of the Celts and their treasures in a narrative history to accompanying a new BBC series. We know a lot about the Roman Empire. The...
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
New to Black Classics from 20th c. Hannah Arendt's authoritative and controversial report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in...
Churchill: Walking with Destiny
The blockbuster biography of the greatest Briton, by one of Britain's bestselling historians Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history. By the time of his death...
The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at
'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500 years of Hampton Court history: royal residents, common visitors,...
Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories
Extraordinary stories about Soviet children's experiences in the Second World War, from Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich What did it mean to grow up in the Soviet Union during the Second...
Queen James: The Life and Loves of Britain's First King
A BBC History magazine, Esquire, Historia magazine and Waterstones History Book of the Year 'James comes alive in full flamboyance ... Russell expertly weaves the bedchamber gossip into the tapestry...
Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation
A history of modern Greece by one of the pre-eminent experts in the field We think we know ancient Greece, the civilization that shares the same name and gave us...
The Battle of the Ypres-Comines Canal 1940: France and Flanders
Known in some accounts as the Battle of Wijtschaete, the confrontation along the Ypres-Comines Canal in 1940 is still hardly remembered in this country and, apart from the battle honours...
The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy
In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queens, war, peace, language and culture. Scandinavian...
Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe
The thrilling history of one of Europe's most dramatic conflicts, that would shape the great wars to come Less than a month after it marched into France in summer 1870,...
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....
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
One of the greatest and most controversial feats of twentieth-century journalism Hannah Arendt's authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi SS leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as...
I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that
'I SEEK A KIND PERSON WHO WILL EDUCATE MY INTELLIGENT BOY, AGED 11.' In 1938, Jewish families are scrambling to flee Vienna. Desperate, they take out adverts offering their children...
Italy in a Wineglass: The Taste of History
Author: Marc Millon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 440 The world is enamoured with Italy: its culture, art, food and fashion, its beautiful landscapes and famous cities - and, of...
The Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War
The tale of the campaign that determined the outcome of the Second World War - 'truly gripping' (Andrew Roberts) The Battle of the Atlantic was - though often overlooked -...