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The Pacific (The Official HBO/Sky TV Tie-In)
Author: Hugh Ambrose Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 THE PACIFIC is a gripping piece of historical writing following the extraordinary true stories of four U.S. Marines and a U.S....
Voices in Flight: The Heavy Bomber Offensive of WWII
Author: Martin Bowman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 This book contains fourteen stirring accounts, each conveying an authentic sense of what it was really like to fly as a...
Operations in North Africa and The Middle East 1939 - 1942
Author: John Grehan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Despatches in this volume include that on operations in the Middle East August 1939 to November 1940 by General Sir Archibald...
In the Shadow of the Empress: The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters
Author: Nancy Goldstone Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 In the Shadow of the Empress is the sweeping family saga of beautiful Maria Theresa, the only woman to inherit and...
The Price of Victory: The Red Army's Casualties in the Great Patriotic War
Author: Boris Kavalerchik Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 193 The Red Army's casualties during the Second World War and the casualties sustained by the German army they fought are a...
Death Was Their Co-Pilot
Author: Michael Dorflinger Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 It was in World War I that the skies first became a battlefield, with nations seeking to decide military outcomes off...
First VCS
Author: John Grehan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 287 Officers led and men followed; all were expected to do their duty without thought of reward. Enlisted men rarely penetrated the...
Mercenaries to Conquerors
Author: Paul Brown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 When a band of Norman adventurers arrived in southern Italy to fight in the Lombard insurrections against the Byzantine empire in...
A Brief History of Italy: Indispensable for Travellers
Author: Jeremy Black Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Jeremy Black skilfully sketches social, cultural and political trends' - Christina Hardyment, Times audiobook of the week 'A remarkable mixture of...
Lonely Courage: The true story of the SOE heroines who fought to free Nazi-occupied France
Author: Rick Stroud Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'A fascinating, superbly researched and revelatory book - told with tremendous pace and excitement' William Boyd 'This compelling and complete account...
The Basis of Everything: Before Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project there was the Cavendish Laboratory - the remarkable story of the scientific friendships that changed the world forever
Author: Andrew Ramsey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Before the Manhattan Project, before nuclear warfare and the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was the twentieth century's great scientific...
The Imperial War Museum Book of 1914
Author: Malcolm Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The sky was lit by burning villages and houses . . . Rivers and seas of flame leaping up hundreds of...
Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine
Author: Anna Reid Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 FULLY UPDATED 'A fascinating and often violent odyssey, spanning more than 1,000 years of conflict and culture' INDEPENDENT Flat, fertile, and...
1924: The Year That Made Hitler
Author: Peter Ross Range Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Adolf Hitler spent 1924 away from society and surrounded by co-conspirators of the failed Beer Hall Putsch. Behind bars in...
Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin's War Against Ukraine
Author: Owen Matthews Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Winner of the Pushkin House Book Prize 2023 *A Telegraph Book of the Year* A Times Best Book of Summer 2023...
Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles
Author: Bernard Cornwell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Some battles change nothing. Waterloo changed almost everything.' On the 18th June 1815 the armies of France, Britain and Prussia descended...
Voices in Flight: The Heavy Bomber Offensive of WWII
Author: Martin Bowman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 This book contains fourteen stirring accounts, each conveying an authentic sense of what it was really like to fly as a...
The Mammoth Book Of Special Forces Training: Physical and Mental Secrets of Elite Military Units
Author: Jon E. Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 In this encyclopedic book, Lewis provides insights into the origins, training, tactics, weapons and achievements of special forces and special...
The Lighthouse of Stalingrad: The Hidden Truth at the Centre of WWII's Greatest Battle
Author: Iain MacGregor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Stunning. History at its very best: a blend of impeccably researched scholarship, genuinely revelatory primary sources, and a beautifully written narrative'...
The Letters of Private Wheeler: An eyewitness in action at the Battle of Waterloo
Author: B.H. Liddell Hart Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'In a later age he would have become a successful war correspondent ... We have no more human account of...
The Bell of Treason: The 1938 Munich Agreement in Czechoslovakia
Author: P.E. Caquet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 On returning from Germany on 30 September 1938 after his agreement with Hitler on the carve-up of Czechoslovakia, Neville Chamberlain spoke...
The Balkans
Author: Mark Mazower Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 At the end of the twentieth century people spoke as if the Balkans had plagued Europe forever. But two hundred years...
SAS Shadow Raiders: The Ultra-Secret Mission that Changed the Course of WWII
Author: Damien Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 From bestselling true military author Damien Lewis: the incredible story of the radar wars, Britain's most secret battle. 'Nail-biting action all...
Red One: A Bomb Disposal Expert on the Front Line
Author: Kevin Ivison Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 This is the gripping true story of a young bomb disposal officer and his terrifying experiences in Iraq facing daily rocket...
Men at War: Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945
Author: Luke Turner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 As a child, Luke Turner was obsessed with the Second World War. He spent hours watching Sunday war films, poring over...
Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change
Author: Stephen G. Gross (Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center of European and Mediterranean Studies, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center of European and...
Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture
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Author: Joshua Levine Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE EPIC TRUE STORY OF DUNKIRK - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED...
The Showman: The Inside Story of the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky
Author: Simon Shuster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'This book offers a front row seat to history as it is being made' ANNE APPLEBAUM 'This is the...
The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
Author: Margalit Fox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp during the First World War, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, cunningly...
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...
False Prophets: British Leaders' Fateful Fascination with the Middle East from Suez to Syria
Author: Professor Nigel Ashton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 Britain shaped the modern Middle East through the lines that it drew in the sand after the First World War...
The Man in the Red Coat
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The Railway Man
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Margaret Holmes: The Life and Times of an Australian Peace Campaigner
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25 Days to Aden: The Unknown Story of Arabian Elite Forces at War
Author: Michael Knights Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 25 Days to Aden is the story of how in a week in 2015 the Gulf States pulled together a ten-nation...
Ralph Darling: A Governor Maligned
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Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II
Author: Catherine Musemeche, MD Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "Magnificently researched, brilliantly written, Lethal Tides is immensely entertaining and reads like an action novel. Catherine Musemeche has brought to...
The Lighthouse of Stalingrad: The Hidden Truth at the Centre of WWII's Greatest Battle
Author: Iain MacGregor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'Stunning. History at its very best: a blend of impeccably researched scholarship, genuinely revelatory primary sources, and a beautifully written narrative'...
Churchill and Empire: Portrait of an Imperialist
Author: Lawrence James Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 One of our finest narrative historians, Lawrence James has written a biography of Winston Churchill, set within a fully detailed historical...
The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy
Author: John Henry Phillips Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 When archaeologist John Henry Phillips volunteered with a charity that took D-Day veterans back to Normandy, due to an administrative...
A Brief History of the British Army
Author: John Lewis-Stempel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 The story of the British Army has many sides to it, being a tale of heroic successes and tragic failures, of...
The Pacific (The Official HBO/Sky TV Tie-In)
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Author: Hugh Ambrose Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 THE PACIFIC is a gripping piece of historical writing following the extraordinary true stories of four U.S. Marines and a U.S....
Paul Hasluck: A Political Biography
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Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
Author: Mark Bowden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 By January 1968 the fighting in Vietnam seemed to be at a stalemate. Yet General William Westmoreland, commander of American forces,...
EDWARD VII 1995
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The Lighthouse of Stalingrad: The Hidden Truth at the Centre of WWII's Greatest Battle
Author: Iain MacGregor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'Stunning. History at its very best: a blend of impeccably researched scholarship, genuinely revelatory primary sources, and a beautifully written narrative'...
Harold Wilson: The Winner
Author: Nick Thomas-Symonds Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 Harold Wilson is the only post-war leader of any party to serve as Britain's Prime Minister on two separate occasions. In...
The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
Author: Margalit Fox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp during the First World War, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, cunningly...