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Elliott Erwitt's Paris
Yes, we'll always have Paris and who better to capture all its moods than the inimitable Elliott Erwitt? With a keen eye for the real city, Erwitt sees beyond the...
Promised You A Miracle: Why 1980-82 Made Modern Britain
A vivid, seminal portrait of early 1980s Britain- a period that changed Britain forever The early 1980s in Britain were a time of hope, and of dread- of Cold War...
Those Who Trespass Against Us: One Woman's War Against the Nazis
Born in Vienna in 1898, Karolina Lanckoronska was an aristocrat and art historian who taught at the University of Lwow, then part of Poland. When the Soviets came to occupy...
Sword and the Grail: The Story of the Grail, the Templars and the
Based on stunning new archaeological evidence, both in the UK and the USA, The Sword and the Grail details the part played by the Order of the Knights of the...
In the Land of Giants
The bestselling historian tells the story of the landscapes, peoples and culture of early medieval Britain in eight walks, an epic sea voyage and a north-south ride by motorbike. The...
Churchill and Empire
One of our finest narrative historians, and journalist for the Sunday Times and Literary Review , Lawrence James, has written a genuinely new biography of Winston Churchill, set within a...
Paris to the Pyrenees: A Skeptic Pilgrim Walks the Way of Saint James
Driven by curiosity, wanderlust, and health crises, David Downie and his wife set out from Paris to walk across France to the Pyrenees. Starting on the Rue Saint-Jacques and trekking...
No Need for Geniuses: Revolutionary Science in the Age of the
Paris at the time of the French Revolution was the world capital of science. Its scholars laid the foundations of today's physics, chemistry and biology. They were true revolutionaries: agents...
Death Traps: The Survival of an American Armored Division in World War
The Survival of an American Armored Division in World War II "An important contribution to the history of World War II . . . I have never before been able...
The Phoenix: St. Paul's Cathedral And The Men Who Made Modern London
Opening in the 1640s, as the city was gripped in tumult leading up to the English Civil War, THE PHOENIX charts the lives and works of five extraordinary men, who...
The Great Rebellion, 1642-60
This revised edition aims to illustrate in detail the origins and course of the English Civil War, paying particular attention to the relatively neglected 1650s, and ends with the Restoration...
Old London Bridge: The Story of the Longest Inhabited Bridge in Europe
Old London Bridge's vibrant history spans over 600 years, from 1176 to 1832. In times of war and conflict, the Bridge site saw not only attacking Vikings but also Londoners...
Finding Arthur: The Truth Behind the Legend of the Once and Future
The legend of King Arthur has been told and retold for centuries. As the king who united a nation, his is the story of England itself. But what if Arthur...
Riding With Giants
A story about the nature of work, the science of bicycles and the wisdom of children. International businessman Peter Holmes Court left the executive world and found himself living deep...
Courtiers: The Secret History of the Georgian Court
In the eighteenth century, the palace's most elegant assembly room was in fact a bloody battlefield. This was a world of skulduggery, politicking, wigs and beauty-spots, where fans whistled open...
Newton and the Counterfeiter
Already famous throughout Europe for his theories of planetary motion and gravity, Isaac Newton decided to take on the job of running the Royal Mint. And there, Newton became drawn...
The Loss of El Dorado: A Colonial History
At the centre of this extraordinary historical narrative are two linked themes: the grinding down of the aborigines during the long rivalries of the quest for El Dorado, the mythical...
The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter
A case for why regionalization, not globalization, has been the biggest economic trend of the past forty years The conventional wisdom about globalization is wrong. Over the past forty years...
Hitler's Soldiers: The German Army in the Third Reich
A penetrating study of the German army's military campaigns, relations with the Nazi regime, and complicity in Nazi crimes across occupied Europe For decades after 1945, it was generally believed...
Edward III and the Triumph of England: The Battle of Crecy and the
A fascinating recreation of the world of one of England's most charismatic monarchs The young Edward III's destruction of the French army at Crecy in 1346 and capture of Calais...
The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began
A riveting, exemplary tale of the great cultural \"swerve\" known as the Renaissance. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2012 Almost six hundred years ago, a short, genial man...
Group Chat
When Farah's husband has an affair ( she f*cking knew it ), her group chat doesn't offer platitudes. They offer Mykonos. A free luxury villa, thanks to Vivian's DJ toy-boy....
The East and South-East of England
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A new edition of the county maps of Thomas Moule, one of the most distinctive and best-loved of early Victorian mapmakers, with 19 specially-coloured maps of the Eastern counties and...
Death in the City of Light (Trade)
Occupied Paris, 1944. The swastika flies from the top of the Eiffel Tower, Nazi officers patrol the elegant boulevards and the once-vibrant city is shrouded in suspicion and fear. At...
The Image of Her
A compelling novel about the requirement to be perfect, without losing sight of yourself - by the greatest feminist of the twentieth-century, Simone de Beauvoir. Laurence is a woman who...
Eat More Greek: Everyday recipes for the time you have
Despite Conor Curran's very Irish name, he was raised in his yiayia's kitchen and is on a mission to get everyone cooking and eating more Greek food! Greek food is...
Operation Dragoon: The Allied Liberation of the South of France: 1944
A dramatic and expertly rendered narrative of the Allied liberation of the South of France during Operation Dragoon in 1944. Operation Dragoon is the story of the Allied invasion of...
Moments of Revolution: Eastern Europe
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Shows and describes the events leading to the emergence of democracy in Eastern Europe, and depicts what the changes have meant to everyday citizens
Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the
The riveting true story of a legendary Spanish galleon that sunk with over $1 billion in gold and silver-and one man's obsessive quest to find it-from the Sunday Times bestselling...
Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688
A ground-breaking portrait of the most turbulent century in English history Among foreign observers, seventeenth-century England was known as 'Devil-Land': a diabolical country of fallen angels, torn apart by seditious...
The Soldier Who Came Back
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'The extraordinary story of one of the most audacious escape attempts of the Second World War' Dan Snow In Northern Poland in 1940, at the Nazi war camp Stalag XX-A,...
A Traveller's History of Portugal
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This is a definitive concise history of Portugal, from its earliest beginnings right up to the politics and life of the present day. It was not until the twelfth century...
Ireland: An Encyclopedia for the Bewildered
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The book titled Ireland: An Encyclopedia for the Bewildered by the author K.S. Daly. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Essex Dogs
The sensational historical fiction debut from Sunday Times bestseller Dan Jones. A BBC History 2022 Book of the Year! July 1346. The Hundred Years' War has begun, and King Edward...
Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics
Demolishing the Blairite opposition in 2015, Jeremy Corbyn saw off an attempted coup against his leadership under the banner of the "soft left" one year on. This unassuming antiwar socialist...
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton,
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Winner of the George Washington Prize Winner of the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History Winner of the Excellence in American History Book Award Winner of the...
1945: Victory in the West
The first book on the final 100 days of the Second World War in a generation 'Magisterial . . . a fine, balanced and superb account. It deserves to be...
The Salient: Ypres, 1914-18
Ypres today is an international 'Town of Peace', but in 1914 the town, and the Salient, the 35-mile bulge in the Western Front, of which it is part, saw a...
The Romans in the Age of Augustus
Incorporating the most recent scholarship, this book offers a fascinating history of Rome and the Roman peoples during the rule of the first Roman emperor, Augustus. Written in an easily...
A Royal Experiment: Love and Duty, Madness and Betrayal--The Private
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The stunning debut of an important new history writer In this magnificent biography of a marriage-between Great Britain's King George III and Queen Charlotte-Janice Hadlow exposes with astonishing emotional force...
No Flight from the Cage: The Compelling Memoir of a Bomber Command
Originally published in 1956, former Second World War prisoner-of-war Calton Younger's 'No Flight from the Cage' received critical acclaim. One critic wrote, 'the book goes below the surface of prison...
Parting Words: An extraordinary 100-year-old man's 9 lessons for
'I don't know where to stop praising Benny and this amazing book' - HEATHER MORRIS, The Tattooist of Auschwitz ' This book...is the stuff folk tales are made of. How...
AD 410: The Year That Shook Rome
The Goths' sack of Rome in AD 410 was an event which shook the Roman world to its core. This gripping book uncovers the key factors that contributed to Alaric...
All The King's Women
An excellent prince, doubtless, had he been less addicted to women .. those wicked creatures took him from all application becoming so great a king.' John Evelyn The image of...
Not for Turning: The Complete Life of Margaret Thatcher
The complete life of Margaret Thatcher, written by a member of her inner circle Margaret Thatcher is one of the most iconic politicians of the twentieth century. With the possible...
Slavery in the Roman World
Sandra Joshel provides a comprehensive overview of Roman slavery. Using a variety of sources, including literature, law, and material culture, she examines the legal condition of Roman slaves, traces the...
Aspects of Roman History 82BC-AD14: A Source-based Approach
Aspects of Roman History 82BC-AD14 examines the political and military history of Rome and its empire in the Ciceronian and Augustan ages. It is an indispensable introduction to this central...