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Defying Hitler: The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule
Author: Gordon Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 "A terrifying and timely account of resistance in the face of the greatest of evils."--Alex Kershaw, New York Times bestselling author...
Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the West
Author: Tom Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been...
All the Light We Cannot See
Author: Anthony Doerr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE...
The Fall of Carthage: The Punic Wars 265-146BC
Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The struggle between Rome and Carthage in the Punic Wars was arguably the greatest and most desperate conflict of...
Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic
Author: Tom Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. What began as a small community of peasants camped...
The Global Age: Europe 1950-2017
Author: Ian Kershaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 704 The final chapter in the Penguin History of Europe series from the acclaimed scholar and author of To Hell and Back...
The Spy in Moscow Station: A Counterspy's Hunt for a Deadly Cold War Threat
Author: Eric Haseltine Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The thrilling, true story of the race to find a leak in the United States Embassy in Moscow--before more American assets...
Sicily: A Short History, from the Greeks to Cosa Nostra
Author: John Julius Norwich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'Sicily is the key to everything' Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The author of the classic book on Venice turns his...
Francis I: The Maker of Modern France
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Author: Leonie Frieda Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The bestselling author of Catherine de Medici returns to sixteenth-century Europe in this evocative and entertaining biography that recreates a remarkable...
Wood Called Bourlon: The Cover-Up After Cambrai 1917
Author: William Moore Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 After the great victory in the famous tank battle at Cambrai in 1917 the church bells, having been silent for three...
The Celts: A Sceptical History
Author: Simon Jenkins (Columnist) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The history of the Celts is the history of a misnomer. There has never been a distinct people, race or...
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
Author: Laurence Rees Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 An award-winning historian plumbs the depths of Hitler and Stalin's vicious regimes, and shows the extent to which they brutalized the...
The French Art of Not Trying Too Hard
Author: Ollivier Pourriol Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 We've often been told that anything worthwhile can only be achieved through sustained effort, hard work or 10,000 hours of practice....
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
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Author: Neil Price Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 624 The definitive history of the Vikings -- from arts and culture to politics and cosmology -- by a distinguished archaeologist with...
The Hitler Years: Disaster, 1940-1945
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Author: Frank McDonough Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 656 The Second Volume of a new chronicle of the Third Reich under Hitler's hand, ending with his death and Germany's disastrous...
Achtung Panzer!
Author: Heinz Guderian Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Published in 1937, the result of 15 years of study since his days on the German General Staff in...
Rebel in the Ranks
Author: Brad S Gregory Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 When Martin Luther published his 95 Theses in October 1517, he had no intention of starting a revolution. But very...
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,...
Age of Transition: Byzantine Culture in the Islamic World
Author: Helen C. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 In 2012 the Metropolitan Museum of Art presented Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition, a groundbreaking exhibition that...
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; -...
All Against All: The long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War
Author: Paul Jankowski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 During a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went wrong: Hitler came to power; Japan invaded Jehol...
30-Second Napoleon: The 50 fundamentals of his life, strategies, and legacy, each explained in half a minute
Author: Charles Esdaile Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Almost two centuries since his death, Napoleon Bonaparte remains the subject of vigorous debate. On one side are those...
City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire
Author: Roger Crowley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 A magisterial work of gripping history, City of Fortune tells the story of the Venetian ascent from lagoon dwellers to the...
Great Pilgrimage Sites of Europe
Author: Derry Brabbs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 An unsurpassable, visual tour of the greatest pilgrimage sites of Europe, from North to South; East to West Pilgrimage in Europe...
Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
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Author: Serhii Plokhy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A Chernobyl survivor and award-winning historian "mercilessly chronicles the absurdities of the Soviet system" in this "vividly empathetic" account of the...
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...
All the Kremlin's Men, Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin
Author, Mikhail Zygar Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 400 ALL THE KREMLIN'S MEN is a gripping narrative of an accidental king and a court out of control. Based...
Marketing Michelin: Advertising and Cultural Identity in Twentieth-Century France
Author: Stephen L. Harp (Department of History) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 376 One of the world's largest tyre makers and an international corporation with interests in countries around the...
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...
Lotharingia: A Personal History of Europe's Lost Country
Author: Simon Winder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 From the bestselling author of Germania, Lotharinigia is the third installment in Simon Winder's personal history of Europe. In 843 AD,...
The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World
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Author: Maya Jasanoff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 "Enlightening, compassionate, superb" --John Le Carre Winner of the 2018 Cundhill History Prize A New York Times Book Review Notable Book...
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...
The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War
Author: Philip Oltermann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'Liebe Mitstreiter', he says. Dear comrades in arms. Today we are going to learn about the sonnet. Berlin, 1962. Morale is...
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...
Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherland and Vichy France
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Biography, April-2021 Secondhand Author: Carmen Callil Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 607 "Bad Faith "tells the story of one of history's most despicable villains and con men--Louis Darquier de Pellepoix,...
Viking Nations
Author: Dayanna Knight Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 How was the North Atlantic settled? How did the distinct cultures of medieval Iceland and Greenland come to be? Viking Nations...
Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World
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Author: Giles Milton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 From a master of popular history, the lively, immersive story of the race to seize Berlin in the aftermath of World...
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....
Bold, Beautiful and Damned: The World of 1980s Fashion Illustrator Tony Viramontes
Author: Dean Rhys Morgan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Bold, Beautiful and Damned Dean Rhys-Morgan When Tony Viramontes' work appeared in the late 1970s, his hard and direct style...
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...
A Guide to Hitler's Munich
Author: David Mathieson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Munich is one of Europe s most enchanting cities. Exploring its narrow cobbled streets or wide sunlight boulevards with views of...
Wellington and the British Army's Indian Campaigns 1798 - 1805
Author: Martin R Howard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The Peninsular War and the Napoleonic Wars across Europe are subjects of such enduring interest that they have prompted extensive...
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...