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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER *Now with a fun pub quiz* 'An idiosyncratic ride through history' Independent 'Holland and Sandbrook have pretty much reinvented popular history for the modern age' The...

A Sunday Times Bestseller We live in a time of unprecedented upheaval, with questions about the future, society, work, happiness, family and money, and yet no political party of the...

WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'A gripping and masterful portrait of the brutal court of Mao, based on new research but also written with great narrative verve' Simon Sebag...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Waterstones and TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR A SPECTATOR and History Today BOOK OF THE YEAR A revolutionary new history of the diffusion...

For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west - in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out to those...

After spontaneously hosting a birthday pub crawl through London's finest alehouses, Thomas J. Vosper was inundated with requests from friends and family to make it a regular occurrence. And so,...

This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world. Using...

A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 "A brilliant exploration of Cyprus's long history of cultural resilience. Superbly composed." -- Guardian "Poetic...Compelling" -- New Statesman One of National Geographic 's...

The resonant ruins of Pompeii are perhaps the most direct route back to the living, breathing world of the ancient Romans. Two million visitors annually now walk the paved streets...

Representations of Islam in United States Comics, 1880-1922 examines the depiction of Islam, Muslims, and the Islamic world in U.S. popular culture, particularly comics and related artifacts, between 1880 and...

How are soldiers made? Why do they fight? Re-imagining the study of armed forces and society, Barkawi examines the imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second...

Corey Mead's The Lost Pilots is the saga of two star crossed pilots who soar to the greatest heights of fame, tailspin into scandal and crime, and go the ultimate...

'Lively . . . peppered with entertaining lines. One of [Low's] skills as a journalist is an ability to sift through mountains of archive material and pick out the gems'...

The book titled Front Page History by the author Harold Evans. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Before movie screens filled the country and television screens filled our homes, entertainment had to travel to the people. The traveling tent show was a popular form of melodrama and...

In Ancient Rome all the best stories have one thing in common - murder. Romulus killed Remus to found the city; Caesar was assassinated to save the Republic. Caligula was...

This innovative study of ethics in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) explores the intense struggle to define a common morality for the emerging nation-state. In the Social Darwinist atmosphere of the time,...

Delve into this exploration of what it means to be Korean. South Korea is now an economic and technological superpower but how, as a country, did they rebound so quickly...

Long before we had the ability to photograph the earth from space - to see our planet as it would be seen by the Greek god Apollo - images of...

The way in which a society expresses grief can reveal how it views both intense emotions and public order. In thirteenth-century Italian communes, a conscious effort to change appropriate public...

"A fascinating and very original book, based on an enormous amount of primary research. Freed is a leading authority on the ministerials of the Holy Roman Empire, who kept their...

The book titled Eyewitness D-Day by the author Jon E. Lewis. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This rich and magisterial work traces Palestine's millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that stretch back to the very beginnings of recorded history. Starting with...

This is a new and frightening insight into Japanese atrocities in the Second World War. The horrific conditions aboard hellships at sea are revealed including the torture, disease and massacre...

The latest volume in the series covering the final days of the war on the Western Front from the Allied Armies being poised to capture the Hindenburg Line to the...

The book titled The War Poets: Lives and Writings of the 1914-18 War Poets by the author Robert Giddings. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

Based on thorough research, this is the story of Gallipoli as seen through the eyes of two brothers fighting on the beach and a female Australian nurse. It gives an...

The purpose of this text is to try to understand how Germany could attempt to exterminate its Jewish population during the Nazi period. Through individual stories, beginning with Moses Mendelsohn...

The book titled The Airman's War, 1914-18 by the author Peter Liddle. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled From the Cockpit: Spitfire by the author T.F. Neil. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In this account of the origins and development of the RAF, the author offers evidence of its organization, strategy and preparedness for the Battle of Britain. Drawing on the facts...

Readers interested in history, and in the development of the modern sensibility, will relish this large-scale yet intimately detailed examination of the blossoming of the ordinary and extraordinary people of...

Many westerners used to call the Soviet Union 'Russia'. Russians too regarded it as their country, but that did not mean they were entirely happy with it. In the end,...

Helen Lewis was just a child when she found an old suitcase in a cupboard under the stairs. Inside it were the most horrifying photographs--a record of the atrocities committed...

BOOK DESCRIPTION 1973. Queen Elizabeth II opened the Sydney Opera House, and is now entitled as "Queen of Australia." Young people over 18 can vote for the Federal Elections, and...

Desert Lake is a book combining artistic, scientific and Indigenous views of a striking region of north-western Australia. Paruku is the place that white people call Lake Gregory. It is...

This is a general account of the history and architecture of Crusader castles in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, County of Tripoli and Principality of Antioch between 1099 and 1291, the...

A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own This is the first volume in a bold new series that...

'A brilliantly entertaining and revealing new transcription of Pepys's diary' Claire Tomalin A collection of the most personal aspects of Samuel Pepys' diaries, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of their...

50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION - now a Virago Modern Classic with a new introduction by Alexandra Harris 'Full of dignity, courage and humour, and as fresh and insightful as the day...

In his history of mid-century publishing, heads of houses like Alfred Knopf, Bennett Cerf of Random House, Cass Canfield of Harper's, the Doubleday fathers and sons, and the Thornhills of...

A fascinating exploration of why Hitler's death was only confirmed in 2018 Adolf Hitler has taken a long time to die, despite the lethal efficiency of the gun he put...

Groundbreaking research that utilizes archaeological discoveries and ancient texts to revolutionize our understanding of the beginnings of Judaism "A bravura study."- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Throughout much of history, the...

A thrilling exploration of what Romans thought about their emperors, and how rumors and gossip-ranging from new taxes to rulers' sex lives-shaped leadership Traversing more than seven hundred years of...

An absorbing history of Europe's nine most puzzling texts, including the biggest mystery of all: the Voynich Manuscript Books can change the world. They can influence, entertain, transport, and enlighten....

A portrait of the Athenian politician and general Themistocles, tracing his political development, his victory at the Battle of Salamis, and his exile in Persia Themistocles (524-459 BC) came of...

A history of the elaborate and brilliantly sustained World War II intelligence operation by which Hitler's generals were tricked into giving away vital Nazi secrets "A great book."-Michael Goodman, BBC...