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Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century
Author: Simon Kuper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naif getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and...
A Brief History of Britain 1485-1660: The Tudor and Stuart Dynasties
Author: Professor Ronald Hutton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Praise for the author:: 'For anyone researching the subject, this is the book you've been waiting for.' Washington Post From...
How to Think Like Churchill
Author: Daniel Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Remembered for his leadership during the Second World War, Churchill's commitment to 'never surrender', along with his stirring speeches and radio...
The Great British Speeches
Author: Simon Heffer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 50 speeches from every period of British history from the medieval era to the present and a fascinating dip-in history title...
This Dark Business: The Secret War Against Napoleon
Author: Tim Clayton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Between two attempts in 1800 and 1804 to assassinate Napoleon Bonaparte, the British government launched a campaign of black propaganda of...
The New Royals: Queen Elizabeth's Legacy and the Future of the Crown
Author: Katie Nicholl Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 For seventy years, Queen Elizabeth ruled over an institution and a family. During her lifetime she was constant in her desire...
This Sovereign Isle: Britain In and Out of Europe
Author: Robert Tombs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 One of Brexit's leading intellectual advocates examines the referendum vote in the context of history Geography comes before history. Islands cannot...
Bad Girls: A History of Rebels and Renegades
Author: Caitlin Davies Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Society has never known what to do with its rebellious women. Those who defied expectations about feminine behaviour have long been...
Hardcover History Treasure Trove
Hardcover History Treasure Trove Embark on a captivating journey through time with this meticulously curated collection hardcover history books. Each volume offers a unique perspective on pivotal moments, influential figures,...
His Finest Hour: A Brief Life of Winston Churchill
Author: Christopher Catherwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'A gem. Brief, authoritative and fair in its judgements - an intensely readable introduction to this most complex and fascinating man'...
Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era
Author: Alwyn Turner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 'The very best sort of panoramic portrait' David Kynaston 'The Edwardians have long been the lost decade of British history, yet...
Among You Taking Notes...
Author: Naomi Mitchison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'As in a good novel, the people, their feelings and reactions are instantly recognisable and as fresh and immediate today as...
The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951
Author: Lord John Julius Norwich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 The long awaited and highly revealing diaries of the politician, diplomat, and socialite (married to Lady Diana Cooper) 'This...
The New Royals: Queen Elizabeth's Legacy and the Future of the Crown
Author: Katie Nicholl Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 For seventy years, Queen Elizabeth ruled over an institution and a family. During her lifetime she was constant in her desire...
SAS Forged in Hell: From Desert Rats to Dogs of War: The Mavericks who Made the SAS
Author: Damien Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A Waterstones Best History Book of 2023 The incredible true story of the SAS' daring mission to liberate Europe In the...
Among You Taking Notes...
Author: Naomi Mitchison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'As in a good novel, the people, their feelings and reactions are instantly recognisable and as fresh and immediate today as...
Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth
Author: Keiron Pim Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 The brilliant, mercurial, self-mythologising novelist and journalist Joseph Roth, author of the European 20th century masterpiece The Radetzky March, was an...
Turkiye: Cycling Through a Country's First Century
Author: Julian Sayarer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "A deeply thoughtful, gripping and scrupulous book told in Sayarer's trademark style from the saddle and the roadside" CAROLINE EDEN By...
The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy
Author: Stein Ringen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 In The Story of Scandinavia, political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises,...
Endgame
Author: Omid Scobie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The explosive new book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the international blockbuster Finding Freedom, Endgame a penetrating...
A Brief History of the British Monarchy: From the Iron Age to King Charles III
Author: Jeremy BlackFormat: Paperback, 124mm x 196mm, 200g, 256 pagesPublished: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2024The British monarchy is at a turning point. Concise and engaging, this book charts...
Hitler's British Isles
Author: Duncan Barrett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 True-life recollections from the Channel Islanders who were the only British subjects to live under Nazi rule in WWII. 'Barrett has...
The English Soul: The Faith of a Nation
Author: Peter Ackroyd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The English Soul portrays the spirit and nature of English Christianity as it has developed over the last 1,400 years. As...
Mary Churchill's War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill's Youngest Daughter
Author: Emma Soames Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'A daily love letter from a brave young woman to her adored father . . . immensely evocative of wartime Britain,...
The Renaissance: All That Matters
Author: Michael Halvorson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Was the Renaissance just a period of extraordinary art and architecture? The Renaissance: All That Matters examines the major developments of...
1923: The Forgotten Crisis in the Year of Hitler's Coup
Author: Mark Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The astonishing year when German democracy faced crisis and near destruction. 1923 was one of the most remarkable years of modern...
The House of Orange in Revolution and War: A European History, 1772-1890: 2022
Author: Jeroen Koch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 440 Three rulers from the House of Orange-Nassau reigned over the Netherlands from 1813 to 1890: King William I from 1813 to...
Berlin
Author: Joseph Pearson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 Berlin is a party in a graveyard. It is Europe's youth capital, and its guilty war conscience. It is a disputed...
Pessoa: An Experimental Life
Author: Richard Zenith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 1088 A monumental biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest and most enigmatic writers For many thousands of readers Fernando Pessoa's...
A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History
Author: Edward Wilson-Lee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A Times History Book of the Year 2022 A TLS Book of the Year 2022 'Exhilarating and whip-smart' THE SUNDAY TIMES...
London: City of Cities
Author: Phil Baker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 City of cities, the modern world's first great metropolis, London has shaped everything from clothing to youth culture. It has a...
Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment
Author: Benjamin Storey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 264 A compelling exploration of how our pursuit of happiness makes us unhappy We live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet...
The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
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Author: Norman Eisen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa's greatest...
The Phoenix: St. Paul's Cathedral And The Men Who Made Modern London
Author: Leo Hollis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'A tour de force of biography, history, politics, philosophy and experimental science' ECONOMIST The remarkable and inspiring story of how London...
Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe
Author: Ian Kershaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 The acclaimed historian explores how far individual leaders can alter the course of history The modern era saw the emergence of...
The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court
Author: Gareth Russell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500...
O Brother
Author: John Niven Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 John Niven's little brother Gary was fearless, popular, stubborn, handsome, hilarious and sometimes terrifying. In 2010, after years of chaotic struggle...
London Perceived: A Portrait of The City
Author: V.S. Pritchett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 In unfailingly elegant prose, V. S. Pritchett provides a timeless distillation of the city of London and the London experience. He...
The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe
Author: James Belich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern age....
The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World
Author: Karl Schloegel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 928 An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly...
Rarities of These Lands: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Dutch Republic
Author: Claudia Swan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A vivid account of the exoticism of the Dutch Republic at a critical moment in its cultural and political history. The...
The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle
Author: David Edmonds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 *New Statesman, Books of the Year* *FiveBooks, One of Nigel Warburton's Best Philosophy Books of 2020* On June 22, 1936, the...
Robespierre: The Man Who Divides Us the Most
Author: Marcel Gauchet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 How Robespierre's career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracy. Maximilien Robespierre (17581794) is arguably the most controversial and contradictory...
Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher
Author: John Davis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 600 Waterloo Sunrise is a panoramic and multifaceted account of modern London during the transformative years of the sixties and seventies, when...
Embattled Europe: A Progressive Alternative
Author: Konrad H. Jarausch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 344 A bracing corrective to predictions of the European Union's decline, by a leading historian of modern Europe. Is the European...
A Matter of Obscenity: The Politics of Censorship in Modern England
Author: Christopher Hilliard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 For Victorian lawmakers and judges, the question of whether a book should be allowed to circulate freely depended on whether it...
Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction
Author: Talia Schaffer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 In Communities of Care, Talia Schaffer explores Victorian fictional representations of care communities, small voluntary groups that coalesce around someone in...
Little Book of Paris
Author: Dominique Foufelle Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Why was the Place de la Nation formerly called la Place du Trone? Has the Pantheon always been the resting place...