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A brilliant new interpretation of one of the most dramatic periods of British history . The Wars of the Roses didn't end at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. Despite...

THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 A CAPX AND ENGELSBERG IDEAS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 The late 17th century saw the rise of a new phenomenon that...

Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England explores the real England of Jane Austen's lifetime. It was a troubled period, with disturbing changes in industry and agriculture and a constant dread of...

From the redcoat who served Charles II to the modern, camouflage-clad guard at Camp Bastion, from battlefield to barrack-room, this is a magisterial social history of the British soldier. Since...

Bulgaria is arguably the historically most underrated Axis ally that actually fought the Allies during World War 2. Despite remaining outside the main battleground of the war, the Eastern Front,...

An important reckoning with Australia's unspoken history of slave trade. From the author of the bestselling books The Ballad of Abdul Wade and The Bravest Scout at Gallipoli As Australia...

This book, originally published in 1976, is an account of the first five months of the First World War, as seen by members of a battalion of the Grenadier Guards...

The 3rd Air Division: Elveden Hall was the Headquarters of this division of the 8th US Army Air Force. Broadly speaking it flew B17 Flying Fortresses out of Suffolk, but...

'Brilliantly written ... evokes the wonder of an entire civilisation.' Tom Holland, author of Pax and co-host of The Rest is History It's time to meet the real Vikings. A...

'Brilliantly written ... evokes the wonder of an entire civilisation.' Tom Holland, author of Pax and co-host of The Rest is History'A wondrous, gorgeously-written book' Rebecca Wragg Sykes, author of...

A father's worst nightmare - Melchor Marin's teenage daughter has disappeared. Years have passed since Melchor took revenge for his mother's murder and at last found peace with his daughter...

'An immersive novel, steeped in the history and folklore of Crete: transporting, historically informative story-telling' Sunday Times 'A moving, superbly written exploration of a family with dark secrets. Crete itself...

**Now featuring an exclusive extract of part two in the duology, The Crownless Queen ** 1338: England has declared war on France, and Jeanette of Kent , cousin to King...

The book titled Boeve de Haumtone and GUI de Warewic: Two Anglo-Norman Romances: by the author Judith Weiss. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Medieval Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Dialogue: The Apparicion by the author Michael Hanly. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In a series of legal battles starting in 1882, South Asian Muslims made up of modernists, traditionalists, reformists, Shias and Sunnis attempted to modify the laws relating to their places...

A concise history of Paris and the great events and personalities, from prehistory to the present, that have shaped its unique cultural legacy. Paris has long been celebrated as a...

The dramatic national bestseller and remarkably exciting account of Germany's little-known U-boat campaign against merchant shipping along the North American Atlantic coast during the first six months of 1942."An absolutely...

From the redcoat who served Charles II to the modern, camouflage-clad guard at Camp Bastion, from battlefield to barrack-room, this is a magisterial social history of the British soldier. Since...

The book titled Anastasia: Life of Anna Anderson by the author Peter Kurth. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Sparta - its legendary warriors and steadfast resilience are famous throughout the world as a model for toughness, justice and masculinity. The Spartans' reputation as fighters is matched only by...

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...

In the new year of 1944 the French Resistance in northern France was on its knees. Relentless attacks on its diverse and disorganised networks by the Gestapo and the Abwehr...

'FASCINATING' Daily Mail 'FULL OF AMAZING FACTS' The QI Elves Each of the United Kingdom's 124 postcode areas has a story to tell, an unexpected nugget to dust off and...

In Vegan Italian Food: Over 100 Recipes for a Plant-based Feast , Australia's number one vegan chef Shannon Martinez celebrates the joys of Italian food in signature riotous style. Following...

Home cook and author Lucinda Scala Quinn shares 100 iconic and beloved Italian-American recipes from the last 100 years. In America today, nonna's cooking is everyone's favorite food with spaghetti,...

With Rick Steves, Milan and the Italian lakes are yours to discover! This slim guide excerpted from Rick Steves Italy includes: - Rick's firsthand, up-to-date advice on Milan and the...

A sweeping, vivid history capturing the sudden end of Britain's empire and the moment when America became a world superpower. Britain fought and sacrificed on a worldwide scale to defeat...

At the close of World War II, the Soviet Union controlled all of eastern Germany with the exception of the American, British, and French sectors of Berlin. In June 1948,...

**PETER MAY: OVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE** **'A TERRIFIC WRITER' MARK BILLINGHAM** Set in Southern Spain, A Silent Death is the scorching thriller from worldwide bestselling author of The...

On 9 August 1941, one of the greatest icons of the Second World War, Douglas Bader, was shot down, captured and later incarcerated. But by whom, and how? Was it...

'A compelling biography of one of the greatest men of the modern age. Stanford is particularly brilliant on the tensions inside Luther's private and spiritual life. This is a very...

'Brims with twists, turns and surprising revelations' Sarah Weinman Discover the gripping second installment in Johanna Mo's internationally bestselling The Island Murders series: perfect for fans of Ragnar Jonasson and...

'A witty, unforgettable celebration of the courage, genius and defiance that changed the course of history' Jacob Rees-Mogg 'Gimson makes excellent cases for all his choices. His "cardinal point" about...

From Normandy to the Caribbean Islands, this innovative biographical pursuit follows Adele Hugo on her reckless journey of unrequited love - and the writer who chased after her more than...

The New York Times bestselling author returns with a moving new novel based on the true story of a New York librarian determined to bring books to the children of...

The book titled Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by the author Jacob Burckhardt. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Remembering the Boys brings to life the correspondence of Western Reserve Academy alumni serving in World War II. In these eloquent letters, most of them written to the Academy's headmaster,...

Clear blue skies laced white with vapour trails of fighting aircraft... petrol-filled beer bottles in the garden shed to repel the panzers... streets deserted when the Prime Minister was on...

John Russell's memoir of London goes back to before the great fire of 1666, when the modern city was formed. It looks inside St. Paul's Cathedral, under Wren's great dome,...

In 1917, David Lloyd George declared that airmen were 'the cavalry of the clouds - the knighthood of this war.' This romantic image was fostered post-war by writers of adventure...

From 1940 to 1942, supremacy of the skies above Malta was bitterly fought over by aircraft of the RAF, Luftwaffe and Regia Aeronautica. The RAF eventaully gained the upper hand,...

Artist Virginia Ryan and her family came to regret the impulsive decision to purchase an abandoned olive mill in the hill-town of Trevi, Umbria, as they lived through the massive...

The aims of this work are to examine the political, economic, financial and normative reasoning used by the governments and key departments of state of the three main victors of...

Traversing a scarred land that has endured everything and forgotten nothing, historian Ronald Fraser records the memories of survivors in this remarkable oral history. . . No other volume on...

In the No. 1 bestseller "Station X," Michael Smith brought us the riveting true story of how British experts broke Nazi Germany's wartime codes. In "The Emperor's Codes" he continues...

The geography of Russia -- vast, unwieldy, exposed -- and her tragic history of foreign invasion have created an overriding sense of military vulnerability amongst her leaders that, after the...

Fin-de-siecle France was a period of unrest, with strikes, demonstrations, and anarchist terrorism reflecting deep social and political differences. Yet at the same time, this decade produced a vibrant visual...