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The History Gossip: Was Anne of Cleves a Minger? and 365 Other
'History's hottest gossip' - You Magazine 'A tongue-in-cheek whirlwind through 365 days of history' - Sunday Post TikTok sensation Katie Kennedy, aka @TheHistoryGossip, serves up a delicious blend of fascinating,...
Something Out of Place: Women & Disgust
'A fearless, interrogative work ... A fierce and fascinating manifesto in McBride's persuasive prose' - Sinead Gleeson Here, Eimear McBride unpicks the contradictory forces of disgust and objectification that control...
The Great Escapers: The Full Story of the Second World War's Most
After the attempt ot break 200 men out of Herman Goring's 'escape proof' prisoner-of-war camp, 76 Allied officers managed to create havoc behind enemy lines before most were eventually camptured....
Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots And Revolutionaries 1776-1871
From America's fight for independence to the Paris Commune - an exotic collection of fanatics, adventurers, poets and thinkers are brought vividly to life. HOLY MADNESS probes into the psyche...
Guide to British Military History: The Subject and the Sources
What exactly is military history? Forty years ago it meant battles, campaigns, great commanders, drums and trumpets. It was largely the preserve of military professionals and was used to support...
Turning to Stone
WINNER OF THE 2025 JOHN BURROUGHS MEDAL FOR DISTINGUISHED NATURAL HISTORY WRITING 'Vast and arresting' SPECTATOR 'A remarkably human take on the geological world' NEW STATESMAN Rocks are the record...
The Great Race: 60 years of the Bathurst 1000
The cars, the stars, the thrills and the spills from 60 years of the Bathurst classic by Australia's premier motorsports journalist with a foreword by five-time winner Garth Tander The...
Sir Francis Drake
Four hundred years after his death, Sir Francis Drake remains one of the most legendary figures of history. His career is one of the most colourful on record. The most...
Red Azalea: Red Azalea
When Anchee Min left China in 1984 her knowledge of English was minimal. She tried to write this autobiography in her own tongue, but found it impossible. Only with the...
Black Teacher: 'An unsung heroine of Black British Literature'
Being denied teaching jobs due to the colour bar. Working in an office amidst the East End's bombsites. Serving as a lady's maid to an Empire-loving aristocrat. R aising two...
The F-Word
Here is the complete history of the word still considered one of the most vulgar and offensive in the English language, from its debut in 15th-century England to the present...
Paper: Paging Through History
Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways has supported...
On Nationalism
I remain in the curious position of disliking, distrusting, disapproving and fearing nationalism wherever it exists . . . but recognising its enormous force, which must be harnessed for progress...
Money: A Story of Humanity
*AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK* THE INTERNATIONAL #1 BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2024 NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR A WATERSTONES NON-FICTION...
El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary
'A fascinating study of historical mythmaking . . . concise and absorbing' Paul Freedman, author of Out of the East 'Lively, original and fascinating' David Abulafia, Literary Review 'An enthralling...
The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir
It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious...
Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed
The No1 Sunday Times Bestseller A Waterstones Best Politics Book 2024 A Mail on Sunday 'Best Holiday Read 2024' 'A searing expose' Glamour 'A timely reminder of the dangers posed...
Interesting Times: A Twentieth-century Life
Eric Hobsbawm has been widely acclaimed as one of the greatest living historians. Called "a lyrical, pungent, and provocative memoir" by Publishers Weekly , Interesting Times offers a personal tour...
The Age of Empire, 1875-1914
The book titled The Age of Empire, 1875-1914 by the author E. J. Hobsbawm. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
G.M. Trevelyan
G.M.Trevelyan, as well as being a best-selling historian, was Regius Professor of History and Master of Trinity College Cambridge and Chancellor of the University of Newcastle. He was awarded the...
The Birth of the Modern: World Society, 1815-1830
And he makes of this huge variety of elements a coherent narrative, told through the lives and actual words of the age's people - outstanding and ordinary - so that...
Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History of Time. 'An exquisite book' -
'A true joy. A work of staggering complexity and bewildering economy.' TELEGRAPH 'Every page glitters' SPECTATOR 'Mesmerising' NEW STATESMAN A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK ______________________ In Hands...
A Tomb With a View - The Stories & Glories of Graveyards: Scottish
**WINNER OF THE SCOTTISH NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021** **A FINANCIAL TIMES, I PAPER AND STYLIST BOOK OF THE YEAR** 'In his absorbing book about the lost and...
The Explorers of the Pacific
A thoroughly researched historical account of the hazards and adventures explorers faced while sailing the Pacific Ocean.
The Hunt for Martin Bormann: The Truth
In The Hunt for Martin Bormann, Charles Whit ing, who interviewed all the leading participants, reveals t he true story of what happened to the "Brown Eminence". It i s...
Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD
In Acid Dreams , Martin Lee and Bruce Shalin have written the history of a time still only dimly understood. The events they recount and the facts they uncover supply...
The Story of Architecture
Jonathan Glancey conducts an inspiring journey through 5,000 years of magnificent buildings, from ancient Sumeria to the spectacular glass-and-steel towers of today's cityscapes. An unprecedented collection of full-colour photographs, artworks,...
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him
A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who, like him or loathe him, left an indelible mark...
Media Tarts Revised and Updated Edition
A powerful insight into how the media treats female politicians - now revised and updated with a new foreword by Annabel Crabb - from one of our foremost journalists and...
Beyond Hitler's Grasp: The Heroic Rescue of Bulgaria's Jews
Details how the Jews in Bulgaria were rescued from deportation to Nazi concentration camps by a crew of public and private individuals.
Money: A Story of Humanity
*AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK* THE INTERNATIONAL #1 BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2024 NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR A WATERSTONES NON-FICTION...
The Australian Alps: Kosciuzko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks
This guide is your key to the secrets of the three national parks that stretch over Australia's spectacularly beautiful rooftop - Kosciuszko in New South Wales, Alpine in Victoria and...
Divided We Stand: A Biography of the World Trade Center
When the World Trade centre was erected at the Hudson River's edge, it forever changed the character of the American city. In Divided We Stand , cultural critic Eric Darton...
The Meaning Of Tango: The Story of the Argentinian Dance
From the backstreets of Buenos Aires to Parisian high society, this is the extraordinary story of the dance that captivated the world - a tale of politics and passion, immigration...
Representations of the Intellectual
Are intellectuals merely the servants of special interests or do they have a larger responsibility? In these wide-ranging essays, one of our most brilliant and fiercely independent public thinkers addresses...
Back From The Dead: The astonishing true story of the Blythe Star,
1973: The incredible true story of the Blythe Star disaster, which left ten men, shipwrecked and alone, on the wild Southern Ocean off Tasmania. Almost two weeks later they were...
The Tunnels of Cu Chi
The book titled The Tunnels of Cu Chi by the author Tom Mangold. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Supremacy at Sea: Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific Victory
The gripping account of the U.S. Navy's fast carrier force-and how its Central Pacific campaign in 1944 marked the achievement of American naval supremacy Task Force 58 was World War...
Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World Wars
A groundbreaking history of women in British intelligence, revealing their pivotal role across the first half of the twentieth century From the twentieth century onward, women took on an extraordinary...
The Oxford History of Modern War
How has war shaped modern society and vice versa? How has it changed between the introduction of firearms and the invention of the atom bomb? How is war waged today?The...
Burning Down the House: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That
"Definitive...Not just for Talking Heads fans-it's a masterful dive into downtown New York in the 70s, and the changing face of rock music."- Town & Country " Riveting" - New...
This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong (and Why it Matters)
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 Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the
An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today's world - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and New York Times bestselling author of The Death of Truth...
Tales from the Dancefloor: Manchester / The Warehouse Project /
The must-read memoir from the visionary figure behind Manchester's legendary music scene, from The Hacienda to The Warehouse Project. Tales From the Dance Floor is an electrifying journey into the...