History - Paperback (New, Remainder)

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Author: Richard B. Frank Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Douglas MacArthur is best remembered for his ability to adapt, a quality that catalyzed his greatest accomplishments. Adaptability...

Author: Laurence Louer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A compelling history of the ancient schism that continues to divide the Islamic world When Mohammed died in 632...

Author: Jeff Steel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 360 Another rip-roaring World War II history by prize-winning author Jeff Steel. Bill Adlam's hair-raising escape from Dunkirk, his dramatic commando raids...

Author: Simon Winchester Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the...

Author: Jarvis Jay Masters Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Finding freedom behind the walls of San Quentin.

Author: Fiona Sampson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Beautifully told. It is high time Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Aurora Leigh were once again household names.' - Mail on Sunday...

Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of SapiensA short history of everybody...

Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens A short history of everybody for...

Author: John Walter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 248 Based on an incredible breadth of first-hand testimony, this is a unique collection of eyewitness accounts from World War I and...

Author: Eric H. Cline Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A vivid portrait of the early years of biblical archaeology from the acclaimed author of 1177 B.C.: The...

Author: Tom Holland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 'If great books encourage you to look at the world in an entirely new way, then Dominion is a very great...

Author: Jonathan Ree Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 768 An ambitious new history of philosophy in English that broadens the canon to include many lesser-known figures "[This] lively chronicle of...

Author: Sean Connolly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 ON EVERY TIDE is a wide-ranging and challenging reassessment of the Irish diaspora. Drawing on the latest ground-breaking research, and his...

Author: John S Harrel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The war of 337-363 (which the author dubs the Nisibis War), was an exception to the traditional Roman reliance on...

Author: Michael Taylor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 A teenage king in 223 BC, Antiochus III inherited an empire in shambles, ravaged by civil strife and eroded by territorial...

Author: Peniel Joseph Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense versus nonviolence, Black Power versus civil rights,...

Author: David Halberstam Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 736 "In a grand gesture of reclamation and remembrance, Mr. Halberstam has brought the war back home."---The New York Times David Halberstam's...

Author: Max Hastings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings 'the heart-stopping story of the missile...

Author: Philip Jowett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 This volume in the Images of War series is the first photographic history of the Chinese Civil War, fought between Chiang...

Author: Tom Holland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared...

'Pacy, witty and authoritative' Jonathan Freedland 'In her hands, ancient history becomes a vivid avenue of approach to a burning modern-world concern... a powerful and important book' Daily Telegraph A...

Author: Max Hastings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 The Sunday Times bestseller 'One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by...

Author: Eileen Atkins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Will She Do? is the story of a girl from a council estate in Tottenham, born in 1934 to an electric-meter...

Author: Cathy Glass Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Damian longs for home, but one man stands in his way ... Damian is just seven when he is taken in...

Author: Professor Margaret Cox, PhD Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 200 This is the extraordinary story of the engagement between 250 young Australians, who enlisted in 1915 and died in...

Author: Harold Dellinger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 In movies, stage plays, short stories, novels, newspaper articles, poems, and songs, literally hundreds of accomplished authors have been drawn toward...

Author: Helen Macdonald Format: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 320 **WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR****WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION****WINNER OF THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE TRANGER**'Dazzling....

Author: Jon Wilson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 The popular image of the British Raj-an era of efficient but officious governors, sycophantic local functionaries, doting amahs, blisteringly hot days...

Author: Thomas Travisano Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 1 An illuminating new biography of one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop's friend James...

Author: Mark Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Leigh and Jason are inseparable. But when Jason is conscripted and sent to fight in Vietnam, they are divided...

Author: Russell K. Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 436 Making use of personal correspondence official documents, contemporary newspaper articles and eye witness narratives, the book includes details of Walker's...

Author: Amira Keidar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A little girl is smuggled out of a Jewish ghetto by two courageous women. Holocaust Child is an inspirational story of...

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,...

Author: Robert Lyman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 1941. Before Montgomery's victory at El Alamein and the American entry into the war, Britain and her Empire stood...

Author: Jonathan Clements Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 This fascinating book tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a...

Author: David Sedaris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 What could be a more tempting Christmas gift than a compendium of David Sedaris's best stories, selected by the author himself?...

Author: Suleika Dawson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A Telegraph Book to Read for Autumn 2022 A Times Best Non-fiction Book for Autumn 2022 A Daily Mail Book of...

Author: J R Moehringer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 NOW A MAJOR FILM DIRECTED BY GEORGE CLOONEY AND STARRING BEN AFFLECK 'Highly entertaining . . . constructed as skilfully...

Author: Luis J Rodriguez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East...

Author: Richard J. Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Renowned historian Richard Evans puts 'fake news' in historical perspective in this challenging and illuminating study The idea...

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....

Author: Alex Rowson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a...

Author: Tracey Borman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 September 1613. In Belvoir Castle, the heir of one of EnglandÕs great noble families falls suddenly and dangerously ill. His body...

Author: Denny Neave Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A collection of stories that are entertaining, emotional and humorous, Soldiers' Tale is a wonderful tribute to the Aussie digger. Australian...

Author: Alina Chan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Understanding how Covid-19 started is more important than we know for the future of humankind. Determining whether the virus...

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Author: Cheryl Strayed (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's rapid death from...