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The Renaissance: All That Matters
Author: Michael Halvorson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Was the Renaissance just a period of extraordinary art and architecture? The Renaissance: All That Matters examines the major developments of...
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...
The King's Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy
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The House of Orange in Revolution and War: A European History, 1772-1890: 2022
Author: Jeroen Koch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 440 Three rulers from the House of Orange-Nassau reigned over the Netherlands from 1813 to 1890: King William I from 1813 to...
Berlin
Author: Joseph Pearson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 Berlin is a party in a graveyard. It is Europe's youth capital, and its guilty war conscience. It is a disputed...
Pessoa: An Experimental Life
Author: Richard Zenith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 1088 A monumental biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest and most enigmatic writers For many thousands of readers Fernando Pessoa's...
A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History
Author: Edward Wilson-Lee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A Times History Book of the Year 2022 A TLS Book of the Year 2022 'Exhilarating and whip-smart' THE SUNDAY TIMES...
Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment
Author: Benjamin Storey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 264 A compelling exploration of how our pursuit of happiness makes us unhappy We live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet...
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...
The Phoenix: St. Paul's Cathedral And The Men Who Made Modern London
Author: Leo Hollis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'A tour de force of biography, history, politics, philosophy and experimental science' ECONOMIST The remarkable and inspiring story of how London...
Western Front
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Trackers: The Untold Story of the Australian Dogs of War
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E-Boat Alert: Defending the Normandy Invasion Fleet
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History of the Boer War 1899-1902
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The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity
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Doves of War: Four Women of Spain
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Spirit of Kokoda, The (New Edition)
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Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe
Author: Ian Kershaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 The acclaimed historian explores how far individual leaders can alter the course of history The modern era saw the emergence of...
The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court
Author: Gareth Russell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500...
Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris
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O Brother
Author: John Niven Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 John Niven's little brother Gary was fearless, popular, stubborn, handsome, hilarious and sometimes terrifying. In 2010, after years of chaotic struggle...
London Perceived: A Portrait of The City
Author: V.S. Pritchett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 In unfailingly elegant prose, V. S. Pritchett provides a timeless distillation of the city of London and the London experience. He...
Rebel Land: Among Turkey's Forgotten Peoples
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The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe
Author: James Belich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern age....
The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World
Author: Karl Schloegel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 928 An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly...
Rarities of These Lands: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Dutch Republic
Author: Claudia Swan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A vivid account of the exoticism of the Dutch Republic at a critical moment in its cultural and political history. The...
The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle
Author: David Edmonds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 *New Statesman, Books of the Year* *FiveBooks, One of Nigel Warburton's Best Philosophy Books of 2020* On June 22, 1936, the...
Robespierre: The Man Who Divides Us the Most
Author: Marcel Gauchet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 How Robespierre's career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracy. Maximilien Robespierre (17581794) is arguably the most controversial and contradictory...
Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher
Author: John Davis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 600 Waterloo Sunrise is a panoramic and multifaceted account of modern London during the transformative years of the sixties and seventies, when...
Embattled Europe: A Progressive Alternative
Author: Konrad H. Jarausch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 344 A bracing corrective to predictions of the European Union's decline, by a leading historian of modern Europe. Is the European...
A Matter of Obscenity: The Politics of Censorship in Modern England
Author: Christopher Hilliard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 For Victorian lawmakers and judges, the question of whether a book should be allowed to circulate freely depended on whether it...
Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction
Author: Talia Schaffer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 In Communities of Care, Talia Schaffer explores Victorian fictional representations of care communities, small voluntary groups that coalesce around someone in...
Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940-45
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Merchant Adventurers: The Voyage of Discovery that Transformed Tudor England
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The Berlin Wall: 13 August 1961 - 9 November 1989
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A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration
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The Crazy Years: Paris in the Twenties
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And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris
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Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
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Changing Stages: A View of British Theatre in the 20th Century
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Postcards from the End of the World
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Little Book of Paris
Author: Dominique Foufelle Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Why was the Place de la Nation formerly called la Place du Trone? Has the Pantheon always been the resting place...
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...
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...
The Battle of the Bulge
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Slaughter Over Sicily
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The Spies of Winter: The GCHQ codebreakers who fought the Cold War
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The Diamond Queen: Elizabeth II and Her People
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