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Empire of Democracy: The Remaking of the West since the Cold War, 1971-2017
Author: Simon Reid-Henry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 880 'A dense narrative and a wealth of examples' Literary Review 'Reid-Henry narrates this story with elegance and gusto' Washington Post '[Reid-Henry]...
Brave Hearted: The Dramatic Story of Women of the American West
Author: Katie Hickman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The epic story of the transformation of the American west, as seen through the eyes of the women who were there...
The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound
Author: Wendy Moore Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Medicine, in the early 1800s, was a brutal business. Surgery was performed without anaesthesia, while conventional treatment relied on leeches, cupping...
The Celts: A Sceptical History
Author: Simon Jenkins (Columnist) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A WATERSTONES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2022 'Simon Jenkins, as ever, writes with clarity and insight' Times 'One of the...
Accidental Gods: On Race, Empire and Men Unwittingly Turned Divine
Author: Anna Della Subin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 488 Spanning the globe and five centuries, Accidental Gods introduces us to a new pantheon: of man-gods, deified politicians and imperialists,...
A Brief History of Britain 1851-2021: From World Power to ?
Author: Jeremy Black Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 From the Great Exhibition's showcasing of British national achievement in 1851 to the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Stratford in...
Queen Bees: Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between the Wars - A Spectacle of Celebrity, Talent, and Burning Ambition
Author: Sian Evans Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 QUEEN BEES looks at the lives of six remarkable women who made careers out of being society hostesses, including Lady Astor,...
Tribes: A Search for Belonging in a Divided Society
Author: David Lammy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'A superb book about the tribalism gripping British politics. Tribes is measured, searching, pitilessly self-scrutinising and would probably amaze anyone who...
Lemnos & Gallipoli Revealed: A Pictorial History of the Anzacs in the Aegean 1915-16
Author: Jim Claven Format: Hardback Number of Pages: Lemnos was the advanced base for the Gallipoli campaign in 1915-16. its great harbour of Mudros Bay witnessed the arrival of the...
The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War
Author: Robert B. Strassler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 752 Thucydides called his account of two decades of war between Athens and Sparta "a possession for all time," and indeed...
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...
Gay Life Stories
Author: Robert Aldrich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A fascinating portrait of gay men and women throughout time whose lives have influenced society at large, as well as what...
Every Hill Got a Story
Author: Central Land Council Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 This collective memoir is for anyone who has ever wondered why Aboriginal people choose to live in remote...
One Dog Barked, The Other Howled: A Meditation on Several Lives of a Minor American Writer
Author: Jeshel Forrester Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 This is the story of a man who left instructions that the word "WRITER"-in capital letters-should be carved into...
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...
The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England's Last Literary Salon
Author: Simon Fenwick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 In 1945, Eddy Sackville-West, Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Eardley Knollys - writers for the New Statesman and a National Trust administrator -...
Exploring the World: Two centuries of remarkable adventurers and their journeys
Author: Alexander Maitland Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Explorers and travellers have always been attracted by the lure of the unknown. By traversing and mapping our planet, they have...
Brave Companions: Portraits in History
Author: David McCullough Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Master historian David McCullough's classic book about some of history's most daring and accomplished figures from Alexander von Humboldt to Charles...
Gallipoli: A Ridge Too Far
Author: Ashley Ekins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 In early August 1915, after months of stalemate in the trenches on Gallipoli, British and Dominion troops launched a series of...
The Big Book of Britain: Cheers to the Crown, Churchill, Shakespeare, the Beatles, and All Things British!
Author: Tim Rayborn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 Dive in and discover this island nation's unique charm and fascinating story. More than 200 stories are sure to delight Anglophiles,...
Lost: A History of Disappearances
Author: Tim Rayborn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 The Bermuda Triangle. Amelia Earhart. The Mary Celeste. D.B. Cooper. The lost colony of Roanoke. The Lindbergh baby. With puzzling disappearances...
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 Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights and Plundered Ships
Author: Bella Bathurst Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 From the bestselling author of 'The Lighthouse Stevensons', a gripping history of the drama and danger of wrecking since the 18th-century...
The Blind Strategist: John Boyd and the American Art of War
Author: Stephen Robinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 360 From the acclaimed author of Panzer Commander Hermann Balck and False Flags comes an in-depth, critical evaluation of the maneuver warfare...
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...
Castle of the Eagles: Escape from Mussolini's Colditz
Author: Mark Felton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Vincigliata Castle, a menacing medieval fortress set in the beautiful Tuscan hills, has become a very special prisoner of war camp...
Libya: From Colony to Revolution
Author: Ronald Bruce St John Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Since Qaddafi's ousting in 2011, Libya has been beset by instability and conflict. To understand the tumultuous state 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...
Accommodating the King's Hard Bargain: Military Detention in the Australian Army 1914-1947
Author: Graham Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Like all crime and punishment, military detention in the Australian Army has a long and fraught history. Accommodating The King's Hard...
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...
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...
This Day in History: A 365-Day Tour of History's Most Fascinating, Important and Strange Facts and Figures
Author: Cider Mill Press Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Have you ever wondered what happened on your birthday hundreds of years ago This Day in History is perfect for...
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...
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...
The Times Great Events: 200 Years of History as it Happened
Author: James Owen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 An accessible compilation of news-breaking stories from The Times. As one of Britain's leading newspapers for more than 200 years The...
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...
Nine Quarters of Jerusalem: A New Biography of the Old City
Author: Matthew Teller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 In Jerusalem, what you see and what is true are two different things. The Old City has never had 'four quarters'...
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...
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...
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...
A Brief History of Life in the Middle Ages
Author: Martyn Whittock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Using wide-ranging evidence, Martyn Whittock shines a light on Britain in the Middle Ages, bringing it vividly to life in this...
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...
Meditations
Author: Marcus Aurelius Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Few ancient works have been as influential as the MEDITATIONS of Marcus Aurelius. A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom,...
A Brief History of Science: through the development of scientific instruments
Author: Thomas Crump Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 From earliest pre-history, with the dawning understanding of fire and its many uses, up to the astonishing advances of the twenty-first...
The Diary Keepers: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times - World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It
Author: Nina Siegal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Based on select writings from an exceptional Amsterdam archive containing more than two thousand Dutch diaries from World War II, The...