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Life and Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series)
Author: Vasily Grossman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 The Vintage Classics Russians Series - sumptuous editions of the greatest books to come out of Russia during the...
The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox
Author: Alison Weir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 The captivating life of Margaret Douglas - a life of scandal, political intrigue and royal romance that spanned five...
The Charge of the Heavy Brigade: Scarlett s 300 in the Crimea
Author: M J Trow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Glory to each and to all, and the charge that they made!'Glory to all three hundred, and all the Brigade!'...
Caesar'S Greatest Victory: The Battle of Alesia, Gaul 52 Bc
Author: John Sadler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 An exciting, readable new account of the Alesia campaign, incorporating the latest research, to illuminate the tactics of both Caesar and...
Voices of Snipers: Eyewitness Accounts from the World Wars
Author: John Walter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 248 Based on an incredible breadth of first-hand testimony, this is a unique collection of eyewitness accounts from World War I and...
The Warrior and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation
Author: Peter Cozzens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 'Marvellous... One of the best pieces of Native American history I have read.' - S.C. Gwynne, bestselling author of Empire of...
The Times First World War: The Great War from 1914 to 1918
Author: Peter Chasseaud Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The perfect gift for history fans. Follow the conflict of the World War 1 from 1914-1918 with expert commentary, photographs and...
Gallipoli
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Chronicles of the Crusades
Author: Joinville and Villehardouin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The Conquest of Constantinopleby Geoffrey of Villehardouin andThe Life of Saint Louisby John of Joinville are eye-witness accounts...
Women of the White House: The Illustrated Story of the First Ladies of the United States of America
Author: Amy Russo Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Women of the White House looks at the work, lives and times of the 47 women officially recognized as America's first...
Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning
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Author: Elliot Ackerman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 From a decorated Marine war veteran and National Book Award finalist, an astonishing reckoning with the nature of combat and the...
Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front
Author: Mary Jennings Hegar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 On July 29, 2009, Air National Guard major Mary Jennings 'MJ' Hegar was shot down while on a...
The Escape Artists A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Breakout of WWI
Author: Neal Bascomb Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Summer, 1918: twenty-nine officers crawled into a 16 inch high, 55 metre tunnel dug only with spoons. This was...
Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles
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To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949
Author: Ian Kershaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 To Hell and Backtells this story with humanity, flair and originality. Kershaw gives a compelling narrative of events, but...
The Coast Watchers: The Men Behind Enemy Lines Who Saved the Pacific
Author: Patrick Lindsay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 " They watched and warned and died that we might live. (Inscription on the Coastwatcher Memorial at Madang, PNG)"...
Burma '44: The Battle That Turned Britain's War in the East
Author: James Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The untold story of one of WW2's most extraordinary and significant battles which marked the turning of the tide...
The Origins of the Second World War
Author: Professor A J P Taylor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 One of the most popular and controversial historians of the twentieth century, who made his subject...
The Regeneration Trilogy
Author: Pat Barker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 A sweeping masterpiece of British historical fiction and a devastating portrait of the effects of WWI Pat Barker's award-winning...
Eichmann in Jerusalem
Author: Hannah Arendt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Hannah Arendt's authoritative and controversial report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a...
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...
The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy
Author: John Henry Phillips Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 When archaeologist John Henry Phillips volunteered with a charity that took D-Day veterans back to Normandy, due to an administrative...
The Future of War: A History
Author: Sir Lawrence Freedman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A new approach to ideas about war, from 'Britain's leading academic strategist' (Economist) Where should we look for...
Queens of the Crusades: Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Successors
Author: Alison Weir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The next volume in Alison Weir's magisterial history of the queens of Medieval England - including the life of...
Normandy '44: D-Day and the Battle for France
Author: James Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 From established historian James Holland, this is the top ten bestselling and second biggest history book of 2019. 'A...
Wellington's Light Division in the Peninsular War: The Formation of Wellington's Famous Fighting Force, 1810
Author: Robert Burnham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 In February 1810, Wellington formed what became the most famous British unit in the Peninsular War: the Light Division. Formed around...
Roman Conquests: Macedonia and Greece
Author: Philip Matyszak Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 In the late 3rd century BC, while Rome struggled for her very survival against the Carthaginians in the Second Punic War,...
Night Hunter's Prey: The Lives and Deaths of an RAF Gunner and a Luftwaffe Pilot
Author: Iain Gordon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 This is the story of two airmen - an RAF Rear Gunner and a Luftwaffe Pilot. Alexander Ollar was raised in...
Dunkirk
Author: Hans-Adolf Jacobsen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 First published in 1958, this first German perspective account of Dunkirk is available in English for the first time. The German...
Cataphracts: Knights of the Ancient Eastern Empires
Author: Erich B. Anderson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 188 Cataphracts were the most heavily armoured form of cavalry in the ancient world, with riders and mounts both clad in...
Clementine Churchill: A Life in Pictures
Author: Sonia Purnell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Without Winston Churchill's inspiring leadership Britain could not have survived its darkest hour. Without his wife Clementine, however, he might never...
Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets
Author: Burkhard Bilger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration...
War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East
Author: Gershom Gorenberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 As World War II raged in North Africa, General Irwin Rommel was guided by an uncanny sense of his enemies' plans...
Firepower: How Weapons Shaped Warfare
Author: Paul Lockhart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 The history of warfare cannot be fully understood without considering the technology of killing. In Firepower, acclaimed historian Paul Lockhart tells...
A Fierce Glory: Antietam--The Desperate Battle That Saved Lincoln and Doomed Slavery
Author: Justin Martin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 September 17, 1862, was America's bloodiest day. When it ended, 3,654 soldiers lay dead on the land surrounding Antietam Creek in...
Passchendaele
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Author: Nick Lloyd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 The definitive account of Passchendaele, the months-long battle that epitomizes the immense tragedy of the First World War Passchendaele. The name...
The Fall of the Ottomans
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Author: Eugene Rogan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 By 1914 the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and they pulled the Middle East along with them into...
The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway
Author: Brendan Simms Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The Battle of Midway was, on paper, an improbable victory for the smaller, less experienced American navy and air force, so...
On Grand Strategy
Author: John Lewis Gaddis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 John Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian of the Cold War, has for almost two decades co-taught grand strategy...
Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces
Author: Laura Tunbridge Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 An authoritative and refreshing account of Beethoven's life and music Ludwig van Beethoven- to some, simply the greatest ever...
Desperate Valour: Triumph at Anzio
Author: Flint Whitlock Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 The Allied landings at Anzio, on the Italian coast, six months before the Normandy invasion were intended as an "end run"...
The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives
Author: Christopher Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 Two thousand years of Japanese history, told through interconnected portraits of twenty fascinating individuals Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book distils...
The Black Book: The Britons on the Nazi Hitlist
Author: Sybil Oldfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 In 1939, the Gestapo created a list of names: the Britons whose removal would be the Nazis' first priority in the...
The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story
Author: Serhii Plokhy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 1961. The height of the Cold War. Just hours before work begins on the Berlin Wall, a KGB assassin and his...
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...
The War in the West - A New History: Volume 1: Germany Ascendant 1939-1941
Author: James Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 The first part of an astonishing and revelatory new history of the Second World War from one of the...
The Journals of Captain Cook
Author: Captain James Cook Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and 1779. In voyages that ranged from...
Fromelles and Pozieres: In the Trenches of Hell
Author: Peter FitzSimons Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 In the Trenches of Hell In the Trenches of Hell On 19 July 1916, 7000 Australian soldiers - in...