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For all the myths surrounding Oliver Cromwell and Charles Stuart, there is no detailed account of any meeting between them. Yet they were almost exact contemporaries, embodying virtually everything for...

A leading expert reexamines history to offer a stunningly original portrait of Hitler as a competent military commander and strategist After Germany's humiliating World War II defeat, numerous German generals...

The word 'liberal', as part of our political vocabulary comes from Spain. It was first used to describe a group of radical patriots cooped up in Cadiz, refugees from the...

Scientists and physicians are respected in civilized societies for the objectivity, rigour and purity of scientific thinking. Yet fifty years ago human geneticists played a crucial role in the atrocities...

Nicholas II, the last tsar of all the Russians, remains a haunting and enigmatic figure, surrounded by myth and speculation. As a young man he dreamed of travel, of seeing...

"Bold and refreshing... Korda writes with great elegance and flair." --Wall Street Journal Michael Korda's brilliant work of history takes the reader back to the summer of 1940, when fewer...

THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY OF THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER A Times Book of the Year; A Telegraph Book of the Year; A Daily Mail Book of the Year; A Waterstones Book...

Today many of the Greek islands of the Dodecanese are popular tourist resorts. However in 1943 they were the scene of the last successful German invasion of the Second World...

Volume I in a unique trilogy of books which comprise brilliantly vivid eyewitness accounts of war at sea, in the air and on land in the Second World War. Here...

This introduction to the years of the Napoleonic wars (1793 to 1815) tells the story of one of the keys to that great conflict, the Ship of the Line -...

'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...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2016 "As compelling and entertaining as a detective novel" ( The Economist ), the incredible true story--part...

The book titled Churchill as War Leader by the author Richard Lamb. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Written to coincide with the 50th anniversary of The Battle of Britain, with the profits from the book donated to the Douglas Bader Foundation, this book uses first-hand accounts of...

The Fifteenth Air Force took the air battle against the Axis powers and Nazi Germany to areas England-based bombers could not reach, contributing significantly to the Allied victory in World...

Johnny Kent grew up in Winnipeg and was bitten by the flying bug at an early age. He grabbed experience and flying hours wherever and whenever he could and was...

The book titled Desert War by the author Alan Moorehead. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A history of the SS, the Nazi Party's military arm, woven around the life and career of SS chief, Heinrich Himmler. The author reveals the SS rituals; how it functioned...

It is widely believed that Japan's opening gambit in World War II was conceived by Admiral Yamamoto, Commander-in-Chief of Imperial Japan. However, this book sets out to show that it...

It was said by contemporaries that when Winston Churchill was born he was blessed with imagination, eloquence, industry and ability, but denied judgement and wisdom. For much of his long...

Michael Pye's The Edge of the World is an epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global centre, it tells the amazing story of northern...

Praise for David Kertzer and Prisoner of the Vatican: "Kertzer once again proves himself a truly compelling historian." -- Andre Aciman "Prisoner of the Vatican reads like exciting fiction. And...

In AD 9, a Roman traitor led an army of barbarians who trapped and then slaughtered three entire Roman legions: 20,000 men, half the Roman army in Europe. If not...

Originally published to tie in with the seven part Channel Four series, this is an exploration of the lives of the ordinary inhabitants of Britain, starting when Britain first became...

In a ferocious gun battle lasting over an hour Glorious and the two destroyers escorting her were all sunk. Drawing on Admiralty records and the testimony of those who served...

The book titled Round the Clock: The Experience of the Allied Bomber Crews Who Flew by by the author Philip Kaplan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...

Anne Frank's diary is the most widely-read book after the Bible, yet never before has a biography of her been published. Carol Anne Lee has been allowed access to previously...

Alison Owings interviewed and here records the words of 29 German women during the Third Reich. Working for the Resistance, joining the Nazi Party, outsmarting the Gestapo, hiding a Jewish...

Tadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where where the will to survive overrides...

An assured supply of armaments, petrol and foodstuffs from the US was vital to the British war effort, especially in the early days of the Second World War. The route...

The book titled Arnhem Spearhead: A Private Soldier's Story by the author James Sims. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Royal Flying Corps in France: From Bloody April 1917 to Final by the author Ralph Barker. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

The powerful history of the evacuation of Dunkirk in the words of those who were there. The subject of the new major film by Christopher Nolan It could have been...

'An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private leader' WALTER ISAACSONFrom the bestselling author of Enemies of the People An intimate and deeply researched account of the extraordinary rise and...

*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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn February 1956, the Kremlin became the stage for one of the most seismic political events of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the height of the Cold War, understanding the machinery of Soviet power was not merely an academic...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageVaslav Nijinsky — the name alone conjures visions of impossible leaps, otherworldly grace, and a genius so blazing...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedPart of the prestigious Studies in Modern European Literature and Thought series, Rob Lyle's Mistral presents a focused and illuminating critical study...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedIn the pantheon of twentieth-century French literature, few figures loom as large or as enigmatically as André Malraux — novelist, art theorist, adventurer, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingIn the landscape of modern European thought, few figures loom as large or as enigmatically as Miguel de Unamuno — the Spanish...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerVasily Rozanov stands as one of the most provocative and enigmatic figures in Russian intellectual history, a writer whose radical subjectivity and...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the shadow of Soviet-era Moscow, where the forgotten dead are tended by the overlooked living, The Humble Cemetery presents a stark and unflinching...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew ideological regimes have cast as long and devastating a shadow over the modern world as the totalitarian system built and enforced by Joseph...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn one of the most chilling and meticulously documented accounts of political mass murder ever written, The Great Terror...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the twilight years of one of Russia's most defiant literary voices, Osip Mandelstam produced a body of verse that stands as both a...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt the crossroads of revolution and reconstruction, The Spirit of Post-war Russia: Soviet Ideology 1917-1946 by...