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George Mackay Brown
Author: Maggie Fergusson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 George Mackay Brown was one of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century writers, but in person a bundle of paradoxes. He had a wide...
Age of Danger: Keeping America Safe in an Era of New Superpowers, New Weapons, and New Threats
Author: Andrew Hoehn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Again and again, American taxpayers are asked to open their wallets and pay for a national security machine that costs $1...
From Mons to Mali: Fifty Extraordinary and Little-Known Vignettes of British and Commonwealth Airmen in Action since 1914
Author: Andrew Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Acclaimed author Andrew Thomas has chosen fifty fascinating cameos of individual actions or incidents across a wide variety of major and...
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida: Winner of the Booker Prize 2022
Author: Shehan Karunatilaka Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet queen, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa...
The Verdict: Did Labour Change Britain?
Author: David Walker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Did the Labour government improve people's lives? Are we healthier, wealthier or wiser; happier or safer than in 1997, when Labour...
Footsloggers: An Infantry Battalion at War, 1939-45
Author: Peter Hart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The only way to truly understand what it was like to fight in the Second World War is to listen to...
Rome: Eternal City
Author: Ferdinand Addis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 648 A portrait of the city at the heart of Western civilization, brought to life in twenty-two scenes from its 2,500-year history....
The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal
Author: Simon Parkin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 The police came for Peter Fleischmann in the early hours. It reminded the teenager of the Gestapo's moonlit roundups he had...
Five Love Affairs and a Friendship: The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age
Author: Anne de Courcy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Born in March 1896, Nancy Cunard was a great beauty, rich, promiscuous, with a mesmeric effect on men. She was...
SEAL Team Six Book 4: Hunt the Jackal
Author: Don Mann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 When a Senator's wife and teenage daughter are kidnapped, Crocker and SEAL Team Six are sent to the cities of Mexico...
Drinking for England: The Great English Drinkers and Their Times
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Second World War
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Forged by Blood (The Tainted Blood Duology, Book 1)
Author: Ehigbor Okosun Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The first book in an action-packed, poignant duology inspired by Nigerian mythology Demi just wants to survive: to avoid the suspicion...
Hidden Heritage: Rediscovering Britain's Lost Love of the Orient
Author: Fatima Manji Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Channel 4 News reporter and broadcaster Fatima Manji explores British history and identity through the art, objects and architecture that found...
The Shoulders We Stand On: How Black and Brown people fought for change in the United Kingdom
Author: Preeti Dhillon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The UK is grappling with big questions about belonging, equality, and the legacies of Empire and Colonialism. We've been here before....
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 Mercenary: A Story of Brotherhood and Terror in the Afghanistan War
Author: Jeffrey Stern Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In the early days of the Afghanistan war, Jeff Stern was scouring the streets of Kabul for a big story. He...
Goose Green: The decisive battle of the Falklands War - by the British troops who fought it
Author: Nigel Ely Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Published to mark the fortieth anniversary of the Falklands war 'There was a time when we did extraordinary things.' On 28...
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...
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...
Twilight Cities: Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean
Author: Katherine Pangonis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Its name means 'centre of the world', and since the dawn of history the Mediterranean Sea has formed the shared horizon...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
Go Spy the Land: Being the Adventures of Ik8 of the British Secret Service
Author: George Alexander Hill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The latest in Biteback's best-selling Dialogue Espionage Classics series of rediscovered spy masterpieces, Go Spy the Land is George Alexander...
The Borgias
Author: Christopher Hibbert Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. The powerful, voracious Rodrigo...
Our War: How the British Commonwealth Fought the Second World War
Author: Christopher Somerville Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Never heard before real stories of soldiers who fought in WW2 'Extraordinary ...If they had not made our war their war...
Soldier, Spy: A Survivor's Tale
Author: Victor Gregg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Beginning in 1946, when Victor Gregg was demobbed after the end of the Second World War and deposited in London Paddington,...
Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the West - 'Magisterial' Books of the Year, Independent
Author: Tom Holland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality....
Lighting the Fuse: Stories from Britain's first female bomb disposal expert
Author: Lucy Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Imagine standing over a bomb - you need to make a choice. Remember, your life depends on it. In this extraordinary...
The Windsors at War: The Nazi Threat to the Crown
Author: Alexander Larman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 At the outbreak of WW2, the British monarchy was in a state of turmoil. The previous king, Edward VIII, had abdicated...
A Brief History of the British Monarchy: From the Iron Age to King Charles III
Author: Jeremy Black Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The British monarchy is at a turning point. Concise and engaging, this book charts the very beginnings of British reign through...
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...
Bolla
Author: Pajtim Statovci Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'Devastating in the most beautiful ways.' - Torrey Peters'Superb . . . Statovci is a major talent.' - New York Times...
All the Demons Are Here: A Thriller
Author: Jake Tapper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 It's 1977. Ike and Lucy, the kids of Senator Charlie and Margaret Marder, are grown up-and in trouble. US Marine Ike...
Footsloggers: An Infantry Battalion at War, 1939-45
Author: Peter Hart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The only way to truly understand what it was like to fight in the Second World War is to listen to...
War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian Resistance
Author: Mikhail Zygar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'History is made up of myths,' writes the renowned Russian dissident journalist Mikhail Zygar. 'Alas, our myths led us to the...
The Sky Wept Fire: My Life as a Chechen Freedom Fighter
Author: Mikail Eldin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 On the eve of the first Chechen war, Mikail Eldin was a young and naive arts journalist. By the end of...
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...
In the Company of Heroes: The Inspiring Stories of Medal of Honor Recipients from America's Longest Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
Author: James Kitfield Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 An award-winning military journalist tells the amazing stories of twenty-five soldiers who've won the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military...
The Windsor Diaries: A childhood with the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret
Author: Alathea Fitzalan Howard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 **SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **A...
A Brief History of the Crusades
Author: Geoffrey Hindley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Why did the medieval Church bless William of Normandy's invasion of Christian England in 1066 and authorise cultural genocide in Provence?...