Rhyme and Reason
Some people worry that they don't appreciate poetry; but English poetry wasn't written to be appreciated it was written to be enjoyed. For six centuries people have been reading poetry for enjoyment - for fun, for romance, for religion and for entertainment - and this is a book about those people.What was it like to be sent a Tudor love...Hardback$3199Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Capitalism
A brilliant global narrative that unravels the defining story of the past thousand years. A Financial Times Book of the Year No other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisively as capitalism. It structures how we live and work, how we think about ourselves and others, how we organise our politics. Sven Beckert situates the story of capitalism within the...Hardback$14000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Montaillou
The village of Montaillou was the last stronghold of the cult of Catharism in medieval France. Under the Inquisition of Bishop Fournier, members of this sect were persecuted, and some were burnt at the stake. The interrogations about the way they lived were chronicled in a Register. From this document, Ladurie has reconstructed an intriguing account of everyday peasant life...Paperback$3699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
An Uncommon Land
An Uncommon Land is a story of enclosure, dispossession, colonisation and – ultimately – hope for a better future. Through the lens of her ancestors’ stories, Catherine Knight throws light on the genesis and evolution of the commons, its erosion through enclosure and the ascendency of private property in parallel with the rise of capitalism – a history that has...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Tony Fomison
As a boy, Tony had drawn maps and diagrams and medieval battle scenes. He'd read fairy tales and been enchanted by local sites of Māori history. As a young man, he was a vagrant on the streets of Paris, was twice imprisoned, spent time in a mental hospital, battled destructive addictions, and experienced unrequited love and loneliness. All of this...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Atlas of the New Zealand Wars
In the Atlas of the New Zealand Wars, five decades of maps and plans from 1834 to 1884 provide remarkable new insight into the deep conflicts running through nineteenth-century Aotearoa. Beginning with early skirmishes off the Taranaki coast and at the Chathams, Volume One follows the tracks inland from the Bay of Islands towards the Hokianga in the Northern Wars;...Hardback$8500Elsewhere:$8999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Hitler's Headsmen The Untold Story
‘The guillotine was the silent weapon of Nazi terror — and Johann Reichhart its most faithful servant.’While the world remembers the horrors of the concentration camps, few know of the other, quieter machinery of death that powered the Nazi regime – a judicial system that turned the art of execution into an industry.Hitler’s Headsmen reveals the untold story of the...Paperback$3300Elsewhere:$4199Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Icons
Icons traces the extraordinary heritage of international auction house Sotheby s through 100 of the most significant works sold under its banner. With works spanning across history and mediums from a 67-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex to Maurizio s Cattelan infamous banana this engaging book offers readers an exclusive glimpse into the journey of each artwork through its arrival in Sotheby s...Hardback$15000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Under the Same Sky
An inspirational memoir about an abandoned young boy who escaped the devastating famine in North Korea and came to America in search of survival, freedom, and the pursuit of his wildest dreams. ¶ "Riveting."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) ¶ Inside the hidden and mysterious world of North Korea, Joseph Kim lived a young boy's normal life until he was five. Then...Paperback$5000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Map Of A Nation
Map of a Nation tells the story of the creation of the Ordnance Survey map—the first complete, accurate, affordable map of the British Isles. The Ordnance Survey is a much beloved British institution, and Map of a Nation is, amazingly, the first popular history to tell the story of the map and the men who dreamt and delivered it. The...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
We Do Not Part
Like a long winter's dream, this haunting and visionary new novel from 2024 Nobel Prize winner Han Kang takes us on a journey from contemporary South Korea into its painful history. Beginning one morning in December, We Do Not Part traces the path of Kyungha as she travels from the city of Seoul into the forests of Jeju Island, to...Paperback$2800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
British Gardens
Inspired by the popular BBC series, Monty Don provides a fascinating, lavishly illustrated, and totally unique portrait of Britain, then and now, through its gardens. British Gardens poses the question: What do our gardens say about us? Monty Don has spent many years travelling the world, from America to Japan, from Italy and the Adriatic to Spain and the Mediterranean,...Hardback$9500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Nightmare Sequence
An extraordinary collaboration by an award-winning duo—poet Omar Sakr and visual artist Safdar Ahmed—that bears witness to the genocide in Gaza. The Nightmare Sequence is a searing response to the atrocities in Gaza and beyond since October 2023. Heartbreaking and humane, it is a necessary portrait of the violence committed by Israel and its Western allies. Through poetry and visual...Paperback$3100Elsewhere:$3700Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
How to be Well Read
A guide to the best novels ever written, and why they matter. Ranging all the way from Aaron's Rod to Zuleika Dobson, via The Devil Rides Out and Middlemarch, literary connoisseur and sleuth John Sutherland offers his very personal guide to the most rewarding, most remarkable and, on occasion, most shamelessly enjoyable works of fiction ever written. He brilliantly captures...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
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Henry V
The instant Sunday Times bestseller The UK’s bestselling medieval historian brings unforgettably to life the astonishing rise of Henry V, who survived rebellion, a near-fatal arrow wound, and a lengthy and precarious princely apprenticeship to become England’s greatest warrior king. 'A historian who writes as addictively as any page-turning novelist.' Observer Henry V reigned over England for only nine years...Paperback$2200Usually:$2699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
The Nabatean Secret
US Army Garrison Patch Barracks, near Stuttgart, Germany, 2 a.m., January 11 Sentries at the Main Gate of Patch Barracks had turned away the last of the local Fasching revellers an hour or so before, laughingly joking with them that the Barracks were too quiet for their parties. A few soldiers, somewhat worse for wear after joining the locals for...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Super-Battleships of World War II
An illustrated study of the design, development and eventual fates of the uncompleted super-battleships intended to be built before and during World War II. Before the start of World War II, the battleship was still king, and all the major powers were designing even mightier battleships to surpass their most modern and powerful classes. But when war broke out, aircraft...Paperback$2699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Highlands
The Highlands by Paul Murton takes readers on an extraordinary journey through the breathtakingly beautiful Scottish Highlands. Alongside the well-trodden paths of popular destinations like Glencoe, Ben Nevis, Loch Ness, and the Cairngorms, Paul explores remote and lesser-known locales hidden away from mainstream travelers. As he travels, Paul encounters a diverse array of modern Highlanders, including caber tossers, gamekeepers, lairds,...Paperback$4799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
Statecraft
Packed with gripping first-hand accounts from the battlefield to high-level strategic forums, Statecraft gives you the tools to understand how states collaborate, compete, and fight. Why did Russia struggle in the early months of their full-scale invasion of Ukraine? Why does Israel repeatedly ignore international pressure on Gaza? Why does the UK spend billions on aircraft carriers it struggles to...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
Gaza
Gaza: The Story of a Genocide is an urgent and powerful collection of personal testimony, poetry, photography, art, and frontline reportage. Together, these works bear witness to the vast and ongoing destruction inflicted on the Palestinian people—their lives, their land, and their future. Ahmed Alnaouq recounts the devastating loss of twenty-one family members. Noor Alyacoubi offers a searing reflection on...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
The Many Lives of Anne Frank
A revealing biography of Anne Frank, exploring both her life and the impact of her extraordinary diary "With sensitivity and assiduous research, [Franklin] constructs a vivid cultural history that advocates for a reevaluation of Frank."—New Yorker "Trenchant. . . . An essential look at the diarist's legacy."—Publishers Weekly In this innovative biography, Ruth Franklin explores the transformation of Anne Frank...Paperback$2800Elsewhere:$3099Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Every Moment Is a Life
Compiled by bestselling author susan abulhawa, an Arabic-English bilingual anthology of essays from eighteen young Palestinian writers trying to survive the genocide in Gaza.In early 2024, writer and activist susan abulhawa managed to enter Gaza twice through the Rafah crossing. There, at the Culture and Free Thought Association, susan held a series of workshops for young people who had been...Paperback$2800Elsewhere:$3499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
War and Society
War is a paradox. On the one hand, it destroys bodies and destroys communities. On the other hand, it is responsible for some of the strongest human bonds and has been the genesis of many of our most fundamental institutions. War and Society addresses these paradoxes while providing a sociological exploration of this enigmatic phenomenon which has played a central...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Unholy Kingdom
Reveals a riveting portrait of a nation mired in complexities. In recent years, Saudi Arabia has promoted itself as an open country: oil-rich but investing in culture, tourism, social innovation, and establishing itself as a beacon in the Middle East mired in violence. However, the murder in October 2018 of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Istanbul embassy reveals a darker...Hardback$3499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Only Plane in the Sky
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Incredibly evocative and compelling." - The Washington Post "The most moving and chilling oral history you will read." - The Times "Astonishing book about an astonishing, terrifying atrocity, relived in real time by those who were there. I read it in one sitting & was utterly gripped from start to finish." - Piers Morgan "The...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
On Wars
A history of wars through the ages and across the world, and the irrational calculations that so often lie behind them Benjamin Franklin once said, "There never was a good war or a bad peace." But what determines whether war or peace is chosen? Award-winning sociologist Michael Mann concludes that it is a handful of political leaders—people with emotions and...Paperback$4799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
No Road Leading Back
'A stunning book, a powerful investigation, utterly compelling,' James Holland, The Daily Telegraph, Five stars Ponar, Lithuania. 1944. The Nazis have enslaved Jewish men to exhume and incinerate the bodies of more than 70,000 Jews previously shot to death in the forest. Trapped in almost unimaginable horror, a group develop an audacious escape plan. Despite being guarded day and night,...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
Killing Kennedy
Startling new insights into the JFK assassination In Killing Kennedy: Exposing the Plot, the Cover-Up, and the Consequences, author Jack Roth interviews researchers, scholars, eyewitnesses, and family members of those who were part of the tangled web of US intelligence operations associated with the Cold War and the circumstances surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The author asks important...Hardback$5799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Cartographic Japan
Miles of shelf space in contemporary Japanese bookstores and libraries are devoted to travel guides, walking maps, and topical atlases. Young Japanese children are taught how to properly map their classrooms and schoolgrounds. Elderly retirees pore over old castle plans and village cadasters. Pioneering surveyors are featured in popular television shows, and avid collectors covet exquisite scrolls depicting sea and...Hardback$9199Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Cambodia
A fascinating look at the recent history of the beautiful but troubled Southeast Asian nation of Cambodia “A richly detailed study that goes a long way toward explaining the contradictions, corruption and complexity of Cambodia.”—Ron Gluckman, Wall Street Journal To many in the West, the name Cambodia still conjures up indelible images of destruction and death, the legacy of the...Paperback$3099Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
An Orkney Tapestry
A unique look at Orkney through a poet's eye, An Orkney Tapestry is a celebration of its people, language, and place. It is not written as a continuous historical narrative but as a pattern of history, legend, and folklore. Beautifully illustrated throughout by Sylvia Wishart, a fellow Orcadian, the illustrations show what has been won and lost in Orkney over...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
A Father's Life
Discover your father's life story with this gorgeous keepsake journal filled with over 100 prompts. Whether he's been there for emotional support or to add humour to any situation, your father has played an important role in your life. Now, you can get to know the people, experiences, and stories that shaped the man he is today. A Father's Life...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
With Hot Lead and Cold Steel
A set of wargaming rules for fighting large battles set during the American Civil War. From the First Bull Run to Appomattox Court House, enter one of the defining conflicts of American history. With shot, shell, and sabre, guide the armies of the Blue and the Grey through this first modern war to determine the fate of a nation. With...Paperback$3699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The King's Speech
The bestselling book that inspired the Oscar and BAFTA award-winning film. One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - amazingly he was an almost unknown, and certainly unqualified, speech therapist called Lionel Logue. Logue wasn't a British aristocrat or even an Englishman - he was a commoner and an Australian to boot....Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Names of a Hare
Can a woman gifted with the power of healing survive in a world that burns what it cannot understand? Cornwall, 1628. A young girl guards a dangerous secret — she can leave her body and fly. Steeped in herbal lore and forbidden spells, the girl becomes a woman, while across the land, whispers of witchcraft turn deadly. When witchfinder Matthew...Paperback$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
London: The Hidden Corners For Curious Wanderers
From the alleyways of Soho to the medieval remains of Moorgate, the new book by Sunday Times bestselling author Jack Chesher takes you on a journey through London and its history, showing you its hidden corners. Explore the fascinating history of the city with the creator of the ever-popular @LivingLondonHistory. Have you ever wondered where a notorious Victorian murderer was...Hardback$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
London
A lively new history of London told through twenty-five buildings, from iconic Georgian townhouses to the Shard. A walk along any London street takes you past a wealth of seemingly ordinary buildings: an Edwardian church, modernist postwar council housing, stuccoed Italianate terraces, a Bauhaus-inspired library. But these buildings are not just functional. They are evidence of London's rich and diverse...Paperback$3099Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
They Should Have Been Hanged
They Should Have Been Hanged is a collection of essays presenting a stimulating revisionist view of the U.S. Civil War. Gary Brecher aka John Dolan rejects both the Lost Cause myth and insipid mainstream histories. Instead, he relies on the testimony of contemporary figures like Mary Chesnut, Mark Twain, John A. Logan, and Adam Gurowski to show the American Civil...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
24 Hours in the Viking World
A richly drawn account of a single day in the Viking world, chronicling an hour in the life of 24 individuals from every corner of Viking society. From the bestselling 24 Hours series. Between the infamous Lindisfarne raid in 793 CE and the Norman conquest of 1066, the peoples we know now as the Vikings became one of the most...Paperback$2299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Nautical Puzzle Book
Think you know the difference between a ship and a boat? Do you really understand the shipping forecast? And what do all the different flags at sea mean? The Nautical Puzzle Book is packed to the brim with over 100 puzzles inspired by the National Maritime Museum's objects and their stories. Inside this book you'll find a fiendish mix of...Hardback$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
Mafia: A Global History
Few forces have shaped our world as powerfully – or as secretly – as mafias. Groups such as La Cosa Nostra, the Medellín Cartel, New York’s Five Families, the Japanese yakuza and Russian vory are notorious, endlessly covered in news stories and popular media. Yet when official histories are written, their role in shaping nations, economies and societies is rarely...Paperback$3499Elsewhere:$4299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
Treasure
Treasure sought. Treasure surrendered. Treasure passionately guarded.Hrald, Jarl of Four Stones, has forfeited the golden treasure of his wife, Pega, the richest heiress in Mercia. Powerful Lady Æthelflaed, daughter of Ælfred, King of Wessex, knows just what to do with that gold, and with the young woman to whom it belongs. She moves with swift decision. Hrald must undertake a...Paperback$6000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
The Queen
The Queen by Michelle Morgan offers a warm and nostalgic biography of the powerhouse monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. Written by an experienced biographer, this book is structured around 100 vignettes, inviting readers into an intimate telling of key moments from her long life. Many of the stories within relate to significant milestones such as her wedding to Prince Philip, the...Paperback$3400Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Wellington
A landmark contribution to understanding the real man behind the heroic legend inspired by the triumph at Waterloo The Duke of Wellington was not just Britain’s greatest soldier, although his seismic struggles as leader of the Allied forces against Napoleon in the Peninsular War deservedly became the stuff of British national legend. Wellington was much more: a man of vision...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century
The definitive biography of Soviet Jewish dissident writer Vasily Grossman, called “gripping" and "fascinating" by William Taubman in the New York Times “[Popoff] tells Grossman’s story with sensitivity and a keen understanding of his world, drawing on little-known archival collections to produce what must be considered the definitive biography.”—Douglas Smith, Wall Street Journal Longlisted for the 2019 Cundill History Prize...Paperback$4299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Crown’s Silence
A ground-breaking and essential work of history – the first of its kind to closely examine the British Royal Family’s connection with the transatlantic slave trade. The Crown's Silence is the untold story of the British royal family’s relationship to slavery from the reign of Elizabeth I to the present. It will be the first history of the British monarchy...Paperback$3100Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Demetrius
A portrait of one of the ancient world’s first political celebrities, who veered from failure to success and back again “This colourful biography of Demetrius explores his rich inner life and reveals an ancient world of violence and intrigue.”—New York Times Book Review The life of Demetrius (337–283 BCE) serves as a through-line to the forty years following the death...Paperback$2599Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
A Life
Simone Veil, the former French lawyer and politician who became the first President of the European Union, was born Simone Jacob in 1927. In A Life, she describes in vivid detail a childhood of happiness and innocence spent in Nice that came to an abrupt end in 1944 when, at the age of 17, she was deported with her family...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
The Hidden Face of Eve
Passionate, powerful and thought-provoking, in The Hidden Face of Eve, leading feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi provides a shocking account of the oppression of women in the Arab world. Inspired by her experiences working as a doctor in rural Egypt and her life as an activist for women’s rights, she charts the injustices and violence faced by women in the...Paperback$3699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
Life Lessons From Historical Women
Eleanor is annoyingly clever & maddeningly funny as this book proves. She may have to be destroyed. - Dawn French Take a tour of the past and uncover stories of the women whose lives and achievements have shaped our modern world. In Life Lessons from Historical Women, Eleanor Morton celebrates the ordinary women whose decisions and accomplishments in their everyday...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Tangata Whenua a History
Tangata Whenua: A History presents a rich narrative of the Māori past, from ancient origins in South China to the twenty-first century, in a handy paperback format. The authoritative text is drawn directly from the award-winning Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History. The full text of the big hardback is now available in a reader-friendly edition, ideal for students, for bedtime...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
Bad Gays
Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers, and martyrs, but as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller argue, the past is filled with queer people whose sexualities and/or dastardly deeds have been overlooked. We all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie? What about those 'bad gays' whose un-exemplary lives reveal more than we might expect? Part-revisionist history,...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
9/11 The Conspiracy Theories
The time is right to learn what really happened on 9/11. The time is right to unearth what has been deliberately withheld from the public. Nearly twenty years ago, on 11 September 2001, four passenger aircraft were hijacked and flown into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon near Washington, and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Nearly three...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Origami Paper 500 sheets Japanese Folk Prints 6" (15 cm)
This paper pack contains 500 origami papers printed with designs from traditional Bingata folk fabrics. These paper packs make an excellent resource for all different kinds of folding, crafting and scrapbooking projects. The package includes folding sheets as well as a booklet with instructions so that folders can start right away. This origami paper pack includes: 500 sheets of high-quality...Notebook / blank book$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Maranga! Maranga! Maranga! The Call to Maori History
Celebrating over three decades of Māori scholarship, essays from Maranga! Maranga! Maranga! The Call to Maori History, edited by Aroha Harris and Melissa Matutina Williams, draws on work published by the collective Te Pouhere Kōrero in the journal of the same name. Writers include Rawinia Higgins, Melissa Matutina Williams, Arini Loader, Nēpia Mahuika, Alice Te Punga Somerville, Rachel Buchanan, Aroha...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Journal Morning Glories & Cricket, Hiroshige Lined Paperback
Celebrate the timeless beauty of Japanese art with this lined journal, featuring a masterpiece by a renowned ukiyo-e artist. This lined, paperback journal from Tuttle Publishing features Morning Glories and Cricket (1843-47) from the series "A Compendium of Flowers of the Four Seasons" by Utagawa Hiroshige (1787-1858). Utagawa Hiroshige was one of the most prominent ukiyo-e artists. He is best...Paperback$1599Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Japanese Design
Asian art expert Dr. Patricia Graham guides readers through the aspects of Japanese art and design we've all come to appreciate—whether it's a silk kimono, a carefully raked garden path, or modern snack food packaging. From the ten key characteristics of Japanese design to the Shinto and Buddhist influences on its aesthetics, Japanese Design serves as a great resource for...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
Hokusai Prints Note Cards - 12 Cards
This beautiful stationery set includes six prints by Katsushika Hokusai, the artist behind the world-famous "The Great Wave off Kanagawa." Hokusai lived and worked in what is now modern day Tokyo during the Edo Period. Blank inside for your own message, these cards are perfect to convey a heartfelt note for any occasion. Hokusai Prints Note Cards - 12 Cards...Miscellaneous print$3299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
Historium
Explore the wonders of the past in this stunning collection of over 160 historical artefacts, from Ancient Rome to the dynasties of China. Welcome to the museum. This rich and informative cabinet of curiosities beautifully displays objects of the ancient past. Wander from room to room to explore the magnificence of what civilisations have left behind over thousands of years...Hardback$5500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Fletchers
Most of New Zealand's great business icons of the twentieth century have withered, disappeared or been swallowed by other firms. But a century after James Fletcher began his work in Dunedin in 1909, Fletcher Building continues to perform as one of New Zealand's largest and most trusted companies, with a significant international presence. Fletchers tells the story of how Fletcher,...Hardback$4999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Book of Tea
Written over a century ago when Japan was abandoning its rich traditions to embrace the hysteria of colonisation, this classic written by Okakura Kakuzo helped preserve the masterpieces of Japanese art and culture by illuminating the spirit of the Japanese Tea Masters. The Book of Tea doesn't focus on the Tea Ceremony itself, but the Zen Buddhist thought behind it...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
A History of the Samurai
A History of the Samurai tells the complete story of Japan's legendary warrior class from beginning to end—an epic tale of intrigue, bloodshed, and bravery that is central to an understanding of the Japanese character and Japanese history. It describes in detail the core Samurai philosophy of Bushido, 'the way of the warrior', a complex code of conduct embracing ideals...Hardback$3499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
A Brief History of Vietnam
A comprehensive guide to understanding Vietnam's long and tumultuous history. A Brief History of Vietnam explores the turbulent history of a land that has risen from the ashes of war to become the newest Asian tiger economy. This book expertly examines the history of a people and a nation with ancient roots, which only took its current shape in the...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
A Brief History of Singapore and Malaysia
The fascinating account of two former British colonies with a shared past but vastly different identities today! Singapore and Malaysia sit astride the sea lanes linking East with West — vital choke points in the world's commerce. Since ancient times, ports along the Silk Road of the Sea were populated by peoples from around the globe who came here to...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
Speed
Prepare to view the world through a new lens - Speed - a groundbreaking exploration that challenges your perceptions of life's driving force, from the internationally bestselling author. Explore how speed influences every aspect of life on Earth, from the slow grind of geological processes and the fleeting lifespans of organisms to the astonishing speed of light and the remarkable...Paperback$2999Elsewhere:$4500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
Waterloo
A fabulous story, superbly told - Max Hastings The bloodbath at Waterloo ended a war that had engulfed the world for over twenty years. It also finished the career of the charismatic Napoleon Bonaparte. It ensured the final liberation of Germany and the restoration of the old European monarchies, and it represented one of the very few defeats for the...Paperback$3199Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
The Year of Chaos
The Year of Chaos by Malachi O'Doherty is a frank and incisive exploration of the most tumultuous period of the Troubles, a time defined by unprecedented violence and political turmoil in Northern Ireland. In the eleven months between August 1971 and July 1972, Northern Ireland experienced its worst year of violence. No future year of the Troubles saw such death...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
The War of Nerves
Sixsmith has found another way of telling the story of the Cold War, one that laces history with the mind games that were played by both sides' - The Times More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. And, nearly thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, its legacy...Paperback$3699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
The Swans of Harlem
For fans of Hidden Figures and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 'The kind of history I wish I learned as a child dreaming of the stage!' — MISTY COPELAND 'Vibrant, propulsive and inspiring' — TIA WILLIAMS Harlem 1969; it's the height of the Civil Rights era and the community is still reeling from the assassination of Martin Luther King....Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
The Secret History of the World
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The Secret History of the World offers a complete history of the world, from the beginning of time to the present day, based on the beliefs and writings of the secret societies. Jonathan Black examines the end of the world and the coming of the Antichrist - or is he already here? How will he make himself...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
The Reckoning
The Reckoning is vivid history, the tragic Eastern Front brought to life through the widest range of Russian and German sources I've ever read. Bravo.' -- Peter Caddick-Adams, author and broadcaster By the end of 1944, the Red Army was poised on the very frontiers of the Third Reich. How had the once unstoppable, mighty Wehrmacht faltered so disastrously? Certainly,...Paperback$5099Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
The Mammoth Book Of Special Forces Training
In this encyclopedic book, Lewis provides insights into the origins, training, tactics, weapons, and achievements of special forces and special mission units throughout the world, focusing particularly on US and UK forces. He also looks at the codes that bind the members of these elite units together. He reveals training secrets in everything from wilderness survival to hand-to-hand combat. In...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Liberation Line
Highly original Simon Heffer, Telegraph Masterful... A gripping tale Giles Milton They certainly were not soldiers, yet they suddenly found themselves in uniform, in a foreign land. But, as locomotive drivers, track-workers, conductors, porters, signalmen and engine cleaners, they knew how to run trains. And their job was to bring them back to life. The Liberation Line tells the thrilling...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Last Dynasty
A truly splendid read, richly detailed and powered by an unfailing gift for storytelling’ John Guy 'Superb and gripping' Simon Sebag Montefiore A definitive and thrilling new account of the last great dynasty of ancient Egypt, from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra. When Alexander the Great arrived in Egypt, he overthrew the hated Persian overlords and was welcomed as a...Hardback$5499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
The Great Game
For nearly a century, the two most powerful nations on earth—Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia—fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia. Those engaged in this shadowy struggle called it The Great Game, a phrase immortalised in Kipling's Kim. When play first began, the two rival empires lay nearly 2,000 miles apart. By the end,...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
The China Mirage
James Bradley introduces us to the prominent Americans—including FDR's grandfather, Warren Delano—who in the 1800s made their fortunes in the China opium trade. Meanwhile, American missionaries sought a myth: noble Chinese peasants eager to Westernise. The media propagated this mirage, and FDR believed that supporting Chiang Kai-shek would make China America's best friend in Asia. But Chiang was on his...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
The Children of Athena
The remarkable story of how Greek-speaking writers and thinkers sustained and developed the intellectual legacy of Classical Greece under the rule of Rome. In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the military might of the Roman Republic. Some sixty years later, when Athens and other Greek city-states rebelled against Rome, the general Lucius Cornelius Sulla destroyed the city of Socrates and...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
The Catalpa Rescue
The incredible true story of one of the most extraordinary and inspirational prison breaks in Australian history. New York, 1874. Members of the Clan-na-Gael—agitators for Irish freedom from the English yoke—hatch a daring plan to free six Irish political prisoners from the most remote prison in the British Empire, Fremantle Prison in Western Australia. Under the guise of a whale...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
Rise and Fall
Rise and Fall opens with the Akkadian Empire, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense Roman Empire, where we trace back our western and eastern roots. Next, Strathern describes how a great deal of Western classical culture was developed in the Abbasid and Umayyid Caliphates. Then, while Europe was beginning...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
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