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The Rage of Party
THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 A CAPX AND ENGELSBERG IDEAS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 The late 17th century saw the rise of a new phenomenon that...
The Ashes Files: Inside Cricket's Most Intense Series - 'powerful'
SHORTLISTED FOR CRICKET BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE 2026 SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 'Not many players have felt the highs and lows of Ashes cricket to the same extent as...
Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England: How our ancestors lived two
Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England explores the real England of Jane Austen's lifetime. It was a troubled period, with disturbing changes in industry and agriculture and a constant dread of...
Soldiers: Army Lives and Loyalties from Redcoats to Dusty Warriors
From the redcoat who served Charles II to the modern, camouflage-clad guard at Camp Bastion, from battlefield to barrack-room, this is a magisterial social history of the British soldier. Since...
Fifteen Rounds a Minute: The Grenadiers at War, August to December
This book, originally published in 1976, is an account of the first five months of the First World War, as seen by members of a battalion of the Grenadier Guards...
3rd Air Division, 8th Air Force Usaaf 1942-45 Bomber Bases of Wwii
The 3rd Air Division: Elveden Hall was the Headquarters of this division of the 8th US Army Air Force. Broadly speaking it flew B17 Flying Fortresses out of Suffolk, but...
Paris: A Short History
A concise history of Paris and the great events and personalities, from prehistory to the present, that have shaped its unique cultural legacy. Paris has long been celebrated as a...
Operation Drumbeat: Germany's First U-boat Attack Against the American
The dramatic national bestseller and remarkably exciting account of Germany's little-known U-boat campaign against merchant shipping along the North American Atlantic coast during the first six months of 1942."An absolutely...
Soldiers: Army Lives and Loyalties from Redcoats to Dusty Warriors
From the redcoat who served Charles II to the modern, camouflage-clad guard at Camp Bastion, from battlefield to barrack-room, this is a magisterial social history of the British soldier. Since...
Anastasia: Life of Anna Anderson
The book titled Anastasia: Life of Anna Anderson by the author Peter Kurth. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Sparta: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Superpower
Sparta - its legendary warriors and steadfast resilience are famous throughout the world as a model for toughness, justice and masculinity. The Spartans' reputation as fighters is matched only by...
The Jail Busters: The Secret Story of MI6, the French Resistance and
In the new year of 1944 the French Resistance in northern France was on its knees. Relentless attacks on its diverse and disorganised networks by the Gestapo and the Abwehr...
Mail Obsession: A Journey Round Britain by Postcode
'FASCINATING' Daily Mail 'FULL OF AMAZING FACTS' The QI Elves Each of the United Kingdom's 124 postcode areas has a story to tell, an unexpected nugget to dust off and...
The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire: Churchill, Roosevelt,
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A sweeping, vivid history capturing the sudden end of Britain's empire and the moment when America became a world superpower. Britain fought and sacrificed on a worldwide scale to defeat...
City Under Siege: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift, 1948-1949
At the close of World War II, the Soviet Union controlled all of eastern Germany with the exception of the American, British, and French sectors of Berlin. In June 1948,...
Bader's Last Fight
On 9 August 1941, one of the greatest icons of the Second World War, Douglas Bader, was shot down, captured and later incarcerated. But by whom, and how? Was it...
Martin Luther: Catholic Dissident
'A compelling biography of one of the greatest men of the modern age. Stanford is particularly brilliant on the tensions inside Luther's private and spiritual life. This is a very...
Gimson's Heroes
'A witty, unforgettable celebration of the courage, genius and defiance that changed the course of history' Jacob Rees-Mogg 'Gimson makes excellent cases for all his choices. His "cardinal point" about...
Remembering the Boys: A Collection of Letters, a Gathering of Memories
Remembering the Boys brings to life the correspondence of Western Reserve Academy alumni serving in World War II. In these eloquent letters, most of them written to the Academy's headmaster,...
The Battle Of Britain: The Fight for Survival in 1940
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Clear blue skies laced white with vapour trails of fighting aircraft... petrol-filled beer bottles in the garden shed to repel the panzers... streets deserted when the Prime Minister was on...
London (Able)
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John Russell's memoir of London goes back to before the great fire of 1666, when the modern city was formed. It looks inside St. Paul's Cathedral, under Wren's great dome,...
Battle Over Malta: Aircraft Losses and Crash Sites, 1940-42
From 1940 to 1942, supremacy of the skies above Malta was bitterly fought over by aircraft of the RAF, Luftwaffe and Regia Aeronautica. The RAF eventaully gained the upper hand,...
Trading with the Bolsheviks: Politics of East-West Trade, 1920-39
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The aims of this work are to examine the political, economic, financial and normative reasoning used by the governments and key departments of state of the three main victors of...
Blood Of Spain: An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War
Traversing a scarred land that has endured everything and forgotten nothing, historian Ronald Fraser records the memories of survivors in this remarkable oral history. . . No other volume on...
The Emperor's Codes: Bletchley Park's Role in Breaking Japan's Secret
In the No. 1 bestseller "Station X," Michael Smith brought us the riveting true story of how British experts broke Nazi Germany's wartime codes. In "The Emperor's Codes" he continues...
The Age of Anxiety: Security and Politics in Soviet and Post-Soviet
The geography of Russia -- vast, unwieldy, exposed -- and her tragic history of foreign invasion have created an overriding sense of military vulnerability amongst her leaders that, after the...
Children with a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe
The book is based on hundreds of oral histories, conducted in Europe and North America, with survivors who were children in the Holocaust, primary documentation uncovered by the author (including...
The Man Who Never Was
This text provides an insider account of the counter-intelligence operation (Operation Mincemeat) which paved the way for the Allied invasion of Sicily during World War II. It outlines the audacious...
Typhoon Pilot
This is not only the story of one man's war, but of an aircraft - the Typhoon, or "Tiffy" as it was affectionately known - which the author describes as...
War to the Death: the Sieges of Saragossa 1808-1809
The intensity of Spanish resistance to French occupation of their country during the Napoleonic Wars is vividly portrayed in this classic account of the sieges of Saragossa in 1808 and...
The Flaneur
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______________ 'A stylish, deftly erudite and enormously diverting book' - Sunday Telegraph 'An artfully aimless pleasure cruise around Paris' - Guardian 'White's genius as a flaneur is revealed in his...
The Road is Wider Than Long
During July and August 1938, as Europe prepared for war, Roland Penrose and Lee Miller journeyed through the Balkans. Penrose was a painter and a writer; Miller was a studio...
Hannibal's War
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The book titled Hannibal's War by the author John Peddie. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Rebirth of Russian Democracy: An Interpretation of Political
How could the West have better prepared for the fall of communism and gained a clearer picture of Russia's new political landscape? By cultivating an awareness, Nicolai Petro argues, of...
The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior: Da Vinci, Machiavelli,
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Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolo Machiavelli, and Cesare Borgia-three iconic figures whose intersecting lives provide the basis for this astonishing work of narrative history. They could not have been more different,...
The Making of Eastern Europe: From Prehistory to Postcommunism: 1997
`A rich and varied work ...Longworth's a bold and always arresting study' - Jeremy Black, History Today. Why has the collapse of Communism resulted in so much disappointment for the...
The Thaw Generation
This study offers a personal look at the progenitors of glasnost and perestroika. The book examines the first tremors of change felt during the 1950s thaw and the dissidents and...
The Devil and Mr. Casement: One Man's Battle for Human Rights in South
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In September 1910, the activist Roger Casement arrived in the Amazon jungle on a mission for the British government: to investigate reports of widespread human-rights abuses in the forests along...
Cold Peace
In the period from the end of World War II until his death, Stalin became an increasingly distrustful despot. He habitually picked on and humiliated members of his inner circle,...
Undertones of War
With a new introduction and editorial apparatus by eminent military historian Hew Strachan In what is one of the finest autobiographies to come out of the First World War, the...
Gin: The Much Lamented Death of Madam Geneva
The book titled Gin: The Much Lamented Death of Madam Geneva by the author Patrick Dillon. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War
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On the Eve is the portrait of a world on the eve of its destruction. Bernard Wasserstein's original and provocative book presents a new and disturbing interpretation of the collapse...
The Ottomans
The author teases out those qualities which were uniquely Ottoman - not Turkish, not Middle Eastern or even a shadowy echo of the West, they were born warriors from the...
Order and Disorder in Early Modern England
The social history of early modern England has become a lively area of publication and debate. This volume attempts both to take stock of distinct directions in the field and...
Russia: The Once and Future Empire from Pre-history to Putin
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Through the centuries, Russia has swung sharply between successful expansionism, catastrophic collapse, and spectacular recovery. This illuminating history traces these dramatic cycles of boom and bust from the late Neolithic...
The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A Selection
Published to co-incide with the pbk of Claire Tomalin's Whitbread Prize-winning biography The 1660s represent a turning point in English history, and for the main events - the Restoration, the...
The Odd Man Karakozov: Imperial Russia, Modernity, and the Birth of
On April 4, 1866, just as Alexander II stepped out of Saint Petersburg's Summer Garden and onto the boulevard, a young man named Dmitry Karakozov pulled out a pistol and...