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A Private War
Author: Marie Brenner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Now a major motion picture - starring Rosamund Pike, Stanley Tucci and Jamie Dornan. The book that inspired the...
In America
Author: Geert Mak Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 In 1960 John Steinbeck and his dog Charley set out in their green pickup truck to rediscover the soul of America,...
Hiroshima
Author: John Hersey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A landmark work of nonfiction and the definitive account of nuclear devastation The explosion over Hiroshima of the first...
The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague
Author: Timothy Garton Ash (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that capture history in the making, written by...
The True History of Chocolate
Author: Sophie D. Coe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 280 Chocolate - 'the food of the Gods' - has had a long and eventful history. Its story is...
Colony:Australia 1770 1861 / Frontier Wars: Australia 1770 1861 / Frontier Wars
Author: Tha Format: Hardback Number of Pages: It is now over 250 years since James Cook and his crew set sail in the Endeavour to explore the Pacific. In 1770...
The Dinosaurs Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting History
Author: Michael J. Benton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'If you want to know how we know what we know about dinosaurs, read this book!' Steve Brusatte 'I defy...
On the Margins of Southwest Asia: Cyprus during the 6th to 4th Millennia BC
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Author: Joanne Clarke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 This book examines social change in Cyprus during the 6th to 4th millennia BC; a period that is traditionally viewed as...
Fate of War: Fredericksburg, 1862
Author: Duane Schultz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The Union assault on the critical Confederate stronghold of Fredericksburg, Virginia, along the Rappahannock River in December 1862 was one of...
Closing the Books: Jewish Insurance Claims in the Holocaust
Author: Charles Weiss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A torrent of recent studies have attempted to set the record straight about the Holocaust, the most horrendous atrocity...
Hitler's Last Hostages: Looted Art and the Soul of the Third Reich
Author: Mary M. Lane Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The story of art is integral to the story of the rise of Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler, an artist himself,...
Living With A Dead Language: My Romance with Latin
Author: Ann Patty Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 246 After thirty-five years as a book editor in New York City, Ann Patty stopped working and moved to the country. Bored,...
Between the Wars
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Author: Philip Ziegler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 254 At the end of 1918 one prescient American historian began to write a history of the Great War. "What will you...
People of the First Crusade: The Truth about the Christian-Muslim War Revealed
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Author: Michael Foss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 232 In this work Michael Foss casts new light on the reality of and motives behind the Crusades in general,...
We Germans
Author: Alexander Starritt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 When a young British man asks his German grandfather what it was like to fight on the wrong side...
A Warning
Author: Anonymous Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 On September 5, 2018, the New York Times published a bombshell essay and took the rare step of granting its...
The Pentagon's Wars: The Military's Undeclared War Against America's Presidents
Author: Mark Perry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A gripping insider account of the clash between America's civilian and military leadership The Pentagon's Wars is a dramatic account of...
The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov
Author: Alex Beam Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The Feud is the deliciously ironic (and sad) tale of how two literary giants destroyed their friendship in a fit of...
Fish and Chips: A History
Author: Panikos Panayi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Along with London buses, bowler hats and cricket, few things are considered more British than fish and chips. In this book,...
How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain
Author: Ruth Goodman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Every age and every social strata has its bad eggs, those who break all the rules and rub everyone up the...
North Pole: Nature and Culture
Author: Michael Bravo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 In North Pole, Michael Bravo explains how visions of the North Pole have been supremely important to the world's...
The Age of Secrecy: Jews, Christians, and the Economy of Secrets, 1400-1800
Author: Daniel Jutte (Jutte) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries were truly an Age of Secrecy in Europe, when arcane knowledge was widely believed...
The Other Hoffmann Sister
Author: Ben Fergusson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2015, Ben Fergusson's critically acclaimed debut, The Spring of...
MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman
Author: Ben Hubbard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A Financial Times Book Best Book of the Year 2020 A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year 2020...
Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science
Author: John Gribbin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'A gripping account of a physicist whose speculations could prove as revolutionary as those of Albert Einstein . ....
Charles Darwin
Author: Anita Croy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 Charles Darwin pioneered a theory of evolution that changed the way we see the natural world and the progression of species....
An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings
Author: Thomas Malthus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The provocative historical work on social economy, demography and population control Malthus' life's work on human population and its...
The Conquest of Gaul
Author: Julius Caesar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Between 58 and 50BC Caesar conquered most of the area now covered by France, Belgium and Switzerland, and twice...
Dance Your Troubles Away
Author: Pamela Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Pam Evans' heartwarming London saga, DANCE YOUR TROUBLES AWAY, is set during the Second World War and is sure...
Schadenfreude, A Love Story
Author: Rebecca Schuman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 You know that feeling when you catch the elevator but don't hold it for the person behind you? Seeing Lindsay Lohan...
City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
Author: Holly Tucker (Vanderbilt University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In the late 1600s, Louis XIV assigns Nicolas de la Reynie to bring order to the city of Paris...
Forced to Flee: Refugee Children Drawing on their Experiences
Author: UNHCR Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 Refugee children explain in their own words and pictures their thoughts, feelings and experiences about having to flee from their home countries....
A Rich and Fertile Land: A History of Food in America
Author: Bruce Kraig Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A Rich and Fertile Land investigates the history of food in America, where it comes from and how it has changed...
Three-a-Penny: Radio 4 Book of the Week
Author: Lucy Malleson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A rediscovered classic memoir - a fascinating insight into the life of a crime writer during and after the...
Consider the Platypus: Evolution through Biology's Most Baffling Beasts
Author: Maggie Ryan Sandford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 CONSIDER THE PLATYPUS explores the history and features of more than 50 animals to provide insight into our current understanding...
The Incredible Yet True Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt
Author: Volker Mehnert Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 Explorer. Scientist. Polymath. Hero. In his day, Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was among the most renowned scholars of the Enlightenment. He...
Gunter Grass
Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Gunter Grass (1927-2015) was Germany's foremost writer for more than half a century, and his books were and remain bestsellers across...
Discover Through Craft: Ancient Greece
Author: Anita Ganeri Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 What do you know about the ancient Greeks? Explore the incredible history of this Ancient civilisation and find out...
With God In Russia: The Inspiring Classic Account of a Catholic Priest'sTwenty-three Years in Soviet Prisons and Labor Camps
Author: Walter J. Ciszek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Republished for a new century and featuring an afterword by Father James Martin, SJ, the classic memoir of...
Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic
Author: David Frum Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 New York Times Bestseller! Bestselling author, former White House speechwriter, and Atlantic columnist and media commentator David Frum explains why President...
Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary
Author: Aleksandr Fursenko Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 Nikita Khrushchev was a leader who risked war to get peace during the most dangerous years of the twentieth...
Far From Home: Refugees and migrants fleeing war, persecution and poverty
Author: Cath Senker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 64 What if you had to leave your home and you could never go back? What do you think that...
30-Second Ancient Rome
Author: Matthew Nicholls Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 30-Second Ancient Rome presents a unique insight into one of the most brilliantly governed societies, where military might and expansive...
All Quiet on the Western Front
Author: Erich Maria Remarque Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Discover the most famous anti-war novel ever written. One by one the boys begin to fall... In 1914...
Colder The Illustrated Story of Britains Greatest Polar Explorer
Author: Ranulph Fiennes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Sir Ranulph Fiennes is arguably the UK's greatest polar explorer and adventurer, whose never-say-die approach to life has enabled him to...
The Bronze Horseman
Author: Paullina Simons Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 A magnificent epic of love, war and Russia from the international bestselling author of TULLY and ROAD TO PARADISE...
All Against All: The long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War
Author: Paul Jankowski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 During a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went wrong: Hitler came to power; Japan invaded Jehol...
The Flight Charles Lindberghs Daring and Immortal 1927 Transatlantic Crossing
Author: Dan Hampton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 "GRIPPING. ... AN HOUR-BY-HOUR ACCOUNT." - WALL STREET JOURNAL * From one of the most decorated pilots in Air Force history...