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How to Think Like Churchill
Author: Daniel Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Remembered for his leadership during the Second World War, Churchill's commitment to 'never surrender', along with his stirring speeches and radio...
The Great British Speeches
Author: Simon Heffer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 50 speeches from every period of British history from the medieval era to the present and a fascinating dip-in history title...
This Dark Business: The Secret War Against Napoleon
Author: Tim Clayton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Between two attempts in 1800 and 1804 to assassinate Napoleon Bonaparte, the British government launched a campaign of black propaganda of...
The New Royals: Queen Elizabeth's Legacy and the Future of the Crown
Author: Katie Nicholl Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 For seventy years, Queen Elizabeth ruled over an institution and a family. During her lifetime she was constant in her desire...
This Sovereign Isle: Britain In and Out of Europe
Author: Robert Tombs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 One of Brexit's leading intellectual advocates examines the referendum vote in the context of history Geography comes before history. Islands cannot...
Bad Girls: A History of Rebels and Renegades
Author: Caitlin Davies Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Society has never known what to do with its rebellious women. Those who defied expectations about feminine behaviour have long been...
Robin Cook
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Freedom's Sword: Scotland's Wars of Independence
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Chronicle of Clifton and Hotwells
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A Brief History of Henry VIII: King, Reformer and Tyrant
Author: Mr Derek Wilson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Henry VIII changed the course of English life more completely than any monarch since the Conquest. In the portraits of...
His Finest Hour: A Brief Life of Winston Churchill
Author: Christopher Catherwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'A gem. Brief, authoritative and fair in its judgements - an intensely readable introduction to this most complex and fascinating man'...
Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era
Author: Alwyn Turner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 'The very best sort of panoramic portrait' David Kynaston 'The Edwardians have long been the lost decade of British history, yet...
Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-39
Author: Florian Illies Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Strikingly original, utterly absorbing' Julia Boyd, author of Travellers in the Third ReichA Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023'1930s Europe...
Among You Taking Notes...
Author: Naomi Mitchison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'As in a good novel, the people, their feelings and reactions are instantly recognisable and as fresh and immediate today as...
The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951
Author: Lord John Julius Norwich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 The long awaited and highly revealing diaries of the politician, diplomat, and socialite (married to Lady Diana Cooper) 'This...
That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
Author: Anne Sebba Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 One of Britain's most distinguished biographers turns her focus on one of the most vilified women of the twentieth century. Historian...
The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War
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Author: Arkady Ostrovsky Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE WINNER OF THE CORNELIUS RYAN AWARD FINALIST FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF...
The New Royals: Queen Elizabeth's Legacy and the Future of the Crown
Author: Katie Nicholl Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 For seventy years, Queen Elizabeth ruled over an institution and a family. During her lifetime she was constant in her desire...
SAS Forged in Hell: From Desert Rats to Dogs of War: The Mavericks who Made the SAS
Author: Damien Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A Waterstones Best History Book of 2023 The incredible true story of the SAS' daring mission to liberate Europe In the...
Among You Taking Notes...
Author: Naomi Mitchison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'As in a good novel, the people, their feelings and reactions are instantly recognisable and as fresh and immediate today as...
Hell's Foundations: Town, Its Myths and Gallipoli
Author: Geoffrey Moorhouse Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Australians, New Zealanders, Indians, the French and the Turks all have reason to remember Gallipoli, but in this book the author...
Lotharingia: A Personal History of Europe's Lost Country
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After the Victorians: The Decline of Britain in the World
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Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832
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Staging the People: The Proletarian and His Double
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SAS Forged in Hell: From Desert Rats to Dogs of War: The Mavericks who Made the SAS
Author: Damien Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A Waterstones Best History Book of 2023 The incredible true story of the SAS' daring mission to liberate Europe In the...
Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth
Author: Keiron Pim Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 The brilliant, mercurial, self-mythologising novelist and journalist Joseph Roth, author of the European 20th century masterpiece The Radetzky March, was an...
Gentleman Jack: A biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer and Secret Diarist
Author: Katy Derbyshire Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The extraordinary life of history's first modern lesbian who inspired the television series Gentleman Jack. Anne Lister's journals were so shocking...
Turkiye: Cycling Through a Country's First Century
Author: Julian Sayarer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "A deeply thoughtful, gripping and scrupulous book told in Sayarer's trademark style from the saddle and the roadside" CAROLINE EDEN By...
UKRAINE The Forging of a Nation
Author: Yaroslav Hrytsak Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'Both pioneering and fundamental. This is the essential history of Ukraine, from one of the greatest Ukrainian thinkers and scholars.' Timothy...
Wellington: A Journey Through My Family
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Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948
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The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy
Author: Stein Ringen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises,...
Endgame
Author: Omid Scobie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The explosive new book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the international blockbuster Finding Freedom, Endgame a penetrating...
A Brief History of the British Monarchy: From the Iron Age to King Charles III
Author: Jeremy BlackFormat: Paperback, 124mm x 196mm, 200g, 256 pagesPublished: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2024The British monarchy is at a turning point. Concise and engaging, this book charts...
The Great Fire of London
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Hitler's British Isles
Author: Duncan Barrett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 True-life recollections from the Channel Islanders who were the only British subjects to live under Nazi rule in WWII. 'Barrett has...
Italy in a Wineglass: The Taste of History
Author: Marc Millon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 440 The world is enamoured with Italy: its culture, art, food and fashion, its beautiful landscapes and famous cities - and, of...
The English Soul: The Faith of a Nation
Author: Peter Ackroyd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The English Soul portrays the spirit and nature of English Christianity as it has developed over the last 1,400 years. As...
Never Despair: Sixty Years in the Service of the Jewish People and of Human Rights
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The Last Alchemist: The Seven Extraordinary Lives of Count Cagliostro, Eighteenth-century Enchanter
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The Diary of Petr Ginz
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Mary Churchill's War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill's Youngest Daughter
Author: Emma Soames Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'A daily love letter from a brave young woman to her adored father . . . immensely evocative of wartime Britain,...
The Germans and Europe: A Personal Frontline History
Author: Peter Millar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 456 "An engrossing portrait" Independent Based on a lifetime living in and reporting on Germany and Central Europe, award-winning journalist and author...
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...
Bomber Boys: The RAF Offensive of 1943
Author: Kevin Wilson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 In 1943 the RAF began a bombing campaign against Germany, the like of which had never before been seen. Over the...
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 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...