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His Finest Hour: A Brief Life of Winston Churchill
Author: Christopher Catherwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'A gem. Brief, authoritative and fair in its judgements - an intensely readable introduction to this most complex and fascinating man'...
Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era
Author: Alwyn Turner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 'The very best sort of panoramic portrait' David Kynaston 'The Edwardians have long been the lost decade of British history, yet...
Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-39
Author: Florian Illies Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Strikingly original, utterly absorbing' Julia Boyd, author of Travellers in the Third ReichA Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023'1930s Europe...
Facing Armageddon: The First World War Experienced
Author: Hugh Cecil Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 938 'Facing Armageddon' is a major collection of scholarly work on the 1914-18 war that explores, on a worldwide basis, the real...
Men at War: Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945
Author: Luke Turner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 As the Second World War moves beyond living memory and its last veterans leave us, we are in danger of losing...
Command: How the Allies Learned to Win the Second World War
Author: Al Murray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Al Murray's passion for military history and the Second World War in particular has always run parallel with his comedy and...
Among You Taking Notes...
Author: Naomi Mitchison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'As in a good novel, the people, their feelings and reactions are instantly recognisable and as fresh and immediate today as...
The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951
Author: Lord John Julius Norwich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 The long awaited and highly revealing diaries of the politician, diplomat, and socialite (married to Lady Diana Cooper) 'This...
Hazard Spectrum: Life in The Danger Zone by the Fleet Air Arm's Top Gun
Author: Nathan Gray Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Nerve-shattering, enlightening and deeply moving' - JOHN NICHOL 'A powerful and compelling read' - ROWLAND WHITE On 5 December 2002, trainee...
Elizabeth and Philip: A Story of Young Love, Marriage and Monarchy
Author: Tessa Dunlop Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A riveting take on an extraordinary relationship' - Richard Eden, Daily Mail 'A fresh and original approach' - Hugo Vickers, Royal...
That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
Author: Anne Sebba Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 One of Britain's most distinguished biographers turns her focus on one of the most vilified women of the twentieth century. Historian...
The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War
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Author: Arkady Ostrovsky Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE WINNER OF THE CORNELIUS RYAN AWARD FINALIST FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF...
No Crying in Baseball: The Inside Story of A League of Their Own: Big Stars, Dugout Drama, and a Home Run for Hollywood
Author: Erin Carlson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 No Crying in Baseball is a rollicking, revelatory deep dive into a one-of-a-kind film. Before A League of Their Own, few...
The New Royals: Queen Elizabeth's Legacy and the Future of the Crown
Author: Katie Nicholl Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 For seventy years, Queen Elizabeth ruled over an institution and a family. During her lifetime she was constant in her desire...
Places and Names: On War, Revolution and Returning
Author: Elliot Ackerman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Elliot Ackerman's exceptional memoir is a superb, unique and unforgettable story of war and death, fear and cruelty, above all the...
SAS Forged in Hell: From Desert Rats to Dogs of War: The Mavericks who Made the SAS
Author: Damien Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A Waterstones Best History Book of 2023 The incredible true story of the SAS' daring mission to liberate Europe In the...
Rebellion (Eagles of Empire 22)
Author: Simon Scarrow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 'Roman discipline clashes with ferocious hordes in Scarrow's epic mix of sword, sweat and savagery' THE SUN 1st-century Britannia is the...
Among You Taking Notes...
Author: Naomi Mitchison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'As in a good novel, the people, their feelings and reactions are instantly recognisable and as fresh and immediate today as...
People Power: Fighting for Peace from the First World War to the Present
Author: Lyn Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 People Power charts the history of the anti-war movement in the UK from the outbreak of the First World War to...
Hell's Foundations: Town, Its Myths and Gallipoli
Author: Geoffrey Moorhouse Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Australians, New Zealanders, Indians, the French and the Turks all have reason to remember Gallipoli, but in this book the author...
Lotharingia: A Personal History of Europe's Lost Country
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After the Victorians: The Decline of Britain in the World
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Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832
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Staging the People: The Proletarian and His Double
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SAS Forged in Hell: From Desert Rats to Dogs of War: The Mavericks who Made the SAS
Author: Damien Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A Waterstones Best History Book of 2023 The incredible true story of the SAS' daring mission to liberate Europe In the...
Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth
Author: Keiron Pim Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 The brilliant, mercurial, self-mythologising novelist and journalist Joseph Roth, author of the European 20th century masterpiece The Radetzky March, was an...
Gentleman Jack: A biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer and Secret Diarist
Author: Katy Derbyshire Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The extraordinary life of history's first modern lesbian who inspired the television series Gentleman Jack. Anne Lister's journals were so shocking...
Turkiye: Cycling Through a Country's First Century
Author: Julian Sayarer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "A deeply thoughtful, gripping and scrupulous book told in Sayarer's trademark style from the saddle and the roadside" CAROLINE EDEN By...
UKRAINE The Forging of a Nation
Author: Yaroslav Hrytsak Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'Both pioneering and fundamental. This is the essential history of Ukraine, from one of the greatest Ukrainian thinkers and scholars.' Timothy...
Paris Requiem: From the Winner of the HWA Gold Crown for Best Historical Fiction
Author: Chris Lloyd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'In Detective Eddie Giral, Chris Lloyd has created a flawed hero not just for occupied Paris, but for our own times,...
Wellington: A Journey Through My Family
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Henry VIII and the men who made him: The secret history behind the Tudor throne
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Lions, Donkeys And Dinosaurs
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Isle of Wight in the Great War
Author: Meirion Trow Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 The Isle of Wight went to war in August 1914 along with the rest of Britain. German waiters were arrested. The...
The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy
Author: Stein Ringen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises,...
Soldier Secretary: Warnings from the Battlefield & the Pentagon about America's Most Dangerous Enemies
Author: Christopher C. Miller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "This is an important book for the country." -- Sean Hannity If you know one thing about Chris Miller, it's...
Lightning Boys: True Tales from Pilots of the English Electric Lightning
Author: Richard Pike Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 First published in 2011 to wide acclaim, Lightning Boys is now available in paperback for the first time as part of...
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...
The Last Sanctuary in Aleppo: A remarkable true story of courage, hope and survival
Author: Alaa Aljaleel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 "I'll stay with them no matter what happens. Someone who has mercy in his heart for humans has mercy for every...
Endgame
Author: Omid Scobie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The explosive new book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the international blockbuster Finding Freedom, Endgame a penetrating...
Rogue Forces: An explosive insiders' account of Australian SAS war crimes in Afghanistan
Author: Mark Willacy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Winner of the 2022 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-fiction. Shortlisted for NSW Premier's Literary Award's Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction....
Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds
Author: Simon IngsFormat: Hardback, 158mm x 236mm, 608g, 368 pagesPublished: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2024Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN...
The Red Hotel: The Untold Story of Stalin's Disinformation War
Author: Alan PhilpsFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 340g, 464 pagesPublished: Headline Publishing Group, United Kingdom, 2024'A riveting trip down the corridors of Soviet deception' Sunday Telegraph (Five-Star Review)'Philps' book vindicates...
The Mysterious Mrs Hood: A True Victorian Mystery of Scandal, Arson, Murder & Betrayal
Author: Kim DonovanFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 260g, 288 pagesPublished: Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, 2024'A gripping story of a cold-blooded murder... This is true crime at its best' Wendy...
A Brief History of the British Monarchy: From the Iron Age to King Charles III
Author: Jeremy BlackFormat: Paperback, 124mm x 196mm, 200g, 256 pagesPublished: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2024The British monarchy is at a turning point. Concise and engaging, this book charts...
SAS Italian Job: The Secret Mission to Storm a Forbidden Nazi Fortress
Author: Damien LewisFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 300g, 416 pagesPublished: Quercus Publishing, United Kingdom, 2019Praise for Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author Damien Lewis' SAS mission series:'One of the great untold...
Operation Biting: The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler's Radar
Author: Max Hastings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER 'Reads like a thriller... I couldn't put Max Hastings's new book down' DAILY MAIL 'Hastings is...
Hitler's British Isles
Author: Duncan Barrett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 True-life recollections from the Channel Islanders who were the only British subjects to live under Nazi rule in WWII. 'Barrett has...