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Ghost Flames: Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953

Ghost Flames: Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953

$41.50$17.50
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...
No Man's Land: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain's Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I

No Man's Land: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain's Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I

$15.00
Author: Wendy Moore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The "absorbing and powerful" (Wall Street Journal) story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who shattered social expectations and transformed modern medicine...
The World According to Joan Didion

The World According to Joan Didion

$32.99$12.00
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

The Diary Keepers: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times - World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It

$34.99$12.00
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...
War in the Pacific: Formidable Foe - 1942-1943

War in the Pacific: Formidable Foe - 1942-1943

$32.99$12.00
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

War in the Pacific: Storm Approaching 1931 - 1941

$32.99$12.00
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

Dunkirk to D-Day: A Commando's War

$32.99$15.00
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...
Marketing Michelin: Advertising and Cultural Identity in Twentieth-Century France

Marketing Michelin: Advertising and Cultural Identity in Twentieth-Century France

$126.00$15.00
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

The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home

$39.95$15.00
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

The Sinner And The Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece

$12.00
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...
Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions

Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions

$24.95$12.00
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

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

Infinity Beckoned: Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969-1989

$70.50$15.00
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...
Billy the Kid: The Best Writings On The Infamous Outlaw

Billy the Kid: The Best Writings On The Infamous Outlaw

$34.99$12.00
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 Real Leonardo Da Vinci

The Real Leonardo Da Vinci

$59.99$20.00
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...
Queens of Georgian Britian

Queens of Georgian Britian

$59.99$15.00
Author: Catherine Curzon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 220 Once upon a time there were four kings called George who, thanks to a quirk of fate, ruled Great Britain for...
A History of British Baking: From Blood Bread to Bake-Off

A History of British Baking: From Blood Bread to Bake-Off

$75.00$20.00
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...
Following in the Footsteps of King Arthur

Following in the Footsteps of King Arthur

$39.99$15.00
Author: Andrew Beattie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 The story of King Arthur is one of the best known in English history: he was the boy who was schooled...
Historical Heroines: 100 Women You Should Know About

Historical Heroines: 100 Women You Should Know About

$39.99$20.00
Author: Michelle Rosenberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 193 Keeping it to just 100 was a struggle. But we figured that any more miscast, missing and misunderstood women in one...
Light Dragoons: The Making of a Regiment

Light Dragoons: The Making of a Regiment

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Author: Allan Mallinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Although only formed in December 1992, The Light Dragoons look back to a history that began in the days of the...
Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton, Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel

Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton, Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel

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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

Rome, Blood and Politics: Reform, Murder and Popular Politics in the Late Republic

$75.00$25.00
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...
Pirate Nation: Elizabeth I and Her Royal Sea Rovers

Pirate Nation: Elizabeth I and Her Royal Sea Rovers

$75.00$25.00
Author: David Childs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 For all the romantic mythology surrounding the court of Queen Elizabeth I, the financial underpinning of the reign of 'Gloriana' was...
Crusoe, Castaways and Shipwrecks in the Perilous Age of Sail

Crusoe, Castaways and Shipwrecks in the Perilous Age of Sail

$55.99$25.00
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...
The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art

The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art

$49.95$25.00
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...
Pharaoh: King of Ancient Egypt

Pharaoh: King of Ancient Egypt

$82.95$40.00
Author: Aude Semet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 180 A fresh look at the British Museum's celebrated and extensive ancient Egyptian collection from across three thousand years Pharaoh: King of...
El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America

El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America

$59.99$22.50
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...
Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding

Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding

$49.99$20.00
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

I Have a Dream

$34.99$15.00
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

Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath - and Beyond

$34.99$15.00
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

My Life in Food: A Memoir

$59.99$30.00
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...
The Dragon Throne

The Dragon Throne

$25.00$12.00
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

Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century

$17.50
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

Michaelangelo's Notebooks: The Poetry, Letters and Art of the Great Master

$34.99$17.50
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

Augustine

$25.00
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...
Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History

Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History

$20.00
Author: Lewis Dartnell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A New York Times-bestselling author explains how the physical world shaped the history of our species When we talk about human...
Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire

Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire

$65.00$30.00
Author: Alan Gallay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 Sir Walter Ralegh was the favourite of Queen Elizabeth, who showered him estates, jewels, monopolies, and political appointments earning him the...
14-18: Understanding the Great War

14-18: Understanding the Great War

$15.00
Author: Catherine Temerson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 With this brilliantly innovative book, reissued for the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I, Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau and Annette...
Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors

Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors

$15.00
Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 In this definitive biography of father and son, an eminent historian "brings to life the full drama of ancient history" (Wall...
Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall

Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall

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Author: Helena Merriman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 He escaped from one of the world's most brutal regimes.Then, he decided to tunnel back in. In the summer of 1962,...
The Invention of Power: Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West

The Invention of Power: Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West

$49.99$25.00
Author: Bruce de Mesquita Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Western exceptionalism-the idea that European civilizations are freer, wealthier, and less violent-is a widespread and powerful political idea. It has...
Phantom Terror

Phantom Terror

$30.00
Author: Adam Zamoyski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 For the ruling and propertied classes of the late eighteenth century, the years following the French Revolution were characterized by intense...
The Chaos of Empire: The British Raj and the Conquest of India

The Chaos of Empire: The British Raj and the Conquest of India

$17.50
Author: Jon Wilson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 The popular image of the British Raj-an era of efficient but officious governors, sycophantic local functionaries, doting amahs, blisteringly hot days...
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs

The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs

$20.00
Author: Marc David Baer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 This major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West. The Ottoman Empire...
Henry VIII and the men who made him: The secret history behind the Tudor throne

Henry VIII and the men who made him: The secret history behind the Tudor throne

$26.99$12.00
Author: Tracy Borman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'An outstanding work of historical artistry, a brilliantly woven and pacy story of the men who surrounded, influenced and sometimes plagued...
Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler

Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler

$17.50
Author: Lynne Olson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The little-known true story of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, the woman who headed the largest spy network in...
The Year of Dangerous Days: Riots, Refugees, and Cocaine in Miami 1980

The Year of Dangerous Days: Riots, Refugees, and Cocaine in Miami 1980

$36.99$12.00
Author: Nicholas Griffin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 In the tradition of The Wire, the "utterly absorbing" (The New York Times) story of the cinematic transformation of...
Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations

Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations

$15.00
Author: William H McRaven Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 In this instant New York Times bestseller, the celebrated author of Make Your Bed shares amazing adventure stories from his...