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Donitz's Last Gamble: the Inshore U-boat Campaign 1944-45
After the June 1944 D-Day landings Donitz withdrew his U-boat wolf-packs from the Atlantic convoy war and sent them into coastal waters, where they could harass the massive shipping movements...
Flying in Defiance of the Reich: A Lancaster Pilot's Rites of Passage
This is the vivid memoir of a man who was twenty-one at the outbreak of World War II. Having joined the RAFVR before the war, he was mobilised in August...
British Submarines in the Great War
Originally published in 1970 and out of print for nearly thirty years, this book has already earned its place as a classic of submarine history by an author with an...
First Blitz: The German Air Campaign Against Britain 1917-1918
In 1917 the Germans launched a major air campaign against the British mainland which shocked the whole nation and terrorised the south-east of England. These attacks by German bombers caused...
Walking Gallipoli
Gallipoli was a First World War tragedy, a side show that had ambitious hopes to end the war early. Despite the immense gallantry displayed by those fighting, from the beginning,...
The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy
In The Story of Scandinavia , political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queens, war, peace, language and culture....
The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham
*PLUTARCH AWARD FOR THE BEST BIOGRAPHY OF 2024* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE* ' SUBLIME ' A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 ' STUNNINGLY GOOD ' THE...
A Brief History of 1917: Russia's Year of Revolution
'Lenin? Yes, he was a good man -- he ran the whole country -- and he did it on a worker's wages.' The view of a Red Army veteran is...
A Brief History of London
As the United Kingdom left the European Union, during a period of international and domestic turmoil, London found itself at a turning point. This critical moment presents an opportunity to...
Captive Queen: The Decrypted History of Mary, Queen of Scots
In Captive Queen: The Decrypted History of Mary, Queen of Scots , Jade Scott, a historian and expert on Mary's correspondence, draws on hundreds of her encrypted letters to paint...
Backroom Boys: Personal Stories of Britain's Air War 1939-45
What was it like, making history? What sense did these individuals have of what they were doing, either at the time or later? Did they feel they were caught up...
A Brief Guide to Classical Civilization
A general introduction to the classical world from its origins to the fall of the Roman Empire. The book focuses on questions of how we know about Classical civilization from...
Churchill 1940-1945: Under Friendly Fire
In April 1945 Churchill said to Sir Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 'There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without...
Fighting on the Home Front: The Legacy of Women in World War One
In 1914 the world changed forever. When World War One broke out and a generation of men went off to fight, bestselling author Kate Adie shows how women emerged from...
Her Secret Service: The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence
'Groundbreaking' Sunday Times 'Beautifully written and elegiac . . . a masterpiece' Damien Lewis, Sunday Times bestselling author Since the inception of the Secret Service Bureau back in 1909, women...
The Shoulders We Stand On: How Black and Brown people fought for
** Eastern Eye 's Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2023 ** ** Shortlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown 2024** The UK is grappling with big questions about belonging, equality and...
How The Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic
Ireland played the central role in maintaining European culture when the dark ages settled on Europe in the fifth century: as Rome was sacked by Visigoths and its empire collapsed,...
Captive Queen: The Decrypted History of Mary, Queen of Scots
In Captive Queen: The Decrypted History of Mary, Queen of Scots , Jade Scott, a historian and expert on Mary's correspondence, draws on hundreds of her encrypted letters to paint...
A Nation and not a Rabble: The Irish Revolution 1913-23
Packed with violence, political drama and social and cultural upheaval, the years 1913-23 saw the emergence in Ireland of the Ulster Volunteer Force to resist Irish home rule and in...
Aesop's Fables: A New Translation
From a renowned scholar and translator, the definitive translation of Aesop's Fables Aesop's fables are among the most familiar and best-loved stories in the world. Tales like "The Tortoise and...
The Story of Scandinavia: From the Vikings to Social Democracy
In The Story of Scandinavia , political scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queens, war, peace, language and culture....
The Stones of London: A History in Twelve Buildings
The story of London, told through twelve of its most seminal buildings. 'Excellent ...this is an imaginative book that finds a convincing new way to tell the story of one...
No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape from the Nazis, 'utterly
'A stunning book, a powerful investigation, utterly compelling,' James Holland, The Daily Telegraph , Five stars 'Terrifying' Simon Schama Ponar, Lithuania. 1944. The Nazis have enslaved Jewish men to exhume...
The Shoulders We Stand On: How Black and Brown people fought for
** Eastern Eye 's Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2023 ** ** Shortlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown 2024** The UK is grappling with big questions about belonging, equality and...
The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham
*PLUTARCH AWARD FOR THE BEST BIOGRAPHY OF 2024* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE* ' SUBLIME ' A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 ' STUNNINGLY GOOD ' THE...
City of Echoes: A New History of Rome, its Popes and its People
In Rome the echoes of the past resound clearly in its palaces and monuments, and in the remains of the ancient imperial city. But another presence has dominated Rome for...
Small World: Ireland, 1798-2018
Seamus Deane was one of the most vital and versatile authors of our time. Small World presents an unmatched survey of Irish writing, and of writing about Irish issues, from...
Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy across the British Empire
Emotions are not universal, but are experienced and expressed in diverse ways within different cultures and times. This overview of the history of emotions within nineteenth-century British imperialism focuses on...
The Falklands War: An Imperial History
Why did Britain and Argentina go to war over a wintry archipelago that was home to an unprofitable colony? Could the Falklands War, in fact, have been a last-ditch revival...
London Lives: Poverty, Crime and the Making of a Modern City,
London Lives is a fascinating new study which exposes, for the first time, the lesser-known experiences of eighteenth-century thieves, paupers, prostitutes and highwaymen. It charts the experiences of hundreds of...
Fighting the People's War: The British and Commonwealth Armies and the
Fighting the People's War is an unprecedented, panoramic history of the 'citizen armies' of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa, the core of the British...
The Story of Cambridge
How did a small market town on the edge of the Fens become famous throughout the world? And how do Cambridge's two communities - 'town' and 'gown' - get along?...
The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume 3, 1730-1880
The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was an era of continuity as well as change. Though properly portrayed as the era of 'Protestant Ascendancy' it embraces two phases - the eighteenth...
Dublin's Great Wars: The First World War, the Easter Rising and the
For the first time, Richard S. Grayson tells the story of the Dubliners who served in the British military and in republican forces during the First World War and the...
Encountering the Pacific in the Age of the Enlightenment
The Pacific Ocean was the setting for the last great chapter in the convergence of humankind from across the globe. Driven by Enlightenment ideals, Europeans sought to extend control to...
The Idea of Europe: From Antiquity to the European Union
The creation of the European Union and the progressive integration of the European states has raised serious questions about the existence of a distinctive European identity. Do the British share...
King's Counsellor: Abdication and War: the Diaries of Sir Alan
The diaries of 'Tommy' Lascelles - as featured in the Netflix hit THE CROWN 'Brilliantly entertaining and historically priceless' Spectator 'Fascinating ... as much a contribution to royal legend as...
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...
Keir Starmer: The Biography
THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY OF THE NEW BRITISH PRIME MINISTER A Times Book of the Year; A Telegraph Book of the Year; A Daily Mail Book of the Year; A Waterstones...
Keir Starmer: The Biography
THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY OF THE NEW BRITISH PRIME MINISTER A Times Book of the Year; A Telegraph Book of the Year; A Daily Mail Book of the Year; A Waterstones...
Saving Michelangelo's Dome: How Three Mathematicians and a Pope
In 1742, when the legendary dome atop St. Peter's Basilica-designed by Michelangelo-cracks and threatens to collapse, Pope Benedict XIV summons three mathematicians whose groundbreaking ideas spark a revolution in the...
Anne Boleyn in London
Romantic victim? Ruthless other woman? Innocent pawn? Religious reformer? Fool, flirt and adulteress? Politician? Witch? During her life, Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's ill-fated second queen, was internationally famous - or...
Russian Supply Efforts in America During the First World War
The Imperial Russian government's efforts to procure much-needed military supplies in the American market before and after America's entry into World War I are the focus of this work. It...
Great Tales From English History: Cheddar Man to DNA
The three volumes of Robert Lacey's marvellous history of England collected in an omnibus edition. From the mysteries of Cheddar Man to revolting peasants, from the ribald rhythms of Chaucer...
Alice's Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook
What happened to the books that were too valuable to burn? The story of a Jewish chef whose bestselling cookbook was expropriated under the Nazi regime. Alice Urbach had her...
Monty's Highlanders
The 51st Highland Division was the most famous infantry division that fought with the British Army in WW2. It was the only infantry division in the armies of the British...
Violencia: A New History of Spain: Past, Present and the Future of the West
Spain has never worked as a democracy. Throughout the country's history only one system of government has ever enjoyed any real success: dictatorship and the use of violence. Violence, in...