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The King Maker: The Man Who Saved George VI
Louis Greig, a war hero and rugby international, entered the privileged world of the British royal family as mentor, physician and friend to a young and hesitant Prince Albert, the...
Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century
From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naif getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel city.Simon Kuper has experienced Paris both as...
The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial [...]
FROM THE WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE and author of EAST WEST STREETTHE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Should be read by anyone who cares about justice, humanity and human...
Canoes
Seven interconnected stories orbit a central novella to create a collection of tales which resonate with the sound of women's voices.A widower struggles to erase his wife's voice from his...
Final Verdict: A Holocaust Trial in the Twenty-first Century
'[A] gripping and fascinating book' JAMES HOLLAND, DAILY TELEGRAPH, 5* review'A brilliant book . . . timely . . . gripping' RACHEL COOKE, OBSERVER'A thrilling read ' PHILIPPE SANDS, author...
The Norman Fate 1100-1154
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Author: Douglas, David C.Binding: HardbackPublished: Eyre Methuen, 1976Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the impact and legacy of the Norman conquest in England during the...
ECHOES OF A THOUSAND YEAR VOYAGE
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Author: Vila Jato, DoloresBinding: HardbackPublished: Paradores de Turismo de España, 1997Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book takes readers on a captivating journey through time, exploring the...
A Dancer in Wartime: The touching true story of a young girl's journey from the Blitz to the Bright Lights
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Mary Robinson: The Authorised Biography
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Nothing For Tears
Towards the end of the Second World War, Lali Horstmann and her husband Freddy, a retired diplomat and art collector, were living at Kerzendorf, an elegant eighteenth-century house with a...
Conflict in the Crimea: British Redcoats on Russian Soil
The author relies to a great extent on contemporary accounts of a large number of British men and women who were unwittingly caught up in this appalling war. As well...
A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair
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The Unsettling of Europe: How Migration Reshaped a Continent
An acclaimed historian examines postwar migration's fundamental role in shaping modern Europe Migration is perhaps the most pressing issue of our time, and it has completely decentered European politics in...
Brutus: Caesar's Assassin
Although Marcus Junius Brutus is one of the most famous, or infamous, conspirators of Rome and the ancient world, if not of all time, knowledge of this historical figure has...
Thucydides and the Idea of History
From the eighteenth century onwards, the ancient Greek writer Thucydides (c 460 - c 395 BCE) was viewed as the most important classical historian. He was acclaimed not only as...
Britain in the Age of Arthur: A Military History
King Arthur is one of the most controversial topics of early British history. Are the legends based on a real historical figure or pure mythological invention? Ilkka Syvanne's study breaks...
Crisis Among the Great Powers: The Concert of Europe and the [...]
In 1840, conflict within the Ottoman Empire gave rise to a serious all-European crisis which led to a diplomatic rupture between France and other Great Powers. The crisis was given...
The Reign - Life in Elizabeth's Britain: Part I: The Way It Was, [...]
She came to the throne in 1952 when Britain had a far-flung empire, sweets were rationed, mums stayed home and kids played on bombsites. Seventy years on, everything has changed...
Murder During the Hundred Year War: The Curious Case of Sir [...]
In 1375, Sir William Cantilupe was found murdered in a field outside of a village in Lincolnshire. As the case progressed, fifteen members of his household were indicted for murder,...
1918: The Last Act
By 1918, after three years of war, Europe was weary of the stalemate and the terrible slaughter on the Western Front. The Russian Front had collapsed but the United States...
Rome's Sicilian Slave Wars: The Revolts of Eunus and Salvius, [...]
In 136 BC, in Sicily (which was then a Roman province), some four hundred slaves of Syrian origin rebelled against their masters and seized the city of Henna with much...
Cromwell's Convicts: The Death March from Dunbar 1650
On 3 September 1650 Oliver Cromwell won a decisive victory over the Scottish Covenanters at the Battle of Dunbar - a victory that is often regarded as his finest hour...
1815: Regency Britain in the Year of Waterloo
1815 was the year of Waterloo, the British victory that ended Napoleon's European ambitions and ushered in a century of peace for Britain. But what sort of country were Wellington's...
The Mirror of Venus: Women in Roman Art
Though images of women were ubiquitous in the Roman world, these were seldom intended to be taken simply at face value. The importance of marriage, motherhood and political stability was...
Romans and Barbarians
A study of the clash between the Roman Empire and the barbarians beyond its imperial frontiers from the viewpoints of four of the major ethic groups on the borders of...
Thucydides: An Introduction for the Common Reader
This book is a concise, readable introduction to the Greek author Thucydides, who is widely regarded as one of the foremost historians of all time. Why does Thucydides continue to...
Hannibal's Road: The Second Punic War in Italy 213-203 BC
Many books have been written on the Second Punic War and Hannibal in particular but few give much space to his campaigns in the years from 213 203 BC. Most...
Fortress Britain: All the Invasions and Incursions since 1066
As Stuart Laycock's book All the Countries We've Ever Invaded: and the Few We Never got Round to shows, the British have not been backward in coming forward when it...
Design in Italia: The Making of an Industry / Dietro Le Quinte [...]
The modern and contemporary furnishing industry of Italy represents a unique paradigm, on account of its industrial design production created by the most important international architects and designers of the...
Contested Frontiers in the Balkans: Ottoman and Habsburg [...]
From the Holy Roman Empire and the Ottomans to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Russia, Eastern Europe has been a battleground between the East and the West and a region of...
Jonathan Swift: The Irish Identity
Jonathan Swift was internationally acclaimed in his own time for "Gulliver's Travels" and other satires in verse and prose. In his native Ireland, however, he was most fervently admired as...
The Last Days of the High Seas Fleet: From Mutiny to Scapa Flow
On 21 June 1919 the ships of the German High Seas Fleet - interned at Scapa Flow since the Armistice - began to founder, taking their British custodians completely by...
A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Late Medieval, [...]
The period 1300-1600 CE was one of intense and far-reaching emotional realignments in European culture. New desires and developments in politics, religion, philosophy, the arts and literature fundamentally changed emotional...
Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine's Confessions
Author: Kate Cooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 FINALIST: THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2023 The vibrant and surprising lives of the women in Augustine's Confessions While many know of...
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a [...]
'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer Read this prize-winning historian's "immersive" ( New York Times) account of the...
A Short History of Russia's First Civil War: The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty
Upon publication in 2001, Russia's First Civil War by Chester Dunning was greeted by scholars as a "historical tour de force," the first major post-Marxist reassessment of the Time of...
Men-of-War: Life in Nelson's Navy
Out of print for many years, this is a brand new edition of the definitive companion to the acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series of novels, written by the author himself. What was...
Fascism and Theatre: Comparative Studies on the Aesthetics and Politics of Performance in Europe, 1925-1945
Since the 1920s, an endless flow of studies has analyzed the political systems of fascism, theseizure of power, the nature of the regimes, the atrocities committed, and, finally, the wars...
Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine's Confessions
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Author: Kate Cooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 FINALIST: THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2023 The vibrant and surprising lives of the women in Augustine's Confessions While many know of...
North by Shakespeare: A Rogue Scholar's Quest for the Truth Behind the Bard's Work
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Author: Michael Blanding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The true story of a self-taught sleuth's quest to prove his eye-opening theory about the source of the world's most famous...
Lancastrian Kings and Lollard Knights
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Author: K.B. McFarlane Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 261 This book was originally a series of lectures by McFarlane, which were prepared by G. L. Harriss for book format ....
The Greatest Generation
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On the Duckboards: Experiences of the Other Side of War
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Wellington and the Siege of San Sebastian, 1813
Bruce Collins's in-depth reassessment of the Duke of Wellington's siege of San Sebastian during the Peninsular War is a fascinating reconstruction of one of the most challenging siege operations Wellington's...
Amiens 1918: From Disaster to Victory
Gregory Blaxland has written a superb account of 1918, the final year of the war when the balance of advantage between the combatants changed so dramatically in a matter of...
Kingmakers: How Power in England Was Won and Lost on the Welsh Frontier
Decentralisation and outsourcing are not new to British history. In medieval England the practical limitations of the reach of the Crown forced the king and the government to entrust some...
The 19th Century Criminal Underworld
Take a walk on the dark side of the street in this unique exploration of the fears and desires at the heart of the British Empire, from the Regency dandy's...
Fighting for the Faith: the Many Fronts of Crusade and Jihad 1000-1500ad
Fighting between Christians and Muslims in the medieval period is often seen in the narrow context of the battle for the Holy Land. Other points of conflict tend to be...