History & Biography Bargain Book Box

History & Biography Bargain Book Box

From wartime espionage and the secret intelligence networks that shaped the twentieth century to lost ancient cities, forgotten Olympians, and the lives of remarkable individuals who changed the course of history — this box brings together sixteen exceptional works of history and biography. For readers who love their non-fiction rigorous, beautifully researched, and genuinely gripping.

1. Spies, Saboteurs and Secret Missions of World War II — Tony Matthews | ISBN: 9781922615732 | RRP: $36.99
   A gripping account of the covert operations, double agents, and daring missions that operated in the shadows of the Second World War. Tony Matthews brings together meticulous research and a real flair for storytelling in a book that reveals just how much of the war was won — or nearly lost — away from the battlefield.
2. The Mafia at War: Allied Collusion with the Mob — Tim Newark | ISBN: 9781922488619 | RRP: $34.99
   A startling and meticulously researched account of the secret alliance between Allied intelligence and organised crime during the Second World War. Tim Newark uncovers an uncomfortable chapter of wartime history in which expediency trumped principle.
3. Between Five Eyes: 50 Years of Intelligence Sharing — Anthony R. Wells | ISBN: 9781922387806 | RRP: $36.99
   An authoritative insider's history of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance between the US, UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Anthony R. Wells draws on decades of direct experience to chart how this extraordinary partnership shaped the modern intelligence world.
4. The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania, and Mutiny in the South Pacific — Brandon Presser | ISBN: 9781541758575 | RRP: $49.99
   The strange and often violent true history of Pitcairn Island, settled by the mutineers of the Bounty and shaped ever since by isolation, scandal, and tragedy. Brandon Presser combines deep archival research with vivid storytelling in this remarkable, unsettling history.
5. Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him — David Reynolds | ISBN: 9781541620209 | RRP: $49.99
   A fascinating reassessment of Winston Churchill, told through his relationships with the great statesmen of his era — Lincoln, Napoleon, Lloyd George, and more. David Reynolds offers a genuinely fresh lens on one of history's most written-about figures.
6. The Other Olympians: A True Story of Gender, Fascism and the Making of Modern Sport — Michael Waters | ISBN: 9781529910216 | RRP: $36.99
   A revelatory history of gender testing in athletics, told through the extraordinary true stories of transgender and intersex athletes in the years leading up to the Second World War. Michael Waters uncovers a hidden history with profound resonance for sport today.
7. The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal — Simon Parkin | ISBN: 9781529347197 | RRP: $32.99
   The little-known true story of the refugees and enemy aliens interned by Britain on the Isle of Man during the Second World War — among them artists, intellectuals, and at least one Nazi spy. Simon Parkin tells a story of injustice, ingenuity, and survival with real narrative skill.
8. Einstein's War: How Relativity Triumphed Amid the Vicious Nationalism of World War I — Matthew Stanley | ISBN: 9781524745417 | RRP: $39.99
   The remarkable story of how Einstein's theory of relativity was confirmed and championed even as the nations that produced its scientists were tearing each other apart. Matthew Stanley reveals science at its most idealistic, set against history at its most brutal.
9. Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong — Vaudine England | ISBN: 9781472157140 | RRP: $59.99
   A sweeping, richly detailed history of Hong Kong told through the lives of the traders, smugglers, refugees, and entrepreneurs who built it. Vaudine England captures the extraordinary, chaotic energy of a city shaped by empire, commerce, and constant reinvention.
10. Jobs for the Girls: How We Set Out to Work in the Typewriter Age — Ysenda Maxtone Graham | ISBN: 9781408713464 | RRP: $55.00
    A wonderfully evocative social history of the women who entered the workforce as secretaries and typists in twentieth-century Britain. Ysenda Maxtone Graham combines wit and warmth with serious social history to capture a vanished world of office life.
11. On Every Tide: The Making and Remaking of the Irish World — Sean Connolly | ISBN: 9781408709504 | RRP: $34.99
    A masterful history of the Irish diaspora, tracing how emigration shaped not only the millions who left Ireland but the identity of the country they left behind. Sean Connolly brings deep scholarship and genuine narrative drive to a sweeping story spanning centuries and continents.
12. The Global Age: Europe 1950-2017 — Ian Kershaw | ISBN: 9780735223981 | RRP: $49.99
    The concluding volume in renowned historian Ian Kershaw's monumental history of modern Europe, charting the continent's transformation from the rubble of the Second World War to the uncertainties of the twenty-first century. Authoritative, ambitious, and essential.
13. Digging Up Armageddon: The Search for the Lost City of Solomon — Eric H. Cline | ISBN: 9780691207834 | RRP: $34.99
    A gripping account of one of archaeology's most storied excavations — the dig at Megiddo, the biblical Armageddon — and the larger-than-life characters who pursued it across the twentieth century. Eric H. Cline brings real narrative verve to the history of archaeology itself.
14. Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds — Simon Ings | ISBN: 9780349128566 | RRP: $59.99
    A bold and ambitious group biography examining how four major writers shaped political thought and public consciousness across the twentieth century. Simon Ings explores the surprising, often troubling power of literature to move history itself.
15. Great Society: A New History — Amity Shlaes | ISBN: 9780061706424 | RRP: $49.99
    A provocative reassessment of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs and their lasting impact on American politics and economics. Amity Shlaes offers a rigorously argued history that challenges conventional accounts of one of the most consequential eras in modern American policy.
16. Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess — Adam Zamoyski | ISBN: 9780008521684 | RRP: $45.00
    The remarkable life of Princess Izabela Czartoryska, who used her wealth, intellect, and influence to help preserve Polish culture and identity through decades of partition and political upheaval. Adam Zamoyski brings his trademark elegance to a story of resilience and quiet defiance.