Non-Secondhand Books

Journey through the annals of conflict and courage with our 'Military History Bargain Book Box'! This thrilling collection immerses you in the defining battles, strategic insights, and extraordinary personal accounts...

Author: William R. BraistedFormat: Paperback, 156mm x 234mm, 295 pagesPublished: Naval Institute Press, United States, 2008Professor William R. Braisted tells the story of the twelve important years during which the...

Author: Daniel C. Guiet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The astonishing untold story of the author's father, the lone American on a 4-person SOE commando team dropped behind German...

Author: Deborah Cohen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far 'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer Read this...

Author: Tim Rayborn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 We all know what was written in the history books. There are some stories we've heard a hundred times-but often our...

Author: Alex Rowson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a...

Author: Jonny Steinberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 'Gripping and profoundly moving' DAMON GALGUT 'Deft and operatic' OBSERVER A TIMES BEST BIOGRAPHY OF 2023 From one of South Africa's...

Author: Jeff Steel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 360 Joe's love of flying and adventure led him to volunteer for active service: dropping bombs on Nazi Germany. Tom's hatred of...

Author: Fred Kaplan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 672 As he did for Abraham Lincoln and John Quincy Adams, award-winning biographer Fred Kaplan offers a fresh, illuminating look at the...

Author: Russell K. Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 436 Making use of personal correspondence official documents, contemporary newspaper articles and eye witness narratives, the book includes details of Walker's...

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...

Author: Anthony Burton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Wedgwood was born in the Staffordshire Potteries in 1739 and lived in the area all his life. His family were all...

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...

Author: Edward Ryan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 424 This outstanding biography is a story of courage. It charts the career of a superbly brave cavalryman against the rise and...

Author: Paul N. Pearson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 Maximinus was a half-barbarian strongman 'of frightening appearance and colossal size' who could smash stones with his bare hands and...

Author: Dale Jacquette Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 680 Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) is one of the founding figures of analytic philosophy, whose contributions to logic, philosophical semantics, philosophy of language,...

Author: Dwight Chapin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 In time for the 50th anniversary of President Nixon's epic trips to China and Russia, as well as his incredible Watergate...

Author: George Goodwin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'Sensitive, moving and finely textured' Guardian 'Fantastic' Dan Snow For the great majority of his long life, Benjamin Franklin was a...

Author: Fred Kaplan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 672 As he did for Abraham Lincoln and John Quincy Adams, award-winning biographer Fred Kaplan offers a fresh, illuminating look at the...

Author: Maggie Haberman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 608 *THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *A Financial Times Book of the Year* *Economist Book of the Year* 'A political epic'...

Author: Neal Thompson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 "Here is that rare thing: an untold chapter in the Kennedy saga. . .Compelling and illuminating."-Jon Meacham Based on genealogical breakthroughs...

Author: Carmela Ciuraru Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A witty, provocative look inside the tumultuous marriages of five writers, illuminating the creative process as well as the role of...

Author: Kati Marton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private leader' WALTER ISAACSON From the bestselling author of Enemies of the People An...

Author: Leonie Frieda Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Francis I (1494-1547) was inconstant, amorous, hot-headed and flawed. Yet he was also arguably the most significant king that France ever...

Author: Lawrence James Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 One of our finest narrative historians, Lawrence James has written a biography of Winston Churchill, set within a fully detailed historical...

Author: David Twiston Davies Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 David Twiston Davies's latest and highly entertaining collection of 100 Daily Telegraph military obituaries from the last fifteen years, include...

Author: Stacy Schiff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A Top 10 Best Books of the Year (Wall Street Journal), Top 10 Best Nonfiction (Time), Top 5 Nonfiction (LA Times),...

Author: Nick Thomas-Symonds Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 Harold Wilson is the only post-war leader of any party to serve as Britain's Prime Minister on two separate occasions. In...

Author: Lady Jane Wellesley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Reissued for the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. The first Duke of Wellington's victory at Waterloo in 1815...

Author: Fiona Watson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Thanks to Shakespeare, the name Macbeth has become a byword for political ambition realised by bloody violence. Fiona Watson has uncovered,...

Author: Raja Shehadeh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of bestselling author and activist Raja....

Author: Carmela Ciuraru Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A witty, provocative look inside the tumultuous marriages of five writers, illuminating the creative process as well as the role of...

Author: Dr Frances Larson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 At the dawn of the twentieth century, Katherine Routledge, Maria Czaplicka, Winifred Blackman, Beatrice Blackwood and Barbara Freire-Marreco set out...

Author: Walter R. Borneman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 World War II changed the course of history. Douglas MacArthur changed the course of World War II. MACARTHUR AT WAR...

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...

Author: Deyan Sudjic Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The first biography to trace the remarkable life and career of Ukrainian-born Boris Iofan, beautifully illustrated with many of Iofan's previously...

Author: Peniel Joseph Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense versus nonviolence, Black Power versus civil rights,...

Author: Joe Moshenska Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 An innovative and elegant new biography of John Milton from an acclaimed Oxford professor John Milton was once essential reading for...

Author: James Horn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In the mid-sixteenth century, Spanish explorers in the Chesapeake region kidnapped an Indian teenager and took him back to Spain, a...

Author: Jonny Steinberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 'Gripping and profoundly moving' DAMON GALGUT 'Deft and operatic' OBSERVER From one of South Africa's foremost nonfiction writers, a deeply researched,...

Author: Brendan Simms Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 704 From a prize-winning historian, the definitive biography of Adolph Hitler Hitler offers a deeply learned and radically revisionist biography, arguing that...

Author: Simon Doubleday Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 If I had been present at the Creation," the thirteenth-century Spanish philosopher-king Alfonso X is said to have stated, Many faults...

Author: Robert Carmichael Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'An outstanding book of astonishing power . . . One finishes it with an ache in the heart' Jon Swain, writer...

Author: Deborah Cohen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far 'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer...

Author: Grantlee Kieza Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 454 The thrilling life of aviation pioneer Bert Hinkler, dubbed 'the most daring man in the world' Grantlee Kieza tells...

Author: Larry Tye Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 The definitive biography of the most dangerous demagogue in American history, based on exclusive access to his papers and...

Author: Seth Meyerowitz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The remarkable, untold story of World War II American Air Force turret-gunner Staff Sergeant Arthur Meyerowitz, who was shot down over...

Author: Dwight Chapin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 In time for the 50th anniversary of President Nixon's epic trips to China and Russia, as well as his incredible Watergate...