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Secret Britain: A journey through the Second World War's hidden bases and battlegrounds
Author: Sinclair McKay Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Discover the stories of the brave men and women who worked, trained and fought across the UK, from Bletchley Park in...
No Man's Land: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain's Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I
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Author: Wendy Moore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The "absorbing and powerful" (Wall Street Journal) story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who shattered social expectations and transformed modern medicine...
Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History
Author: Philippa Gregory Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 688 A NEW STATESMEN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 'A lasting work of social history' THE TIMES 'A genuinely new history of...
A Brief History of the British Monarchy: From the Iron Age to King Charles III
Author: Jeremy Black Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The British monarchy is at a turning point. Concise and engaging, this book charts the very beginnings of British reign through...
The Secret of Emu Field: Britain's forgotten atomic tests in Australia
Author: Elizabeth Tynan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Emu Field is overshadowed by Maralinga, the larger and much more prominent British atomic test site about 193 kilometres to the...
Rome: Eternal City
Author: Ferdinand Addis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 648 A portrait of the city at the heart of Western civilization, brought to life in twenty-two scenes from its 2,500-year history....
The Showman: The Inside Story of the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky
Author: Simon Shuster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'This book offers a front row seat to history as it is being made' ANNE APPLEBAUM 'This is the Zelensky book...
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...
The Balkans
Author: Mark Mazower Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 At the end of the twentieth century people spoke as if the Balkans had plagued Europe forever. But two hundred years...
Mary Queen of Scots: And the Murder of Lord Darnley
Author: Alison Weir Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 On the night of 10 February 1567 an explosion devastated the Edinburgh residence of Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, second husband of...
Endgame
Author: Omid Scobie Format: Paperback 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...
The Story of Russia: 'An excellent short study'
Author: Orlando Figes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects...
The Rest is History: The official book from the makers of the hit podcast
Author: Goalhanger Podcasts Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys - there's a new history book in town. From the chart-topping podcast...
The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War
Author: Philip Oltermann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'Engrossing.' -Observer 'Remarkable.' - The Times 'Magnificent.'- Phillipe Sands 'Gripping.'- Literary Review 'A history so outlandish and unlikely that you feel...
The Showman: The Inside Story of the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky
Author: Simon Shuster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'This book offers a front row seat to history as it is being made' ANNE APPLEBAUM 'This is the...
A Strange Business: Making Art and Money in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: James Hamilton (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Britain in the nineteenth century saw a series of technological and social changes which continue to influence and direct us...
Latin: or, the Empire of a Sign
Author: Francoise Waquet Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Though not without its rivals, Latin stood at the apex of Western culture from the Renaissance until relatively recently. Francoise Waquet...
The Romanovs: The Final Chapter
Author: Robert K. Massie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The compelling quest to solve a great mystery of the twentieth century: the ultimate fate of Russia's last tsar and...
The Most Dangerous Moment of the War: Japan'S Attack on the Indian Ocean, 1942
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How They Won the War in the Pacific: Nimitz and His Admirals
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Katherine Howard: The Tragic Story of Henry VIII's Fifth Queen
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Caen Controversy: The Battle for Sword Beach 1944
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Nicholas and Alexandra: The Last Tsar and his Family
Author: Robert K. Massie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 720 A superbly crafted and humane portrait of the final days of the last Romanovs - Nicholas II of Russia and...
Lost Paradise: The Story of Granada
Author: Elizabeth Drayson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 The essential history of an iconic European city, by Cambridge academic Elizabeth Drayson. 'An admirable achievement... [Drayson has] expertise as a...
Coffee with Hitler: The British Amateurs Who Tried to Civilise the Nazis
Author: Charles Spicer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 It's one of the great 'what ifs' of history. What if Britain had stood up to Hitler much earlier? Coffee with...
Bang!: A History of Britain in the 1980s
Author: Graham Stewart Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 Britain in the 1980s was a polarized nation. Determined to take the country in a radically different direction was the most...
The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome
Author: Harry Sidebottom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 On 8 June AD218 a fourteen-year-old Syrian boy led an army to battle in a Roman civil war. Rallying his retreating...
Surviving Katyn: Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth
Author: Jane Rogoyska Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'A gripping reconstruction... utterly compelling reading.' Adam Zamoyski The Katyn Massacre of 22,000 Polish prisoners of war is a crime to...
George III: The Life and Reign of Britain's Most Misunderstood Monarch
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Portillo's Hidden History of Britain
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Author: Michael Portillo Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Discover the hidden history of Britain through the stories of its 'lost' or abandoned places and buildings. Portillo's Secret History of...
Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine
Author: Anna Reid Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 FULLY UPDATED 'A fascinating and often violent odyssey, spanning more than 1,000 years of conflict and culture' INDEPENDENT Flat, fertile, and...
Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain
Author: Matthew Green Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This...
The Rival Queens: Catherine De' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal That Ignited a Kingdom
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N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia
Author: Mark Piesing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 "GRIPPING. ... One of the greatest polar rescue efforts ever mounted." -Wall Street Journal The riveting true story of the largest...
MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949
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False Prophets: British Leaders' Fateful Fascination with the Middle East from Suez to Syria
Author: Professor Nigel Ashton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 Britain shaped the modern Middle East through the lines that it drew in the sand after the First World War...
The Struggle for Europe
Author: Chester Wilmot Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 766 This classic text describes the build-up of the invasion of Europe, and the scenes at the beach-head and in the "bocage"...
A Month At The Front: The Diary of an Unknown Soldier
Author: Unknown Unknown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 1 Discovered at the bottom of a box of books recently donated to the Bodleian Library, Oxford, this war journal vividly tells...
Tom, Ned and Kitty: An Intimate Portrait of an Irish Family
Author: Eliza Pakenham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'I am standing in the dining room of my father's house in Ireland, gazing up at ten Pakenham family portraits. What...
The 19th Century Criminal Underworld
Author: Stephen Carver Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 209 Take a walk on the dark side of the street in this unique exploration of the fears and desires at the...
Notre Dame de Paris: A Celebration of the Cathedral
Author: Kathy Borrus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 On April 16, 2019, five days before the celebration of Easter, a blazing fire engulfed the world famous Notre-Dame de Paris....
Alice's Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook
Author: Karina Urbach Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 What happened to the books that were too valuable to burn? The story of a Jewish chef whose bestselling cookbook was...
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...
Black and Field Gray Uniforms of Himmler's SS: Allgemeine-SS SS Verfugungstruppe SS Totenkopfverbande Waffen SS, Vol. 1: Black Service Uniforms, SS-VT/TV Drill Uniforms, SS-VT/TV M-36 Uniforms, SS-VT/TV M-37 Uniforms, SD Uniforms
Author: Lorenzo Silvestri Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Originally one of the paramilitary groups that arose in Germany's turbulent 1920s, the SS grew from its original protection activities into...
La Serenissima: The Story of Venice
Author: Jonathan Keates Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 A stunningly illustrated history of Venice, from its beginnings as 'La Serenissima' - 'the Most Serene Republic' - to the Italian...
Elizabeth I's Final Years: Her Favourites and Her Fighting Men
Author: Robert Stedall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 328 Elizabeth I's Final Years outlines the interwoven relationships and rivalries between politicians and courtiers surrounding England's omnipotent queen in the years...
The Narrow Sea: Barrier, Bridge and Gateway to the World - The History of the English Channel
Author: Peter Unwin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The English Channel separates Britain from Europe, keeping invaders out of Britain and making the island and islanders different from the...
Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes
Author: Tariq Ali Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The subject of numerous biographies and history books, Winston Churchill has been repeatedly voted as one of the greatest of Englishmen....