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Secret Britain: A journey through the Second World War's hidden bases and battlegrounds
Author: Sinclair McKay Format: Hardback 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...
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...
The Last Train: A Family History of the Final Solution
Author: Peter Bradley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'Haunting.' Jonathan Freedland 'Powerful.' Daniel Finkelstein The profoundly moving and deeply intimate story of one Jewish family's fate in the Holocaust,...
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
Author: Hana Videen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Delightful ... a pleasure' - Guardian Old English is the language you think you know until you hear or see it....
Blood, Fire and Gold: The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici
Author: Estelle Paranque Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A thrilling joint biography of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici, uncovering how their complex 30-year relationship shaped their dynasties, perfect...
Budapest: Between East and West
Author: Victor Sebestyen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Wallis Simpson, Theodore Roosevelt, Benito Mussolini, Evelyn Waugh, the great tenor Luciano Pavarotti, and the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin,...
Inside Ukraine: A Portrait of a Country and its People
Author: Ukrainer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Inside Ukraine is a compelling visual portrait of the real Ukraine, lovingly put together by Ukrainians in the years leading up to...
The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination
Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Renowned historian Richard Evans puts 'fake news' in historical perspective in this challenging and illuminating study The idea that nothing...
Five Love Affairs and a Friendship: The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age
Author: Anne de Courcy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Dazzlingly beautiful, highly intelligent and an extraordinary force of energy, Nancy Cunard was an icon of the Jazz Age, said...
Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth
Author: Adam Zamoyski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 752 'Napoleon is an out-and-out masterpiece and a joy to read' Sir Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad A landmark new biography that...
Britain Alone: The Path from Suez to Brexit
Author: Philip Stephens Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 In 1962 the American statesman Dean Acheson famously charged that Britain had lost an empire and failed to find a new...
The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary
Author: Hana Videen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'A dream! I learnt something new and fascinating on every page' - Lucy Mangan 'If you love words, the weird and...
Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History
Author: Thomas J. Barfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern times. The world's first great empires...
Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the West - 'Magisterial' Books of the Year, Independent
Author: Tom Holland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality....
Great and Horrible News: Murder and Mayhem in Early Modern Britain
Author: Blessin Adams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Grimly fascinating ... engrossing' Daily Mail NINE HISTORIC CRIMES. ONE FAMILIAR OBSESSION. In early modern England, murder truly was most foul....
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...
Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
Author: Barry Strauss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers "an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire...much of Ten Caesars reads like a script...
Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: The Mavericks Who Plotted Hitler's Defeat
Author: Giles Milton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'A magnificent story, brilliantly told. Read it!' Anthony Horowitz Six gentlemen, one goal - the destruction of Hitler's war machine. In...
The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
Author: Rosemary Sullivan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Hums with living history, human warmth and indignation' New York Times Less a mystery unsolved than a secret...
Scotland's Forgotten Past: A History of the Mislaid, Misplaced and Misunderstood
Author: Alistair Moffat Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A charming, lively and often amusing tour of 36 forgotten episodes and overlooked people and places of Scottish history. While Scotland's...
O Sing unto the Lord: A History of English Church Music
Author: Andrew Gant Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 Andrew Gant's compelling account traces English church music from Anglo-Saxon origins to the present. It is a history of the music...
Among You Taking Notes...
Author: Naomi Mitchison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'As in a good novel, the people, their feelings and reactions are instantly recognisable and as fresh and immediate today as...
UKRAINE The Forging of a Nation
Author: Yaroslav Hrytsak Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'Both pioneering and fundamental. This is the essential history of Ukraine, from one of the greatest Ukrainian thinkers and scholars.' Timothy...
Italy in a Wineglass: The Taste of History
Author: Marc Millon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 440 The world is enamoured with Italy: its culture, art, food and fashion, its beautiful landscapes and famous cities - and, of...
A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History
Author: Edward Wilson-Lee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A Times History Book of the Year 2022 A TLS Book of the Year 2022 'Exhilarating and whip-smart' THE SUNDAY TIMES...
Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe
Author: Ian Kershaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 The acclaimed historian explores how far individual leaders can alter the course of history The modern era saw the emergence of...
The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court
Author: Gareth Russell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500...
The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World
Author: Karl Schloegel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 928 An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly...
Dr. B.
Author: Daniel Birnbaum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The former director of the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm makes his literary debut with this dramatic and riveting novel...
The Lawless Land
Author: Boyd Morrison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 'A rollicking adventure [with] the inventive twists and turns of a satisfyingly bustling plot.' New York Times 'Fantastic... Gerard Fox could...
In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust
Author: Richard Hurowitz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 "In the Garden of the Righteous brilliantly describes how in the midst of the brutality of the Holocaust and the collaboration,...
Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean
Author: Katherine Pangonis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Its name means 'centre of the world', and since the dawn of history the Mediterranean Sea has formed the shared horizon...
Budapest: Between East and West
Author: Victor Sebestyen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Budapest has always been an important place. Almost at the centre of Europe, it is at the crossroads of geographical regions...
A Brief History of Paris
Author: Cecil Jenkins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Paris: city of love, food and fashion. Paris: the city that played host to major historical and cultural dramas. Paris: a...
The One Impossible Labyrinth: From the creator of No.1 Netflix thriller INTERCEPTOR
Author: Matthew Reilly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 THE BRAND NEW JACK WEST THRILLER AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Spectacular...Part-Jack Reacher, part-Indiana Jones' SMH THE END IS HERE Jack West...
The Bloody White Baron
Author: James Palmer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Roman Ungern von Sternberg was a Baltic aristocrat, a violent, headstrong youth posted to the wilds of Siberia and Mongolia before...
Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-39
Author: Florian Illies Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023' 1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles...
The Invention of Russia: The Journey from Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War
Author: Arkady Ostrovsky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Winner 2016 Orwell Prize In 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev launched Perestroika, opened Russia up to the world, ended the Cold War and...
A Brief History of the Vikings
Author: Jonathan Clements Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'From the Fury of the Northmen deliver us, O Lord.' Between the eighth and eleventh centuries, the Vikings surged from their...
The History of Europe in Bite-sized Chunks
Author: Jacob F. Field Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 An accessible and succinct account of the story of Europe from its ancient foundations to the twenty-first century, The History...
A Brief History of the Birth of the Nazis
Author: Nigel Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The birth pangs of Nazism grew out of the death agony of the Kaiser's Germany. Defeat in World War I and...
The News from Waterloo: The Race to Tell Britain of Wellington's Victory
Author: Brian Cathcart Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The Duke of Wellington's victory over Napoleon in 1815 at Waterloo ensured British dominance for the rest of the nineteenth century....
Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties
Author: David de Jong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'Lucid and damning ... an absorbing - and infuriating - tale of complicity, coverup and denial' PATRICK RADDEN...
When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
Author: Ariana Neumann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'It's not always a grim story. Alongside anger and despair there is love and hope. But the message is stark. This...
The Last Secret of the Secret Annex
Author: Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The extraordinary, never-before-told story of Bep Voskuijl, Anne Frank's closest friend during the 761 days she spent in the Secret...
The Book Of Roads And Kingdoms: Winner Indie Book Awards 2023 Non Fiction Book of the Year. The thrilling story of an empire's rise & fall from the best-selling author of GOLDEN MAZE & GHOST EMPIRE.
Author: Richard Fidler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 A lost imperial city, full of wonder and marvels. An empire that was the largest the world had ever seen, established...
In Search of Mary Seacole: The Making of a Cultural Icon
Author: Helen Rappaport Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'An astonishingly rich story... wonderfully informative' The Times 'Rappaport does a terrific job of bringing respectful rigour to her account of...
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations
Author: Simon Schama Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 'This splendid and often moving work of history... Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly...