Military History

The German Panzerjager, or Panzerjagertruppe, was one of the most innovative fighting arms of World War II and its story has never properly been told. Many books have focused on...

"Astonishing...Brings to life a thriving - and rather civilized - empire" - The Telegraph "sparkles with energy, insight and passion... difficult to put down." Nicholas Morton, BBC History Magazine Control...

21st March 1945. 1530 hours. Bursting through a hazy sky, dozens of Allied fighters and bombers sweep over German-occupied Venice. Their mission - destroy Germany's strategic outposts nestled along the...

From Jamaica to Charleston, Sierra Leone to Bombay, China to Australia, back to England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, this is the story of the heiresses. Their assets, the product of...

From Mark Bowden, the preeminent chronicler of our military and special forces, comes The Finish , a gripping account of the hunt for Osama bin Laden. With access to key...

This is a chronological account of the battle that inflicted a heavy defeat on the German Wehrmacht. With the aid of full color maps and first hand accounts, the book...

This controversial biography is based on previously unseen sources, including those of the Special Operations Executive which Wingate joined in 1940. It traces his development as a soldier and guerrilla...

The book titled Rebel Private: Front and Rear: 8memoirs of a Confederate Soldier by the author William A Fletcher. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

The book titled Fire from Heaven: Life in an English Town in the Seventeenth Century by the author Professor of History David Underdown (Yale University). This is a secondhand book....

The book titled The Black Angels by the author Rupert Butler. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The bestselling author of Catherine de Medici returns to sixteenth-century Europe in this evocative and entertaining biography that recreates a remarkable era of French history and brings to life a...

Europe is the smallest of the world's continents, yet its culture and languages have come to dominate the world we know today. The History Atlas of Europe explores the extraordinary...

A newly edited, single-volume commemorative edition of The Path to Power and The Downing Street Years; this is Margaret Thatcher in her own words. Margaret Thatcher is the towering figure...

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Otto Dov Kulka's Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death, translated by Ralph Mandel, is a memoir of astounding literary and emotional power, exploring the permanent and indelible marks left by...

The inspiring true story of US elite special operations veterans fighting for freedom in Ukraine and discovering the power of faith, sacrifice, and hope. Author, speaker, and former Force Recon...

'Graham Robb has found a new format for writing history just as Craig Brown found a fresh way to write biography' - Alan Johnson 'Robb tumbles into British history with...

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The book titled The Laurel and the Ivy: Story of Charles Stewart Parnell and Irish by the author Robert Kee. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

This browsable dictionary gives a detailed history of the kings and queens of Britain, ranging from mythical and early pre-conquest rulers to the present House of Windsor. Covering English, Scottish,...

Somewhere Inside is the electrifying, never-before-told story of Laura Ling's capture by the North Koreans in March 2009, and the efforts of her sister, journalist Lisa Ling, to secure Laura's...

Lord Hailsham is best known for his long service as Lord Chancellor. In his memoir, he reflects on the nature of that office and on what he achieved during his...

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Edition: 1st us ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: ExcellentJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in American history embodied contradiction as magnificently as Daniel Edgar Sickles — congressman, adulterer, killer, and one-legged Civil...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Light foxing on book block. In the blood-soaked fields of Virginia, where glory and...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: unclipped dj. In the mud and fire of fifteenth-century France, a teenage peasant girl hears the voice of...

This is a controversial look at the events surrounding the Allied disaster of the battles of Savo Island and Guadalcanal, and the sinking of the "Canberra". Bruce Loxton (who served...

The definitive history of the military's decades-long investigation into mental powers and phenomena. This is a book about a team of scientists and psychics with top secret clearances. For more...

The story of how a desperate clandestine mission in Norway ended the Nazi dream of building the atomic bomb.

From the moment Tim Collins's speech to his men in Iraq was made public, this soldier-thinker became a hero and an inspiration to world leaders and infantrymen alike. To a...

Richard tomlinson was recruited by M16, the British foreign intelligence service, during his final year at Cambridge University. He was relied on to smuggle nuclear secrets out of Moscow, to...

A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the...

A riveting history of the Nazi conquest of Western Europe This is the story of the Nazi conquest of western Europe, from Hitler's rise to power and 'lightning-fast war', to...

This text offers a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of the history of Ireland. Written by a team of more than 80 distinguished historians, its 1800 entries explore every aspect...

Geoffrey of Monmouth's history - or legend - of the earliest kings of Britain Completed in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britain traces the story of the realm...

"[A] deeply researched, keenly analytical, and frequently provocative chronicle of this singular judicial entity. . . . A senior legal analyst for CNN and former assistant U.S. attorney, Honig is...

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'A rigorous and thoughtful study of what has happened on battlefields over the past eight decades' THE TIMES 'A hugely important book ... elegantly written and persuasively...

An unprecedented, page-turning narrative of the Nazi rise to power, the Holocaust, and Hitler's post-invasion plans for Russia told through the recently discovered lost diary of Alfred Rosenberg - Hitler's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFor anyone navigating the bridge between English and German, The New Schoffler-Weis Compact German and English Dictionary stands as an indispensable linguistic companion, presenting a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodOne of the most intimate firsthand accounts of a revolutionary in flight, With Trotsky in Exile: From Prinkipo to Coyoacán chronicles seven tumultuous years...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodAt the intersection of Cold War politics and Soviet ideological history stands one of the most comprehensive documentary records ever assembled of the Communist Party of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Previous owner annotations / underlining. At the dawn of the Soviet era, the Bolshevik revolution sent shockwaves far beyond...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhen Cyclone Tracy tore through Darwin on Christmas Eve 1974, it left behind a city in ruins and a nation in shock — and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the turbulent spring of 1958, France stood on the precipice of collapse — its government paralysed, its empire fracturing, and its army in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in modern history have reshaped the course of human civilization as profoundly as Karl Marx, and Werner Blumenberg's Karl Marx: An Illustrated...