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Victory in Defeat: The Wake Island Defenders in Captivity
Author: Gregory J. W. Urwin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Told here for the first time in vivid detail is the story of the defenders of Wake Island following...
Ingenium: Five Machines That Changed the World
Author: Mark Denny Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 200 Ingenium is medieval English vernacular for "an ingenious contrivance." In this fascinating book, physicist Mark Denny considers five such contrivances-the bow...
The South Irish Horse in the Great War
Author: Mark Perry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 211 On 12 June 1922 King George V received at Windsor Castle representatives of the six disbanded Irish regiments. While five had...
Rebellion Against Henry III: The Disinherited Montfortians, 1265-1274
Author: David Pilling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The 'Montfortian' civil wars in England lasted from 1259-67, though the death of Simon de Montfort and so many of his...
Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding
Author: Joanna Wolfarth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 When Joanna Wolfarth was pregnant with her first child, she assumed she would breastfeed, as her mother had fed her. Yet...
The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives
Author: Jude Rogers Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Too often we treat popular music as wallpaper surrounding us as we live our lives. Jude Rogers shows the emotional and...
Artists' Lives
Author: Michael Peppiatt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Engaging encounters, personal anecdotes and jargon-free critical insights into some of the liveliest creative minds in modern art, by an international...
A Brave and Cunning Prince: The Great Chief Opechancanough and the War for America
Author: James Horn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In the mid-sixteenth century, Spanish explorers in the Chesapeake region kidnapped an Indian teenager and took him back to Spain, a...
Flashes of Creation: George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang Debate
Author: Paul Halpern Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 In the past decade, Paul Halpern has brought readers three stunning histories of science -- Einstein's Dice and Schroedinger's Cats, The...
Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
Author: Michela Wrong Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 A powerful investigation into a grisly political murder and the authoritarian regime behind it: Do Not Disturb upends the narrative that...
Mr Horniman's Walrus: Legacies of a Remarkable Victorian Family
Author: Clare Paterson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Family patriarch John Horniman established the tea company that bore his name in 1826, which went on to become one of...
Oh, What a Lovely Century: One man's marvellous adventures in love, war and high society
Author: Roderic Fenwick Owen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A completely extraordinary autobiography. One that reads like the most outlandish, beguiling fiction but...
Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes
Author: Barnaby Phillips Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 "In 1897, Britain responded to the killing of a group of officials by razing an empire to the ground. The men...
The Crown in Crisis: Countdown to the Abdication
Author: Alexander Larman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In December 1936, Britain faced a constitutional crisis that was the gravest threat to the institution of the monarchy since the...
Living in the Sound of the Wind: A Life of W.H. Hudson Naturalist and Writer from the River Plate
Author: Jason Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 W. H. Hudson was brought up on the pampas, where he learnt from gauchos about frontier life. After moving to London...
The Times The Queen and the Commonwealth: Celebrating seven decades of royal state visits
Author: James Owen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Our most travelled monarch covered well over 1,000,000 miles and visited 117 countries during her reign. From New Zealand to Barbados,...
Kidnapped by the Junta: Inside Argentina's Wars with Britain and Itself
Author: Julian Manyon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 On 12 May 1982 as the Falklands conflict became a shooting war, ITN journalist Julian Manyon and his TV crew were...
Rilke: The Last Inward Man
Author: Lesley Chamberlain Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 When Rilke died in 1926, his reputation as a great poet seemed secure. But as the tide of the critical avant-garde...
My Life in Full: Work, Family and Our Future
Author: Indra Nooyi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'A must-read for working women and the men who work with us, love us and support us' Hillary Rodham Clinton 'Surprising...
White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain's Legacy of Slavery
Author: Thomas Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 When Thomas Harding discovered that his mother's family had made money from plantations worked by enslaved people, what began as an...
When Marilyn Met the Queen: Marilyn Monroe's Life in England
Author: Michelle Morgan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'England? It seemed to be raining the whole time . . . Or maybe it was me' MARILYN MONROE In July...
On a Pedestal: A Trip around Britain's Statues
Author: Roger Lytollis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 This is a book for people who are interested in statues . . . and for people who aren't. It explores...
Prisoners of War: From Gallipoli to Korea
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An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of caring and everyday acts of love
Author: Kate Mosse Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 A deeply moving story of what it means to care for those we love, a celebration of older people and ageing,...
The House Party: A Short History of Leisure, Pleasure and the Country House Weekend
Author: Adrian Tinniswood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 The House Party explores privilege and leisure from the viewpoint of the guest and the host, showing us what it was...
Jobs for the Girls: How We Set Out to Work in the Typewriter Age
Author: Ysenda Maxtone Graham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A unique take on women's history from the bestselling author of British Summer Time Begins 'Witty, clever and warm-hearted' The...
100 Books that Changed the World
Author: Scott Christianson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A chronological survey of the world's most influential books. Many books have become classics, must-reads or overnight publishing sensations, but how...
Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton, Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel
Author: Benjamin Wardhaugh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 August, 1755. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne. In the fields, men and women are getting the harvest in....
The Joshua Generation: Israeli Occupation and the Bible
Author: Rachel Havrelock Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 How a controversial biblical tale of conquest and genocide became a founding story of modern Israel No biblical text has been...
Wordwatching: Field Notes from an Amateur Philologist
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The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem
Author: Matthew Hollis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 The Waste Land is said to be the greatest poem of the age. It is thought to describe the moral decay...
Macarthur at War: World War II in the Pacific
Author: Walter R. Borneman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 World War II changed the course of history. Douglas MacArthur changed the course of World War II. MACARTHUR AT WAR...
Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast
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Author: Joan Dejean Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The secret history of the rebellious Frenchwomen who were exiled to colonial Louisiana and found power in the Mississippi Valley In...
Making Darkness Light: A Life of John Milton
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Author: Joe Moshenska Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 An innovative and elegant new biography of John Milton from an acclaimed Oxford professor John Milton was once essential reading for...
A Biased Memoir
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The Colour of God: A Story of Family and Faith
Author: Ayesha S. Chaudhry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "At the age of twenty-three, Ayesha removed her face veil to begin her studies in New York City. Braiding together...
Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War
Author: Matthew Avery Sutton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 What makes a good missionary makes a good American spy, or so thought Office of Special Services (OSS) founder "Wild"...
The Little Book of Kings & Queens: A Jewelled Collection of Royal Wit & Wisdom
Author: Orange Hippo! Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Kings and Queens are monarchs and are still present in many countries around the world, thousands of years after the first...
A Grand Tour of the Roman Empire by Marcus Sidonius Falx
Author: Dr. Jerry Toner (Fellow Teacher and Director of Studies in Classics) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Tour the Roman Empire at its height with Marcus Sidonius Falx and...
Soar: A Life Freed by Dance
Author: David McAllister Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'McAllister's triumphant story.' Benjamin Law 'A ripping memoir.' Jane Turner From the backblocks of Perth to international stardom, this is a...
Our History of the 20th Century: As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters
Author: Travis Elborough Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first...
A History of Love and Hate in 21 Statues
Author: Peter Hughes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A timely history of the world spanning every continent, religion and era, told through the creation and destruction of 21 Statues....
The Hidden History of America at War: Untold Tales from Yorktown to Fallujah
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Author: Kenneth C Davis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Multi-million-copy bestselling historian Kenneth C. Davis sets his sights on war stories in The Hidden History of America at War....
Hitler's Last Hostages: Looted Art and the Soul of the Third Reich
Author: Mary M. Lane Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The story of art is integral to the story of the rise of Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler, an artist himself,...
English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (Excluding Drama)
Author: C. S. Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 752 C. S. Lewis offers a magisterial take on the literature and poetry of one of the most consequential periods in...
His Masterly Pen: A Biography of Jefferson the Writer
Author: Fred Kaplan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 672 As he did for Abraham Lincoln and John Quincy Adams, award-winning biographer Fred Kaplan offers a fresh, illuminating look at the...
Mediterranean Naval Battles That Changed the World
Author: Quentin Russell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Focusing on seven decisive naval engagements from the Greek defeat of the Persians at Salamis in the fifth century BC to...
Good for a Girl: My Life Running in a Man's World - Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award and a New York Times bestseller
Author: Lauren Fleshman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Women's sports have needed a...