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1918: The Year of Victories
Author: Martin Marix Evans
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 240
Presents the Allied and German experience of war, both militarily and at a personal level on the ground. Illustrated throughout.
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Author: Heather McGhee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 What would make a society drain its public swimming baths and fill them with concrete rather than opening them to everyone?...
Victory in the Kitchen: The Life of Churchill's Cook
Author: Annie Gray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 This is the story of a woman who was not a royal, not rich, not famous; someone who simply worked hard...
Idiots, Follies and Misadventures
Author: Mikey Robins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The history books are full of heroes and villains ... but what about all the idiots? Comedian and armchair historian Mikey...
Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
Author: Richard Cohen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 784 MAKING HISTORY is an epic exploration of who writes about the past and how the biases of certain storytellers - whether...
Esther Simpson: The True Story of her Mission to Save Scholars from Hitler's Persecution
Author: John Eidinow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Many of the academic refugees Esther Simpson helped rescue are well remembered. But who was she and why has history forgotten...
When I Was Your Age: Ireland's Grandparents Share Memories and Wisdom
Author: Valerie Cox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 INCLUDES INTERVIEWS WITH BERTIE AHERN, MARY KENNEDY, SEAN O'ROUKE, MARY COUGHLAN AND MANY OTHERS. What was life like for Ireland's grandparents...
A History of Ocean Liners in 50 Objects
Author: Mark Berry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 The story of ocean liners brought to life by objects and ephemera, revealing life on board, luxury and magnificence, and peril...
The Magic Box: Viewing Britain through the Rectangular Window
Author: Rob Young Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 Growing up in the 1970s, Rob Young's main storyteller was the wooden box with the glass window in the corner of...
Wartime Courage: Stories of Extraordinary Courage by Ordinary People in World War Two
Author: Gordon Brown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: In these ten stories of Second World War battlefield action, Gordon Brown pays tribute to the courage of a whole generation. Some...
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...
The Compatriots: The Russian Exiles Who Fought Against the Kremlin
Author: Andrei Soldatov Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The authors of The Red Web examine the shifting role of Russian expatriates throughout history, and their complicated, unbreakable relationship with...
Soho: A Street Guide to Soho's History, Architecture and People
Author: Dan Cruickshank Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 SOHO - ILLICIT, GLAMOROUS, SORDID, LOUCHE, POVERTY-STRICKEN, SQUALID, EXHILARATING. One of Britain's best-loved historians, Dan Cruickshank grants us an intimacy with...
Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery
Author: Herb Frazier Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Joseph McGill Jr., a historic preservationist and Civil War reenactor, founded the Slave Dwelling Project in 2010 based on an idea...
Oxford University on Mont Blanc: The Life of the Chalet des Anglais
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Author: Stephen Golding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The 'Chalet des Anglais' on Mont Blanc, home to the longest-running university reading party, is a unique survivor from Victorian and...
Murray's Cabaret Club: Discovering Soho's Secret
Author: Benjamin Levy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 Step below the pavemants of Soho's Beak Street, and discover the untold tale of the exotic - and scandalous - Murray's...
Armchair Nation: An intimate history of Britain in front of the TV
Author: Joe Moran Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 But what does your furniture point at?' asks the character Joey in the sitcom Friends on hearing an acquaintance has no...
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Author: Heather McGhee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 'With intelligence and care (as well as with a trove of sometimes heartbreaking and sometimes...
The Other Exile: The Story of Fernao Lopes, St Helena and a Paradise Lost
Author: Abdul Rahman Azzam Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A tale of a real-life Robinson Crusoe and his total retreat from human society. The first known inhabitant of St...
The Invitation-Only Zone: The Extraordinary Story of North Korea's Abduction Project
Author: Robert S. Boynton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 During the 1970s and early 80s, dozens - perhaps hundreds - of Japanese civilians were kidnapped by North Korean commandos...
Ask A Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know
Author: Greg Jenner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Brilliantly funny' SHAPARAK KHORSANDI 'Immensely enjoyable' BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE 'Every page contains delights' LINDSEY FITZHARRIS Why is Italy called Italy? How...
The Book of Unexplained Mysteries: On the Trail of the Secret and the Strange
Author: Will Pearson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 How were the hunter-gatherers of Gobekli Tepe able to build a series of stunning stone monuments six thousand years before Stonehenge?...
London: Immigrant City
Author: Nazneen Khan-Ostrem Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 TRANSLATED BY ALISON McCULLOUGH 'One of the best books on the many diverse migrations to London . . . revealing the...
Murder at Wrotham Hill
Author: Diana Souhami Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Murder at Wrotham Hill takes the killing in October 1946 of Dagmar Petrzywalski as the catalyst for a compelling and unique...
52 Times Britain was a Bellend: The History You Didn't Get Taught At School
Author: James Felton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 'Scurrilous, scandalous and frequently disgusting. I absolutely loved it' James O'Brien Twitter hero James Felton brings you the painfully funny history...
Martin Scorsese: A Journey
Author: Mary Pat Kelly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Few filmmakers, if any, make the kind of impact that Martin Scorsese has made on American cinema. The winner of...
The Reckoning: Death and Intrigue in the Promised Land
Author: Patrick Bishop Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 From the bestselling author of 'Fighter Boys', the true story of two ruthless adversaries and a wartime killing that shook the...
Russia: Myths and Realities
Author: Sir Rodric Braithwaite Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Wise and thorough' - The Spectator 'Brisk and readable ... very valuable' -Financial Times 'He is an engaging guide ......
We Are The Legion: The Royal British Legion at 100
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Author: Julie Summers Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Formed in 1921 to provide welfare to soldiers returning from the First World War, the Royal British Legion is today the...
Been There, Done That: A Rousing History of Sex
Author: Rachel Feltman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Roman physicians told female patients they should sneeze out as much semen as possible after intercourse to avoid pregnancy. Historical treatments...
Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution -- Shortlisted for the Bailie Gifford prize for Non-Fiction
Author: Tania Branigan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Took my breath away.' BARBARA DEMICK'Haunting.' OLIVER BURKEMAN 'A masterpiece.' JULIA LOVELL A 13-year-old Red Guard revels in the great adventure,...
Heroic Animals: 100 Amazing Creatures Great and Small
Author: Clare Balding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Bobbie the Wonder dog crossed more than 2,500 miles of plains, desert and mountains to find his way home - and...
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE
Author: Simon Garfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The encyclopaedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, adults...
Safe: 20 Ways to be a Black Man in Britain Today
Author: Derek Owusu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'This is an inspiring collection of essays ... Every page of this book breaks down stereotypes of what being a Black...
The Joy of Chocolate: Recipes and Stories from the Wonderful World of the Cacao Bean
Author: Paul A. Young Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Bring the joy of chocolate into your home with fascinating stories, tantalising treats and irresistible creations devised by a world-class...
Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic: Voices from History
Author: Peter Furtado Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Humanity has always been struck by pestilence and pandemics, from the plagues of ancient Egypt to the pox that ravaged Europe...
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...
No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era
Author: Jacqueline Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 From a Bancroft Prize winner, a harrowing portrait of Black workers and white hypocrisy in nineteenth-century Boston Impassioned antislavery rhetoric made...
How to be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity
Author: Jill Burke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Can the pressures women feel to look good be traced to the 16th century? As the Renaissance visual world became populated...
The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs
Author: David Runciman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'The Singularity' is what Silicon Valley calls the idea that, eventually, we will be overrun by machines that are able to...
Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery
Author: Herb Frazier Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Joseph McGill Jr., a historic preservationist and Civil War reenactor, founded the Slave Dwelling Project in 2010 based on an idea...
The Great Divide: History and Human Nature in the Old World and the New
Author: Peter Watson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 In 15,000 B.C. early humankind, who had evolved in Africa tens of thousands of years before and spread out to populate...
Revolution: The History of England Volume IV
Author: Peter Ackroyd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England begins in 1688 with a revolution and ends in 1815 with...
The Colour Code: Why we see red, feel blue and go green
Author: Paul Simpson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 How many colours are there? In the West we see seven, but the Chinese see five, while the Piraha tribe in...
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]...
Iconicon: A Journey Around the Landmark Buildings of Contemporary Britain
Author: John Grindrod Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Barratt homes. Spectacular skyscrapers. Millennium monuments. City centre apartments. Out of town malls. These icons of our age, be they modest...
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...