The Question of Palestine
This original and deeply provocative book was the first to make Palestine the subject of a serious debate—one that is now more critical than ever. With the rigorous scholarship that he brought to his influential Orientalism and an exile’s passion (he was Palestinian by birth and had been a member of the Palestine National Council), Edward W. Said traces the...Paperback$4100Elsewhere:$4500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The End of the Myth
Ever since this nation's inception, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American identity. Symbolising a future of endless promise, it was the foundation of the United States' belief in itself as an exceptional nation—democratic, individualistic, forward-looking. Today, though, America has a new symbol: the border wall. In The End of the Myth, acclaimed historian...Paperback$4899Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Art of War
For more than two thousand years, The Art of War by Sun Tzu has provided military leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics, managing troops and terrain, and employing cunning and deception. An elemental part of Chinese culture, it has also become a touchstone for the Western struggle for survival and success, whether in battle, in business, or in relationships....Paperback$3100Elsewhere:$3400Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
20% offNowhere for Very Long
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • USA TODAY BESTSELLER In this beautifully written, vividly detailed memoir, a young woman chronicles her adventures traveling across the deserts of the American West in an orange van named Bertha and reflects on an unconventional approach to life. A woman defined by motion, Brianna Madia bought a beat-up bright orange...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$3299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Victory '45
Celebrating the 80th anniversary of VE Day, bestselling historians James Holland and Al Murray tell the unflinching story of the eight surrenders that brought victory to the Allies and ended the Second World War. Victory '45 tells the story of the extraordinary summer when the greatest conflagration the world had ever known finally came to an end after eight surrenders...Paperback$2999Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
17% offDown and Out in Paris and London
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Three francs will feed you till tomorrow, and you cannot think further than that… As a young man struggling to find his voice as a writer, George Orwell left the comfort of home to live in the impoverished working districts of Paris and London. He would document both...Paperback$1000Elsewhere:$1299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Civilization
Civilization: How the West's six 'killer apps' transformed the history of the world Winner of the Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize 2013 If in the year 1411 you had been able to circumnavigate the globe and compare the dazzling civilizations of the Orient with Europe and North America, the idea that the West would dominate the Rest for most...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
Uhtred’s Feast
WELCOME TO UHTRED’S FEAST . . . Over the course of writing the Last Kingdom series, Bernard Cornwell discovered an increasing fascination for the Anglo-Saxon world: its people, their culture, and their domestic lives beyond the battlefield. And so when he met renowned chef Suzanne Pollak, someone with a passion for Anglo-Saxon cookery, Uhtred’s Feast was born. A combination of...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$3500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
Colonialism
The Sunday Times Bestseller A new assessment of the West’s colonial record In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the ‘End of History’ – that the global dominance of liberal democracy had been secured forever. Now however, with Russia rattling its sabre on the borders of Europe and...Paperback$3200Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Shooting an Elephant
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics — irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas, and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Today, George Orwell is perhaps most famous for his iconic novels — Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm — but in his own time, it was his remarkable nonfiction writing which drew most attention. Kind-hearted, intelligent,...Hardback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
Orwell's England
All of Orwell's brilliant writing on England and Englishness collected in a single volume. Much of George Orwell's best writing, brought together in this comprehensive collection, is concerned with England, a country that he found both endearing and frustrating. In the brilliantly perceptive The English People, he lists the national characteristics as 'suspicion of foreigners, sentimentality about animals, hypocrisy, exaggerated...Paperback$2900Elsewhere:$3200Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
Millennium
Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the glittering empires of Byzantium or Islam, the splintered kingdoms on the edge of the Atlantic appeared impoverished, fearful, and backward. But the anarchy of these years proved to be, not the portents of the end of the...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$3499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
A Short History of the World in 50 Failures
Explore the failures, mistakes and missed opportunities that shaped history in this new entry in the bestselling series. From the botched attempt to create a life-extending elixir that produced gunpowder, to the unsuccessful stint in medical school which led to a career in naturalism for Charles Darwin, to the missile detection system malfunction that almost sparked a nuclear war, the...Hardback$2700Elsewhere:$3499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Making of Auschwitz
The Making of Auschwitz provides a chilling blueprint for genocide, uncovering the deadly architecture behind the largest mass murder factory in history. Commemorating 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, The Making of Auschwitz reveals the chilling construction of the largest mass murder factory in history. Drawing from hundreds of captured German documents, architectural plans, and key records from the...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
20% offThe Swimmer of Auschwitz
The extraordinary story of an Olympian who was imprisoned in Auschwitz and survived to tell his story. Alfred Nakache, a Jewish child from Constantine, never imagined that he would one day swim for France at the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936, nor that he would achieve a world record, as he did in 1941. As a child, he was...Paperback$3200Usually:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Intrepid Women
Meet the pioneering female anthropologists who coped with illness, shipwreck, loneliness and misogyny to document the remarkable lives of people in distant parts of the world where 'ladies' were not meant to travel. The extraordinary women featured in Intrepid Women defied early twentieth-century conventions to carry out groundbreaking field research in distant parts of the world where 'ladies' were not...Hardback$5799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
12% offLife
For the first time, Pope Francis tells the story of his life as he looks back on the momentous world events that have changed history—from his earliest years during the outbreak of World War II in 1939 to the turmoil of today. An extraordinary personal and historical journey, Life is the story of a man and a world in dramatic...Paperback$2900Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Queer Bible
‘We stand on the shoulders of giants. Now we learn their names.’ A powerful, joyous, stunningly illustrated collection of essays by queer icons about the LGBTQ+ trailblazers throughout history who inspired them. From Elton John on Divine to Graham Norton on Armistead Maupin; Russell Tovey on David Robilliard to Lady Phyll on Moud Goba; Tan France on the Queer Eye...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Aircraft of World War 2
Aircraft of World War 2 by Kieran Whitworth and The Imperial War Museum is the definitive visual history of key World War Two aircraft. This visually stunning, accessible, and fascinating account covers 50 key aircraft from World War Two, illustrated by the outstanding photograph archive of the Imperial War Museum. Delve into the origins, development, and operations of the iconic...Hardback$7999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands
Written in 1857, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivalled Florence Nightingale's during the Crimean War. Seacole's offer to volunteer as a nurse in the war met with racism and refusal. Undaunted, Seacole set out independently to the Crimea, where she acted as doctor and 'mother' to wounded soldiers...Paperback$2599Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Unearthed
A beautiful work of nature-writing, memoir and storytelling that will change the way we think about the natural world, from food grower Claire Ratinon. A powerful work of memoir and storytelling that will change the way we think about the natural world. Like many diasporic people of colour, Claire Ratinon grew up feeling cut off from the natural world. She...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
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The Story of a Life
An astonishing memoir of the Holocaust through the eyes of a child, and an exquisite meditation on memory and trauma. The Story of a Life by Aharon Appelfeld chronicles his experiences as the beloved only child of middle-class Jewish parents living in what is now Ukraine at the outbreak of World War Two. Their peaceful life is upended when soldiers...Paperback$2000Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
18% offThe Mascot
One summer's day in 1997, Mark Kurzem returned home to find his father on his doorstep. Alex Kurzem had travelled halfway round the world to reveal a long-kept secret, and now wanted his son's help to piece together his past and his identity. As a five-year-old during the Second World War, Alex Kurzem had watched from a tree as his...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$3100Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
17% offThe Letters of the Younger Pliny
The Letters of the Younger Pliny provide a series of fascinating views on imperial Rome. A prominent lawyer and administrator, Pliny (c. AD 61-113) was also a prolific letter-writer, who numbered among his correspondents such eminent figures as Tacitus, Suetonius, and the Emperor Trajan, as well as a wide circle of friends and family. His lively and very personal letters...Paperback$2000Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
19% offThe Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton
A revelatory new biography of the sinister, powerful, and paranoid man at the heart of the CIA for more than three tumultuous decades. In The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton, Jefferson Morley delivers a gripping biography of CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton, one of the most important unelected officials in the US government during the...Paperback$2900Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Diary of Lady Murasaki
The Diary recorded by Lady Murasaki (c. 973 – c. 1020), author of The Tale of Genji, is an intimate picture of her life as tutor and companion to the young Empress Shoshi. Told in a series of vignettes, it offers revealing glimpses of the Japanese imperial palace: the auspicious birth of a prince, rivalries between the Emperor's consorts, with...Paperback$2200Elsewhere:$2699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
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King and Emperor
The acclaimed biography of one of the most extraordinary of all European rulers. Charles, King of the Franks, is one of the most remarkable figures ever to rule a European super-state. That is why he is so often called 'Charles the Great'—by the French 'Charlemagne', and by the Germans 'Karl der Grosse'. King and Emperor by Janet L. Nelson brings...Paperback$2500Elsewhere:$3200Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
19% offHenry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 3): 1943-57
The third and final volume of the remarkable Sunday Times bestselling diaries of Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon. 'An utterly addictive glimpse of London high society and politics in the 40s and 50s.' – Robert Harris 'An instant classic . . . quite simply the greatest social and political diaries of the 20th century.' – Daily Telegraph 'Rich, exuberant, copious and...Paperback$2900Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
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Augustus The Strong
A riotous biography of the charismatic ruler of eighteenth-century Poland and Saxony, and his catastrophic reign. Both King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, Augustus is one of the great what-ifs of the 18th century. He could have turned the accident of ruling two major realms into the basis for a powerful European state—a bulwark against the Russians and a...Hardback$6700Elsewhere:$8500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
17% offAlfred the Great
Asser's Life of King Alfred, written in 893, is a revealing account of one of the greatest of medieval kings. This work is composed by a monk of St David's in Wales, who later became Bishop of Sherborne in King Alfred's service. Asser worked closely with the king in his efforts to revive religion and learning across the kingdom. This...Paperback$2000Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
18% offThe Hiroshima Men
At 8:15 a.m. on August 6th, 1945, the Japanese port city of Hiroshima was struck by the world's first atomic bomb. Built in the US by the top-secret Manhattan Project and delivered by a B-29 Superfortress, a revolutionary long-range bomber, the weapon destroyed large swaths of the city, instantly killing tens of thousands. The world would never be the same...Paperback$2800Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
SNAFU: The Definitive Guide to History's Greatest Screwups
From actor, comedian, writer, and host of the hit history podcast SNAFU, Ed Helms brings you an absurdly entertaining look at history's greatest screwups, complete with lively illustrations. History contains a plethora of insane screwups—otherwise known as SNAFUs. Coined during World War I, SNAFU is an acronym that stands for Situation Normal: All F*cked Up. In other words, "things are...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Magna Carta
A beautifully produced account of the signing, impact, and legacy of Magna Carta, a document that became one of the most influential statements in the history of democracy, as part of the stunning landmark library series. On a summer's day in 1215, a beleaguered English monarch met a group of disgruntled barons in a meadow by the river Thames named...Paperback$3400Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
17% offCold Crematorium
Cold Crematorium, a lost classic of Holocaust literature, has been translated into English for the first time, 70 years after its original publication. József Debreczeni, the author, was not only a journalist and poet but also a survivor of the Holocaust. His work stands as a crystal-clear eyewitness account, chronicling the horrors he endured. 'A literary diamond... A Holocaust memoir...Paperback$2000Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
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The Secret History of the Mongols
An inventive translation of a great historical epic, recounting the turbulent life and times of Chinggis Khan. 'By the Power of Eternal Heaven; By the Protection of the Majestic Imperial Fortune.' Born a poor nomad in an unforgiving world, Chinggis (or Genghis) Khan transformed the thirteenth century, ultimately ruling an empire that would stretch from Korea to Crimea and Syria...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$3200Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
The Lucky Country: Popular Penguins
First published in 1964, The Lucky Country caused a sensation. The book was a wake-up call to an unimaginative nation, an indictment of a country mired in mediocrity and manacled to its past. Valuable not only as a source of continuing truths and revealing snapshots of the past, but above all as a key to understanding the anxieties and discontents...Paperback$1500Elsewhere:$1599Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
The Invention of Medicine
A striking reappraisal of the beginnings of medicine, by one of the world's leading ancient historians. Medicine is one of the great fields of achievement of the Ancient Greeks. Hippocrates is celebrated worldwide as the father of medicine, and the Hippocratic Oath is admired throughout the medical profession as a founding statement of ethics and ideals. In the fifth century...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
Magna Carta
The definitive translation of our history's founding legal document - translated with a new commentary by David Carpenter. Magna Carta is probably the most famous declaration in western legal history. Wrested by rebellious barons from a very reluctant King John, it set out a series of rights and duties which have been appealed to, ignored, suppressed and argued about ever...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
Catiline's War, The Jugurthine War, Histories
Sallust (86-c. 35 BC) is the earliest Roman historian of whom complete works survive. A senator of the Roman Republic, he was a younger contemporary of Cicero, Pompey, and Julius Caesar. His Catiline's War tells of the conspiracy in 63 BC led by L. Sergius Catilina, who plotted to assassinate numerous senators and take control of the government but was...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
Battles Map by Map
Famous battles from throughout history, mapped out in detail and explored in depth. Experience the world's most significant battles through bold, easy-to-grasp maps. Includes a foreword by Peter Snow, broadcaster and historian. Covering everything from the battlefields of the ancient world to the bomb-scarred landscapes of World War II and beyond, this book is packed with engrossing maps telling the...Hardback$7000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
A Perfidious Distortion of History: the Versailles Peace Treaty and the success of the Nazis
The Versailles Peace Treaty, the pact that ended World War I between the German Empire and the Allies, has not enjoyed a high reputation among politicians, historians, and opinion-makers since its signing in June 1919. Conventional wisdom suggests that, guided by motives of punishment and revenge, and based on the untenable claim that Germany had caused the war, the treaty's...Hardback$4500Elsewhere:$5000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
Ancient Greece
A five-star guided tour of the ancient Greek civilisation. Embark upon a fascinating journey through ancient Greece - from its rise and fall to its lasting legacy throughout the Western world. Spanning more than 3,000 years, Ancient Greece explores the tumultuous history of this glorious empire in vivid detail - from its Minoan and Mycenaean origins to the apogee of...Hardback$6600Elsewhere:$7500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Why Empires Fall
Why did Rome fall - and what can it teach us about the decline of the West today? A historian and a political economist investigate. Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly, around the turn of the millennium, history reversed. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division, the West has found itself...Hardback$4000Elsewhere:$5000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Writings from Ancient Egypt
The essential writings of ancient Egypt, from songs to stories, newly translated. 'Man perishes; his corpse turns to dust; all his relatives pass away. But writings make him remembered.' The fascination Ancient Egypt holds in our minds has many sources, but at the heart of it lie hieroglyphics. This extraordinary writing system was for many years seen as the ultimate...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
On Writing History from Herodotus to Herodian
What is history and how should it be written? This important new anthology contains all the seminal texts that relate to the writing of history in the ancient world. The study of history was invented in the ancient world. Treading uncharted waters, writers such as Plutarch and Lucian grappled with big questions such as how history should be written, how...Paperback$3500Elsewhere:$3800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
The Secret History
This edition contains a revision of the existing translation, revision of chronology and genealogy, and a new introduction of 4-6000 words, new notes, and a new selection of further reading. A trusted member of the Byzantine establishment, Procopius was the Empire's official chronicler, and his History of the Wars of Justinian proclaimed the strength and wisdom of the Emperor's reign....Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
The Rise of the Roman Empire
In writing his account of the relentless growth of the Roman Empire, the Greek statesman Polybius set out to help his fellow-countrymen understand how their world came to be dominated by Rome. Opening with the Punic War in 264 BC, he records the critical stages of Roman expansion - its campaigns throughout the Mediterranean, the temporary setbacks inflicted by Hannibal,...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Later Roman Empire
The Later Roman Empire is a historical account of the end of the Roman Empire, penned by Ammianus Marcellinus, the last great Roman historian. His writings hold a prestigious place alongside those of Livy and Tacitus. This chronicle spans a period of twenty-five years during Marcellinus' lifetime, covering the reigns of Constantius, Julian, Jovian, Valentinian I, and Valens. It provides...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Civil Wars
John Carter's modern translation conveys the compelling style of the original. His extensive introduction provides an in-depth assessment of Appian as a historian and places the work in context. Taken from Appian's Roman History, the five books collected here form the sole surviving continuous historical narrative of the era between 133-35 BC — a time of anarchy and instability for...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
A fascinating description of the beginning of the modern world. For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world—a world in which flourishing individualism and the competition for fame radically transformed science, the arts, and politics. In this landmark work, he depicts the Italian city-states of Florence, Venice and Rome...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$3500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Rome and Italy
Books VI-X of Livy's monumental History of Rome Books VI-X of Livy's monumental work trace Rome's fortunes from its near collapse after defeat by the Gauls in 386 BC to its emergence, in a matter of decades, as the premier power in Italy, having conquered the city-state of Samnium in 293 BC. In this fascinating history, events are described not...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Hitler's American Gamble
A riveting account of Pearl Harbor and the five history-making days that followed. This gripping book dramatizes the extraordinarily compressed and terrifying period between the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Hitler's declaration of war on the United States. These five days transformed much of the world and have shaped our own experience ever since. Simms and Laderman's aim...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$3500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
Conquistadores
A riveting new history of Spanish imperialism, and the men who laid its foundations. The conquistadores, the early explorers and settlers of Spanish America, have become the stuff of legends and nightmares. In their own time they were glorified as heroic adventurers, spreading Christian culture and building an empire unlike any the world had ever seen. Today, they stand condemned...Paperback$2900Elsewhere:$3200Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
The Dragons and the Snakes
The first work to put forward a unified theory of how state and non-state threats now overlap and intersect. In 1993, a newly appointed CIA director warned that Western powers might have "slain a large dragon" with the fall of the USSR, but now faced a "bewildering variety of poisonous snakes." Since then, the dragons (state enemies such as Russia...Paperback$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
A Short History of Humanity
An international bestseller, covering 2 million years of human history in 250 pages, which proves that migration has always been essential to our survival. Humanity has often found itself on the precipice. We've survived and thrived because we've never stopped moving... In this eye-opening book, Johannes Krause, Chair of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Humanity, offers a...Paperback$3600Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
Africa's Tarnished Name
Fifty new books at £1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry. He needed to hear Africa speak for itself after a lifetime of hearing Africa spoken about by others. Africa's Tarnished Name features electrifying essays on the history, complexity, and diversity of a continent, from the father...Paperback$300Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
A Distant Mirror
A classic history of fourteenth-century Europe, from the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Guns of August. The fourteenth century was a time of fabled crusades and chivalry, glittering cathedrals and grand castles. It was also a time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world of chaos and the plague. Here, Barbara Tuchman masterfully reveals the two contradictory images of the...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$3500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
Wars Without End
A captivating and incisive account of New Zealand's Land Wars - from a Māori perspective. From the earliest days of European settlement in New Zealand, Māori have struggled to hold on to their land. Tensions began early, arising from disputed land sales. When open conflict between Māori and Imperial forces broke out in the 1840s and 1860s, the struggles only...Paperback$3600Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
A Short History of London
Following his bestselling short histories of England and Europe comes the final in the trilogy - London. London - a settlement founded by the Romans, occupied by the Saxons, conquered by the Danes and ruled by the Normans. This unremarkable place - not even included in the Domesday Book - became a medieval maze of alleys and courtyards, later to...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy
An action-packed Cold War thriller set in the deserts of North Africa. A Soviet space scientist defects to win academic freedom, but western intelligence has other plans for him and sends an unnamed spy—perhaps the same reluctant hero of The IPCRESS File—to look after him. But what follows is a blood-streaked trail across three continents... Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy reveals...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
The IPCRESS File
Len Deighton's best-selling first spy novel, which revolutionised the genre, is now published in Penguin Classics for the first time. A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped. A secret British intelligence agency must find out why. But as the quarry is pursued from grimy Soho to the other side of the world, what seemed a straightforward mission turns into something far...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
The Ipcress File
Len Deighton's best-selling first spy novel, now adapted into a major new ITV series. A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped. A secret British intelligence agency must find out why. But as the quarry is pursued from grimy Soho to the other side of the world, what seemed a straightforward mission turns into something far more sinister. With its sardonic, cool,...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
The Bolivian Diary
The last diary of Che Guevara, with entries going up until two days before his death—the final, blazing record of a true revolutionary. In 1967, Che Guevara left Cuba to lead the Bolivian Liberation Army. In the jungles of Bolivia, they attempted to initiate a revolution like that in Cuba, in which Che had played such a central role. The...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
Babi Yar
The gripping, tragic account of Kyiv during the Second World War, based on the author's diaries as a young boy. The powerful rediscovered masterpiece of Kyiv during the Second World War, told by a young boy who saw it all. Read it and weep... Nothing I have read about that barbaric time has been as affecting as this gripping, disturbing...Hardback$3600Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Our Moon
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2024 'Superb: as much a feat of imagination as it is a work of globe-trotting scholarship' TELEGRAPH 'I learned more about the Moon by reading this book than after a lifetime of study' CHRIS HADFIELD, author of An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth 'You will never look at the Moon the same way...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
Sword
On 6 June 1944 when the allied armies landed on D-Day, the Second World War had already lasted almost five years. Yet many of the British and American troops who invaded Normandy were virgin soldiers, never before committed to battle. They quit summer England to face within hours a storm of machine-gun and mortar fire. They witnessed scenes, above all...Paperback$3500Elsewhere:$4500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World
The incredible eyewitness account of wartime resistance, now in paperback. Insistently asks the question—What would you do? Would you fight, or acquiesce, or collaborate? ... Karski was deeply patriotic and ludicrously brave ... an astonishing testament of survival - Ben Macintyre, author of Operation Mincemeat It is 1939. Jan Karski, a brilliant young Polish student, enjoys a life of parties...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
Shah of Shahs
With a new introduction by Christopher de Bellaigue Shah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran and is a compelling meditation on the nature of revolution and the devastating results of fear. Here, Kapuscinski describes the tyrannical monarch who, despite his cruel oppression of the Iranian people, sees himself as the father of a nation, capable...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
Mexico Set
The second novel in the Game, Set and Match trilogy is a gripping study in the art of spy enrolment. World-weary agent Bernard Samson is losing control of his personal and professional life. Sent to Mexico to aid the defection of a KGB agent to the West, he has a chance to prove his worth. Instead, he is torn between...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
Letter from America
A defining collection from Alistair Cooke's legendary BBC Radio broadcasts guiding us through nearly sixty years of changing life in the United States. When Alistair Cooke retired in February 2004, he was acclaimed as one of the greatest broadcasters of all time. His Letter from America radio series, which began in 1946 and continued every week for fifty-eight years until...Paperback$3899Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
Funeral in Berlin
Funeral in Berlin is a vintage spy thriller and part of The IPCRESS File series, where a Russian scientist defects to the West. The setting is the dark and dangerous Berlin of 1963. The anonymous hero of The IPCRESS File is tasked with arranging the defection of a leading Soviet scientist, orchestrated through an elaborate mock coffin. However, he quickly...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
Fighter
A myth-busting, page-turning history of the Battle of Britain History is swamped by patriotic myths about the aerial combat fought between the RAF and the Luftwaffe over the summer of 1940. In his gripping history of the Battle of Britain, Len Deighton drew on a decade of research and his own wartime experiences to puncture these myths and point towards...Paperback$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
Blood, Tears and Folly
A magisterial history of the Second World War by best-selling novelist and former RAF pilot Len Deighton. This unflinching history of the darkest days of the Second World War covers the entire world stage, from the Battle of the Atlantic to Pearl Harbor. Rooted in the personal accounts of the soldiers themselves, Blood, Tears and Folly is a sweeping, moving...Paperback$3400Elsewhere:$3700Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
Blitzkrieg
A riveting history of the Nazi conquest of Western Europe This is the story of the Nazi conquest of western Europe, from Hitler's rise to power and 'lightning-fast war', to his fatal mistake in halting the German advance on Dunkirk in 1940. Drawing on technical mastery and interviews with both Allied and German participants, Blitzkrieg sets out the technical thinking...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
An Expensive Place to Die
An unnamed spy is entangled in Paris's seedy underworld in a rollercoaster Cold War thriller. An Expensive Place to Die transports readers to Paris in the 1960s, a city that caters to every taste, especially at the private 'clinic' run by the enigmatic Monsieur Datt on Avenue Foch. This clinic supplies psychedelic drugs and sexual favours to the city's elite,...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
All Desire is a Desire for Being
A new selection of foundational works from the influential philosopher who developed the theory of mimetic desire. René Girard eludes easy categories, bridging the fields of literary criticism, anthropology, sociology, history, religion, and theology. Influencing such writers as J. M. Coetzee and Milan Kundera, his insight into contagious violence looks ever more prophetic and relevant seven years after his death....Paperback$2900Elsewhere:$3200Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
A History of the Crusades II
Runciman's great Crusades trilogy reissued in Penguin Modern Classics 'The whole tale is one of faith and folly, courage and greed, hope and delusion' The triumph of the First Crusade transformed the eastern Mediterranean, creating a series of European-ruled states along the coast and in Armenia. But the region's Muslim rulers were far from defeated, and the major cities of...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Wagner Group
This book exposes the history and future of The Wagner Group, Russia's notorious and secretive mercenary army, revealing details of their operations never documented before. Using extensive leaks, first-hand accounts, and the byzantine paper trail left in its wake, Jack Margolin traces the Wagner Group from its roots as a battlefield rumour to a private military enterprise tens of thousands...Hardback$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
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The Golden Throne
An immersive reconstruction of the life of the most feared and powerful man of the sixteenth century, from the author of The Lion House. Istanbul, 1538. The greatest of the Ottoman Sultans is at the pinnacle of world power, while his family and future are at the mercy of their own dynastic law—whichever of his five sons succeeds him must...Paperback$3200Usually:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
Berlin Game
The first novel in the Bernard Samson series is a dazzling return to Deighton’s world of Cold War espionage. Embattled agent Bernard Samson is used to being passed over for promotion as his younger, more ambitious colleagues—including his own wife Fiona—rise up the ranks of MI6. When a valued agent in East Berlin warns the British of a mole at...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
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