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Memorandum on the Prussian Army in Relation to the Campaign of 1866
Long out of print, and with copies extremely hard to come by, Reilly's Memorandum on the Prussian Army in Relation to the Campaign of 1866 was written by a professional...
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: Jack the Ripper. Using...
Captive Queen: The Decrypted History of Mary, Queen of Scots
In Captive Queen: The Decrypted History of Mary, Queen of Scots , Jade Scott, a historian and expert on Mary's correspondence, draws on hundreds of her encrypted letters to paint...
The Thinking Heart: On Israel and Palestine
A hundred and fifty years of conflict. What does that do to a person's soul, to the spirit of a nation? To both the occupied and the occupier? *Winner of...
City of Light
A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century rebuilding of Paris as the most beautiful city in the world, as part of the stunning Landmark Library series. 'This really is an impressive...
Posh Boys: How English Public Schools Ruin Britain
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'The latest in the series of powerful books on the divisions in modern Britain, and will take its place on many bookshelves beside Reni Eddo-Lodge's Why I'm No Longer Talking...
Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe
A BBC History magazine Book of the Year and an amazon.com Best Book of the Month Two childhood companions, now matriarchs of two opposing powers, calmly set their menfolk aside...
30-Second Napoleon: The 50 fundamentals of his life, strategies, and
Almost two centuries since his death, Napoleon Bonaparte remains the subject of vigorous debate. On one side are those with a romantic attachment to ideals of liberty and democracy, on...
Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War: 1938-1941
A Times Book of the Year 'Britain's wartime story has been told many times, but never as cleverly as this.' - Dominic Sandbrook In the bleak first half of the...
The Union: England, Scotland and the Treaty of 1707
In this fresh and challenging look at the origins of the United Kingdom, Michael Fry focuses on the years which led up to the Union of 1707, setting the political...
First Victory
HMAS Sydney's hunt for the German raider, Emden. In the opening months of the First World War, Emden s trail of destruction was tremendous. This one small ship and her...
A History of the English-speaking Peoples
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An authoritative survey of the history of English-speaking peoples throughout the world combines intriguing, closely observed biographical profiles--of Alfred the Great, Victoria, Joan of Arc, Lincoln, and other notables--with an...
Hitler: The Memoir of the Nazi Insider Who Turned Against the Fuhrer
Of American and German parentage, Ernst Hanfstaengl graduated from Harvard and ran the family business in New York for a dozen years before returning to Germany in 1921. By chance...
Once a Marine: An Iraq War Tank Commander's Inspirational Memoir of
May 6, 1986: Nick Popaditch arrives at the Receiving Barracks, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, California. April 9, 2003: An AP photographer captures a striking image seen around the...
Aesop's Fables: A New Translation
From a renowned scholar and translator, the definitive translation of Aesop's Fables Aesop's fables are among the most familiar and best-loved stories in the world. Tales like "The Tortoise and...
The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy
In The Story of Scandinavia , political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queens, war, peace, language and culture....
The Stones of London: A History in Twelve Buildings
The story of London, told through twelve of its most seminal buildings. 'Excellent ...this is an imaginative book that finds a convincing new way to tell the story of one...
Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis I, Charles V, Suleiman the
Four great princes - Henry VIII of England, Francis I of France, Charles V of Spain and Suleiman the Magnificent - were born within a single decade. Each looms large...
The Victors: The Men of WWII
The Victors is a breathtaking new work from bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose, author of the classic book Band of Brothers . It follows the momentous events of the Second...
Why Spencer Perceval Had to Die: The Assassination of a British Prime
On 11 May 1812 Spencer Perceval, the British Prime Minister, was fatally shot at close range in the lobby of the House of Commons. In the confused aftermath, his assailant,...
Hazard Spectrum: To The Limit - And Beyond With Britain's Top Test
' Nerve-shattering, enlightening and deeply moving' - JOHN NICHOL 'A powerful and compelling read' - ROWLAND WHITE On 5 December 2002, trainee pilot Nathan Gray walked away from an 'unsurvivable'...
Shadow Child: A Memoir of the Stolen Generation
An account of the social injustice meted out to Aboriginal Australians.
Women of the Raj: The Mothers, Wives, and Daughters of the British
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In the nineteenth century, at the height of colonialism, the British ruled India under a government known as the Raj. British men and women left their homes and traveled to...
Young Stalin
Stalin remains, like Hitler, the personification of evil. This enthralling biography reads like a thriller and reveals the extraordinary journey of the Georgian cobbler's son who became the Red Tsar....
King Mob
This is an account of the Gordon Riots, one of the most violent outbreaks of popular protest in British history. In 1780, Lord George Gordon MP led 50,000 people to...
The Black Hole of Calcutta
From 1600 the English East India Company traded with the Indian sub-continent, tried to avoid becoming involved in internal politics, and made fortunes for its principal employees. But one event...
Colonel Blood: The Man Who Stole the Crown Jewels
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Thomas Blood (1618-80) was a celebrity in his own lifetime, even though this celebrity was based on infamy. A turncoat, spy and double agent, Blood is most notorious for being...
Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire
For much of the modern era, the British Empire was the largest and greatest in the world, on which, it was truly observed, the sun never set. It encompassed almost...
Runaway
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Runaway is not only a powerful account of a singularly spirited girl's growing up, it involves issues which concern us all - the traumatic effects of family breakdown.
Muqtada Al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq
Muqtada al-Sadr's men are killing more British troops than any other group in the world today. Cleric, militia leader and fiercely anti-American politician, Muqtada's combination of nationalism and religious fervour...
Through Australian Eyes
In the last quarter of the nineteenth-century, around 200,000 visitors from Australia landed in Britain. As members of the colonial elite, they sailed to the Old Country to experience their...
A Military History of Australia
A Military History of Australia provides a detailed chronological narrative of Australia's wars across more than two hundred years, set in the contexts of defence and strategic policy, the development...
The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke
Wilhelm Von Habsburg wore the uniform of the Austrian officer, the court regalia of a Habsburg archduke, the simple suit of a Parisian exile, the collar of the Order of...
No Vulgar Hotel: The Desire and Pursuit of Venice
Love of Venice can strike anyone, not just romantic wusses. Among the toughies with serious cases were Lord Byron, Richard Wagner, Ezra Pound, and Ernest Hemingway. Symptoms include: Wishing that...
No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape from the Nazis, 'utterly
'A stunning book, a powerful investigation, utterly compelling,' James Holland, The Daily Telegraph , Five stars 'Terrifying' Simon Schama Ponar, Lithuania. 1944. The Nazis have enslaved Jewish men to exhume...
No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape from the Nazis, 'utterly
'A stunning book, a powerful investigation, utterly compelling,' James Holland, The Daily Telegraph , Five stars 'Terrifying' Simon Schama Ponar, Lithuania. 1944. The Nazis have enslaved Jewish men to exhume...
John Wesley: A Brand From The Burning: The Life of John Wesley
John Wesley led the Second English Reformation. His Methodist 'Connexion' was divided from the Church of England, not by dogma and doctrine but by the new relationship which it created...
We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[A] delectable double bio . . . Talk about Victoria's secret. . . . A fascinating portrait of a genuine love match, but one in which...
Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale
This biography reveals Ottoline Morrell, London's leading literary hostess during the first three decades of the 20th century. Augustus John, the Asquiths, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf...
Hellfire: The Story of Australia, Japan and the Prisoners of War
For months during 1943 there was no night in Hellfire Pass. By the light of flares, carbide lamps and bamboo fires, men near-naked and skeletal cut a passage through stone...
White Rajah
Sir James Brooke was an extraordinary "eminent" Victorian, whose life is the stuff of legend. His curious career began in 1841 when he was caught up in a war in...
Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of
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"Riveting. . . a testament to a misconceived war, and to the ease with which ordinary men, under certain conditions, can transform into monsters."- New York Times Book Review This...
Clarissa Eden: A Memoir - From Churchill To Eden
The untold story of life as a Churchill and Prime Minister's wife. Winston Churchill was Clarissa's uncle. When she married the 55-year-old Anthony Eden, then Foreign Secretary, the crowds roared...
The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951
Are these the best diaries covering Britain in the first half of the twentieth century? But what about those of Chips Channon, Harold Nicolson, John Colville, Lord Alanbrooke? (this list...
Admiral Collingwood: Nelson's Own Hero
Max Adams is a TV writer & presenter who has travelled the world to research the story of Admiral Collingwood, Nelson's great friend -- and at one point, rival in...
Defying Hitler: A Memoir
Sebastian Haffner was a non-Jewish German who emigrated to England in 1938. This memoir (written in 1939 but not published until now) begins in 1914 when the family summer holiday...