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Fear: An Alternative History of the World
Author: Robert Peckham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 It's been said that, after 9/11, the 2008 financial crash and the Covid-19 pandemic, we're a more fearful society than ever...
Invisible Child: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction 2022
Author: Andrea Elliott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 From Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Andrea Elliott, comes the unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, poverty...
Ghost Flames: Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953
Author: Charles J. Hanley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 Although it was then perceived as a far-off and inconclusive engagement, the Korean War was a highly consequential and deeply...
A Castle in Wartime: One Family, Their Missing Sons, and the Fight to Defeat the Nazis
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Author: Catherine Bailey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 "I was gripped by A Castle in Wartime--it contained more tension, more plot in fact--than any thriller."--Kate Atkinson, author of Big...
The World According to Joan Didion
Author: Evelyn McDonnell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who...
The Diary Keepers: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times - World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It
Author: Nina Siegal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Based on select writings from an exceptional Amsterdam archive containing more than two thousand Dutch diaries from World War II, The...
Spies, Saboteurs and Secret Missions of World War II
Author: Tony Matthews Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 406 What kind of courage does it take for an ordinary married couple to confront the Nazi regime of Hitler's vicious Third...
War in the Pacific: Formidable Foe - 1942-1943
Author: Peter Harmsen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 War in the Pacific is a trilogy of books comprising a general history of the war against Japan; unlike other histories...
War in the Pacific: Storm Approaching 1931 - 1941
Author: Peter Harmsen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 War in the Pacific is a trilogy of books comprising a general history of the war against Japan; unlike other histories...
Dunkirk to D-Day: A Commando's War
Author: Jeff Steel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 360 Another rip-roaring World War II history by prize-winning author Jeff Steel. Bill Adlam's hair-raising escape from Dunkirk, his dramatic commando raids...
A Curious Madness: An American Combat Psychiatrist, a Japanese War Crime
Author: Eric Jaffe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 From an "illuminating and entertaining" (The New York Times) young writer, the story that explores the fateful intersection of two men...
Marketing Michelin: Advertising and Cultural Identity in Twentieth-Century France
Author: Stephen L. Harp (Department of History) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 376 One of the world's largest tyre makers and an international corporation with interests in countries around the...
The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home
Author: Abigail Williams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century Two centuries...
The Sinner And The Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece
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Author: Kevin Birmingham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The Sinner and the Saint is the deeply researched and immersive tale of how Dostoevsky came to write this great murder...
Prelude to War: The RAF, 1936-1939: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Author: Martin Derry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Through the use of contemporary photographs and informative captions, "Prelude To War: The RAF 1936-1939" chronicles many of the RAF's aircraft...
Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions
Author: Alberto Manguel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 A best-selling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the vital role of all libraries. "The...
North Pole, South Pole: The Epic Quest to Solve the Mystery of Earth's Magnetism
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Author: Gillian Turner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Why do compass needles point north--but not quite north? What guides the migration of birds, whales, and fish across the world's...
Infinity Beckoned: Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969-1989
Author: Jay Gallentine Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Infinity Beckoned illuminates a critical period of space history when humans dared an expansive leap into the inner solar system. With...
Dunkirk
Author: Hans-Adolf Jacobsen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 First published in 1958, this first German perspective account of Dunkirk is available in English for the first time. The German...
Billy the Kid: The Best Writings On The Infamous Outlaw
Author: Harold Dellinger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 In movies, stage plays, short stories, novels, newspaper articles, poems, and songs, literally hundreds of accomplished authors have been drawn toward...
The Beauty of Living: E. E. Cummings in the Great War
Author: J. Alison Rosenblitt (Regent's Park College, University of Oxford) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Renowned for his formally fractured, gleefully alive poetry, E. E. Cummings is not often...
The Real Leonardo Da Vinci
Author: Rose Sgueglia Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 184 Leonardo Da Vinci was left-handed. That's probably why he wrote backwards from right to left to avoid smudging ink on his...
The Normandy Air War 1944: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Author: Anthony Tucker-Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 The support provided by the Allied air armies to the preparations for the invasion of France and the Normandy campaign is...
A History of British Baking: From Blood Bread to Bake-Off
Author: Emma Kay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The British have been baking for centuries. Here, for the first time, is a comprehensive account of how our relationship with...
Roman Conquests: Macedonia and Greece
Author: Philip Matyszak Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 In the late 3rd century BC, while Rome struggled for her very survival against the Carthaginians in the Second Punic War,...
Normandy 1944: German Military Organization, Combat Power and Organizational Effectiveness
Author: Niklas Zetterling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 450 A revised and updated single-source reference book which accurately details the German field forces employed in Normandy in 1944 and their...
On to Rome: Anzio and Victory at Cassino, 1944: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Author: Jon Diamond Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Early in 1944 the Allied advance was halted by the German defence of the Gustav Line. Even with the deployment of...
Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization
Author: Brian Fagan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Humanity's last major source of food from the wild, and how it enabled and shaped the growth of civilization In this...
Viking Nations
Author: Dayanna Knight Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 How was the North Atlantic settled? How did the distinct cultures of medieval Iceland and Greenland come to be? Viking Nations...
Sleep in Early Modern England
Author: Sasha Handley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 A riveting look at how the early modern world revolutionized sleep and its relation to body, mind, soul, and society Drawing...
Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton, Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel
Author: Benjamin Wardhaugh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 August, 1755. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne. In the fields, men and women are getting the harvest in....
Rome, Blood and Politics: Reform, Murder and Popular Politics in the Late Republic
Author: Gareth C. Sampson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 286 The last century of the Roman Republic saw the consensus of the ruling elite shattered by a series of high-profile...
Rebellion Against Henry III: The Disinherited Montfortians, 1265-1274
Author: David Pilling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The 'Montfortian' civil wars in England lasted from 1259-67, though the death of Simon de Montfort and so many of his...
Crusoe, Castaways and Shipwrecks in the Perilous Age of Sail
Author: Mike Rendell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 To mark the 300th anniversary of the publication of Robinson Crusoe, this book looks at some of the stories which inspired...
Brutus: Caesar's Assassin
Author: Dr. Kirsty Corrigan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Although Marcus Junius Brutus is one of the most famous, or infamous, conspirators of Rome and the ancient world, if...
Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic
Author: Claudia Baracchi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 264 Although Plato's Republic is perhaps the most influential text in the history of Western philosophy, Claudia Baracchi finds that the work...
The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art
Author: Ingrid Rowland Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 An accomplished painter, architect and diplomat, Giorgio Vasari (1511?1574) is best known for Lives of the Artists, his classic account of...
El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America
Author: Carrie Gibson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 For reasons of language and history, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson...
How to Be a Writer: Baths, Biscuits and Endless Cups of Tea
Author: Marcus Berkmann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Marcus Berkmann has been a freelance writer since 1988, working for newspapers and magazines and occasionally writing a book, like this...
Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding
Author: Joanna Wolfarth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 When Joanna Wolfarth was pregnant with her first child, she assumed she would breastfeed, as her mother had fed her. Yet...
I Have a Dream
Author: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Introducing the Martin Luther King Jr Library With a New Foreword by Amanda Gorman A beautiful collectible edition...
Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath - and Beyond
Author: Geezer Butler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 A Rough Trade Book of the Year The much-anticipated first book from Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler With over 70 million...
My Life in Food: A Memoir
Author: Albert Roux Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 In 2021, the world of cooking lost a legendary figure. Albert Roux, together with his brother Michel, transformed the way we...
New Rome: The Roman Empire in the East, AD 395 - 700 - Longlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic Runciman Award
Author: Paul Stephenson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 'Fascinating ... illuminating ... Stephenson examines ordinary life, painting a vivid and intriguing picture.' - The Times Long before Rome fell...
The Dragon Throne
Author: Jonathan Fenby Format: Paperback Number of Pages: They were the most powerful rulers on earth. The mighty Qin Shi Huangdu (r. 221-210 BC), who began the construction of the...
Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century
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Author: Christina Riggs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A bold new history of the discovery of King Tut and the seismic impact it left on modern society. When it...
Michaelangelo's Notebooks: The Poetry, Letters and Art of the Great Master
Author: Carolyn Vaughan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Michelangelo is considered one of the greatest poets of the sixteenth century. He also filled hundreds of sheets of paper with...
Augustine
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Author: Robin Lane Fox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 704 "This narrative of the first half of Augustine's life conjures the intellectual and social milieu of the late Roman Empire...