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Marie Antoinette
Stefan Zweig based his biography of Marie Antoinette, who became the Queen of France at the age of fifteen, on the correspondence between her and her mother, and her great...
Fateful Hours: The Collapse of the Weimar Republic
Fateful Hours tells one of the greatest dramas in world history: the failure of Germany's first democracy, culminating in the horrific rise of the Third Reich. But this tragedy was...
The Music Maker of Auschwitz IV
The inspirational true story of an Allied POW appointed Kapellmeister to the Nazis in Auschwitz. When called up to fight in yet another World War, Drum Major Jackson promised his...
The Struggle for Sea Power: The Royal Navy vs the World, 1775-1782
For the first time, Sam Willis offers a fascinating naval perspective to one of the greatest of all historical conundrums: How did thirteen isolated colonies, who, in 1775 began a...
Sacrifice for Stalin
Operation BARBAROSSA, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, was a turning point second only to Pearl Harbor. Russia became an ally overnight but a most difficult, dangerous...
Songbirds: The powerful novel from the author of The Beekeeper of
'I've never read anything quite like Songbirds - a beautifully crafted novel that sits at the intersection of race and class, that flags the frank truth of the life of...
Wild Geese: the LAMBDA and GORDON BOWKER VOLCANO PRIZE winner
'Soula Emmanuel's prose is breathtaking: searingly sharp, deliciously funny, profound. Wild Geese is a beautiful and devastating read. An extraordinary debut. I loved this deeply intelligent and emotionally powerful novel'...
A Gypsy In Auschwitz: How I Survived the Horrors of the 'Forgotten
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Otto Rosenberg is 9 and living in Berlin, poor but happy, when his family are first detained. All around them, Sinti and Roma families are being...
Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century
'Kuper is a shrewd observer in this entertaining mix of memoir and anthropology' The Sunday Times From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naif getting...
Between Two Hells: The Irish Civil War
'Ferriter has richly earned his reputation as one of Ireland's leading historians' - Irish Independent 'Absorbing ... A fascinating exploration of the Civil War and its impact on Ireland and...
Ill Met By Moonlight
This is a classic account by one of the officers who took part in one of the great escapades of WWII. In 1943, W. Stanley Moss and Patrick Leigh-Fermor, both...
Wellington's Headquarters
Wellington s Headquarters is an essential introduction to the administration of the British army in the early nineteenth century. It offers a fascinating insight into the structure and operation of...
The Anatomy of Manchester United: A History in Ten Matches
Praise for Jonathan WIlson: 'SUPERB' The Observer 'EXCELLENT' ESPN 'INSIGHTFUL' When Saturday Comes 'EPIC' Evening Standard 'FASCINATING' Independent A definitive history of Manchester United told through the 10 key football...
When We Sold God's Eye: 'A MODERN CLASSIC OF LITERARY NONFICTION' -
'A first-class work of reporting [and] a work of compassion for Indigenous peoples everywhere' BENJAMIN MOSER, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of SONTAG 'A non-fiction novel of modern conquest, capitalism and murder...
Rome and the Enemy: Imperial Strategy in the Principate
How did the Romans build and maintain one of the most powerful and stable empires in the history of the world? This book draws on the literature, especially the historiography,...
The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin
An engaging biography that offers a new perspective on one of the most influential figures of the Crusades In 1187, Saladin marched triumphantly into Jerusalem, ending decades of struggle against...
Roman Society
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The Mascot: The extraordinary story of a Jewish boy and an SS
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Part thriller, part psychological drama, part puzzle with a strange twist, The Mascot is one of the most astonishing stories to emerge from the Second World War. It tells the...
Empire of Booze: British History Through the Bottom of a Glass
From award-winning booze correspondent Henry Jeffreys comes this rich and full-bodied history of Britain and the Empire, told through the improbable but true stories of how the world's favourite alcoholic...
Bad Apples: 'The stand out in a truly outstanding series.' Chris
A murder A resident of small-town Visberg is found decapitated A festival A cultish hilltop community 'celebrates' Pan Night after the apple harvest A race against time As Visberg closes...
Circus Maximus: An unforgettable Roman odyssey of rivalry and power
The charioteer in his purest form. The supreme master of destiny and the elements. A man who made a circus out of life, and life out of a circus. 'A.D....
Peace and War: Britain in 1914
1914 dawned with Britain at peace, albeit troubled by faultlines within and threats without: Ireland trembled on the brink of civil war; suffragette agitation was assuming an ever more violent...
Ill Met By Moonlight
This is a classic account by one of the officers who took part in one of the great escapades of WWII. In 1943, W. Stanley Moss and Patrick Leigh-Fermor, both...
Long Journey Home: The perilous escapes of Anzac POWs from fascists in
After her father's death, Katrina Kittel opens his old Globite suitcase and finds tiny photos, postcards in beautiful handwriting from a mysterious Swiss woman, and memorabilia from his war. Katrina...
A Traveller's History of Athens
Athens has a history stretching back to Mycenaean times and in the fifth century BC it became the most significant community for the development of political thought and practice, art...
The Templars: The Secret History Revealed
Barbara Frale gives us an explosive, exhaustively researched history of the medieval world's most powerful military order, the Templars. At its height, the Order of the Knights Templar rivaled the...
The Boundless River: Stories from the Realm of the Rhine
"A joy to read" Times Literary Supplement "[A] stirring and accessible history of the mighty Rhine" Irish Times "It's easy to be swept away by Deen's delightful prose" New Statesman...
The Cabin
The second instalment in the Cold Case Quartet from one of Scandinavia's most successful writers It's been fifteen years since Simon Meier walked out of his house, never to be...
The Impossible Office?: The History of the British Prime Minister
Marking the third centenary of the office of Prime Minister, this book tells its extraordinary story, explaining how and why it has endured longer than any other democratic political office...
City on the Edge: Hong Kong under Chinese Rule
For decades, Hong Kong has maintained precarious freedom at the edge of competing world powers. In City on the Edge, Ho-fung Hung offers a timely and engaging account of Hong...
On a Knife Edge: How Germany Lost the First World War
Was the outcome of the First World War on a knife edge? In this major new account of German wartime politics and strategy Holger Afflerbach argues that the outcome of...
Fighting the People's War: The British and Commonwealth Armies and the
Fighting the People's War is an unprecedented, panoramic history of the 'citizen armies' of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa, the core of the British...
Hitler's Panzer Generals: Guderian, Hoepner, Reinhardt and Schmidt
Germany's success in the Second World War was built upon its tank forces; however, many of its leading generals, with the notable exception of Heinz Guderian, are largely unknown. This...
The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy: A Story of Resistance, Courage, and
The fateful days and weeks surrounding 6 June 1944 have been extensively documented in histories of the Second World War, but less attention has been paid to the tremendous impact...
After the Virus: Lessons from the Past for a Better Future
Why was the UK so unprepared for the pandemic, suffering one of the highest death rates and worst economic contractions of the major world economies in 2020? Hilary Cooper and...
The Dance of Death: A Black Forest Investigation III
"Bottini is a terrific storyteller" SUNDAY EXPRESS The third in the Black Forest Investigations series - by CWA shortlisted author One wet and misty weekend in October, the Niemann family...
The Bourgeois Epoch: Marx and Engels on Britain, France, and Germany
Richard Hamilton provides an in-depth critique of the writngs of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels on Britain, France, and Germany. Hamilton contends that the validity of their principal historical claims...
Christmas 1914: The First World War at Home and Abroad
By December 1914, it had become clear to even the most optimistic observer that the war would not be over by Christmas. That month brought the first enemy inflicted deaths...
A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II
Widely hailed as a masterpiece, this is the first history of World War II to provide a truly global account of the war that encompassed six continents. Starting with the...
Last of the Empires: A history of the Soviet Union, 1945-1991
Described as `one of the most tragic human experiences in human history', the Soviet Union as an empire holds much intrigue and fascination for the Western world. It held unquestionable...
Roman Britain
Reissued in new covers, this is the first volume in the "Oxford History of England". It draws on literary sources and advances in archaeology, charting life in Roman Britain from...
For the Glory: The Untold and Inspiring Story of Eric Liddell, Hero of
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"Hamilton is a guarantee of quality." - Financial Times "Duncan Hamilton's compelling biography puts flesh on the legend and paints a vivid picture of not only a great athlete, but...
Ancien Regime and the Revolution
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A new translation of this classic text The Ancien Regime and the Revolution is a comparison of revolutionary France and the despotic rule it toppled. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) is...
Lives of the Artists
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Penguin Classics relaunch Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo....
A Tramp Abroad
Twain's account of travelling in Europe, A TRAMP ABROAD (1880), sparkles with the author's shrewd observations and highly opinionated comments on Old World culture, and showcases his unparalleled ability to...
The Polish Revolution: Solidarity, 1980-82
The author was with the strikers in the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk. He witnessed the defiance of the workers and the emergence of an improbable leader and hero in Lech...
Small Wars
The devastating follow-up to the massive bestseller The Outcast. What happens when everything a man believes in - the army, his country, his marriage - begins to crumble... Hal Treherne...
The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-45
The first social history of Germany during the Second World War for over forty years WINNER OF THE 2016 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE The Second World War was a German war...