The World Crisis
The World Crisis is considered by many to be Winston S. Churchill’s literary masterpiece. Published across five volumes between 1923 and 1931, Churchill here tells the story of The Great War, from its origins to the long shadow it cast on the following decades. At once a history and a first-hand account of Churchill’s own involvement in the war, The...Set$32999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Shah’s Imperial Celebrations of 1971
In October 1971, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, held a celebration to commemorate the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great. Dozens of heads of state descended on Persepolis for these celebrations, where they were regaled with sumptuous banquets and entertainment. Critical journalists in Western Europe and North America lambasted the Shah for...Paperback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Greatest Naval War Ever Fought
The greatest naval conflict in history occurred during World War II from 1939 to 1945. Most people are familiar with the famous Battle of the Atlantic and epic naval engagements in the Pacific like Midway and Leyte Gulf, all of which receive ample coverage in this panoramic work. However, author Vince O'Hara offers a truly global perspective of World War...Hardback$7900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The French Revolution: A History in Documents
The French Revolution: A History in Documents explores the rapidly evolving political culture of the French Revolution through first-hand accounts of the revolutionary (and counterrevolutionary) actors themselves. It demonstrates how radical Enlightenment philosophy fused with a governmental crisis to create a moment of new political possibilities unlike any the world had previously seen. In so doing, the French and their...Paperback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The First King of England
From one of today's leading historians of the early medieval period, an enthralling chronicle of Æthelstan, England's founder king whose achievements of 927 rival the Norman Conquest of 1066 in shaping Britain as we know it. The First King of England is a foundational biography of Æthelstan (d. 939), the early medieval king whose territorial conquests and shrewd statesmanship united...Hardback$7900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Declarations of Havana
In response to the American administration’s attempt to isolate Cuba, Fidel Castro delivered a series of speeches designed to radicalize Latin American society. As Latin America experiences more revolutions in Venezuela and Bolivia, and continues to upset America’s plans for neo-liberal imperialism, renowned radical writer and activist Tariq Ali provides a searing analysis of the relevance of Castro’s message for...Paperback$2299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Collapse of Rhodesia
In the years leading up to Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965, its small and transient white population was balanced precariously atop a large and fast-growing African population. This unstable political demography was set against the backdrop of continent-wide decolonisation and a parallel rise in African nationalism within Rhodesia. The Collapse of Rhodesia provides a controversial reexamination of the...Paperback$6599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Civil War
The American Civil War may have been more consequential to American history (and its global supremacy) than its Revolutionary War and participation in all other world wars. The influence of this war is not just reduced to the victory of the north and its economic infrastructure, but the fact of Union success ushered in the notion of 'what it means...Paperback$5299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Sins of the Shovel
An incisive history of early American archaeology—from reckless looting to professional science—and the field's unfinished efforts to make amends today, told "with passion, indignation, and a dash of suspense" (New York Times). American archaeology was forever scarred by an 1893 business proposition between cowboy-turned-excavator Richard Wetherill and socialites-turned-antiquarians Fred and Talbot Hyde. Wetherill had stumbled upon Mesa Verde's spectacular cliff...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Russian-Turkmen Encounters
In the mid-eighteenth century, the Russian tsar sent two expeditions across the Caspian Sea in response to an extraordinary plea for assistance from the recently subjugated Kalmyk Khan. The official journals of these expeditions, here translated into English for the first time, record the encounters of Captains Tebelev and Kopitovskii (in 1741 and 1745, respectively) with the Turkmen tribes of...Paperback$6599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Railways
From Britain's most popular railway historian, a concise, authoritative and fast-paced telling of how the railways changed the world. The arrival of the railways in the first half of the nineteenth century and their subsequent spread across every one of the world's continents acted as a spur for economic growth and social change on an extraordinary scale. The 'iron road'...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Private Life Of Chairman Mao
For 22 years, Dr Zhisui Li was Mao Tse-tung's personal physician, confidant and companion. He saw Mao and his country through the years of "the Great Leap Forward" and the Cultural Revolution. In this book, Li reveals details of Mao's relations with Krushchev and other Soviet leaders, and the growing paranoia that led Mao to turn against the Chinese Communist...Paperback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Patriots and Propaganda
In the turbulent years of China's War of Resistance against Japan (1931-1945), a unique and complex narrative unfolded far from the battlefields in Australia. Patriots and Propaganda: Chinese Australians and the politics of loyalty, 1930s-1940s delves into the intricate web of Chinese wartime propaganda efforts, revealing how the Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) and Chinese Australian communities mobilised support for China's struggle...Hardback$13800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Palmerston
A grand and fascinating figure in Victorian politics, the charismatic Lord Palmerston (1784–1865) served as foreign secretary for fifteen years and prime minister for nine. He engaged in struggles with everyone from the Duke of Wellington to Lord John Russell to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, engineered the defeat of the Russians in the Crimean War, and played a major...Paperback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
On Politics
The definitive history of political thought and the meaning of democracy, from their earliest origins to the present day. This is a book about the answers that historians, philosophers, theologians, practising politicians and would-be revolutionaries have given to one question: how should human beings best govern themselves? Almost every modern government claims to be democratic; but is democracy really the...Paperback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Omeljan Pritsak and the Intellectual Origins of the Ukrainian "Harvard Miracle"
Omeljan Pritsak and the Intellectual Origins of the Ukrainian Harvard Miracle is the first English-language intellectual biography of Omeljan Pritsak, the co-founder of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and the first professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard. Andrii Portnov places Pritsak's life and legacy in the context of Ukrainian and world historiography and illuminates the development of his scholarly interests,...Paperback$4099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
O Brother
AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A GUARDIAN BEST MEMOIR OF 2023 A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023 John Niven's little brother Gary was fearless, popular, stubborn, handsome, hilarious and sometimes terrifying. After years of chaotic struggle against the world, he took his own life at the age of...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Nefarious
An incredible tale. – The Daily Mail Prolific armed robber. Close ally of Joey Pyle. Friend and fellow inmate of the Kray twins. Last man to stand trial with a Kray brother. First prisoner in the notorious Belmarsh Unit … Welcome to Ronnie Field's world. There was a code. It's not there now. The public weren't in general danger from...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Michelangelo
Before reaching the tender age of 30, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) had already sculpted Pietà and David, two of the most famous sculptures in the entire history of art. As a sculptor, painter, draftsman, and architect, the achievements of this Italian master are unique. No artist before or after him has ever produced such a vast, multifaceted, and wide-ranging œuvre. This...Hardback$18000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Material Culture, Communities and Identity in Early Medieval Northumbria, 600-867 CE
This book convincingly argues that the early medieval kingdom of Northumbria existed as a single political entity with a shared culture. Sián Webb makes the case that, while the kingdom itself includes three major cultural regions with distinct identities, by studying the similarities and differences in material and artistic culture it can be demonstrated that these identities managed to exist...Hardback$18700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Katherine Swynford
The first full-length biography of an extraordinary love affair between one of the most important men of English History and a thoroughly modern woman. Weir combines high drama with high passion while involving us in the domestic life of a most remarkable woman in an equally remarkable book - Scotland on Sunday The first full-length biography of an extraordinary love...Paperback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Inside the Gas Chambers
This is a unique, eye-witness account of everyday life right at the heart of the Nazi extermination machine. Inside the Gas Chambers offers a harrowing perspective on one of history's darkest periods. Shlomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish-Italian community living in Thessaloniki, Greece. At first, the occupying Italians protected his family; but when the Germans invaded, the Venezias...Hardback$11999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Holy Men of Mount Athos
Often simply called the Holy Mountain, Mount Athos was the most famous centre of Byzantine monasticism and remains the spiritual heart of the Orthodox Church today. This volume presents the Lives of Euthymios the Younger, Athanasios of Athos, Maximos the Hutburner, Niphon of Athos, and Philotheos. These five holy men lived on Mount Athos at different times from its early...Hardback$7199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Hitler 1889-1936
Since the publication of Hitler: A Study in Tyranny in 1952, our knowledge of Hitler's life and, more importantly, of the historical context of his life, has been greatly extended by the opening up of the archival sources of Weimar and Nazi Germany. This book aims to provide a new synthesis and interpretation of our understanding of Hitler, set firmly...Paperback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Hitler
The phenomenal bestselling biography, now for the first time in a single-volume paperback. Now at last in a single, abridged paperback - the definitive life. Ian Kershaw's two-volume biography of Hitler was greeted with universal acclaim as the essential work on one of the most malign figures in history. Now this landmark biography is available in one single, abridged edition,...Paperback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Entangled Worlds
Leading historians and archaeologists offer a comprehensive introduction to the increasingly entangled worlds that spanned the globe between 600 and 1350 CE. The period between the seventh and fourteenth centuries is hardly thought of as an era of globalization. Entire societies in the Americas, Australia, and Oceania developed in relative isolation from other parts of the world. Even on the...Hardback$10999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Elizabeth of York
Britain's foremost female historian reveals the true story of this key figure in the Wars of the Roses and the Tudor dynasty who began life a princess, spent her youth as a bastard fugitive, but who finally married the first Tudor king and was the mother of Henry VIII. Weir perfectly combines the dramatic colour and timing of an historical...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Dress in Auschwitz
Exploring the experience of Auschwitz prisoners through the lens of dress and clothing, Dress in Auschwitz examines clothing's profound importance to the inmates' physical, psychological, and spiritual survival. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including survivor memoirs, testimonies, personal interviews, surviving garments, and rare illustrations, Sofia Pantouvaki focuses on inmates’ sartorial activities and the intimate psychological relationships that developed...Hardback$15400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Delhi 360° | Shahjahanabad
I asked my soul: What is Delhi? She replied: The world is the body and Delhi its life. So said Mirza Ghalib, poet in the court of the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar. This special two-book slipcase set on Delhi's Shahjahanabad, famous for its imperial aura and history, as well as spiritual ambience, is a journey through the majestic...Hardback$14500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Das DDR-Handbuch
For 40 years, the Cold War dominated the world stage. East and West Germany stood at the frontlines of the global confrontation, symbolised by the infamous Berlin Wall, which separated lovers, friends, families, coworkers, and compatriots. The Wende Museum in Los Angeles, California, is named after the period of change immediately following the Wall's destruction. It was established in 2002...Hardback$9200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Daemons Are Forever
A richly illustrated tapestry of interwoven studies spanning some six thousand years of history, Dæmons Are Forever is at once a record of archaic contacts and transactions between humans and protean spirit beings—dæmons—and an account of exchanges, among human populations, of the science of spirit beings: dæmonology. Since the time of the Indo-European migrations, and especially following the opening of...Paperback$7299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Cuba
A concise, engaging, and thoroughly revised overview of Cuba written by Cubans for anyone interested in quickly understanding the island country's turbulent history. Cuba: A Brief History covers the pre-Hispanic period, through Cuba's struggle to maintain the revolution in the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union, to the period after Fidel Castro's decision to step down from office,...Paperback$3400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Crafting Medicine
How an early modern surgeon and his accessible writings changed medical expertise and the communication of medical knowledge. Between 1497 and 1512, Hieronymus Brunschwig (ca. 1450–ca. 1530), an obscure craftsman from Strasbourg, wrote books on surgery and pharmacy that transformed medical expertise, how it was codified in print, and how it was communicated to new audiences. Brunschwig was an unlikely...Hardback$21999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Cold War Britain
‘A powerful and timely book’ PETER KENNARD 'Really good read' DERMOT O'LEARY 'Tremendous…it strikes me it fills a gap somehow' AL MURRAY 'Fantastic' DOMINIC SANDBROOK Delve into the history, politics, literature and popular culture that defined the Cold War era. The Cold War defined the history of Britain in the second half of the twentieth century as much as it...Hardback$7000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Battle of Tassafaronga
The Battle of Tassafaronga, on 30 November 1942, was the fifth and last major night surface action fought off Savo Island during World War II's Guadalcanal campaign. It ended a string of Japanese victories but was a horrible embarrassment to the U.S. Navy, which had three heavy cruisers damaged and one sunk by enemy torpedoes. After the battle, American commanders...Paperback$6200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
A Socialist History of the French Revolution
'Tantalizing prose' - TLS Jean Jaurès was the celebrated French Socialist Party leader, assassinated in 1914 for trying to use diplomacy and industrial action to prevent the outbreak of war. Published just a few years before his death, his magisterial A Socialist History of the French Revolution has endured for over a century as one of the most influential accounts...Paperback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Anunnaki Revelation
The seminal role of the Anunnaki in shaping human civilisation is unveiled, revealing the mystical roots of esoteric knowledge and its impact on secret societies and the evolution of consciousness. The Anunnaki—one of the most enigmatic groups in history—played a heavy role in early human civilisation. But where did they come from, and who were they? In Anunnaki Revelation, author...Paperback$5700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
A History of the Cuban Revolution
A fully-revised and updated new edition of a concise and insightful socio-historical analysis of the Cuban revolution, and the course it took over five and a half decades. A History of the Cuban Revolution is now available in a fully-revised second edition, including new material to add to the book’s coverage of Cuba over the past decade under Raul Castro....Paperback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
King of Kings
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR NONFICTION • KIRKUS PRIZE WINNER • From the author of the landmark bestseller Lawrence in Arabia comes a stunningly revelatory narrative history of the Iranian Revolution, one of the most momentous events in modern times....Paperback$8300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
The Vampire's Cult
A self-proclaimed vampire. His harem of "witches." And the small-town murder that shocked America. When twenty-four-year-old Sydney Loofe disappeared after a Tinder date, the quiet town of Wilber, Nebraska was stunned. Days later, her dismembered body was found scattered across nearby fields—and the horrifying truth began to emerge. Sydney hadn't just met the wrong man. She had crossed paths with...Paperback$5400Unit price /UnavailableOutPre-order 
The Highest Calling
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the New York Times bestselling author of The American Story and How to Lead and host of PBS’s History with David Rubenstein—David Rubenstein interviews living American presidents and top historians and journalists who reflect on the US presidency, including Joe Biden, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Maggie Haberman, Ron Chernow, and more. For years,...Hardback$7500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Highest Calling
From the New York Times bestselling author of The American Story and How to Lead and host of PBS's History with David Rubenstein — David Rubenstein interviews living American presidents and top historians and journalists who reflect on the US presidency, including Joe Biden, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Maggie Haberman, Ron Chernow, and more. For years, bestselling author David...Hardback$12500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The American Story
Cofounder of The Carlyle Group, patriotic philanthropist, and bestselling author of The American Experiment David M. Rubenstein takes readers on a sweeping journey across the grand arc of the American story through revealing conversations with our greatest historians. In these lively dialogues, the biggest names in American history explore the subjects they’ve come to so intimately know and understand. David...Hardback$7400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
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Mothers of Invention
A rollicking, enlightening examination of humanity's changing relationship to creativity, written from the perspectives of the Greek Muses. The thing that sets humans apart from other animals is our ability to create, to imagine how one thing could become something else. For millennia, art and science, fueled by creativity, have driven the advancement of civilization. From Socrates to Galileo to...Hardback$5000Unit price /UnavailableOut 20 Oct 2026Pre-order 
The Monastic World
A major new history of medieval monasticism, from the fourth to the sixteenth century From the late Roman Empire onwards, monasteries and convents were a common sight throughout Europe. But who were monasteries for? What kind of people founded and maintained them? And how did monasticism change over the thousand years or so of the Middle Ages? Andrew Jotischky traces...Paperback$3599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Battle of the Arctic
No campaign during World War Two contained more spinetingling drama, outstanding courage and heartbreaking tragedy than the Arctic convoys. Yet they – and the multifaceted Battle of the Arctic that had to be fought to get them through to Russia – remain one of the war’s most undercelebrated feats. As this book’s title implies, Battle of the Arctic tells a...Hardback$5799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Young Men and Fire
A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, Young Men and Fire describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of fifteen of the US Forest Service’s elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of the men were dead or...Paperback$4199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Yorktown 1781
A detailed guide to the real story of the most well-known battles of the American Revolution, popularized by Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton. By 1781 Britain's struggle to contain the rebels in her American colonies had reached an inglorious stalemate. Six years on from the British defeat by the New England militia at Boston, George Washington's rebuilt Continental Army, with support from...Paperback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
What is the History of Emotions?
What Is the History of Emotions? offers an accessible path through the thicket of approaches, debates, and past and current trends in the history of emotions. Although historians have always talked about how people felt in the past, it is only in the last two decades that they have found systematic and well-grounded ways to treat the topic. Rosenwein and...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Virgil
The works of Virgil (70–19 BCE) define the ‘golden age’ of Latin poetry and have inspired a long tradition of interpretation and adaptation that starts in his own time and extends to important modern authors. His ascent from the lesser genre of pastoral (the Bucolics) through a more ambitious didactic mode (the Georgics) to the soaring heights of epic (the...Paperback$5199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
U.S. Army Counterintelligence Handbook
The life of a counterintelligence (CI) operative has been immortalised in film and novels as being filled with glamour and excitement. While international travel, heroism, and danger are all part of the job description, the fundamentals of counterintelligence are discipline, skill, and—well—intelligence. CI operations include conducting investigations, offensive and defensive operations, security and vulnerability analyses, and intelligence collection in peace...Paperback$4900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Threat Multiplier
Threat Multiplier takes us onto the battlefield and inside the Pentagon to show how the US military is confronting the biggest security risk in global history: climate change. More than thirty years ago, when Sherri Goodman became the Pentagon's first Chief Environmental Officer, no one would have imagined this role for our armed forces. Indeed, for much of the twentieth...Hardback$9659Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
The Zong
The first full review of the mass murder by crew members on the slave ship Zong and the lasting repercussions of this horrifying event. On November 29, 1781, Captain Collingwood of the British ship Zong commanded his crew to throw overboard one-third of his cargo: a shipment of Africans bound for slavery in America. The captain believed his ship was...Paperback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
The Revolution And Civil War In Spain
An outstanding history that shows how a promising workers' movement ended in a fascist victory. What emerges most clearly in this detailed and long out of print history, is how the popular front held back radical measures that would have galvanised the working class and peasant base of the revolution, and decisively weakened Franco's forces. Author Pierre Broué was for...Paperback$16200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
The People's State
An insight into the experience of life within the East German dictatorship What was life really like for East Germans, effectively imprisoned behind the Iron Curtain? The headline stories of Cold War spies and surveillance by the secret police, of political repression and corruption, do not tell the whole story. After the unification of Germany in 1990 many East Germans...Paperback$7699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
The Penguin Book of Hell
"From the Bible through Dante and up to Treblinka and Guantanamo Bay, here is a rich source for nightmares." — The New York Times Book Review Three thousand years of visions of Hell, from the ancient Near East to modern America. A Penguin Classic From the Hebrew Bible's shadowy realm of Sheol to twenty-first-century visions of Hell on earth, The...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Long Sixties
The Long Sixties is a concise and engaging treatment of the major political, social, and cultural developments of this tumultuous period. A comprehensive yet concise overview that offers coverage of a variety of topics, from the beginnings of the Cold War shortly after World War II, through the civil rights, women's, and Chicano civil rights movements, to Watergate, an event...Paperback$7099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
The Life of Mahatma Gandhi
The Life of Mahatma Gandhi by Louis Fischer is hailed as "the best biography of Gandhi... I was enthralled from the first page... it changed my life" — Sir Richard Attenborough. According to The Times, it is "a monumental yet intimate biography, a vivid portrait of the man, the statesman and the saint." Mahatma Gandhi became a legend in his...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Lady In The Tower
A compelling story of the last days of one of history's most charismatic, controversial, and tragic heroines - Anne Boleyn. On 2 May, 1536, in an act unprecedented in English history, Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, was imprisoned in the Tower of London. On 15 May, she was tried and found guilty of high treason and executed just four...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Fiume Crisis
Recasting the birth of fascism, nationalism, and the fall of empire after World War I, Dominique Kirchner Reill recounts how the people of Fiume tried to recreate empire in the guise of the nation. The Fiume Crisis recasts what we know about the birth of fascism, the rise of nationalism, and the fall of empire after World War I by...Hardback$7399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Thank You for Being Late
The bestselling field guide to the twenty-first century by one of its most celebrated observers. We all sense it - our lives are speeding up at a dizzying rate. Thank You for Being Late exposes the tectonic movements that are reshaping the world today and explains how to get the most out of them. Friedman's thesis is that the planet's...Paperback$4299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Struggling with God
Remarkably beautiful and pastoral - JUSTIN WELBY, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY Brimming with wisdom and humanity - DAME SARAH MULLALLY, DBE, BISHOP OF LONDON Struggling with God gets right to the heart of a great predicament for many Christians. When it feels as if our struggles are overwhelming - and our capacity for faith, hope, and love is diminished - how...Paperback$1499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Sir Henry Parkes: The Australian Colossus
Sir Henry Parkes: The Australian Colossus by Stephen Dando-Collins explores the life and legacy of Sir Henry Parkes—Father of Federation, Premier of NSW, Statesman, Visionary, Political Leader, Poet, and Humanist. May 27, 2015, marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of Sir Henry Parkes. Upon his death, the London Times described him as "a colonial colossus." Despite receiving little formal...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Russia
Thirty years after the end of the Soviet Union, multiple ghosts haunt Russia, its elites, and its society, from concern over demographic and economic decline to worry about the country’s vulnerability to external intervention, reviving the old notion of Russia as a "besieged fortress." Faced with both a West that emerged victorious from the Cold War and a shockingly dynamic...Paperback$8604Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Rhodes Must Fall
When students at Oxford University called for a statue of Cecil Rhodes to be removed, following similar calls by students in Cape Town, the significance of these protests was felt across continents. This was not simply about tearing down an outward symbol of British imperialism – a monument glorifying a colonial conqueror – but about confronting the toxic inheritance of...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Revolution in Time
More than a decade after the publication of his dazzling book on the cultural, technological, and manufacturing aspects of measuring time and making clocks, David Landes has significantly expanded Revolution in Time. In a new preface and scores of updated passages, he explores new findings about medieval and early-modern time keeping, as well as contemporary hi-tech uses of the watch...Paperback$4099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance
After its rediscovery in 1417, Lucretius's Epicurean didactic poem De Rerum Natura threatened to supply radicals and atheists with the one weapon unbelief had lacked in the Middle Ages: good answers. Scholars could now challenge Christian patterns of thought by employing the theory of atomistic physics, a sophisticated system that explained natural phenomena without appeal to divine participation, and argued...Hardback$8799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Panzer Reconnaissance
Panzer Reconnaissance, by renowned armour expert Thomas Anderson, uses first-hand accounts and rare and unpublished images to tell the full story of the German reconnaissance troops in World War II. When the Wehrmacht was first formed in 1935, tactical reconnaissance was carried out by motorcycle rifle units (Kradschützen). However, with the development and large-scale introduction of wheeled armoured vehicles in...Hardback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
On the Postcolony
Achille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of postcolonial studies writing today. In On the Postcolony, he profoundly renews our understanding of power and subjectivity in Africa. In a series of provocative essays, Mbembe contests diehard Africanist and nativist perspectives as well as some of the key assumptions of postcolonial theory. This thought-provoking and groundbreaking collection of essays—his...Paperback$5899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Of Bridges
“Always,” wrote Philip Larkin, “it is by bridges that we live.” Bridges represent our aspirations to connect, to soar across divides. It is the unfinished business of these aspirations that makes bridges such stirring sights, especially when they are marvels of ingenuity. A rich compendium of myths, superstitions, literary and ideological figurations, as well as architectural and musical illustrations, Of...Hardback$7299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Law and Revolution, I
The roots of modern Western legal institutions and concepts go back nine centuries to the Papal Revolution, when the Western church established its political and legal unity and its independence from emperors, kings, and feudal lords. Out of this upheaval came the Western idea of integrated legal systems consciously developed over generations and centuries. Harold J. Berman describes the main...Paperback$8099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Lancaster And York
A riveting account of the Wars of the Roses, focusing on the human side of the story. The war between the houses of Lancaster and York for the throne of England was characterised by treachery, deceit and—at St Albans, Blore Hill and Towton—some of the bloodiest and most dramatic battles on England's soil. Between 1455 and 1487 the royal coffers...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Julian of Norwich
Over six hundred years ago, a woman known as Julian of Norwich wrote what is now regarded as one of the greatest works of literature in English. Based on a sequence of mystical visions she received in 1373, her book is called Revelations of Divine Love. Julian lived through an age of political and religious turmoil, as well as through...Paperback$1099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Isabella
The first full-length biography of a much maligned—but astonishingly colourful—Queen of England. Described by Christopher Marlowe as the 'She-Wolf of France', Isabella was one of the most notorious femme fatales in history. According to popular legend, her angry ghost can be glimpsed among church ruins, clutching the beating heart of her murdered husband. But how did Isabella acquire this reputation?...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Hypatia of Alexandria
Hypatia of Alexandria—brilliant mathematician, eloquent Neoplatonist, and a woman renowned for her beauty—was brutally murdered by a mob of Christians in Alexandria in 415. She has been a legend ever since. In this engrossing book, Maria Dzielska searches behind the legend to bring us the real story of Hypatia's life and death, and new insight into her colourful world. Historians...Paperback$6399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Henry VIII
Alison Weir is one of our best popular historians and one, moreover, with an impressive scholarly pedigree in Tudor history...her latest offering is a very fine book - Frank McLynn, Independent Henry VIII, renowned for his command of power and celebrated for his intellect, presided over one of the most magnificent—and dangerous—courts in Renaissance Europe. Never before has a detailed,...Paperback$3700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Hamburger Hill 1969
A highly illustrated, authoritative exploration of Operation Apache Snow, including the infamous Battle of Hamburger Hill (Ap Bia Mountain), one of the most significant and well-known actions in the Vietnam War. Operation Apache Snow was the result of a renewed Allied effort in early 1969 to neutralize the North Vietnamese forces in the A Shau, a 45km-long valley located in...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Groundbreakers
As well as showing a particular region and historical situation, an old map endlessly provokes new questions. In Groundbreakers, map historian Anne-Rieke van Schaik delves into the stories behind various maps, prints, atlases, globes, and instruments from the Phoebus Foundation's world-famous collection. The objects tell of the glory days of the history of cartography, but also of darker matters, from...Hardback$550Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
God's Library
A provocative book from a highly original scholar, challenging much of what we know about early Christian manuscripts In this bold and groundbreaking book, God's Library, Brent Nongbri provides an up-to-date introduction to the major collections of early Christian manuscripts and demonstrates that much of what we thought we knew about these books and fragments is mistaken. While biblical scholars...Paperback$4099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Fighting Proud
In this astonishing new history of wartime Britain, historian Stephen Bourne unearths the fascinating stories of the gay men who served in the armed forces and at home, and brings to light the great unheralded contribution they made to the war effort. Fighting Proud weaves together the remarkable lives of these men, from RAF hero Ian Gleed—a Flying Ace twice...Hardback$9400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
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