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The Long Road to Lavender Cottage
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Peter's Wars: A Memoir
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
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Marcel Caux: A Life Unravelled
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Where Poppies Blow: The British Soldier, Nature, the Great War
Winner of the 2017 Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize for nature writingThe natural history of the Western Front during the First World War'If it weren't for the birds, what a...
The Story of Britain: From the Romans to the Present
'A triumph' INDEPENDENT'A thought-provoking and indispensable book' DAILY MAIL'An instant classic ... I have been reading it with unalloyed admiration and delight' EVENING STANDARDRoy Strong has written an exemplary introduction...
One-Armed Jack: Uncovering the Real Jack the Ripper
This highly revelatory book, based on original research and completely new analysis, presents a compelling new suspect as the most notorious serial killer of all time. Using a different analytical...
Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses
In the long run, we're all dead. But for some of the most influential figures in history, death marked the start of a new adventure. The famous deceased have been...
Queen Elizabeth II
Rod Green explores the personal and political intrigues that have dogged the House of Windsor, including the Queen's fascinating relationships with prime ministers from Winston Churchill and Antony Eden to...
By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA New Yorker Best Book of 2024 * An Esquire Best Book of Fall 2024 * Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Finalist...
Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age
The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance networks of World...
Hazard Spectrum: Life in The Danger Zone by the Fleet Air Arm's Top
'Nerve-shattering, enlightening and deeply moving' - JOHN NICHOL'A powerful and compelling read' - ROWLAND WHITEOn 5 December 2002, trainee pilot Nathan Gray walked away from an 'unsurvivable' crash at RAF...
The Rescue: The True Story of the SAS Mission to Save Hostages from
The thrilling retelling of a real-life hostage rescue mission, by SAS hero and million-selling author, Andy McNab.It is 2012 and in Northern Afghanistan, an international crisis has erupted.A group of...
Our Stories: 75 Years of the NHS from the People Who Built It, Lived
FOREWORD BY ADAM KAY, AUTHOR OF THIS IS GOING TO HURTPortion of proceeds go to NHS Charities Together.A beautiful and heart-warming collection of stories, this landmark publication tells, for the...
Ghosts of Passion: Martyrdom, Gender, and the Origins of the Spanish
The question of what caused the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) is the central focus of modern Spanish historiography. In Ghosts of Passion, Brian D. Bunk argues that propaganda related to...
Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, and History
Harriet Tubman is one of America's most beloved historical figures, revered alongside luminaries including Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, and History tells the fascinating story of...
The Discovery and Conquest of Peru
Dazzled by the sight of the vast treasures being unloaded at Seville's docks in 1537, Pedro de Cieza de Leun decided to join the Spanish effort in the New World,...
Understand Roman Civilization: Teach Yourself
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Task Force Helmand: A Soldier's Story of Life, Death and Combat on the Afghan Front Line
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Phoenix Triumphant: The Rise and Rise of the Luftwaffe
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Author: E. R. HootonBinding: HardbackPublished: Brockhampton Press, 1999, ReprintCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis study outlines the birth, development, expansion and success of the Luftwaffe, the most...
Behind the Lines: One Woman's War 1914-1918: The Letters of Caroline Ethel Cooper
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Author: Caroline Ethel CooperBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins, 1982Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book compiles the poignant letters of Caroline Ethel Cooper, offering a unique perspective on the...
Monitor: the Story of the Legendary Civil War Ironclad and the Man Whose Invention Charged the Course of History
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Author: James Tertius DekayBinding: SoftbackPublished: Walker Co, 1997, Third PrintingCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerOn March 9 1862, an epic battle was fought that not only affected...
The Sixth Year of War in Pictures
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Author: No stated authorBinding: HardbackPublished: The Sun News-Pictorial, 1111Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis vintage book is the 6th in a series of pictorial accounts of the...
History of European Morals (Volume II)
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Author: W.E.H. LeckyBinding: HardbackPublished: Longmans, 1920, New Impression Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis volume continues the exploration of the development of moral ideas in...
No Green Pastures
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Author: Roi OttleyBinding: HardbackPublished: John Murray, 1952, First G.B. EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerNo Green Pastures is a compelling narrative that explores themes of struggle and...
Journal for the Society for Army Historical Research Volume II
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Author: Various:Binding: HardbackPublished: Arms and Armour Press, 1974Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThis volume of the Journal for the Society for Army Historical Research features...
Assignment to Catastrophe Vol II: The Fall of France, June 1940
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Author: Sir Edward L. SpearsBinding: HardbackPublished: Heinemann, 1954Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis book, written by Major General Sir Edward Spears, explores the events leading to the...
The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict (SIGNED)
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Author: Andrew PettegreeBinding: HardbackPublished: Profile Books, 2023, First EditionCondition remarks:Book: ExcellentJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: SignedThis book explores the role of libraries and reading in times of conflict, examining how these institutions...
Eastern Epic Volume 1, September 1939-March 1943
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Author: Mackenzie, ComptonBinding: HardbackPublished: Chatto & Windus, 1951, First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis book is the first volume in a series that chronicles the events and dynamics...
SAS: The Illustrated History of the SAS
The authorised illustrated history of the SAS by the number one bestselling author of Dunkirk, Joshua Levine. With never-before-seen photographs and unheard stories, this is the SAS's wartime history in...
The War Diaries: World War II Written by the People Who Lived Through
Based on select writings from an exceptional Amsterdam archive containing more than two thousand Dutch diaries from World War II, The War Diaries illuminates a part of history we haven't...
Birding to Change the World: A Memoir
In this uplifting memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, social change, and protecting the environment.Trish O'Kane is an accidental ornithologist. In her nearly...
Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World
A Times and Sunday Times Book of the YearA Wall Street Journal Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the YearA Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearA New Yorker...
God's Ghostwriters
'Monumental and eye-opening' Reza Aslan'A revelation [...and...] an intellectual triumph' Irish Independent'[A] massive achievement' Spectator'Refreshingly readable' Guardian For the past two thousand years, Christian tradition, scholarship, and pop culture has...
Birding to Change the World: A Memoir
In this uplifting memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, social change, and protecting the environment.Trish O'Kane is an accidental ornithologist. In her nearly...
Unleashed
THE UNMISSABLE, UNVARNISHED MEMOIRS OF BORIS JOHNSONA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES, TELEGRAPH, TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES'ABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVE' ED BALLS'SENSATIONAL' DAILY MAIL Boris Johnson has...
README.txt: A Memoir
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God's Ghostwriters
'Monumental and eye-opening' Reza Aslan'A revelation [...and...] an intellectual triumph' Irish Independent'[A] massive achievement' Spectator'Refreshingly readable' Guardian For the past two thousand years, Christian tradition, scholarship, and pop culture has...
The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'An absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year' Sunday Telegraph 'On nearly every...
Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia
'A brilliant book' Alastair Campbell, The Rest is Politics'The essential, must-read insider account of the West's cat and mouse economic warfare against Russia and how it is changing the face...
A Woman Lived Here: Alternative Blue Plaques, Remembering London's
'A pretty awesome present for the feminist in your life' - Caroline Criado Perez, OBE, author of Do It Like a WomanAt the last count, the Blue Plaque Guide honours...
Men at War: Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945
As the Second World War moves beyond living memory and its last veterans leave us, we are in danger of losing our opportunity to understand the reality behind the conflict's...
In Shakespeare's Shadow: A Rogue Scholar's Quest to Reveal the True
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What if Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare . . . but someone else wrote him first? Acclaimed author of The Map Thief, Michael Blanding presents the twinning narratives of renegade scholar Dennis...
SAS Great Escapes Two: Six Untold Epic Escapes Made by World War Two
'Damien Lewis is both a meticulous historian and a born storyteller' Lee ChildSAS Great Escapes Two recounts the hitherto untold stories of six of the most dramatic and daring escapes...
SAS - Battle Ready: True Stories from Memorable Missions Around the
The Special Air Service - the SAS - are known to be the greatest elite fighting force in the world. This book focuses on the most famous operations undertaken by...
Lady Caroline Lamb: A Free Spirit
From the outset, Caroline Lamb had a rebellious nature. From childhood she grew increasingly troublesome, experimenting with sedatives like laudanum, and she had a special governess to control her. She...
Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh, leading to the January 6 insurrection-from acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin.Timothy McVeigh wanted to start...
The Ticket Collector from Belarus: An Extraordinary True Story of
'Brilliantly gripping' Sunday Times; 'Compelling' Daily Mail; 'Heart-rending' Sunday Telegraph; 'Excellent' The Times; 'Engrossing' Independent The UK's only war crimes trial took place in 1999 and had its origins in...