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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...
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...
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...
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 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...
All the Wide Border: Wales, England and the Places Between
Author: Mike Parker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A Waterstones Travel Book of the Year 2023 A funny, warm and timely meditation on identity and belonging, following the scenic...
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...
Frederick Douglass
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The Puzzles of Childhood: His Early Life
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The Russian Concubine: 'Wonderful . . . hugely ambitious and atmospheric' Kate Mosse
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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...
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Author: J. D. Vance Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Waterstones Nonfiction Book of the Month (June) 'THE POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR' Sunday Times 'You...
My Old Man: A Personal History of Music Hall
Author: John Major Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The former Prime Minister takes a remarkable journey into his family past to tell the richly colourful story of the British...
At Home: Special Illustrated Edition: A Short History of Private Life
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Possession: Batman's Treaty and the Matter of History
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Aboriginal Affairs: a Brief History: A Short History, 1788-1995
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Time Detectives: How Archeologists Use Technology to Recapture the Past
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The Black Hole: Money, Myth and Empire
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Landscape and Memory
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Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties
Author: David de Jong Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Lucid and damning ... an absorbing - and infuriating - tale of complicity, coverup and denial' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, author...
Russia: Myths and Realities
Author: Sir Rodric Braithwaite Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Russia is the largest country in the world, with the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons. Over a thousand years this...
Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World, a 10,000 Year History
Author: Ian Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 Geography is Destiny tells the history of Britain and its changing relationships with Europe and the wider world, from its physical...
New Rome: The Roman Empire in the East, AD 395 - 700 - Longlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic Runciman Award
Author: Paul Stephenson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Long before Rome fell to the Ostrogoths in AD 476, a new city had risen to take its place as the...
In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology
Author: Lucy Moore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In the late nineteenth century when non-European societies were seen merely as 'living fossils' offering an insight into how civilisation had...
Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector
Author: Amit Katwala Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Nominated for the CWA Dagger Award 2023 'A wonderful book' - Guardian Truth, murder and the birth of the lie detector...
Gods of War, Gods of Peace: How the Meeting of Native and Colonial Religions Shaped Early America
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A History of the Arab Peoples
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The Inextinguishable Symphony: A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany
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The Social History of the Third Reich, 1933-45
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The Queen: The Life and Times of Elizabeth II
Author: Catherine Ryan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II has reigned for 64 years, longer than any British monarch in history. During that time...
The Howard Years
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The Fighter: A True Story
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Beautiful Lies: Australia from Menzies to Howard
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Across the Seas: Australia's Response to Refugees: A History
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Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession and the Birth of the Lie Detector
Author: Amit Katwala Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Nominated for the CWA Dagger Award 2023 'A wonderful book' - Guardian Truth, murder and the birth of the lie detector...
Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco's Spain
Author: Paul Preston Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is...
Authenticity: Reclaiming Reality in a Counterfeit Culture
Author: Alice Sherwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'Wide-ranging, witty and fresh ... a stimulating read. Authentic fun' Tim Harford, Financial Times Best Summer Books 2022 'Brilliantly witty, profoundly...
Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home
Author: Benjamin Hall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An affecting, singular story...a bracing tale of life on the edge of death." -Kirkus...
Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India's Freedom
Author: Ramachandra Guha Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 WINNER OF THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY 'A narrative of startling originality ... As discussions of Britain's colonial legacy...
Guns, Germs and Steel: The MILLION-COPY bestselling history of everybody (20th Anniversary Edition)
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...
The World According to Joan Didion
Author: Evelyn McDonnell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who...
God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science
Author: James Hannam Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 The adjective 'medieval' has become a synonym for brutality and uncivilised behaviour. Yet without the work of medieval scholars there could...
Saved from the Waves: Animal Rescues of the RNLI
Author: The RNLI Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 She has to be OK, I pleaded silently to myself. She has to be. 'We've alerted the RNLI and they're sending...
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War
Author: Deborah Cohen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far 'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer Read this...
Hidden Histories: 100 Wild Stories You Never Learned in History Class
Author: Tim Rayborn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 We all know what was written in the history books. There are some stories we've heard a hundred times-but often our...
How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir
Author: Safiya Sinclair Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Dazzling. Potent. Vital' TARA WESTOVER 'To read it is to believe that words can save' MARLON JAMES 'I adored this book...
The Bone Chests: Unlocking the Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons
Author: Cat Jarman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A diligent historian and a superb writer' THE TIMES From bioarchaeologist and bestselling author...
The Courage to Be Free: Florida's Blueprint for America's Revival
Author: Ron DeSantis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 No American leader has accomplished more for his state than Governor Ron DeSantis. Now he reveals how he did it. He...