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The Age Of Capital: 1848-1875
Author: Eric Hobsbawm Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The first and best, major treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875, a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism...
Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History
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Author: Roy Adkins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 A rip-roaring account of the dramatic four-year siege of Britain's Mediterranean garrison by Spain and France--an overlooked key to the British...
This is Rembrandt
Author: Jorella Andrews Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 Rembrandt van Rijn is the quintessential Old Master. His intimately observed, vivid and profoundly atmospheric works are what many museum-goers consider...
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Author: Anderson Cooper Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine...
History Bargain Book Box (18 Books)
Unlock the past with this amazing History Bargain Book Box. Perfect for the history enthusiast, this box contains a broad range of topics all for an amazing price. Expand your...
This is Matisse
Author: Catherine Ingram Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 In the history of twentieth century modernism, Henri Matisse is a calm and unstoppable revolution of creative genius. Trained originally in...
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
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Author: Jung Chang Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled through a hundred years of wars, revolutions and seismic...
Sicily '43: A Times Book of the Year
Author: James Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 From the bestselling author of Normandy '44, containing new and unpublished research, this is the largely untold story of...
Napoleon the Great
Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 976 The definitive modern biography of Napoleon - now in paperback Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of...
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
Author: Sudhir Hazareesingh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero The Haitian Revolution began in...
Conquistadores
Author: Fernando Cervantes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A riveting new history of Spanish imperialism, and the men who laid its foundations The 'conquistadores', the early explorers...
The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance
Author: Catherine Fletcher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 An imaginative and revelatory new history of the Italian Renaissance that challenges our preconceptions of the era *A THE...
Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation
Author: Roderick Beaton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A history of modern Greece by one of the pre-eminent experts in the field We think we know ancient...
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Author: Amy Stanley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A groundbreaking new history of Edo, now modern-day Tokyo, that will change our understanding of Japanese history, placing women's...
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
Author: Lindsey Fitzharris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The spellbinding story of a visionary British surgeon who changed medicine forever In The Butchering Art, historian Lindsey Fitzharris...
Histories of the Unexpected: The Tudors
Author: Dr Sam Willis (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 At Histories of the Unexpected, we believe that everything has a history - even the most unexpected of subjects...
The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed, 1600-1900
Author: T. M. Devine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The definitive history of the terrible process by which much of Scotland was 'cleared' of many inhabitants, written...
The Warrior and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation
Author: Peter Cozzens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 'Marvellous... One of the best pieces of Native American history I have read.' - S.C. Gwynne, bestselling author of Empire of...
All Things Made New: Writings on the Reformation
Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A brilliant kaleidoscope on the Reformation from 'one of the best historians writing in English today' (Sunday Telegraph) The...
The Black Joke: The True Story of One British Ship's Battle Against the Slave Trade
Author: A. E. Rooks Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Initially a slaving vessel itself, the Black Joke was captured in 1827 and repurposed by the Royal Navy to catch...
The Journals of Captain Cook
Author: Captain James Cook Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and 1779. In voyages that ranged from...
London's Triumph: Merchant Adventurers and the Tudor City
Author: Stephen Alford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The story of the individuals whose ambition and recklessness transformed London, England and the world. Life in Europe was...
The Perfect House: A Journey with the Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio
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Author: Witold Rybczynski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Renaissance master Andrea Palladio's architectural DNA can be seen on modern-day icons from Buckingham Palace to the White House,...
God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution
Author: Christopher Hill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The classic life of Cromwell by one of Britain's great radical historians A nuanced biography of Oliver Cromwell, breaking...
Letters to Camondo
Author: Edmund de Waal Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 A haunting sequence of imagined letters to the Count de Camondo -- the owner of a Parisian palace filled with...
Terra Australis
Author: Matthew Finders Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 282 Introduced by Tim Flannery The vast interior of this new continent was wrapped in total obscurity; and excited, perhaps...
Faust, Part I
Author: Goethe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Goethe's Faust reworks the late medieval myth of Dr Faust, a brilliant scholar so disillusioned he resolves to make a...
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Author: Anderson Cooper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Now in paperback, the #1 New York Times bestselling chronicle of the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty, from...
Nicholas Nickleby
Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 One of the touchstones of the English comic novel, the Penguin Classics edition of Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby is...
The Anxious Triumph: A Global History of Capitalism, 1860-1914
Author: Donald Sassoon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 The acclaimed magnum opus of one of Britain's most wide-ranging historians Capitalist enterprise has existed in some form since...
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
Author: E. T. A. Hoffmann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Tomcat Murr is a loveable, self-taught animal who has written his own autobiography. But a printer's error...
Grog: A Bottled History of Australia's First 30 Years
Author: Tom Gilling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The marines on the First Fleet refused to sail without it. Convicts risked their necks to get hold of...
Lady Audley's Secret
Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Weathering critical scorn, Lady Audley's Secret quickly established Mary Elizabeth Braddon as the leading light of Victorian 'sensation'...
Desperate Remedies
Author: Thomas Hardy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Hardy described Desperate Remedies as a tale of 'mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity'. Cytherea has taken a position...
The Great Commanders of the Modern World 1866-1975
Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Great Commanders of the Modern World is a sumptuous chronological survey of the 25 greatest commanders of the modern...
Elegance in Exile: Portrait Drawings from Colonial Australia
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Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Author: Anderson Cooper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Now in paperback, the #1 New York Times bestselling chronicle of the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty, from...