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Kathleen Lonsdale was a groundbreaking chemist who was instrumental in developing the science of crystallography. She was also a midlife convert to Quakerism who campaigned for peace and prison reform....

Palestinian Aziz Abu Sarah and Israeli Maoz Inon are unlikely peacemakers, dedicated to finding a solution to the bitter war that has decimated historical, ancient land and ended family lines....

Female kings have always been a rarity, an oddity, or an undesirable outcome. In almost all places on the globe a male ruler was preferred to a woman, with female...

A comprehensive guide to the aces of the British Empire fighting scout units during World War I. It gives biographies of 800 British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, South African and...

A state-of-the-field survey of historical sociology, Remaking Modernity highlights the resurgence in historical inquiry underway right now, assesses the field's past accomplishments, and peers into the future, delineating changes to...

This book discusses generals: who they are, what they do, and how they do it affects the world in which we live. It argues that generalship is a cultural activity....

The book titled Works of Man: From Ancient Times to the Present Day by the author Ronald W. Clark. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

'Captures moments in time like nothing else.' RICHARD E. GRANT 'Intimate . . . and rarely predictable.' MICHAEL PALIN 'Completely fascinating and inspiring. Completely addictive.' STEPHEN FRY 'A volume to...

Judged by contemporaries to be a 'perfidious rogue', Sir George Downing rose to prominence during the English Civil War as Oliver Cromwell's chief of military intelligence. In the Interregnum he...

Poised between earth and heaven, the material and the spiritual, burial places are amongst the most important sites ever built. Man is the only animal that knows it is going...

The First World War was a conflict in which personality and character mattered. Its course and outcome were decided by determined individuals who had to make momentous decisions in very...

In this remarkably wide-ranging book Professor Lowenthal analyses the ever-changing role of the past in shaping our lives. A heritage at once nurturing and burdensome, the past allows us to...

The book titled From Merciless Invaders by the author Alexander McKee. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

On September 28, 480, the Athenian navy destroyed the Persian invasion fleet in the Bay of Salamis. Had the Persians won, such noted figures as Plato, Aristotle, and Alexander along...

Which countries were under a dictatorship? Where did the Beatles perform live outside the UK? Where were atomic bombs tested? Which nations boycotted the 1966 World Cup? What was the...

Judged by contemporaries to be a 'perfidious rogue', Sir George Downing rose to prominence during the English Civil War as Oliver Cromwell's chief of military intelligence. In the Interregnum he...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * This "excellent, all-embracing" ( The New York Times ) biography of Queen Elizabeth II is a magisterial study of the woman known only from a...

Here is an eyewitness account of the six years of turbulent change from the Soviet Union to Russia. Jonathan Steele's three decades as a journalist covering that eternal nation have...

The book titled Power & Privilege:Russia & the Soviet Union in the Nineteenth & by the author David Christian. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

What would the world now look like if the historical events we are all so familiar with had turned out completely differently? What if Britain had stayed out of the...

In the twelfth century Joachim of Fiore (c.1132-1202) developed a powerful and original theology of history. In the twentieth century, particularly after the Second World War, much interest was focused...

Journalist Osmar White's gripping story of the Australian and American forces' struggle against the Japanese invasion of New Guinea in 1942-43 is stark, vivid, chilling. White is true to his...

'A wonderfully curious writer' OBSERVER 'This is a book that reshapes our story of global human geography' PROFESSOR DANNY DORLING Mountains, meridians, rivers and borders; these are some of the...

Where can you find first-hand accounts of the Arab Spring, Japan's nuclear disaster or the Norwegian atrocities? Thousands flouting celebrity superinjunctions? X-rated snaps of politicians? A babysitter mistaken for a...

Which are the finest aircraft ever to have flown? The finest military aircraft, the finest airliners, the finest planes of today, and yesterday? This book answers these questions comprehensively, and...

Chase Robinson's book is a timely introduction to Islamic historiography, from its origins in the seventh and eighth centuries to the fifteenth century. It covers the rise of the tradition,...

The story of thirteen modern Empires, a story full of suspense, cruelty, conflict, heroism, great explorations and extraordinary feats of endurance, is here told with a rich profusion of illustrations...

The book titled Lifting the Veil: British Society Along the Nile, 1768-1956 by the author Anthony Sattin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

An eminent historian offers rare insight into his craft and the way it has changed over his lifetime From the vantage point of nearly sixty years devoted to research and...

The book titled Romans and Barbarians by the author Derek Williams. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Instant New York Times Bestseller "A masterwork. ... O'Connor answers every question, deftly and deeply, that we've had about the most controversial person in America's biggest game." -Peter King Four-time...

An uproarious, illuminating trek through contested history, from the creator of the hit podcast and TV series. Plt;iPgt;In the days of the British Empire, things were taken that probably shouldnP#8217;t...

In 1832, the British government sent 400 young single women to Sydney and Hobart to balance the male-dominated societies. Viewed as a colourful butterflies alighting on the antipodean shores, the...

The book titled D-Day: From the Normandy Beaches to the Liberation of France by the author Stephen Badsey. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Aeronautics wrote the Russian aviation pioneeer Igor Sikorsky, was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle. The miracle was achieved a hundred times over by the audacious...

This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it...

The book titled War in the Shadows by the author Peter Medcalf. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Monty, a Life in Photographs: Family, Life and Times of Field Marshal by the author Brian Montgomery. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

The book titled Life in World War II by the author Philip B. Kunhardt. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

"A first-class popular history of the war, lively, entertaining, and continuously informative."--"Publishers Weekly" "His ability to recreate the emotions of war makes this monumental work a living history."--"Booklist"

The book titled Monty: The Lonely Leader 1944-1945 by the author Alistair Horne. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Thanks for the Memory: Unforgettable Characters in Air Warfare, by the author Laddie Lucas. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

A riveting, deeply researched, blood-on-the-spurs biography of Belle Starr, the most legendary female outlaw of the American West. On February 3, 1889, just two days shy of her forty-first birthday,...

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Waterstones Best Nature & Travel Writing Book 2025 'Educational, smart and funny' Richard Osman 'This book is superb' Charlie Brooker 'Brilliant. Fascinating. Hilarious.' Jonn Elledge,...

The book titled Behind Barbed Wire: Internment in Australia during World War II: by the author Margaret Bevege. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...