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Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943
Author: John Gooch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A gripping, vivid account of Italy's disastrous experience of the Second World War While staying closely aligned with Hitler,...
A Tale of Two Cities
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 The Penguin English Library Edition of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens'Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; -...
A Moveable Feast
Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for...
Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
Author: Judith Herrin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A glorious history of the jewel-like city on the Adriatic which was a melting-pot of Greek, Latin, Christian and...
Mein Kampf
Author: Adolf Hitler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 Mein Kampf was first published in two volumes in 1925-6 and sold between eight and nine million copies during...
The Outsider
Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 'The sky seemed to rip apart from end to end to pour fire down upon me' Meursault will not...
Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers who Turned the Tide in the Second World War
Author: Paul Kennedy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 How, when it came down to it, did the Allies win the Second World War? How did they win...
A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle
Author: Julian Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 944 'Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography' Max Hastings, Sunday Times In six weeks in 1940, France was...
Napoleon the Great
Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 976 The definitive modern biography of Napoleon - now in paperback Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of...
A Short History of Europe: From Pericles to Putin
Author: Simon Jenkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The first short narrative history of the continent, from the author of the bestselling A Short History of England Europe...
Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief
Author: Maurice Leblanc Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The inspiration for the new Netflix series, Lupin, starring Omar Sy. The inspiration for the new Netflix series,Lupin, starring...
Madame Bovary
Author: Gustave Flaubert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary is one of the most influential - and scandalous - novels of the nineteenth century....
Dresden: The Fire and the Darkness
Author: Sinclair McKay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The bestselling historian's gripping account of the Allied bombing of Dresden for the 75th anniversary In February 1945 the...
The French Promise
Author: Fiona McIntosh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Postwar Paris is alive with optimism but lavender keeper Luc Ravens and his love Lisette remain haunted by the...
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 11 and the Final Solution in Poland
Author: Christopher R. Browning Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In 1942 a unit of ordinary, middle-aged, German reserve policemen were ordered to liquidate a Jewish village. Most...
Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World
Author: Frank McLynn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 The greatest story of military conquest in history from a 'master storyteller' (Guardian) Genghis Khan was by far the...
The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance
Author: Catherine Fletcher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 An imaginative and revelatory new history of the Italian Renaissance that challenges our preconceptions of the era *A THE...
The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination
Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Renowned historian Richard Evans puts 'fake news' in historical perspective in this challenging and illuminating study The idea...
Conquistadores
Author: Fernando Cervantes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A riveting new history of Spanish imperialism, and the men who laid its foundations The 'conquistadores', the early explorers...
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
Author: Serhii Plokhy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A dramatic, minute-by-minute account of one of the most shattering events of the Cold War, from an award-winning historian...
The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler
Author: Laurence Rees Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 A fascinating exploration of the character of Adolf Hitler- the most powerful and destructive man in history. Accompanies the...
Simone Weil: An Anthology
Author: Simone Weil Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Simone Weil was one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century- a philosopher, theologian, critic, sociologist and political...
Maigret's Revolver: Inspector Maigret #40
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Maigret goes to London on the trail of a young man on the run. When Maigret's prized gun goes...
Somme: Into the Breach
Author: Hugh Sebag-Montefiore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on the greatest battle of World War One - with groundbreaking new material...
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
Author: Anne Applebaum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Red Famine, a triumph of scholarship and human sympathy, is a milestone in the recovery of those memories and...
Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation
Author: Roderick Beaton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A history of modern Greece by one of the pre-eminent experts in the field We think we know ancient...
Hitler: Only the World Was Enough
Author: Brendan Simms Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 A powerful and searing biography of Hitler and the poisonous ideas behind his actions Adolf Hitler is one of...
The Plague
Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courage The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly...
The 120 Days of Sodom
Author: Marquis de Sade Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A new translation of Sade's most notorious, shocking and influential novel This horrible but hugely important text has...
Maigret Hesitates: Inspector Maigret #67
Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A series of letters set Maigret up for a peculiar case. Inspector Maigret receives a series of letters warning...
The Histories
Author: Herodotus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 The work that established the study of history in the western world, Herodotus's The Histories is a dazzling contemporary account...
Night
Author: Elie Wiesel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Describing in simple terms the tragic murder of a people from a survivor's perspective, Night is among the most...
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Author: Simone de Beauvoir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful...
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56
Author: Anne Applebaum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 At the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge...
Au Bonheur des Dames (The Ladies' Delight)
Author: Emile Zola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 An Bonheur des Dames is the glittering Paris department store run by Octave Mouret. He had used charm and...
Candide, or Optimism
Author: Francois Voltaire Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A major new translation of Voltaire's fast-paced, globe-trotting satire - an irresistible holiday read. Brought up in the household...
A Tale of Two Cities
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his...
The Fall
Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Based around a series of blistering confessions, The Fall was described by Sartre as 'perhaps the most beautiful and...
The Narrative of Trajan's Column
Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 When the last fire goes out, time too will be finished Taken from his Collection of Sand, these marvelous...
The Civil War
Author: Julius Caesar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Caesar's own account of his struggle with Pompey over leadership of Republican Rome A military leader of legendary genius,...
All Things Made New: Writings on the Reformation
Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A brilliant kaleidoscope on the Reformation from 'one of the best historians writing in English today' (Sunday Telegraph) The...
Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
Author: Orlando Figes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 768 From the award-winning author of The Whisperers, Orlando Figes Natasha's Dance- A Cultural History of Russia is a dazzling...
On War
Author: Carl Clausewitz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Combining military theory and raw accounts of its practice, Carl von Clausewitz's treatise On War has had a profound...
The Pursuit of Power: Europe, 1815-1914
Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 A masterpiece of historical writing which brings to life an extraordinarly turbulent and dramatic era of revolutionary change...
Power: The Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984
Author: Michel Foucault Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The Essential Works of Michel Foucault offer the definitive collection of Foucault's articles, interviews and seminars The third and...
Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017
Author: Ian Kershaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 The definitive history of a divided Europe, from the aftermath of the Second World War to the present. After...
Birdsong
Author: Sebastian Faulks Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The bestselling WWI classic now reissued in the new Faulks series style Birdsong is a mesmerising story of love...
The Persian Expedition
Author: Xenophon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Xenophon's account of the Greek war with Persia through the eyes of a young Athenian searching for his destiny abroad...