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Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him
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A "fresh, fast-paced, and bracing" ( Wall Street Journal ) new biography of Winston Churchill, revealing how his relationships with the other great figures of his age shaped his own...
1923: The Crisis of German Democracy in the Year of Hitler's Putsch
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How Germany's fledgling democracy nearly collapsed in 1923--and how pro-democracy forces fought back In 1923, the Weimar Republic faced a series of crises, including foreign occupation of its industrial heartland,...
The Collapse: The Accidental Opening of the Berlin Wall
On the night of November 9, 1989, massive crowds surged toward the Berlin Wall, drawn by an announcement that caught the world by surprise: East Germans could now move freely...
Chernobyl Roulette: A War Story
The award-winning historian returns to Chernobyl to tell the gripping story of thirty-five days of war On 24 February 2022, the first day of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, armoured...
Central Powers of the Russian Front 1914-1918
Arranged in five sections, one for each year of the War, this superbly illustrated book covers the fluid fighting that took place on the Russian Front from August 1914. Each...
The Hong Kong Diaries
The diaries of the last British Governor, five weeks on the Sunday Times best-seller list In June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to...
All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil
The untold story of Robert Cecil, the ultimate Tudor spy-master Robert Cecil, statesman and spymaster, lived through an astonishingly threatening period in English history. Queen Elizabeth had no clear successor...
Zeppelin
This new publication from Michael Belafi offers some truly intriguing content. Photographs of the mighty Zeppelin at all stages of development feature in a publication that aims to chart the...
Chinese and Any Other Asian: Exploring East and South East Asian
'Chinese' or 'Any other Asian'. The boxes that people of vastly varied East and South East Asian heritage have to tick when declaring their ethnicity on many forms in the...
German Prisoners of the Great War: Life in the Skipton Camp
In Munich in 1920, just after the end of the First World War, German officers who had been prisoners of war in England published a book they had written and...
Sparta's First Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta,
A companion volume to The Spartan Regime and The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta that explores the collapse of the Spartan-Athenian alliance "Provocative, intriguing and cogently argued."-David Stuttard, Classics for...
A History of Britain in Ten Enemies
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From the multimillion-copy bestselling author of the Horrible Histories, this is a witty, whistlestop tour through the history of Britain (for grown ups) - a ST bestseller with 30k+ hardbacks...
The Russo-Ukrainian War: From the bestselling author of Chernobyl
Urgent, compelling reading from the author of Chernobyl on the defining conflict of our times- do you know what is at stake in Ukraine? On 24 February 2022, Russia shocked...
Strangeland: How Britain Stopped Making Sense
From Jon Sopel, bestselling author and presenter of The News Agents podcast, comes his most ambitious book to date- an incisive examination of Britain's New Normal, and what it means...
The Siege: The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama
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Britain's best-selling historian writes the first definitive account of the famous televised SAS storming of the Iranian embassy in London in 1980 On April 30, 1980, six heavily armed gunmen...
The Eastern Front: A History of the First World War
The definitive history of the Eastern Front in WWI, from the bestselling author of The Western Front In the second volume of his landmark First World War trilogy, Professor Nick...
Hitler 1936-1945: Nemesis
Following the enormous success of HITLER- HUBRIS this book triumphantly completes one of the great modern biographies. No figure in twentieth century history more clearly demands a close biographical understanding...
The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began
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A riveting, exemplary tale of the great cultural \"swerve\" known as the Renaissance. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2012 Almost six hundred years ago, a short, genial man...
Fields of Battle
Richard Evans revisits the sites of a selection of Greek and Roman battles and sieges to seek new insights. The battle narratives in ancient sources can be a thrilling read...
Gallipoli: New Perspectives on the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force,
Generally conceded to be doomed from the outset by the most recent historiography, the Gallipoli campaign still arouses heated controversy. In a new compendium of original research by an impressive...
The Queen: 70 Chapters in the Life of Elizabeth II
In this warm and witty biography of Elizabeth II in her jubilee year, Sunday Times bestseller Ian Lloyd reveals the people, events and themes that have shaped her life and...
AD69: Emperors, Armies and Anarchy
With the death of Nero by his own shaky hand, the ill-sorted, ill-starred Iulio-Claudian dynasty came to an ignominious end, and Rome was up for the taking. This was 9...
Cadiz: The Story of Europe's Oldest City
This is the tale of Western Europe's oldest continuously inhabited city, a 3,000-year history of war and seafaring, culture and commerce, liberalism and resistance. Helen Crisp and Jules Stewart offer...
A History of Finland
Henrik Meinander paints a brisk and bold picture of the history of Finland from integrated part of the Swedish kingdom to autonomous Grand Duchy within the Russian empire, gradually transformed...
The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World
The Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least in the material vestiges left behind in its turbulent wake. What was it really like to live in...
A Lethal Legacy: A History of Ireland in 18 Murders
The Instant Top 5 Irish Times Bestseller From the creator of The Irish History Podcast comes a fascinating look at Irish history through the lens of murder. In A Lethal...
A Lethal Legacy: A History of Ireland in 18 Murders
The Instant Top 5 Irish Times Bestseller From the creator of The Irish History Podcast comes a fascinating look at Irish history through the lens of murder. In A Lethal...
This Land of Promise: A History of Refugees and Exiles in Britain
'Important, comprehensive, and superbly researched. All the more urgent at the present time' BART VAN ES 'A terrific, clear-eyed and balanced history that cuts through today's toxic debates' DAILY TELEGRAPH...
Sky Warriors: British Airborne Forces in the Second World War
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From bestselling historian Saul David, a riveting new history of the British airborne experience across the Second World War. The legendary 'Red Devils' were among the...
History in the House: Some Remarkable Dons and the Teaching of
A Spectator Best Book of the Year; An Aspects of History Best Book of the Year; An Engelsberg Ideas Best Book of the Year Five hundred years ago, Thomas Wolsey...
Same River, Twice: Putin's War on Women
Blending the journalistic rigor of Masha Gessen with the call to action of We Should All Be Feminists, a searing denunciation of Putin's Russia, revealing how modern Russia's history of...
Naples 1944: War, Liberation and Chaos
An Aspects of History Best Book of the Year; An Engelsberg Ideas Best Book of the Year 'A rigorous, myth-busting look at the city's chaotic recovery in the wake of...
Diana: Her True Story - In Her Own Words: The Sunday Times Number-One
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THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER-ONE BESTSELLER When Diana: Her True Story was first published in 1992 it changed the way the public viewed the British monarchy. Never before had a senior...
A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe
'The people of Central Europe cannot be separated from European history; they cannot exist outside it; but they represent the wrong side of this history; they are its victims and...
The Making of an SS Killer: The Life of Colonel Alfred Filbert,
In this pioneering biography of a frontline Holocaust perpetrator, Alex J. Kay uncovers the life of SS Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Filbert, responsible as the first head of SS-Einsatzkommando 9, a...
Conspiracy on Cato Street: A Tale of Liberty and Revolution in Regency
Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize, and a Daily Telegraph and BBC History Magazine Book of the Year. On the night of 23 February 1820, twenty-five impoverished craftsmen assembled in...
My Opposition: The Diary of Friedrich Kellner - A German against the
This is a truly unique account of Nazi Germany at war and of one man's struggle against totalitarianism. A mid-level official in a provincial town, Friedrich Kellner kept a secret...
Bomber Command: Failed to Return
With an average age of just twenty-two, the young airmen of the Royal Air Force's Bomber Command, all volunteers, began operating within minutes of the start of the Second World...
Coalition Strategy and the End of the First World War: The Supreme War
When the Germans requested an armistice in October 1918, it was a shock to the Allied political and military leadership. They had been expecting, and planning for, the war to...
The History of England by a Partial, Prejudiced and Ignorant Historian
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books During his reign, Lord Cobham was burnt alive, but I forget what for. In Jane Austen's breezy and entirely biased telling...
The Bone Chests: Unlocking the Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons
A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A diligent historian and a superb writer' THE TIMES A gripping new history of the making of England as a nation. In December...
Magick City: Travellers to Rome from the Middle Ages to 1900, Volume
The most comprehensive anthology of writings by visitors to the eternal city ever compiled witty, profound and endlessly entertaining. Drawing on French, Italian, Spanish, English, German, Scandinavian and American sources,...
Mad and Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency
Discover a feminist pop history that looks beyond the Ton and Jane Austen to highlight the Regency women who succeeded on their own terms and were largely lost to history...
I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that
'I SEEK A KIND PERSON WHO WILL EDUCATE MY INTELLIGENT BOY, AGED 11.' In 1938, Jewish families are scrambling to flee Vienna. Desperate, they take out adverts offering their children...
Coastal Dawn: Blenheims in action from the Phoney War through to the
In 1940, the defence of Great Britain rested with a handful of volunteer aircrew, Churchill's 'few'. Overshadowed in later folklore by the more famous Spitfire and Hurricane pilots, there were...
1815: The Return of Napoleon: Bonaparte's March Back to Power
This unique and atmospheric volume presents the dramatic story of Napoleon's escape from Elba and his march on Paris in the words of eyewitnesses and participants. Drawing on hundreds of...
Decline and Fall of Napoleon's Empire
In this wide-ranging study of the Napoleonic regime, Digby Smith tracks Napoleon's rise to power, his stewardship of France from 1804 15, and his exile. He highlights his military mistakes,...
Battle for Sicily: Stepping Stone to Victory
On the night of 9-10 July 1943, an Allied armada launched the invasion of Sicily, a larger operation than the Normandy landings the following year. Over the next thirty-eight days,...