Pre-orderPropaganda Wars of the American Revolution
A revelatory account of how words and actions combined to destroy Britain’s colonial rule and secure Washington’s American victory Propaganda Wars of the American Revolution shows that the American Revolution was not only fought on bloody battlefields, but was also waged with the ink of pen and print. George Goodwin illustrates how the leaders of the American Revolution brilliantly weaponised...Hardback$8000Unit price /UnavailableOut 25 Aug 2026Pre-order-
Privileged but Powerless
A compelling examination of North Korea's elites, their hidden discontent, and the role they may play in shaping the regime's future In her second book on North Korea, Privileged but Powerless, Jieun Baek offers a deeply researched and sharply analytical account of the grievances harboured by the country's elite. Drawing on hours of in-depth interviews with escapees from Pyongyang, Baek...Hardback$12900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
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Plato and the Tyrant
Plato is one of history's most influential thinkers, the "sublime philosopher" whose writings remain foundational to Western culture. He is known for the brilliant dialogues in which he depicted his teacher, Socrates, discussing ethical truths with prominent citizens of Athens. Yet the image we have of Plato—an ethereal figure far removed from society and politics, who conjured abstract ideas in...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableOut 8 Sep 2026Pre-order -
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Plant Humanities
Plant Humanities moves plants to the centre of critical inquiry, positioning them as biocultural entities with distinct environmental and social histories that have profoundly shaped human cultures. Its thirteen chapters cover a broad geographical range, including the Americas, Europe, the Pacific, the Indian subcontinent, East Asia, and Africa, to explore the dual character of plants as place makers and world...Hardback$7500Unit price /UnavailableOut 18 Aug 2026Pre-order -
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Pentagon Capitalism
A pioneering study of the Cold War military-industrial complex shows how defence leaders reorganised the US armed forces in the image of commercial enterprise. The strategic landscape of the Cold War generated political support for a permanent US military force of unprecedented scale. Faced with the problem of managing this behemoth, leaders of the defence bureaucracy looked to private industry...Hardback$3995Unit price /UnavailableOut 4 Aug 2026Pre-order -
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Nature's Greatest Success
The 15,000-year story of how grass seduced humanity into being its unwitting labour force—and the science behind it. Domesticated crops were not human creations, and agriculture was not simply invented. As Robert N. Spengler shows, domestication was the result of an evolutionary process in which people played a role only unwittingly and as actors in a numberless cast that spanned...Paperback$5299Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order -
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Napoleon's Closet
Why do the most powerful men in the West wear sober, understated attire? Until the "Great Masculine Renunciation" in the eighteenth century, luxurious and often flamboyant clothing signalled social superiority for men as well as women. Margaret Waller's fresh account of this historic recalibration of gender and class centres on an unlikely pair: Napoleon Bonaparte, the Corsican upstart who crowned...Paperback$5299Unit price /UnavailableOut 8 Sep 2026Pre-order -
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Mary Kay
When Mary Kay Ash founded her company, Beauty by Mary Kay, in 1963, women had limited options in a male-dominated business world. By the 1970s, the cosmetics and skincare company had a salesforce of tens of thousands and became the first woman-founded firm listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Mary Kay and the pink Cadillac turned into cultural icons,...Paperback$2600Unit price /UnavailableOut 16 Oct 2026Pre-order -
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Load in Nine Times
For decades Frank X. Walker has reclaimed essential American lives through his pathbreaking historical poetry. In this stirring new collection, he reimagines the experiences of Black Civil War soldiers—including his own ancestors—who enlisted in the Union army in exchange for emancipation. Moving chronologically from antebellum Kentucky through Reconstruction, Walker braids the voices of the United States Colored Troops with their...Paperback$3399Unit price /UnavailableOut 8 Sep 2026Pre-order -
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Living with Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi was an anticolonial activist, lawyer, and politician. Less famously, but no less importantly, he was also a back-to-the-land farmer, a founder of communes, and a seeker of utopia. Living with Gandhi: Experiments in Utopia tells the story of everyday life at four of Gandhi’s communities in India and South Africa. It explores who lived at each community alongside...Paperback$2500Unit price /UnavailableOut 21 Sep 2026Pre-order -
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Joseph Smith
From an award-winning biographer, a riveting and deeply researched portrait of Mormonism's charismatic founder. Joseph Smith Jr. (1805–1844) was one of the most successful and controversial religious leaders of nineteenth-century America, publishing the Book of Mormon and starting what would become the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He built temples, founded a city-state in Illinois, ran for president,...Paperback$3599Unit price /UnavailableOut 1 Sep 2026Pre-order -
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Inside China's Secret Prisons
In 1991, the China analyst and journalist Orville Schell worked on an in-depth 60 Minutes investigation of the People's Republic of China's vast prison camp system, revealing that products made with forced labour were being surreptitiously and illegally sold to the United States. Inside China's Secret Prisons is his gripping account of this milestone exposé—and how its findings still reverberate...Hardback$5099Unit price /UnavailableOut 25 Aug 2026Pre-order -
I Did It for My Country
In June 1968, a twenty-four-year-old Palestinian immigrant named Sirhan B. Sirhan assassinated Senator Robert F. Kennedy, marking yet another killing in a decade haunted by political violence. As he was being subdued, Sirhan shouted, "I can explain. I did it for my country," by which he meant Palestine. On trial, he testified that his motives included opposition to Zionism, with...Paperback$10700Unit price /UnavailableOutPre-order -
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Fugitive Religion
A sweeping look at the Ghost Dance, the first instance of modern, collective racial self-consciousness for Native peoples in the United States. From the Sand Creek Massacre (1864) to the Massacre at Wounded Knee (1890), Indigenous religious practices—legally banned after 1883—took on new meanings as acts of defiance against colonialism and white supremacy. By reexamining the familiar story of the...Hardback$8399Unit price /UnavailableOut 15 Sep 2026Pre-order -
From Mimesis to Myth
From Mimesis to Myth traces the transformation of a Greek account of the life of Cyprian of Carthage into the legendary tale of Cyprian of Antioch as a means of exploring how late antique Christian authors and audiences interpreted the fictional qualities of hagiographic narratives. Through close readings of texts from the fourth and fifth centuries, including works by Gregory...Hardback$30000Unit price /UnavailableOutPre-order 
Pre-orderFebruary 1933
It all happened in a flash. February 1933 was the month in which the fate of German writers, as for so many others, was decided. In a tensely spun narrative, Uwe Wittstock tells the story of a demise which was predicted by some but also scarcely thought possible. He reveals how, in a matter of weeks, the glittering Weimar literary...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableOut 9 Sep 2026Pre-order-
Exquisite Things and Strange Wonders
A defence of poetry from a towering figure of the medieval Persianate world. Written in 1294 as the introduction to a book of poetry, the Dībācha-yi dīvān-i ghurrat al-kamāl became a lauded work in its own right. Its author, Amir Khusraw Dihlavi (1253-1325), was a poet, historian, courtier, Sufi, and musician whose influence still resonates. In this extraordinary text, he...Hardback$9600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Pre-orderEmpire of Ashes
Over three days in August 1945, a nation once morally opposed to the bombing of civilians killed 120,000 men, women, and children; doomed tens of thousands more to agonising death in the weeks and months ahead; and annihilated two cities: Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Empire of Ashes explores the final brutal months of the war in the Pacific, featuring the voices...Hardback$7999Unit price /UnavailableOut 11 Sep 2026Pre-order
Empire by Law
The Ottoman Empire long used flexible administrative arrangements to govern its vast domains. Starting in the 1830s, however, European intervention in Ottoman affairs resulted in the emergence of a new type of negotiated province. The "privileged provinces," which included Egypt and Mt. Lebanon, enjoyed levels of administrative autonomy that were unparalleled not only within the Ottoman domains but also in...Paperback$13500Unit price /UnavailableOutPre-order
Edmond de Rothschild
An absorbing portrait of Edmond de Rothschild, who defied his class to help build a nation—and found his identity in the process. Edmond de Rothschild (1845–1934) was born into one of the wealthiest families in history, but his legacy lies beyond banking, art, and aristocratic privilege. In this compelling biography, award-winning historian and journalist James McAuley tells the story of...Hardback$6800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Demographic Anxieties
Demographic Anxieties examines how the Israeli settler-colonial state and its borders shape Palestinian women's reproductive freedom. Grounded in a Black feminist reproductive justice framework, this work foregrounds the sexual politics of settler colonialism by demonstrating how Israeli policies profoundly impact Palestinian women's reproductive rights, health, and decision-making. Based on in-depth interviews and more than two years of ethnographic research with...Paperback$10500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Dangerous Learning
The enduring legacy of the nineteenth-century struggle for Black literacy in the American South Few have ever valued literacy as much as the enslaved Black people of the American South. For them, it was more than a means to a better life; it was a gateway to freedom and, in some instances, a tool for inspiring revolt. And few governments...Paperback$8900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
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Animals and Death
From pets to prey to food, the hierarchy of animals' relationship to humans has profound anthropological and ecological implications. Modernity has divided animals into two categories: those deemed worthy of protection and affection, and those reduced to raw material for industry. How can we make sense of this strange split between protective love and intensive exploitation? Hunting, which both predates...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableOut 24 Sep 2026Pre-order 
Pre-orderA Genealogy of International Relations in Asia
Challenging the Western-centric foundations of International Relations (IR), this groundbreaking edited volume places Asian perspectives at the forefront of IR scholarship. Spanning nine countries across Asia, this rigorous examination reveals how concepts of sovereignty and internationalism have been uniquely interpreted and adapted across diverse Asian contexts. Moving beyond American social science paradigms, A Genealogy of International Relations in Asia traces...Hardback$20299Unit price /UnavailableOut 1 Sep 2026Pre-order
Abraham
The story of Abraham, the first Jew, portrayed as two lives lived by one person, paralleling the contradictions in Judaism throughout its history. In this new biography of Abraham, Judaism's foundational figure, Anthony Julius offers an account of the origins of a fundamental struggle within Judaism between skepticism and faith, critique and affirmation, thinking for oneself and thinking under the...Paperback$5400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
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During the first decades of the nineteenth century, New Zealand was swept by inter-tribal warfare of unprecedented scale, in struggles that became known as the Musket Wars. They lasted a generation and profoundly shaped modern New Zealand, with influence extending to the locations of main centres—Auckland, Wellington, New Plymouth, Nelson, and Napier among others. Multiple race-relations issues today can be...Paperback$3999Elsewhere:$4500Unit price /UnavailableOut 22 Oct 2026Pre-order
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For over thirty years Shane Cotton (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Rangi, Ngāti Hine, Te Uri Taniwha) has developed a rigorous and evolving painting practice, using the medium to layer the visual languages through which Aotearoa can be seen and understood. In this book, leading art writer Anthony Byrt takes us on a voyage into Te Tai Tokerau to unravel the relationships, landscapes...Hardback$8499Elsewhere:$8999Unit price /UnavailableOut 8 Oct 2026Pre-order
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The first illustrated study in English of the Finnish Air Force’s battle to repel the Soviet invaders during the Winter War, one of the greatest David-and-Goliath air battles in history. In 1939, the Soviet Union invaded its neighbour Finland, sparking the Winter War. While Finland was heavily outnumbered in all respects, in few respects was the contest so uneven as...Paperback$3899Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order
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In the beginning, there was the vine. Wine: a drink, a medicine, a ritual and a commodity. Across millennia, it has been used to celebrate and commiserate, as a negotiating tool and a diplomatic gift. But where - and when - was it first discovered? And how did it become a worldwide phenomenon? From the planting of grape seeds in...Hardback$7999Unit price /UnavailableOut 6 Oct 2026Pre-order
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'Refreshing.' NEW STATESMAN 'Compelling.' HARPER'S BAZAAR 'Passionate.' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH The untold history of the extraordinary women who drove the modern dance movement and changed cultural narratives about sex, power and women's rights. 'Don't let them tame you!' ISADORA DUNCAN The story of modern dance is a story of subversion - of forms challenged and hierarchies toppled in the pursuit of...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableOut 6 Oct 2026Pre-order
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The 2026 edition of Warship, the celebrated annual featuring original research on the history, development, and service of the world's warships. For nearly 50 years, Warship has been providing scholars and enthusiasts with new information on the history of the world's combat ships. Featuring a broad range of articles from a select panel of distinguished international contributors, Warship combines original...Hardback$10000Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order
Pre-orderUS Liberty Ship vs German Surface Raider
Fully illustrated, this study examines World War II's most dramatic single-ship action, in which Stephen Hopkins fought a heavily armed German auxiliary cruiser, Stier. When the United States entered World War II, the Battle of the Atlantic was already raging. The so-called ‘Liberty Ships’, built at breakneck speed and in huge numbers during 1941–45, were crucial to the Allied war...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order
Pre-orderTinseltown Gangsters
Like sharks to blood in the water, the mob arrived in Hollywood greedy and ready to tear away huge chunks of cash. Opportunistic mobsters saw labour unions as the means for muscling into the movie industry and extorting millions of pounds from studio bosses. Control the unions to which projectionists, art directors, cinematographers, electricians, scene designers, stagehands, and extras belong,...Paperback$3699Unit price /UnavailableOut 15 Oct 2026Pre-order-
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This Dark Night
Compelling -- Spectator A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS PICK A wonderful book -- Guardian The author of Wuthering Heights is brought back to life in this stormy biography set amongst the wild moors of Yorkshire. Emily Jane Brontë was just 27 when she started writing the wayward and electric novel Wuthering Heights. Three years later, she was dead. Out of...Hardback$4999Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order 
Pre-orderThe Windsor Legacy
THE SCANDALOUS TRUTH BEHIND THE CROWN From the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Catherine, The Princess of Wales: The Biography From Elizabeth II to soon-to-be King William, The Windsor Legacy offers a riveting exploration of the British monarchy's resilience and influence over the past century, looking at its key players and conflicts, with a forward-looking examination of its future....Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableOut 6 Oct 2026Pre-order-
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The People's Emperor
Born into imperial splendour, Louis-Napoleon - the nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte - grew up far from power after the defeat at Waterloo. In exile, he repeatedly plotted, unsuccessfully, to restore his uncle's empire. Few took him seriously. But what followed is one of the most astonishing, impossible stories in history. Aged 40, Louis-Napoleon would be elected president of France. Three...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableOut 13 Oct 2026Pre-order 
Pre-orderThe Ornithologists' Library
The Ornithologists' Library is a beautifully illustrated exploration of the most influential books in the study of birds. From the pioneering works of John James Audubon and Gilbert White to modern field guides and conservation manifestos, this book traces how key texts have shaped our understanding of avian life—and why they matter now more than ever. At a time when...Hardback$6500Unit price /UnavailableOut 20 Oct 2026Pre-order-
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The Ancient Cities and Global Trade of Palestine
For millennia, and despite its relatively small size, Palestine enjoyed wealth, prosperity and flourishing cities and civilisations. The ancient world’s trade systems and trade routes were fundamental to the emergence of early urban life in ancient Palestine. In fact, the impact of international trade on both ancient and modern Palestine as a whole was radical and transformative. Despite this, the...Paperback$6899Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Oct 2026Pre-order -
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The Ancient Cities and Global Trade of Palestine
For millennia, and despite its relatively small size, Palestine enjoyed wealth, prosperity and flourishing cities and civilisations. The ancient world’s trade systems and trade routes were fundamental to the emergence of early urban life in ancient Palestine. In fact, the impact of international trade on both ancient and modern Palestine as a whole was radical and transformative. Despite this, the...Hardback$23100Unit price /UnavailableOut 17 Sep 2026Pre-order 
Pre-orderStony Jack and the Lost Jewels of Cheapside
A thrilling history of mudlarkers, charlatans, experts and chancers – the underbelly of the Edwardian antiques trade. What a story! And how skilfully told! A tale about treasure, as twisty and thrilling as any of the adventures of Indiana Jones. – Lucy Worsley June 1912. A pair of workmen deposit a heavy ball of clay in the antiques shop of...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order
Pre-orderSoviet Artillery Tractors of World War II
Packed with rare and unpublished photographs, this is a new history of the Red Army’s tracked artillery tractors that were pivotal to its success in World War II. The development of artillery tractors in the 1930s was integral to the industrial development of the Soviet Union. The tracked tractor plants at Chelyabinsk, Kharkov and Stalingrad were built specifically to industrialise...Hardback$6999Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order
Pre-orderSoleil Ô
Med Hondo’s debut feature, Soleil Ô (1970), follows an unnamed African immigrant as he travels to Paris in search of work and a better life. Instead, he faces unemployment, exploitation, and a deep sense of isolation from French society. Told through a non-linear structure and blending surrealist and satirical elements, the film is a searing critique of racism and the...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableOut 15 Oct 2026Pre-order-
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Shadows Over Kabul
At the time of the Taliban offensive, Hamdullah Mohib was the Afghan National Security Advisor, the closest man to the Afghan President, Ashraf Ghani. It was Mohib who took the decision to leave during the fall of the Afghan republic. Western journalists blamed the Afghan government for the events of 2021. But this personal eyewitness account tells a new story....Hardback$4400Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Oct 2026Pre-order 
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In the 1930s, the airship was viewed as the future of transatlantic travel and a brave new era of global connectedness. Germany's safe, fast and efficient airships brought it back into the international fold after its humiliation in World War I. But on May 6, 1937, the Hindenburg airship caught fire in the sky over New Jersey in a blaze...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order
Pre-orderSecrets of an English Country House
Step inside Mapperton with Julie Montagu, Countess of Sandwich, as she reveals the realities of running an English country estate and the secrets hidden behind its historic doors. What's it really like to live in Britain's finest manor house? In 2016, Julie and her husband, Luke Montagu, Earl of Sandwich, took on the stewardship of Mapperton and its 1,900-acre gardens...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order-
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The Most Interesting People You've Never Heard Of
The Most Interesting People You've Never Heard Of tells the tales of the overlooked names of history, the individuals who lived fascinating, absurd, or simply amusing lives but are somehow forgotten, overshadowed by those who were larger, louder or better at self-promotion. People who may not have shaped the world like famous heroes but had lives worthy of our attention...Paperback$3199Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order -
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Rockin' the Kremlin
“David Junk delivers the goods... a jaunty, picaresque memoir” – The Washington Post The true story of Universal Music Russia’s first CEO and his quest to bring Western popular music to post-Soviet Russia. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Russia opened its borders, and Russian audiences were hungry for Western popular music and the values it espoused. David Junk...Paperback$3899Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Oct 2026Pre-order 
Pre-orderPalestine
Come for a walk with me, if you would, along the streets of Jerusalem. My family has walked these streets for more than a thousand years. With this invitation, Palestine: A Primer offers a powerful introduction to Palestinian history through a century of conflict and resistance. Blending incisive research with his own family memories, celebrated scholar Rashid Khalidi traces Palestine's...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableOut 6 Oct 2026Pre-order-
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Overshadowed
This visual history sheds light on forgotten parts of World War II history through the lens of the US Marine Corps, serving everywhere outside of the Pacific. When we think of US Marine involvement in World War II, we invariably think of the Pacific – and while a majority of the Corps did serve there, the Marine Corps actually served...Hardback$6899Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order 
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A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Shocking, moving and sensitive.' TLS 'Uplifting.' THE TIMES 'Fascinating.' SPECTATOR 'Remarkable.' LITERARY REVIEW 'Gripping.' NATURE The story of leprosy is the story of humanity. It is a story of isolation and exclusion, of resilience and resistance, one which has permeated global cultures in myriad ways for thousands of years, dividing the world into the...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order-
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Moonlight Crusaders
This engrossing history explores the creation, development and actions of the Special Duties squadrons, which carried spies, political figures and documents in and out of Occupied Europe. In 1940, Winston Churchill famously set in motion the Special Operations Executive. However, the creation of secret agent networks required a clandestine transport infrastructure to support nascent resistance movements in Occupied Europe. With...Hardback$5699Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order -
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Lords of the Salt Road
The story of the Norse Earls of Orkney, whose lands once covered much of Scotland, and whose reach extended as far as Scandinavia, continental Europe and even the Mediterranean. Lords of the Salt Road reveals the dramatic history of the Norse earls of Orkney, who owed their allegiance to the Kings of Norway and ruled their own semi-autonomous empire with...Hardback$4699Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order 
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The first authoritative, illustrated account of Russia’s high-risk strike on Ukraine’s capital, the centrepiece of its failed 2022 invasion plan. In 2022, Vladimir Putin was convinced he could seize Kyiv, install a puppet government, and close his fist on Ukraine in a matter of weeks, with minimal fighting. In Kyiv 2022, Dr Mark Galeotti, a world expert on Russian military...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order-
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Königgrätz 1866
An in-depth look at one of the biggest set-piece battles and one of the most decisive in European history pre-WWI. Growing friction between the centuries-old Austrian Empire, self-styled guardian of Germany, and the smaller but more dynamic Prussian Empire led to war between the two countries. In June 1866, three Prussian armies crossed into Bohemia and brushed aside the hastily...Paperback$3899Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order -
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Junkers Ju 88C Day and Nightfighters
An illustrated account of the action-packed combat missions carried out by the Luftwaffe's powerfully armed Junkers Ju 88C day and nightfighters. The Junkers Ju 88A was the Luftwaffe's most effective medium bomber during much of World War 2, and its high speed and surprising agility made it an ideal candidate for conversion into a Zerstörer (destroyer) fighter. Initially designed to...Paperback$3899Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order -
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Into the Firestorm
From the hellish skies over Europe to the unforgiving terrain of the Himalayas, this is the first complete history of the C-47 aircrew who helped turn the tide of war. One of the most perilous combat roles of World War II was that of the Allied aircrews who flew unarmed transport planes into enemy territory, often just hundreds of feet...Hardback$5699Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order -
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How to Build a Spitfire
A unique homage to the fighter aircraft that won the Battle of Britain, marrying the story of how the author built a replica Spitfire in his garden with the plane's operational history. In April 2018, David Price, dedicated aviation museum volunteer and author of The Crew and Mosquito Men, decided to build a Spitfire replica in his back garden. In...Paperback$2699Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order 
Pre-orderHere Where We Live Is Our Country
A vivid, human and radical history of one of the most powerful revolutionary movements of the twentieth century - told through the lives and in the voices of countless forgotten men and women THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ‘Lush, high-tempo, strikingly poignant ... The relevance for our present moment is impossible to ignore’ Guardian ‘Thrillingly energetic, delightful, vivid’ New...Hardback$5299Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order-
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Forged in War
A masterful history of how war and insecurity, both real and perceived, have driven Russia’s destiny for centuries, including the disastrous invasion of Ukraine. Putin retains his stranglehold on his position in Russia despite an almost ruinous invasion of Ukraine. The answer as to how and why can be found in Russian history. With no naturally defensible borders, and environmental...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order -
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Eagle Days
TELEGRAPH HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 By the summer of 1940, Great Britain watched as France succumbed to the might of Adolf Hitler’s forces. Her forces driven off the continent, many rescued from capture at Dunkirk, only the Royal Air Force, supported by the country’s newly established radar system, now stood in the way of the country being invaded....Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order 
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‘My dear, she's on fire!’ DAMIAN BARR ‘A snappy guide to an all-conquering aesthetic’ Financial Times ‘The following things have seemed impossibly camp to me at one point or another: a doll whose body acts as a cover for a toilet roll, a tantrum over wire coat hangers, a 1950s muscle magazine featuring a photo of a young man dressed...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order-
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Born
‘illuminating’ TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT‘fascinating’ THE SPECTATOR‘compelling’ THE INDEPENDENT Women have been fighting for control over their bodies for thousands of years. From Neolithic hunter-gatherers to the reversal of Roe v. Wade, this is their story. Acclaimed cultural historian Lucy Inglis takes the reader on an epic journey through the stories of women over hundreds of thousands of years. From ancient...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order -
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Berlin
Written by one of the world's leading experts on the Eastern Front, this captivating history explores the final battle for Berlin and the heart of Germany. This sweeping saga takes us from the banks of the River Oder as the Red Army begins its relentless drive towards the still beating heart of the Third Reich: Berlin. Only the Seelow Heights...Hardback$6899Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order -
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Armies in North Russia and Siberia 1918–20
This absorbing study describes and illustrates the US, British, Japanese, French, Italian and Czechoslovak troops deployed to North Russia and Siberia at the height of the Russian Civil War. Between March 1918 and late 1920, a multinational force was deployed in the former Russian Empire’s Arctic Circle and in Eastern Siberia, becoming drawn into the Russian Civil War. American, British,...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order 
Pre-orderAll Roads Lead to Rome
Brilliant. A fresh and highly engaging look at how Rome still shapes the world today. Jonn Elledge This book will change the way you think about world history. Raphael Cormack Authoritative and engaging. Subhadra Das A fascinating and entertaining analysis of how Rome's propaganda has colonised our collective imaginations. Eleanor Janega Eloquent, well-researched and witty. David M. Perry How many...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order
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'I really cannot overstate how fabulous this book is' DAILY MAIL 'Dazzling... This is biography of great brilliance and rare resonance' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE 'A pulsating, vivid life of a true historical titan' DAN JONES 'A splendid book, lively, erudite... where myth and heroism meet' RORY STEWART A stunningly written new biography of Alexander the Great, based on a series of...Hardback$5499Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order-
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The City Without Jews
A truly major work, both deeply moving and incredibly powerful. It is a masterpiece of research, structure and writing . . . unforgettable Sir Antony Beevor, bestselling author of Stalingrad In 1938, Vienna was the second largest Jewish city in Europe. By 1946, only a few thousand Jews remained. In this extraordinary story of loss, fear, longing and hope, acclaimed...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order 
Pre-orderRooms for Vanishing
I wept, real tears, at least seven times reading this novel, and I intend to return to these pages often - Moriel Rothman-Zecher, author of Before All the World For fans of Life After Life by Kate Atkinson and All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, Rooms for Vanishing is an epic novel of grief and hope and...Paperback$2800Unit price /UnavailableOut 20 Oct 2026Pre-order-
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In Deep Water
October, 8, 2022. Three friends are fishing for red snapper when their boat, tied to an oil rig, begins taking on water and sinks 15 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico. Suddenly, the three men find themselves in a struggle for their lives. Their vessel succumbs to the building seas so quickly that the fishermen are unable to send...Hardback$6900Unit price /UnavailableOut 20 Oct 2026Pre-order 
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Compelling and important - Rana Mitter, The Observer Few books qualify as essential reading but Ghost Nation is one of them - Clive Hamilton, bestselling co-author of The Hidden Hand The gripping story of Taiwan's rich past and precarious present from the country's top foreign correspondent. Taiwan is the geopolitical tinderbox of the 21st century, sitting at the heart of...Paperback$2399Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableOut 20 Oct 2026Pre-order-
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Crucible of Light
Rethinking the history of the last thirteen centuries, in Crucible of Light, Elizabeth Drayson pulls together the epic interwoven history of the Muslim and Christian worlds. ‘Absolutely fascinating. At a time when a historical Christian Nationalism and chauvinism are gaining ground, this book arrives as an essential corrective’ — Andrew Copson, Chief Executive of Humanists UK and author of Secularism:...Paperback$3900Unit price /UnavailableOut 20 Oct 2026Pre-order -
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Charles Sumner
Charles Sumner is mainly known as the abolitionist statesman who suffered a brutal caning on the Senate floor by the proslavery congressman Preston Brooks in 1856. This violent episode has obscured Sumner's status as the most passionate champion of equal rights and multiracial democracy of his time. A friend of Alexis de Tocqueville, an ally of Frederick Douglass, and an...Paperback$6300Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order -
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Between the Waves
Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction The definitive history of Britain's tumultuous relationship with Europe— as it's never been told before. "Powerful, precise, morally engaged, wonderfully alert to character, context and the greater purpose of political life" — Rory Stewart, author of Politics on the Edge "Will stand for many years as the authoritative political history" — David...Paperback$3300Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order 
Heroes of World War II Resisting the Nazis
The year is 1939. Germany, led by Adolf Hitler, has invaded Poland. The world is about to enter into the biggest and most terrible war in history. But from the depths of despair rose some very courageous, selfless individuals, such as Sophie Scholl, Violette Szabo and Raymond Aubrac, who risked their lives for the sakes of others in need, often...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Classic American Sedans of the 1950s
In the new "baby boomer" era of postwar North America, newly prosperous young families in the US and Canada purchased cars in the millions, using the vast new network of interstate highways to move to a better life in the suburbs. Almost unlimited demand in the 1950s brought automobile production to record levels, with the main effort going towards four-door...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
Tatau
The Samoan Islands are virtually unique in that tattooing has been continuously practised with indigenous techniques: the full male tattoo, the pe'a, has evolved in subtle ways in its design since the nineteenth century, but remains as elaborate, meaningful, and powerful as it ever was. This cultural history is the first publication to examine 3000 years of Samoan tatau. Through...Hardback$6499Elsewhere:$7500Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips early August
Pre-orderTreaty Of Waitangi Companion The
Weaving together voices, documents and images from centuries of cooperation, conflict and change, The Treaty of Waitangi Companion ranges from first contact between Māori and Europeans to today’s debates over the place of te Tiriti o Waitangi in our constitutional arrangements. Rather than offering a single narrative, Vincent O’Malley and Bruce Stirling bring readers close to the historical record itself....Paperback$5499Elsewhere:$5999Unit price /UnavailableOut 1 Nov 2026Pre-order
Pre-orderIntroducing The English Text Of The Treaty
Introducing the English Text of the Treaty of Waitangi provides a clear and accessible account of the research behind Ned Fletcher’s award-winning study of the Treaty’s English text. Drawing on the same careful archival work as the larger book, this short edition guides readers through the origins, intentions, and meaning of the English text, and the wider imperial context in...Paperback$3499Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableOut 1 Oct 2026Pre-order-
Women and Gender in Modern Europe
This book introduces students to the key concepts of women’s history, gender as a category of analysis, and the history of feminism. Spanning the late 19th century to the present day, each chapter highlights major themes of the particular time period right across Europe before concluding with a short bibliography. Whilst covering some familiar narratives in a broadly chronological fashion,...Paperback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Who Was Galileo?
He's known as "the Father of Modern Science," so of course Who Was Galileo? deserves a place in the Who Was...? series! Like Michelangelo, Galileo is another Renaissance great known just by his first name—a name that is synonymous with scientific achievement. Born in Pisa, Italy, in the sixteenth century, Galileo contributed to the era's great rebirth of knowledge. He...Paperback$2100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
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