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Secret Britain: A journey through the Second World War's hidden bases and battlegrounds
Author: Sinclair McKay Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Discover the stories of the brave men and women who worked, trained and fought across the UK, from Bletchley Park in...
No Man's Land: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran Britain's Most Extraordinary Military Hospital During World War I
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Author: Wendy Moore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The "absorbing and powerful" (Wall Street Journal) story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who shattered social expectations and transformed modern medicine...
The Secret of Emu Field: Britain's forgotten atomic tests in Australia
Author: Elizabeth Tynan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Emu Field is overshadowed by Maralinga, the larger and much more prominent British atomic test site about 193 kilometres to the...
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...
Rome: Eternal City
Author: Ferdinand Addis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 648 A portrait of the city at the heart of Western civilization, brought to life in twenty-two scenes from its 2,500-year history....
A Brief History of the British Monarchy: From the Iron Age to King Charles III
Author: Jeremy Black Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The British monarchy is at a turning point. Concise and engaging, this book charts the very beginnings of British reign through...
Endgame
Author: Omid Scobie Format: Paperback 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...
Mary Queen of Scots: And the Murder of Lord Darnley
Author: Alison Weir Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 On the night of 10 February 1567 an explosion devastated the Edinburgh residence of Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, second husband of...
The Story of Russia: 'An excellent short study'
Author: Orlando Figes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects...
The Rest is History: The official book from the makers of the hit podcast
Author: Goalhanger Podcasts Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys - there's a new history book in town. From the chart-topping podcast...
The Showman: The Inside Story of the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky
Author: Simon Shuster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'This book offers a front row seat to history as it is being made' ANNE APPLEBAUM 'This is the...
The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War
Author: Philip Oltermann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'Engrossing.' -Observer 'Remarkable.' - The Times 'Magnificent.'- Phillipe Sands 'Gripping.'- Literary Review 'A history so outlandish and unlikely that you feel...
A Strange Business: Making Art and Money in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: James Hamilton (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Britain in the nineteenth century saw a series of technological and social changes which continue to influence and direct us...
Caen Controversy: The Battle for Sword Beach 1944
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The Rival Queens: Catherine De' Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal That Ignited a Kingdom
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RAF Harrier Ground Attack, Falklands
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George III: The Life and Reign of Britain's Most Misunderstood Monarch
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The Most Dangerous Moment of the War: Japan'S Attack on the Indian Ocean, 1942
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Bang!: A History of Britain in the 1980s
Author: Graham Stewart Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 Britain in the 1980s was a polarized nation. Determined to take the country in a radically different direction was the most...
MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949
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Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine
Author: Anna Reid Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 FULLY UPDATED 'A fascinating and often violent odyssey, spanning more than 1,000 years of conflict and culture' INDEPENDENT Flat, fertile, and...
The Balkans
Author: Mark Mazower Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 At the end of the twentieth century people spoke as if the Balkans had plagued Europe forever. But two hundred years...
N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia
Author: Mark Piesing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 "GRIPPING. ... One of the greatest polar rescue efforts ever mounted." -Wall Street Journal The riveting true story of the largest...
False Prophets: British Leaders' Fateful Fascination with the Middle East from Suez to Syria
Author: Professor Nigel Ashton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 Britain shaped the modern Middle East through the lines that it drew in the sand after the First World War...
Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain
Author: Matthew Green Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This...
The Great Escape
Author: Paul Brickhill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 One of the most famous true stories from the last war, The GREAT ESCAPE tells how more than six hundred men...
England: The Making of the Myth from Stonehenge to Albert Square
Author: Maureen Duffy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'An erudite, extremely entertaining work' Jan Morris, Independent In the style of Longitude and Fermat's Last Theorem, acclaimed novelist Maureen Duffy...
The Queen's Knight
Author: Martyn Downer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 Suppressed passion and domestic intrigue at the heart of Queen Victoria's court. Sir Howard Elphinstone, dashing hero of the Crimean War,...
The Lost Decade: 2010-2020, and What Lies Ahead for Britain
Author: Polly Toynbee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The ten years from 2010 have been devastating. A decade of austerity and paralysis nurtured contempt for leaders, institutions and fellow...
Dangerous Days in Elizabethan England: Thieves, Tricksters, Bards and Bawds
Author: Terry Deary Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 From the author of HORRIBLE HISTORIES comes the third volume in Terry Deary's gritty and humorous history series for adults. The...
Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in its Darkest, Finest Hour
Author: Lynne Olson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 In her latest book, Lynne Olson focuses again on Britain in World War II, this time from an American perspective. This...
Faster than the Sun: Reminiscences of a Fleet Air Arm and a test pilot
Author: Peter Twiss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The name of Peter Twiss first achieved national prominence in March 1956 when, as a test pilot, he gained the World...
Conspirator
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Author: Helen Rappaport Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Helen Rappaport's Conspirator is a vivid account of Vladimir I. Lenin's years of exile in Europe, showing that this often-overlooked period...
The Tories: Conservatives and the Nation State, 1922-97
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The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled it
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Slim, Master of War: Burma, 1942-5
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The City of York Companion
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Britain After Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400 to 1070
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Margaret Thatcher: Power and Personality
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The Secret History of Georgian London: How the Wages of Sin Shaped the Capital
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In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815
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The Affair: Case of Alfred Dreyfus
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The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon
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The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England
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The Story of Russia: 'An excellent short study'
Author: Orlando Figes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects...
Ministers at War: Winston Churchill and his War Cabinet
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Code Wars: How 'Ultra' and 'Magic' led to Allied Victory
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Pursuit Through Darkened Skies: An Ace Night-fighter Crew in World War II
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