History

Author: Saul David Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The definitive account of one of the greatest Special Forces missions ever, the Raid of Entebbe, by acclaimed military...

Author: Thomas Fleming Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Led by the Continental Congress, the Americans almost lost their war for independence because their military thinking was badly muddled. The...

Author: Rosamond Richardson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'A beautiful book' Tim Birkhead, author of Bird Sense 'The prose is sublime, and so is the intelligence behind...

Author: Menno Schilthuizen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 344 We are marching towards a future in which three-quarters of humans live in cities, and a large portion of the planet's...

Author: Mary Ann Caws Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 200 This book, which includes a preface by Tom Conley, covers many aspects of Blaise Pascal's life and work that are...

Author: Brian O'Connell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A completely original illustrated international dossier of lunatic statesmen and insane leaders! This first attempt to catalogue the world...

Author: Kathryn BonellaFormat: Paperback / softbackNumber of Pages:  'It's snowing in Bali.' Among Bali's drug dealers, this is the secret code for a huge cocaine shipment having just landed. For the...

Author: Peter Ames CarlinFormat: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 496  Peter Ames Carlin’s New York Times bestselling biography of one America’s greatest musicians is the first in twenty-five years to be written with the...

#N/A

Author: Barry Strauss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Spartacus was a Thracian gladiator who started a prison breakout with 74 men armed only with kitchen knives. It...

Author: Anne De Courcy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, many of Britain's best and brightest...

Author: Rorke Denver Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 From leadership expert, former Navy SEAL, "American Grit" feature player, and author of Worth Dying For: A Navy SEAL's Call to...

Author: Richard Lutwyche Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 At any given time there are around one billion pigs in the world; that's one for every seven of us. And...

Author: Christopher Hibbert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. The powerful,...

Author: Rod Pyle Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Full of personal insights and accounts of the long journey to getting a man on the moon, Missions to the Moon...

Author: Courtney Hargrave Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A harrowing true story of the modern Ku Klux Klan and an act of grace that shook a community...

Author: Paul Thomas Chamberlin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 A brilliant young historian offers a vital, comprehensive international military history of the Cold War in which he views the...

Author: Matthew Kneale Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 "Kneale's account is a masterpiece of pacing and suspense. Characters from the city's history spring to life in his hands." --The...

Author: Mark Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Leigh and Jason are inseparable. But when Jason is conscripted and sent to fight in Vietnam, they are divided...

Author: Damien Lewis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Praise for Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author Damien Lewis' SAS mission series: 'One of the great untold stories of...

Paperback Unearthed from the vast collection of the National Archives by Giles Milton’s ‘metaphorical metal detecting’, here are 100 nuggets of almost – but not quite – forgotten history and...

Author: Penny Spikins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Our capacity to care about the wellbeing of others, whether they are close family or strangers, can appear to be unimportant...

Author: Walter Rodney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 "I have sat on a little oil drum, rusty and in the midst of garbage, and some black brothers...

Author: Rudolf Hoess Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 An extraordinary and unique document: Hoess was in charge of the huge extermination camp in Poland where the Nazis...

Author: Julius Scott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era Out of the grey expanse of official...

Author: Eric Hobsbawm Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Eric Hobsbawm traces with brilliant anlytical clarity the transformation brought about in evry sphere of European life by the Dual revolution...

Author: Jonathan Petropoulos Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 424 A penetrating inquiry into the motives, moral dilemmas, and compromises of Walter Gropius, Emil Nolde, and other celebrated artists who chose...

Author: Peter Kaldheim Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In 1987 a massive snowstorm hits New York as Peter Kaldheim flees the city, owing drug debts to a dealer who...

Author: Tim Pat Coogan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The Easter Rising began at 12 noon, 24 April, 1916 and lasted for six short but bloody days,...

Author: Henry Hemming Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The fascinating, improbable true story of Maxwell Knight -- the great MI5 spymaster and inspiration for the James Bond character M....

Author: Adam Rutherford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 We like to think of ourselves as exceptional beings, but is there really anything special about us that sets...