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This is the vivid memoir of a man who was twenty-one at the outbreak of World War II. Having joined the RAFVR before the war, he was mobilised in August...

The story of Jennie, Clara and Leonie Jerome is one of glamour, money and love in equal measure. Their father Leonard was a profligate New York stockbroker whose beautiful wife...

On paths, roads, seas, in the air, and in space there has never been so much human movement. In contrast we think of the past as static, 'frozen in time'....

The first half of the 20th century saw the birth of the airplane and its development as an instrument of war and commerce. Within five decades, contraptions barely able to...

Originally published in 1970 and out of print for nearly thirty years, this book has already earned its place as a classic of submarine history by an author with an...

From the Carpathians in the west to the Greater Khingan range in the east, a huge, flat expanse dominates the Eurasian continent. Here, over more than a thousand years, the...

This text gives an overview of a single day in World War II - 25th October 1944, as it was seen on all fronts. Through a succession of vignettes, showing...

In 1917 the Germans launched a major air campaign against the British mainland which shocked the whole nation and terrorised the south-east of England. These attacks by German bombers caused...

An illustrated history of Great Britain told through dogs Throughout history they have sniffed, rolled, shaken and pawed their way to our hearts, and behind almost every great Briton is...

'Wars are not won by evacuations' 'We can take it!' 'Westward look, the land is bright' This collection of speeches from one of the great modern orators includes Churchill's famous...

Gallipoli was a First World War tragedy, a side show that had ambitious hopes to end the war early. Despite the immense gallantry displayed by those fighting, from the beginning,...

As the motorist speeds past Arras on the motorway south to Paris, a look to the east should bring into view the hilltop village of Monchy le Preux. This farming...

A biography of the 18th century revolutionary Edward Fitzgerald, the son of Emily Lennox, one of the sisters featured in ARISTOCRATS. The book naturally follows on from ARISTOCRATS and is...

This book is an updated and revised edition of a classic introduction to one of the key periods in modern European history. Olwen Hufton not only illuminates the complex and...

Mohandas Gandhi and Winston Churchill: India's moral leader and Great Britain's greatest Prime Minister. Born five years and seven thousand miles apart, they became embodiments of the nations they led....

Published in Antwerp in 1570, the THEATRUM ORBIS TERRARUM did something no previous book had done: here was the world in all its component parts, the chance to see our...

The inside story of a thoroughly modern monarch, as told by the bestselling and acclaimed biographer, Robert Hardman ________ The bestselling and acclaimed biography of Queen Elizabeth II. With new...

*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...

This book recounts for the first time the tragic loss of more than 1,000 American soldiers in 1943 when their troopship was torpedoed in the Mediterranean.

As the United Kingdom left the European Union, during a period of international and domestic turmoil, London found itself at a turning point. This critical moment presents an opportunity to...

Pre-war debutantes were members of the most protected, not to say isolated, stratum of 20th-century society: the young (17-20) unmarried daughters of the British upper classes. For most of them,...

In Captive Queen: The Decrypted History of Mary, Queen of Scots , Jade Scott, a historian and expert on Mary's correspondence, draws on hundreds of her encrypted letters to paint...

This work gives a compelling account of the officer who waged the intelligence battle against Napoleon's army, a forerunner to the great code-breakers of the 20th century. The French army,...

What was it like, making history? What sense did these individuals have of what they were doing, either at the time or later? Did they feel they were caught up...

A very enjoyable, nicely illustrated book on one of royalty's most captivating personalities: Mary, Queen of Scots. Her rivalry with Queen Elizabeth I, over Mary's claim to the throne of...

Features more than four hundred American, Allied, and German photographs that present the dramatic events of the invasion from both sides.

Out of the ruins and savagery of Second World War, the figure of Benito Mussolini looms large as one of the most influential during the first half of the twentieth...

As president first of Czechoslovakia and then of the nascent Czech Republic, Havel led central Europe out of communism and into the twenty-first century before stepping down in February 2003....

Dear Joan comprises a unique series of letters between a young airman, Tony Ross, and Joan Charles, a girl he met briefly in England before he was posted to the...

A general introduction to the classical world from its origins to the fall of the Roman Empire. The book focuses on questions of how we know about Classical civilization from...

Praise for the author: 'Gibson's well written and well-documented account of James and the bishops will surely become the new standard authority on these "implausible revolutionaries" for many decades.' Barbara...

At the age of 17, Shusha Guppy left Iran and her family to study at the Sorbonne in Paris. Diving into the unknown - a world of unimagined freedoms and...

In April 1945 Churchill said to Sir Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 'There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without...

To the classical civilizations of Greece and Rome, the Celtic warrior of the late Iron Age was the archetypal barbarian: savage, undisciplined, and bloodthirsty. In a clash of cultures that...

Scotland is a fascinating country with a dark and bloody past - filled with characters who thought nothing of using torture, murder and treachery to get what they wanted. Many...

No city on earth has preserved its past as has Rome. Visitors stand on bridges that were crossed by Julius Caesar and Cicero, walk around temples visited by Roman emperors,...

Author: Zofia KrukBinding: HardbackPublished: Hutchinson London, 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Inscription to previous owner on front end-page and minor...

Author: Orhan PamukBinding: HardbackPublished: Faber, 2022Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedNobel laureate Orhan Pamuk presents "Nights of Plague," a sweeping work of historical fiction set in 1901 on the fictional...

Author: T. S. R. BoaseBinding: HardbackPublished: McGraw-Hill, 1972Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis academic historical non-fiction work by T. S. R. Boase meticulously chronicles the pervasive presence and...

Author: Sarah GainhamBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, London, 1973Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsSarah Gainham's "Maculan's Daughter" is a compelling work of historical fiction set against the tumultuous backdrop of...

Author: Christopher MarloweBinding: HardbackPublished: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1968Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Clipped priceThis volume presents two powerful tragedies by the Elizabethan playwright...