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Author: John Grehan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 287 Officers led and men followed; all were expected to do their duty without thought of reward. Enlisted men rarely penetrated the...
Go Spy the Land: Being the Adventures of Ik8 of the British Secret Service
Author: George Alexander Hill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The latest in Biteback's best-selling Dialogue Espionage Classics series of rediscovered spy masterpieces, Go Spy the Land is George Alexander...
The Borgias
Author: Christopher Hibbert Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. The powerful, voracious Rodrigo...
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....
The Sky Wept Fire: My Life as a Chechen Freedom Fighter
Author: Mikail Eldin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 On the eve of the first Chechen war, Mikail Eldin was a young and naive arts journalist. By the end of...
Revolution: The History of England Volume IV
Author: Peter Ackroyd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England begins in 1688 with a revolution and ends in 1815 with...
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...
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 White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I's Dream
Author: Charles Spencer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'As gripping as any thriller. History doesn't get any better than this' BILL BRYSON 'A brilliant...
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...
Endgame
Author: Omid Scobie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The explosive new book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the international blockbuster Finding Freedom, Endgame a penetrating...
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...
The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England's Last Literary Salon
Author: Simon Fenwick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 In 1945, Eddy Sackville-West, Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Eardley Knollys - writers for the New Statesman and a National Trust administrator -...
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,...
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,...
Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco's Spain
Author: Paul Preston Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is...
A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History
Author: Edward Wilson-Lee Format: Hardback 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...
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...
The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War
Author: Philip Oltermann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'Engrossing.' -Observer 'Remarkable.' - The Times 'Magnificent.'- Phillipe Sands 'Gripping.'- Literary Review 'A history so outlandish and unlikely that you feel...
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....
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,...
After the Fall: Crisis, Recovery and the Making of a New Spain
Author: Tobias Buck Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Tobias Buck arrived in Madrid in December 2012, in time to celebrate the bleakest Christmas the city had seen in a...
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...
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 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...
What I Saw: Reports From Berlin 1920-33
Author: Joseph Roth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 In 1920, Joseph Roth, the most renowned German correspondent of his age, arrived in Berlin, the capital of the Weimar Republic....
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...