History

This is an examination of those women in history that have both ruled and led in war. From Boadicea to Margaret Thatcher, the author compares and contrasts the various styles...

Brings to life the tragic history of the Jews and their Christianized descendants in Spain, as well as the machinations of Ferdinand & Isabella. A landmark work presenting the full...

This is the second, and extensively revised, edition of the first full-scale scholarly study of what is arguably the only fully-formed religion that England has ever given the world: that...

Covering the classic era of sailing ship warfare from the early-18th century to the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, this text reveals how ships were built, sailed and fought in the...

"Lost at Sea" features the incredible stories of eight ships and their passengers, some of which vanished with hardly a trace - or no trace at all. Veteran history and...

E.H. Carr (1892 1982) was born into security but lived a life of controversy. Attacked for appeasing both Hitler and Stalin, he was not only one of the most productive...

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'Engrossing.' -Observer 'Remarkable.' - The Times 'Magnificent.' - Phillipe Sands 'Gripping.' - Literary Review 'A history so outlandish and unlikely that you feel it must be true . . .[A]...

Oskar Schindler, Raoul Wallenberg and Mies Giep- these are names that most of us recognize. What is less well known is the story of the thousands of other ordinary non-Jews...

From the Battle of Hastings to the tragedy of Gallipoli, Battlefield Detectives covers nearly a thousand years of battles. This book looks at seven of the most famous battlefields in...

The most engaging, surprising and revealing look at the Beatles story you'll read. Everyone knows a Beatles tune. But their story goes beyond the omnipresent songs and iconic albums. Theirs...

The moving story of the life and work of novelist Virginia Woolf, revealed through her own letters to those closest to her. Virginia Woolf is considered by many to be...

The true story of one football club's astonishing return to the top Featuring exclusive interviews with Jack Grealish, John McGinn, Ollie Watkins, Tyrone Mings and Ezri Konsa, along with many...

Ngarta and Jukuna lived in the Great Sandy Desert. They traversed country according to the seasons, just as the Walmajarri people had done for thousands of years. But it was...

** Shortlisted for WA Premier's Prize for Book of the Year 2023 ** '... you need an organisation like the KLC to be your shield and spear, to be able...

The book titled The Routes of English by the author Simon Elmes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Out of the Desert is a compelling collection of stories, art and photographs from the Walmajarri people of the Great Sandy Desert, in north western Australia. It tells of their...

This volume continues to use the approach of previous "Chronicles" and details the events of the war from September 1939 to August 1945, week by week and even hour by...

At a time when political, environmental and social gloom can seem overpowering, this remarkable work offers a lucid, affirmative and well-argued case for hope. This exquisite work traces a history...

The book titled The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth Century History by the author Alan Palmer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'Irresistibly fascinating' MARIE CLAIRE GREECE 'Essential' VICTORIA HISLOP 'Brilliantly conceived' PAUL CARTLEDGE An enormous bestseller in Greece, this is a bold, witty retelling of the story of Ancient Greece by...

From Scott's ill-fated expedition to the Antarctic, through successive attempts on Everest from Shipton in the 1930s through to Hillary's successful climb in 1953, and on through the conquest of...

The book titled The Experience of World War II by the author John Campbell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A riveting social and medical history of madness in America, from the seventeenth century to today. . In Mad in America, medical journalist Robert Whitaker reveals an astounding truth: Schizophrenics...

In hisNew York Times bestseller, National Magazine Award-winning journalist Eric Schlosser charts the fast food industry's enormous impact on our health, landscape, economy, politics and culture as he transforms the...

Shortlisted for the Andre Simon Food & Drink Book Award An intoxicating interconnected history of booze and medicine, from one of the world's foremost cocktail writers. Consider the Negroni. The...

'Andrew Martin is a railway wizard' Telegraph 'Leaves you with renewed confidence that trains can still be the most civilised way to travel' Financial Times Throughout the twentieth century, the...

There's nowhere quite like Piccadilly Circus. From the moment they emerge, blinking from the underground station, visitors to Piccadilly Circus face a sensory onslaught. Its streets and alleyways merge into...

Alicia Suskin Ostriker's passionate voice has long been acknowledged as a vital force in American poetry. From urgent spiritual quest to biting political satire, from elegy to comedy, from celebration...

The 6 February 1998 marks the 40th anniversary of the Munich air disaster. Twenty three people died as the plane carrying Manchester United home from a Euopean Cup tie crashed...

The 'Grosvenor' was one of the finest East Indiamen of her day, a grand three-masted square-rigger of 741 tons bristling with 26 cannon. When she ran aground on the treacherous...

A rich and vivid history of Britain's second city through the people who made it WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY ANDY BURNHAM, MAYOR OF GREATER MANCHESTER 'What Manchester thinks today,...

A vital history from the award-winning Financial Times journalist Philip Stephens on the dramatic century since the Anglo-Irish Treaty and partition. These Divided Isles tells the story from both sides...

'I suppose this is what people call seeing history in the making .' Madrid in the Spanish Civil War Prague during the Munich crisis Berlin the day Germany invaded Poland...

The final, previously unpublished volume of one of the twentieth century's seminal works Foucault's History of Sexuality changed the way we think about power, selfhood and sexuality. In this fourth...

From a wealth of vivid autobiographical writings, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie reconstructs the extraordinary life of Thomas Platter and the lives of his sons. With masterful erudition, Le Roy Ladurie...

"Petrified Life" tells the stories of the fossil discoveries that unlocked the secrets of the past. Told in the order of discovery, the stories take you on an archaeological journey....

"A pioneering member of the Windrush generation of Caribbean migrants who marked the symbolic beginning of a multicultural Britain." - The Guardian RAF Veteran and Prince's Trust Awardee, Alford Dalrymple...

Sparta - its legendary warriors and steadfast resilience are famous throughout the world as a model for toughness, justice and masculinity. The Spartans' reputation as fighters is matched only by...

'Enthralling' Philip Ball 'Ingenious' Sujit Sivasundaram In Tracks on the Ocean , Sara Caputo tells how our journeys around the globe became fixed lines on maps - and how journey...

Beginning with the disastrous Norwegian Campaign, it takes in the numerous attacks on the bustling German submarine base at Lorient, the attack on Brest, as well as many other pivotal...

Guy Fawkes, born in York in 1570, is one of the key figures in British history, taking a central role in a plot that would have destroyed the ruling class...

Featuring 25 remarkable and inspiring female friendships throughout history, Bosom Buddies is an illustrated celebration of these empowering relationships. From the formidable Trung Sisters, to friendly rivals Katherine Mansfield and...

Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow history of creative vanity in a time that turned...

AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 WOMAN'S HOUR ' Captivating ... a brilliant many-layered social history of women's ambition and a rapidly changing New York' Observer 'A fascinating look at a...