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The Road to War: France and Vietnam 1944-1947
Author: Martin Shipway Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 324 How did France become embroiled in Vietnam, in the first of the long wars of decolonisation? And why did the French...
Tom, Ned and Kitty: An Intimate Portrait of an Irish Family
Author: Eliza Pakenham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'I am standing in the dining room of my father's house in Ireland, gazing up at ten Pakenham family portraits. What...
Slowly Down the Ganges
Author: Eric Newby Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Slowly Down the Ganges' is seen as a vintage Newby masterpiece, alongside 'A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush' and 'Love...
RAF AIRCRAFT OF THE THE COLD WAR: 1970-1990, Air-to-Air Images
Author: Tony Paxton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 A unique illustrated look at the Cold War planes of the RAF as seen from the cockpit. The Cold War saw...
The 19th Century Criminal Underworld
Author: Stephen Carver Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 209 Take a walk on the dark side of the street in this unique exploration of the fears and desires at the...
The Churchill Girls: The Story of Winston's Daughters
Author: Rachel Trethewey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 The fascinating untold stories of three women from England's most famous family who were on the frontline of history. Bright, attractive...
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki: The cult hit everyone is talking about
Author: Baek Sehee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 _______________ THE PHENOMENAL KOREAN BESTSELLER TRANSLATED BY INTERNATIONAL BOOKER SHORTLISTEE ANTON HUR 'Will strike a chord with anyone who feels that...
Do Let's Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Author: Gareth Russell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 A Times Best Book on the Royal Family of the Year 2022 This is a biography of the Queen Mother with...
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Author: T.E. Lawrence Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 704 As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom' is one of the major statements about...
Darkness Falling: The Strange Death of the Weimar Republic, 1930-33
Author: Peter Walther Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'Gripping and all too timely' James Hawes 'A brilliant mix of detailed research and vivid storytelling' Julia Boyd 'History at its...
Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There
Author: Rutger Bregman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A Sunday Times Bestseller We live in a time of unprecedented upheaval, with questions about the future, society, work, happiness, family...
A Woman's World, 1850-1960
Author: Dan Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The third volume in the much-admired The Colour of Time series. A Woman's World, 1850-1960 explores the many roles - domestic,...
Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia
Author: Natalie Koch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 The iconic deserts of the American southwest could not have been colonized and settled without the help of desert experts from...
The Tudors in Love: The Courtly Code Behind the Last Medieval Dynasty
Author: Sarah Gristwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'One of the most important books to be written about the Tudors in a generation.' Tracy Borman 'A riveting, pacy page-turner......
Norse Ancient Origins: Stories Of People & Civilization
Author: Beth Rogers Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A beautiful companion volume to Norse Myths and Legends, exploring the ancient origins of Viking society and culture. Gorgeous Collector's Edition....
The Story of the America's Cup: 1851-2021
Author: Ranulf Rayner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 104 The Story of the America's Cup 1851-2021 tells the chronological history of 150 years of the most exciting and exhilarating yacht...
The Treasuries: Poetry Anthologies and the Making of British Culture
Author: Clare Bucknell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 The fascinating history of poetry anthologies and their influence on British society and culture over the last four centuries. From the...
Mary Ward: First Sister of Feminism
Author: Sydney Thorne Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Almost exactly 400 years ago, an English woman completed an astonishing walk to Rome. An English Catholic, Mary Ward had already...
The Narrow Sea: Barrier, Bridge and Gateway to the World - The History of the English Channel
Author: Peter Unwin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The English Channel separates Britain from Europe, keeping invaders out of Britain and making the island and islanders different from the...
The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells
Author: Sarah Churchwell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 The history America never wanted you to read. 'The narrative took my breath away' Philippe Sands 'An extraordinarily and shockingly powerful...
Whatever Happened to Tradition?: History, Belonging and the Future of the West
Author: Tim Stanley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The problem with conservatism, said Evelyn Waugh, is that it never turns the clock back. It attempts to preserve the status...
The Barn: The Lives, Landscape and Lost Ways of an Old Yorkshire Farm
Author: Sally Coulthard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A revelatory uncovering of a vanished agricultural way of life by bestselling nature writer Sally Coulthard. 'A gem of a book'...
Britain's Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt
Author: Richard Gott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 Contrary to nationalist legend and schoolboy history lessons, the British Empire was not a great civilising power bringing light to the...
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
Author: Dan Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 720 The instant Sunday Times bestseller A Times, New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year 'Simply the best popular history of...
The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells
Author: Sarah Churchwell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Gone With the Wind, the myth of the Lost Cause and what they can tell us about American history and culture...
Heiresses: The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies
Author: Laura Thompson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Heiresses is a glorious book, endlessly entertaining and about much more than its stated subject. Thompson is a fabulous writer' Caroline...
How Minds Change: The New Science of Belief, Opinion and Persuasion
Author: David McRaney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Genes create brains, brains create beliefs, beliefs create attitudes, attitudes create group-identities, group identities create norms, norms create values, and values...
We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958
Author: Fintan O'Toole Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 The #1 Irish Times bestseller WINNER of the An Post Irish Book Awards 'A clear-eyed, myth-dispelling masterpiece' Marian Keyes 'Sweeping, authoritative...
What I Wish People Knew About Dementia: From Someone Who Knows
Author: Wendy Mitchell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 What can a diseased brain tell us about being human, living our own lives better and helping those with dementia get...
The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World
Author: Professor Peter Frankopan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 From the internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads: everything you need to know about the present and future of...
Whatever Happened to Tradition?: History, Belonging and the Future of the West
Author: Tim Stanley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The West feels lost. Brexit, Trump, the coronavirus: we hurtle from one crisis to another, lacking definition, terrified that our best...
The Longest Story: How humans have loved, hated and misunderstood other species
Author: Richard Girling Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'Lucid, informed and persuasive' Evening Standard 'Thought-provoking' Daily Mail 'An extraordinary book' Nicholas Evans, author of The Horse Whisperer The history...
How Britain Kept Calm and Carried On: True stories from the Home Front
Author: Anton Rippon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 How Britain Kept Calm and Carried On is a unique, funny and sometimes heartbreakingly sad book containing a treasury of first-hand...
What I Wish People Knew About Dementia: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Author: Wendy Mitchell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Essential reading' SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE 'A book of hope' OBSERVER 'A marvellous tour of insights' THE TIMES...
Conclave 1559: Ippolito d'Este and the Papal Election of 1559
Author: Mary Hollingsworth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Intrigue, double-dealing and conspiracy in the Eternal City. 'A fascinating narrative of the intermingling of secular and religious power' New Statesman...
This Mortal Coil: A Guardian, Economist & Prospect Book of the Year
Author: Andrew Doig Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A superb book' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'An empowering story of human ingenuity'...
How Sugar Corrupted the World: From Slavery to Obesity
Author: Professor James Walvin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 An 'entertaining, informative and utterly depressing global history of an important commodity . . . By alerting readers to the...
72 Hours
Author: Frank Pope Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 August 5th 2005. On a secret mission to an underwater military installation thirty miles off the coast of Kamchatka, Russian Navy...
Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution
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Author: Rebecca Stott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 396 A "NEW YORK TIMES "NOTABLE BOOK "[An] extraordinarily wide-ranging and engaging book [about] the men who shaped the work of Charles...
First Aid to the Battlefront: Life and Letters of Sir Vincent Kennett-Barrington
Author: Peter Morris
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Number of Pages: 224
West End Chronicles: 300 Years of Glamour and Excess in the Heart of London
Author: Ed Glinert Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Like the East End, the West End has a strong and memorable identity. There are few more visited areas in Britain....
Crusoe's Island: A Rich and Curious History of Pirates, Castaways and Madness
Author: Andrew Lambert Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Acclaimed historian Andrew Lambert uncovers the fascinating truth about a faraway place that still haunts our imagination and culture: the island...
Making Music Modern: New York in the 1920s
Author: Carol J. Oja (Margaret and David Bottoms Professor of Music and American Studies, Margaret and David Bottoms Professor of Music and American Studies, College of William and Mary) Format:...
The Generations of Corning: The Life and Times of a Global Corporation
Author: Davis Dyer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 552 This engrossing history of an extraordinary company, Corning Incorporated, chronicles how one of the oldest business enterprises in the world maintained...
Watching the World Change: The Stories Behind the Images of 9/11
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Carpe Diem Regained: The Vanishing Art of Seizing the Day
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I Used to Know That: History
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Sound from Another Room
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