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The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights and Plundered Ships
Author: Bella Bathurst Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 From the bestselling author of 'The Lighthouse Stevensons', a gripping history of the drama and danger of wrecking since the 18th-century...
City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York
Author: Tyler Anbinder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 By an acclaimed historian, a sweeping history of the peoples who have come to New York for four centuries: a defining...
In Search of Churchill
Author: Martin Gilbert Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Martin Gilbert began work on Winston Churchill's biography, initially as Randolph Churchill's assistant, in 1962 on his 26th birthday. By 1992...
The Blind Strategist: John Boyd and the American Art of War
Author: Stephen Robinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 360 From the acclaimed author of Panzer Commander Hermann Balck and False Flags comes an in-depth, critical evaluation of the maneuver warfare...
The Silent Day: A Landmark Oral History of D-Day on the Home Front
Author: Max Arthur Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 On 6 June 1944 Britain woke up to a profound silence. Overnight, 160,000 Allied troops had vanished and an eerie emptiness...
Shadows of ANZAC: An Intimate History of Gallipoli
Author: David Cameron Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 On 25 April 1915, with the landing of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) below the slopes of Sari...
Pastoralist Landscapes and Social Interaction in Bronze Age Eurasia
Author: Michael David Frachetti Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 232 Offering a fresh archaeological interpretation, this work reconceptualizes the Bronze Age prehistory of the vast Eurasian steppe during one of...
Castle of the Eagles: Escape from Mussolini's Colditz
Author: Mark Felton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Vincigliata Castle, a menacing medieval fortress set in the beautiful Tuscan hills, has become a very special prisoner of war camp...
Libya: From Colony to Revolution
Author: Ronald Bruce St John Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Since Qaddafi's ousting in 2011, Libya has been beset by instability and conflict. To understand the tumultuous state of...
Lost at Sea: Found at Fukushima
Author: Andy Millar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 260 On a calm, tropical afternoon in the South Atlantic Ocean in April 1942, a British tramp steamer, the SS Willesden, was...
Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul
Author: Charles King (Georgetown University) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 When the Ottoman Empire collapsed, so many spies mingled in the lobby of Istanbul's Pera Palace Hotel that the...
Accommodating the King's Hard Bargain: Military Detention in the Australian Army 1914-1947
Author: Graham Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Like all crime and punishment, military detention in the Australian Army has a long and fraught history. Accommodating The King's Hard...
Macarthur at War: World War II in the Pacific
Author: Walter R. Borneman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 608 World War II changed the course of history. Douglas MacArthur changed the course of World War II. MACARTHUR AT WAR...
The 40s: The Story of a Decade
Author: The New Yorker Magazine Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 720 This captivating anthology gathers historic New Yorker pieces from a decade of trauma and upheaval-as well as the years...
The Missing of the Somme
Author: Geoff Dyer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 The Missing of the Somme has become a classic meditation upon war and remembrance. It weaves a network of myth and...
The Queen's Speeches: Poignant and Inspirational Speeches from Queen Elizabeth II's 70-Year Reign
Author: Lucy York Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 During her 70-year reign she delivered many poignant, touching and inspirational speeches, always with a warmth and sincerity, many of which...
Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History
Author: Philippa Gregory Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 688 A NEW STATESMEN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 'A lasting work of social history' THE TIMES 'A genuinely new history of...
Mayday! Mayday!: The History of Sea Rescue Around Britain's Coastal Waters
Author: Karen Farrington Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Lifeboats occupy a particular place in people's hearts as unpaid volunteers regularly take to their boats often in extremely adverse conditions...
Churchill Island: History and Her Story
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The Days of the French Revolution
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The Puzzles of Childhood: His Early Life
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Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea
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Anti-Americanism and American Exceptionalism: Prejudice and Pride about the USA
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Ancient Australia Unearthed
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On the Horizon
Author: Lois Lowry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 From two-time Newbery medalist and living legend Lois Lowry comes a moving account of the lives lost in two of WWII's...
This Day in History: A 365-Day Tour of History's Most Fascinating, Important and Strange Facts and Figures
Author: Cider Mill Press Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Have you ever wondered what happened on your birthday hundreds of years ago This Day in History is perfect for...
Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine
Author: David Petraeus Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 'A HUGELY IMPORTANT BOOK ... ELEGANTLY WRITTEN AND PERSUASIVELY ARGUED' DAILY TELEGRAPH, FIVE-STAR REVIEW 'AN INTELLIGENT, AUTHORITATIVE, COMPELLING AND, ABOVE ALL,...
Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History
Author: Philippa Gregory Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 688 A NEW STATESMEN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 'A lasting work of social history' THE TIMES 'A genuinely new history of...
The Churchills: A Family at the Heart of History - from the Duke of Marlborough to Winston Churchill
Author: Mary S. Lovell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 There never was a Churchill from John of Marlborough down who had either morals or principles , so said Gladstone....
Mussolini in the First World War: The Journalist, the Soldier, the Fascist
Author: Dr Paul O'Brien Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 How did Benito Mussolini come to fascism? Standard accounts of the dictator have failed to explain satisfactorily the transition from...
The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History in the White House
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Author: Taylor Branch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 720 Branch interviewed President Clinton 78 times between 1993 and 2001 for roughly two hours each time. The President's side of those...
What Britain Has Done: September 1939 - 1945 a Selection of Outstanding Facts and Figures
Author: Ministry Of Information Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 The total casualties sustained by the United Kingdom up to the beginning of May, 1945, amounted to close on one...
Land and Territoriality
Author: Michael Saltman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 In the past, territorial conflict usually involved major powers seeking hegemony over strategic spaces and resources. More recently, however, the decline...
2020: World of War
Author: Paul Cornish Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The year is 2020 and civilisation is on the verge of a Third World War. Will the Russian invasion of the...
Rebel Girls: How votes for women changed Edwardian lives
Author: Jill Liddington Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Rejecting the deadening conventions of their Victorian elders, the rebel girls demanded new freedoms and new rights. They took their suffrage...
The Anglo-indians: A 500-Year History
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The Lamb Enters the Dreaming: Nathanael Pepper and the Ruptured World
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W.Shakespeare Gent., His Actual Nottebooke: Discovered and Authentickated by Graham Clarke
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Lion and Kangaroo: The Initiation of Australia
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The AMIA Bombing: Jewish Quarterly 252
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History Makers
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Columbus' Blindness
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The River
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Time Detectives: How Archeologists Use Technology to Recapture the Past
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Celestial Empire: Life in China, 1644-1911
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Atlantic Sound
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The River: The Thames in Our Time
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A Farewell to Ice: A Report from the Arctic
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