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The Great Abolition Sham: The True Story of the End of the British Slave Trade
Author: Michael Jordan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Slavery and the trade that fuelled it underpinned Britain's economic position throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Unsurprisingly, when the abolition...
Golden Harvest
Author: Jan T. Gross (Professor of Politics and European Studies, Professor of Politics and European Studies, New York University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 It seems at first commonplace:...
A Curious Madness: An American Combat Psychiatrist, a Japanese War Crime
Author: Eric Jaffe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 From an "illuminating and entertaining" (The New York Times) young writer, the story that explores the fateful intersection of two men...
The Atrocities of the Pirates: A Faithful Narrative of the Unparalleled Suffering of the Author During His Captivity Among the Pirates
Author: Aaron Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Originally published in 1824, this firsthand account describes how, in June 1822, young English seaman Aaron Smith was taken captive by...
Socialism Is Great!: A Worker's Memoir of the New China
Author: Lijia Zhang Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Lijia Zhang worked as a teenager in a factory producing missiles designed to reach North America, queuing every month for the...
Dosso's Fate - Painting and Court Culture in Renaissance Italy
Author: . Ciammitti (ed) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Dosso Dossi has long been considered one of Renaissance Italy's most intriguing artists. A wealth of documents chronicle his life,...
Marketing Michelin: Advertising and Cultural Identity in Twentieth-Century France
Author: Stephen L. Harp (Department of History) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 376 One of the world's largest tyre makers and an international corporation with interests in countries around the...
Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English
Author: Jonathan Ree Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 768 An ambitious new history of philosophy in English that broadens the canon to include many lesser-known figures "[This] lively chronicle of...
Victory in Defeat: The Wake Island Defenders in Captivity
Author: Gregory J. W. Urwin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Told here for the first time in vivid detail is the story of the defenders of Wake Island following...
Stalag XXA and the Enforced March from Poland
Author: Stephen Wynn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 168 Stalag XXA was a Second World War German POW camp for non-commissioned officers located in Nazi occupied Torun, in northern Poland....
The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home
Author: Abigail Williams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century Two centuries...
The Sinner And The Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece
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Author: Kevin Birmingham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The Sinner and the Saint is the deeply researched and immersive tale of how Dostoevsky came to write this great murder...
The Shortest History of War: From Hunter-Gatherers to Nuclear Superpowers - A Retelling for Our Times
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Author: Gwynne Dyer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 War has changed, but we have not. From our hunter-gatherer ancestors to the rival nuclear powers of today, whenever resources have...
Revolutions in the Atlantic World: A Comparative History
Author: Wim Klooster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 247 In the late eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, revolutions transformed the British, French, and Spanish Atlantic worlds. During this time, colonial and...
Prelude to War: The RAF, 1936-1939: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Author: Martin Derry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Through the use of contemporary photographs and informative captions, "Prelude To War: The RAF 1936-1939" chronicles many of the RAF's aircraft...
A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain
Author: Paul Preston (London School of Economics) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 768 The culmination of a half-century of historical investigation, A People Betrayed is not only a definitive history...
Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions
Author: Alberto Manguel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 A best-selling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the vital role of all libraries. "The...
North Pole, South Pole: The Epic Quest to Solve the Mystery of Earth's Magnetism
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Author: Gillian Turner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Why do compass needles point north--but not quite north? What guides the migration of birds, whales, and fish across the world's...
Infinity Beckoned: Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969-1989
Author: Jay Gallentine Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Infinity Beckoned illuminates a critical period of space history when humans dared an expansive leap into the inner solar system. With...
Hitler's Spies: Lena and the Prelude to Operation Sealion
Author: Mel Kavanagh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 September 1940: Britain stands alone against the might of the advancing German Army and the spectre of invasion looms. Using a...
Hitler's Boy Soldiers: How My Father's Generation Was Trained to Kill and Sent to Die for Germany
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Author: Helene Munson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 When Helene Munson finally reads her father, Hans Dunker's, wartime journal, she discovers secrets he kept buried for seven decades. This...
Dunkirk
Author: Hans-Adolf Jacobsen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 First published in 1958, this first German perspective account of Dunkirk is available in English for the first time. The German...
The Dragon's Teeth: The Chinese People's Liberation Army - its History, Traditions, and Air, Sea and Land Capabilities in the 21st Century
Author: Benjamin Lai Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 When Mao Zedong proclaimed The People's Republic of China in 1949, China was a poor and wrecked society after years of...
Captain John Smith, Adventurer: Piracy, Pocahontas and Jamestown
Author: R E Pritchard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Captain John Smith is best remembered for his association with Pocahontas, but this was only a small part of an...
Bold Venture: The American Bombing of Japanese-Occupied Hong Kong, 1942-1945
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Author: Steven K Bailey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Bold Venture tells an important and riveting untold wartime story of the American airmen who flew combat missions over Hong...
Billy the Kid: The Best Writings On The Infamous Outlaw
Author: Harold Dellinger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 In movies, stage plays, short stories, novels, newspaper articles, poems, and songs, literally hundreds of accomplished authors have been drawn toward...
The Beauty of Living: E. E. Cummings in the Great War
Author: J. Alison Rosenblitt (Regent's Park College, University of Oxford) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Renowned for his formally fractured, gleefully alive poetry, E. E. Cummings is not often...
The Real Leonardo Da Vinci
Author: Rose Sgueglia Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 184 Leonardo Da Vinci was left-handed. That's probably why he wrote backwards from right to left to avoid smudging ink on his...
Josiah Wedgwood: A New Biography
Author: Anthony Burton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Wedgwood was born in the Staffordshire Potteries in 1739 and lived in the area all his life. His family were all...
Ingenium: Five Machines That Changed the World
Author: Mark Denny Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 200 Ingenium is medieval English vernacular for "an ingenious contrivance." In this fascinating book, physicist Mark Denny considers five such contrivances-the bow...
Hot Carbon: Carbon-14 and a Revolution in Science
Author: Professor John Marra Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 There are few fields of science that carbon-14 has not touched. A radioactive isotope of carbon, it stands out for...
Hitler's Light Tanks: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Author: Paul Thomas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 Hitler's Wehrmacht led the way in armoured warfare as the successful blitzkriegs in Poland and North West Europe in 1940 so...
The History of the Future in Colonial Mexico
Author: Matthew D. O'Hara Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A prominent scholar of Mexican and Latin American history challenges the field's focus on historical memory to examine colonial-era conceptions...
First U-Boat Flotilla
Author: Lawrence Paterson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Formed in 1935, 1st U-Boat Flotilla operated against Hitler's enemies from the very earliest stage of the War through to September...
Wellington and the British Army's Indian Campaigns 1798 - 1805
Author: Martin R Howard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The Peninsular War and the Napoleonic Wars across Europe are subjects of such enduring interest that they have prompted extensive...
Spanish Republicans and the Second World War: Republic Across the Mountains
Author: Jonathan Whitehead Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Spanish Republicans and the Second World War tells the stories of the 500,000 Spanish Republicans that fled across the Pyrenees in...
The Normandy Air War 1944: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Author: Anthony Tucker-Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 The support provided by the Allied air armies to the preparations for the invasion of France and the Normandy campaign is...
The Nisibis War: The Defence of the Roman East, AD 337-363
Author: John S Harrel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The war of 337-363 (which the author dubs the Nisibis War), was an exception to the traditional Roman reliance on...
Lawrence of Arabia's Secret Dispatches during the Arab Revolt, 1915-1919
Author: Fabrizio Bagatti Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 T. E. Lawrence's dispatches during the Arab Revolt have been published before, but only in an edited and incomplete form, as...
Joan, Lady of Wales: Power and Politics of King John's Daughter
Author: Danna R Messer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The history of women in medieval Wales before the English conquest of 1282 is one largely shrouded in mystery. For...
In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume Two
Author: Muhammad al-Tunisi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 A merchant's account of his travels through an independent African state Muhammad ibn 'Umar al-Tunisi (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family...
In Darfur: An Account of the Sultanate and Its People, Volume One
Author: Muhammad al-Tunisi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A merchant's account of his travels through an independent African state Muhammad ibn 'Umar al-Tunisi (d. 1274/1857) belonged to a family...
Hunting the Last Great Pirate: Benito de Soto and the Rape of the Morning Star
Author: Michael Edward Ashton Ford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 In 1827 the Duke of Wellington - former Commander-in-Chief of the British Army and British Prime Minister - ordered...
A History of British Baking: From Blood Bread to Bake-Off
Author: Emma Kay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The British have been baking for centuries. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive account of how our relationship with...
Charles II's Favourite Mistress: Pretty, Witty Nell Gwyn
Author: Sarah-Beth Watkins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Nell Gwyn, the most infamous mistress of Charles II, was a commoner raised from the dingy back alleys of London to...
The Charge of the Heavy Brigade: Scarlett s 300 in the Crimea
Author: M J Trow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Glory to each and to all, and the charge that they made!'Glory to all three hundred, and all the Brigade!'...
Brutus of Troy: And the Quest for the Ancestry of the British
Author: Anthony Adolph Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Just who did the British think they were? For much of the last 1,500 years, when the British looked back to...
Roman Conquests: Macedonia and Greece
Author: Philip Matyszak Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 In the late 3rd century BC, while Rome struggled for her very survival against the Carthaginians in the Second Punic War,...