Fortress Malta
In March and April 1942, more explosives were dropped on this tiny Mediterranean island—smaller than the Isle of Wight—than on the whole of Britain during the first year of the Blitz. Malta had become one of the most strategically important places in the world. From there, the Allies could attack Axis supply lines to North Africa; without it, Rommel would...Paperback$3199Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
D-Day
Compellingly authentic, revelatory and beautifully written. A gripping tour de force - Damien Lewis Almost seventy-five years have passed since D-Day, the day of the greatest seaborne invasion in history. The outcome of the Second World War hung in the balance on that chill June morning. If Allied forces succeeded in gaining a foothold in northern France, the road to...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Croatia Under Ante Pavelic
Ante Pavelic was the leader of the fascist party of Croatia (the Ustase), who, on Adolf Hitler's instruction, became the leader of Croatia after the Nazi invasion of 1941. Pavelic was an extreme Croatian nationalist who believed that the Serbian people were an inferior race—he would preside over a genocide that ultimately killed an estimated 390,000 Serbs during World War...Paperback$5899Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Constantine at the Bridge
Award-winning author Stephen Dando-Collins brings his renowned expertise to Constantine at the Bridge, where he unveils how the Battle of the Milvian Bridge marked the point of no return for Rome and shaped the Western world as we know it. The AD 312 Battle of the Milvian Bridge, just outside Rome, marked the start of a monumental change for Rome...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Confessions of an Egyptologist
Bestselling author Erich von Däniken shares the story of a 16-year-old grave-diver who discovered a mysterious labyrinth of the old kings under one of the pyramids of Saqqara. In Confessions of an Egyptologist, Erich von Däniken tells the story of his friend, Adel H., an Egyptologist who, as a 16-year-old boy, was trapped for days under the Step Pyramid of...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Beginner's Guide to Drawing Manga
Grab a pencil and dive into the exciting world of manga with step-by-step drawing tutorials and expert techniques. Drawing manga and anime-style art is an ever-popular preoccupation for artists, with the promise of intriguing characters, cute animals, and atmospheric scenery leaping from lines on the page. Beginner's Guide to Drawing Manga provides an exciting and engaging introduction to this art...Paperback$4699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Atlas
The British Library's map collection is the national cartographic collection of Britain and numbers around four million maps dating from 15 CE to 2017 CE. These include road maps drawn for 13th-century pilgrims and sea charts for 17th-century pirates. They include the first printed map to show the Americas and the last to show English-controlled Calais. They include the world's...Paperback$5500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Area 51
It is the most famous military installation in the world. And no credible insider has ever divulged the truth about his time inside of it. Until now. Area 51 is the first book based on interviews with scientists, pilots, and engineers—58 in total—who provide an unprecedented look into the mysterious activities of a top-secret base, from the Cold War to...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
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Perfect for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Cilka's Journey and The Librarian of Auschwitz - this is the international bestselling and life-affirming true story of female bravery and surviving the horrors of Auschwitz. NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller and WINNER of the Opzij Literature Prize 2019 They knew their survival depended on each other.They had to live for each other....Paperback$2300Usually:$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
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The Greatest Comeback: From Genocide to Football Glory
Before Pep Guardiola and before José Mourinho, there was Béla Guttmann: the first superstar football coach, and the man who paved the way for the celebrated coaches of the modern age. He was also a Holocaust survivor. In 1944, much of Europe had wanted Guttmann dead. He hid for months in an attic near Budapest as thousands of fellow Jews...Paperback$2000Usually:$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
20% offThat Woman
One of Britain's most distinguished biographers turns her focus on one of the most vilified women of the twentieth century. Historian Anne Sebba has written the first full biography by a woman of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor. That Woman, as she was referred to by the Queen Mother, became a hate figure for ensnaring a British king and destabilising...Paperback$2400Usually:$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
My Dear Kabul
A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week 'A real-time, moving and intimate portrait of a year living under the Taliban' — DUA LIPA'S SERVICE95 'An intimate, courageous chronicle of life' — OBSERVER, BOOK OF THE DAY 'A hugely important book' — BERNARDINE EVARISTO 'A deeply moving collective memoir' — LYSE DOUCET In August 2021, as the Taliban approached the...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
If Russia Wins
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER March 2028: Russian troops capture the small Estonian town of Narva and the island of Hiiumaa in the Baltic Sea. After victory in Ukraine, Putin's long-mooted encroachment into the Baltic states has begun. Europe's slow rearmament and its compromised military and intelligence capabilities are now clear for its enemies to exploit. Does Article 5 of NATO apply?...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
While Israel Slept
A powerful indictment of the political and military decisions that led to October 7. While Israel Slept tells the gripping inside story of how Hamas, Israel's weakest enemy, succeeded in launching a surprise attack on one of the world's most powerful militaries. Through a detailed examination of the events leading up to October 7, 2023, the book exposes the intelligence...Hardback$7300Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Forgotten Churches
Spending his weekends exploring historic churches across the idyllic English countryside—and sharing their beauty and unsung history across social media—Luke Sherlock is bringing English history and the heritage of our rural countryside to a new audience. England is full of incredible churches, from small stone chapels and quiet Romanesque masterpieces, to thousand-year-old Saxon stalwarts, dramatic Gothic monuments and high Victorian...Hardback$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Brilliant Maps
With a foreword by Tim Harford Which nations have North Korean embassies? Which region has the highest number of death metal bands per capita? How many countries have bigger economies than California? Who drives on the 'wrong' side of the road? And where can you find lions in the wild? Revelatory, thought-provoking and fun, Brilliant Maps is a unique atlas...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Three Sisters
'I want you to make a promise to me that you will always take care of your sisters. That you will always be there for one another. That you will not allow anyone to take you away from each other, ever. Do you understand?' When they are little girls, Cibi, Magda and Livia make a promise to their father—that they...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
Great Discoveries in Medicine
An unrivalled account of turning points and breakthroughs in medical knowledge and practice, from ancient Egypt, India and China to the latest technology. Sickness and health, birth and death, disease and cure: medicine and our understanding of the workings of our bodies and minds are an inextricable part of how we know who we are. With the science of healing...Paperback$3199Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
Floriography
Floriography is a full-colour guidebook to the historical uses and secret meanings behind an impressive array of flowers and herbs. The book explores the coded significances associated with various blooms, from flowers for a lover to flowers for an enemy. The language of flowers was historically used as a means of secret communication. It soared in popularity during the 19th...Hardback$4299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
'Unsuitable for Females'
Shortlisted for the 2023 Sports Book Awards for Best Football Writing of the Year Discover the origins of the Lionesses that brought football home. England's Lionesses are on the front and back pages; their stars feature on prime-time television; they are named in the national honours lists for their contribution to their sport and to society. The names of Lucy...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Threads of Life
SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK For the mothers of the disappeared in 1970s Argentina, protest was difficult. Every Thursday they marched in front of government buildings wearing headscarves embroidered with the names of their lost children. Through sewing, they found a way to campaign. In Tudor England, Mary, Queen of Scots was under house arrest and...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Little Book of Floriography
Revealing a world of secret messages contained within a single petal. Floriography - the language of flowers - is the ancient art of encoding hidden messages in the type, colour and arrangement of plants, allowing individuals to express emotions and sentiments that they may not be able to articulate through words. Featuring 100 of the most popular and available blooms...Hardback$1999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
The Cosmography and Geography of Africa
The first new translation in over 400 years of one of the great works of the Renaissance — an African diplomat's guide to Africa. In 1518, al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan, a Moroccan diplomat, was seized by pirates while travelling in the Mediterranean. Brought before Pope Leo X, he was persuaded to convert to Christianity, in the process taking the name...Paperback$3200Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
The Apocryphal Gospels
The Apocryphal Gospels offers a new translation of the oldest non-canonical Christian gospels, including the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary, and the Gospel of Judas. In the early years of Christianity, several groups produced 'hidden' or 'apocryphal' gospels, providing alternative versions of the story of Christ. Sometimes these texts complemented the four canonical gospels, sometimes they subverted them,...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
Ten Cities that Led the World
'A book of ideas [...] Strathern ably guides us through these moments of glory.' -- The Times * Great cities are complex, chaotic and colossal. These are cities that dominate the world stage and define eras; where ideas flourish, revolutions are born and history is made. Through ten unique cities, from the founding of ancient capitals to buzzing modern megacities,...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
20% offMartin Scorsese
Few filmmakers, if any, make the kind of impact that Martin Scorsese has made on American cinema. The winner of every prestigious film award, including the Oscar, Scorsese is a living legend. Bestselling author and award-winning filmmaker Mary Pat Kelly's groundbreaking biography reveals how this working-class boy from Manhattan's Little Italy became one of our most acclaimed, celebrated, and influential...Paperback$3200Usually:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
17% offIn the Service of the Shogun
In 1600, English helmsman William Adams washed ashore in Japan and was interrogated by Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japan's most powerful warlord and soon-to-be shogun. Far from executing Adams as a pirate, Ieyasu made him one of his most trusted advisers. This biography traces Adams's rise from humble pilot to a position of immense influence in Japan's foreign relations. It unravels the...Hardback$3300Usually:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Hidden Hands
This book is an expression of love... Sublimely conceived and beautifully written Gerard DeGroot, The Times Immersive, conversational and intensely visual Helen Castor Manuscripts teem with life. They are not only the stuff of history and literature, but they offer some of the only tangible evidence we have of entire lives, long receded. Hidden Hands tells the stories of the...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
A Little History of the Australian Labor Party
Acclaimed historians Nick Dyrenfurth and Frank Bongiorno tell the story of the Australian Labor Party's rich history of more than 130 years and examine its central role in modern Australia. The Australian Labor Party is one of the oldest labour parties in the world and the first to form a government. From the prime ministerships of Watson and Fisher to...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Repair Shop: World War II
The latest book based on the BBC's BAFTA Award-winning show, The Repair Shop: World War II marks the 80th anniversary of the international ending of World War II by sharing objects from the era and the stories behind them. Chapters include Secrets and Spies; The Home Front; Children and the War; War in the Skies and Seas; The War Abroad;...Hardback$4999Elsewhere:$6000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Middle of Nowhere
For most New Zealanders, Manapouri is associated with the country's largest and most successful environmental protest, but there is another, less well-known narrative of this time. The struggle to drill a tailrace tunnel under a rocky mountain at Manapouri, blast out a cavernous machine hall at West Arm, and carve a road over the treacherous Wilmot Pass is a powerful...Paperback$5500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
20% offBotticelli
In this vivid account, Ana Debenedetti examines the life and work of Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli, through the lens of the organisation of his workshop and the commercial strategies he devised to make his way in the very competitive art market in Florence at that time. She looks at the remarkable career of this pivotal artist and his production with...Paperback$2800Usually:$3499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
20% offBorn Survivors
Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its infamous gates with a secret. Strangers to each other, they were newly pregnant, and facing an uncertain fate without their husbands. Alone, scared, and with so many loved ones already lost to the Nazis, these young women were privately determined to...Paperback$2400Usually:$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
World History For Dummies
Discover how the modern world came to be with this easy-to-follow and up-to-date history companion. Want to get a taste of the entirety of human history in a single book? With World History For Dummies, you'll get an overview of the history of, well, everything, from the Neanderthal experience to the latest historical developments of the 21st century. Re-live history...Paperback$5299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Athens
A history of the world’s first democracy from its beginnings in Athens circa fifth century B.C. to its downfall 200 years later The first democracy, established in ancient Greece more than 2,500 years ago, has served as the foundation for every democratic system of government instituted down the centuries. In this lively history, author Thomas N. Mitchell tells the full...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
A History of Food
The story of cuisine and the social history of eating is a fascinating one, and Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat covers all its aspects in this classic history. A History of Food is a new expanded edition of a classic book, originally published to great critical acclaim from Raymond Blanc, The New York Times, The Sunday Telegraph, The Independent and more. It tells...Hardback$6899Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Conspiracy
'Uproarious . . . [Phillips and Elledge] pair the abundant good humour of this book with a warning about the corrosive effects of conspiracy theories' The Times From the Satanic Panic to the anti-vaxx movement, the moon landing to Pizzagate, it's always been human nature to believe we're being lied to by the powers that be (and sometimes, to be...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Nexus
From renowned historian and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari comes the story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world. For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries, inventions and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge of ecological...Hardback$7500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Gold Under The Manuka
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The Invention of Nature
WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY MERLIN SHELDRAKE WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2016 'A thrilling adventure story' Bill Bryson 'Dazzling' Literary Review 'Brilliant' Sunday Express 'Extraordinary and gripping' New Scientist 'A superb biography' The Economist 'An exhilarating armchair voyage' GILES MILTON, Mail on Sunday Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the...Paperback$2400Usually:$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
15% offThe Red Emperor
Michael Sheridan is one of the best informed and wisest writers on China - Chris Patten, last governor of Hong Kong The Red Emperor presents an eye-opening portrait of Xi Jinping, the man who presides over 1.4 billion people and the second largest economy on earth. Born a 'princeling' to one of Communist China's ruling families, the young Xi was...Paperback$2200Elsewhere:$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Chasing the Dark
'A fascinating testimony to our nervous hunger to map the hazy, haunted territory at the edges of the rational... engrossing, entertaining and distinctly unsettling' Sarah Waters 'Shiversomely eerie... so impressive in its research and remarkable in all it uncovers' Tom Holland Late one evening the telephone rings, and on the line is a stranger. They tell you that your nine-year-old...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Tank
An authoritative history of the tank and the remarkable individuals who designed them and fought in them, from a former soldier and best-selling historian. Tanks are the ultimate embodiment of industrial age warfare. In the popular imagination, they represent both a terrifying beast of destruction and a potent symbol of liberation. The technology behind these war machines has evolved relentlessly,...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
20% off100 Nasty Women of History
Vital reading STYLIST ...hooting with laughter - what a swashbuckler that Hannah Jewell is MARINA HYDE Because 100 Nasty Women is so easy to read and witty, I didn't expect it to be the life changing, important book that I'm discovering it to be PHILIPPA PERRY A fantastic addition to your feminist library and historical knowledge. ANN SHEN, author of...Paperback$2400Usually:$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
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The Book of Dirt
They chose not to speak and now they are gone… What’s left to fill the silence is no longer theirs. This is my story, woven from the threads of rumour and legend. Jakub Rand flees his village for Prague, only to find himself trapped by the Nazi occupation. Deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, he is forced to sort through...Paperback$2000Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
18% offIndia: A Wounded Civilization
"A devastating work, but proof that a novelist of Naipaul's stature can often define problems quicker and more effectively than a team of economists and other experts" - The Times In 1964, V. S. Naipaul published An Area of Darkness, his semi-autobiographical account of a year in India. Two visits later, prompted by the Emergency of 1975, he came to...Paperback$2300Usually:$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
Fatherhood
An ambitious history of masculinity and family, from the Bronze Age to the modern day, Fatherhood dares to offer a more caring and affirmative vision of the roles men currently play in society. What is fatherhood, and where did it come from? How has the role of men in families and society changed across thousands of years? What does the...Paperback$3199Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
18% offCharles III
The instant No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller, updated with exclusive new material. 'Scoops aplenty are here . . . An irresistible insider account of momentous royal events' - Melanie Reid, The Times 'Fascinating . . . the book everyone is talking about' - Daily Mail By the acclaimed royal biographer and commentator Robert Hardman, Charles III is an intimate portrait...Paperback$2700Usually:$3299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Caliban Shrieks
The rediscovered working-class masterpiece - as featured in The New Yorker, the Guardian, BBC News, and on Radio 4 Front Row. 'Witty and unusual' - George Orwell 'Magnificent' - W H Auden A lyrical tour of life as a young working-class man born into the first days of the 20th century, Caliban Shrieks is a lost masterpiece of 1930s British...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Myths of Geography
Is geography really destiny? Our maps may no longer be stalked by dragons and monsters, but our perceptions of the world are still shaped by geographic myths. Myths like Europe being the centre of the world. Or that border walls are the solution to migration. Or that Russia is predestined to threaten its neighbours. In his punchy and authoritative new...Paperback$2500Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Classical Mythology of the Constellations
A retelling of the classic myths and timeless tales by bestselling author Annette Giesecke that underlie the 88 named constellations in the night sky—from Andromeda to Orion to Ursa Major. Classical Mythology of the Constellations is a stargazer's guide to the wondrous stories of the gods, heroes, and monsters that populate the night sky. As long as humans have lived...Hardback$5300Elsewhere:$6000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Unconventional Women
The lives of the women who joined a closed convent in Melbourne in a time of great upheaval. In the 1950s and 60s, six young women left their families to join a strictly enclosed order of nuns in Melbourne. They could leave the convent only for medical appointments and rarely received visitors, whom they would meet from behind a partition...Paperback$3600Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The People’s War
The first book to be published from the BBC's archive of forgotten voices and untold stories from the six years of World War Two. There was a German bomber flying right towards us - a Dornier, one of their biggest. It was so low we could see the pilot flying it and the gunner in the nose of the bomber...Hardback$5400Elsewhere:$6000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
Oathbreakers
The authors of The Bright Ages return with a real-life Game of Thrones—the story of the Carolingian Civil War, a bloody, protracted battle pitting brother against brother, father against son, that would end an empire, upend a continent, and redefine the future of Europe. By the early ninth century, the Carolingian empire was at the height of its power. The...Paperback$3600Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
Images of War
In a major research project, Glyn Harper and the National Army Museum combined official war photographs with more informal images to provide a moving visual history. Originally published in 2008, Images of War has now been beautifully redesigned as a stunning large-format hardback. While primarily drawn from the Museum's collection, many photographs from private sources were included. From more than...Hardback$9000Elsewhere:$9999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
A History of Britain in Ten Enemies
From the multimillion-copy bestselling author of the Horrible Histories, this is a witty, whistlestop tour through the history of Britain (for grown-ups) — a ST bestseller with over 30,000 hardbacks TCM since October. The surprisingly sadistic Boudica would be forgotten if it weren't for the Ninth Legion, Elizabeth I a minor royal without the Spanish Armada, and Churchill an opposition...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
10% offIndignity
The acclaimed author of Free returns with an imaginative investigation into dignity and historical injustice through the story of a family. When Lea Ypi discovers a photo of her grandmother, Leman, honeymooning in the Alps in 1941 posted by a stranger on social media, she is faced with unsettling questions. Growing up, she was told records of her grandmother's youth...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
19% offThe Strangest Family
An intensely moving account of George III’s doomed attempt to create a happy, harmonious family, written with astonishing emotional force by a stunning new history writer. George III came to the throne in 1760 as a man with a mission. He was determined to break with the extraordinarily dysfunctional home lives of his Hanoverian predecessors. He was sure that as...Paperback$2100Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
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The Sisterhood of Ravensbruck
A tale of great enterprise and great fortitude, and of wonderful female solidarity and nobility of spirit, in the bleakest of circumstances. For decades after World War II, histories of the French Resistance were written almost exclusively by men and largely ignored the contributions of women. Many current overviews of the subject continue to underplay the extent and importance of...Paperback$3300Elsewhere:$4500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
The Book of Lost Hours
'Gelfuso seamlessly blends elements of romance and fantasy into the twisty quest narrative, and packs excitement into every page. It's a delight.' Publishers Weekly Nuremberg, 1938: Lisavet Levy's watchmaker father saves her from the Nazis by pushing her through a mysterious doorway. There, she discovers the time space—a vast, magical library where memories of the past are stored in books....Paperback$3000Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
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The Wild Men
A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 A century ago, a Labour government took power for the first time. Meet the "Wild Men" who led the way... 'Superb' -- New Statesman 'Fascinating' -- The Sunday Times. In 1923, the passing of the Act which gave all men the vote opened the door for a radically different sort of government: men...Paperback$2000Usually:$14499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
Nobody Can Give You Freedom
The real political mission of Malcolm X, and why it needs resurrecting now — 100 years after his birth. Malcolm X is a titanic figure in political history, but he is also one of the most misunderstood. So much of what we know about his life and politics is from books, films and documentaries that are all guilty of peddling...Hardback$4000Elsewhere:$5500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
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Dianaworld
A brilliant new cultural history of the Queen of Hearts For more than forty years, Diana, Princess of Wales, has been mythologised to the most extraordinary degree. Adored and lionised by some, ridiculed and traduced by others, Diana has always commanded a cultural presence unmatched by any other member of the royal family. In Dianaworld, Edward White offers both a...Hardback$4800Elsewhere:$6500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
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Capitalism and Its Critics
A sweeping, dramatic history of capitalism as seen through the eyes of its fiercest critics. At a time when we are faced with fundamental questions about the sustainability and morality of the economic system, Capitalism and Its Critics provides a kaleidoscopic history of global capitalism, from colonialism and the Industrial Revolution to the ecological crisis and artificial intelligence. John Cassidy...Hardback$8000Usually:$10000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
A New Voyage Round the World
A magical, substantially true narrative of piracy, zoology, anthropology, danger and adventure in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, Pacific and East Indies The first great English-language travel book, A New Voyage Round the World (1697) is an incomparably vivid, chaotic and fascinating account by the pirate, explorer and naturalist William Dampier of his many adventures. The world he describes sprawls all the...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination
November 22, 2013, marks the 50th anniversary of a tragedy that has haunted America ever since. And now, by revealing information never published before, The Hidden History of JFK's Assassination pierces the enduring veil of secrecy to fully document the small, tightly held conspiracy that killed President John F. Kennedy. It explains why he was murdered and how it was...Paperback$3600Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
Conquering the North
The Great Wall of China – stretching from the arid rises of Gansu province to the cold waters of the Bohai Sea – remains an enduring symbol of Chinese might. And yet, for all its grandeur, the Wall also marks a vulnerability: an ever-present reminder of old battle lines and never-ending tension with China’s northern neighbours. Travelling by sacred mountains...Hardback$5499Elsewhere:$6499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
The Greatest Nobodies of History
The true history of humanity's greatest moments, as told by comedian and TikTok sensation, Adrian Bliss. History belongs to the heroes. But to get the full story, sometimes you have to ask the side characters. The lives of Leonardo da Vinci, Henry VIII and Queen Victoria fill bookshelves and fascinate scholars all over the world. But little attention is given...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
20% offThe Bells of Nagasaki
A harrowing, heart-rending first-hand account of one of the most infamous events in history—the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. A book that everyone should read The Times A harrowing, heart-rending first-hand account of the bombing of Nagasaki—and the acts of human kindness left in its wake. On 9th August 1945, the Japanese city of Nagasaki is hit by an atomic bomb....Hardback$3600Usually:$4500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Ancient Myths and Legends Without Men
Ancient Myths and Legends Without Men by Mara Gold presents legendary tales from Ancient Mythology centred around the stories of women. Retold for modern audiences by an expert author, it comes in a bold, beautifully designed, illustrated package. This book is perfect for fans of Mythos, Circe, Pandora, and Clytemnestra. Mother. Virgin. Warrior. Witch. Maniac. Monster. The labels applied to...Hardback$5500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
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All His Spies
The untold story of Robert Cecil, the ultimate Tudor spy-master. Robert Cecil, statesman and spymaster, lived through an astonishingly threatening period in English history. Queen Elizabeth had no clear successor, and enemies both external and internal threatened to destroy England as a Protestant state, most spectacularly with the Spanish Armada and the Gunpowder Plot. Cecil stood at the heart of...Paperback$2700Usually:$3299Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
Progress
A new understanding of history - Danny Dorling, author of Inequality and the 1% This is a wise book - Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature Progress is power. But our modern story of progress is a very dangerous fiction. In the pursuit of progress, of growth and expansion, we have levelled cities, flattened mountains, charted the globe...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
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1973: The incredible true story of the Blythe Star disaster, which left ten men shipwrecked and alone on the wild Southern Ocean off Tasmania. Almost two weeks later they were found on a remote trail on a southern peninsula, and their story would stun the nation ... and leave a powerful legacy in its wake. When the coastal freighter MV...Paperback$3200Usually:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Eighteen
The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller 'The star of her generation' - Dan Snow, host of History Hit 'Bursting with ideas and images' - Philippa Gregory, author of The Other Boleyn Girl 'Utterly, utterly brilliant' - Tracy Borman, author of The King's Witch At eighteen, your life is full of what-ifs and why-nots. You have everything to look forward to -...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow-
The Annals of Imperial Rome
The Annals of Imperial Rome recounts the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus to the death of Nero in AD 68. With clarity and vivid intensity, Tacitus describes the reign of terror under the corrupt Tiberius, the great fire of Rome during the time of Nero, and the wars, poisonings, scandals, conspiracies, and murders...Paperback$2600Elsewhere:$2800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
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Queens of the Conquest
Full of passion and betrayal, murder and war, the first volume of an epic new series from bestselling historian Alison Weir, bringing five of England's medieval queens to life. Queens of the Conquest is a Daily Telegraph Book of the Year. Love, murder, war, betrayal — this is the story of the five extraordinary queens who helped the Norman kings...Paperback$2200Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow 
Marie Antoinette
Stefan Zweig based his biography of Marie Antoinette, who became the Queen of France at the age of fifteen, on the correspondence between her and her mother, and her great love, the Count Axel von Fersen. Zweig analyses the chemistry of a woman's soul from her intimate pleasures to her public suffering as a Queen under the weight of misfortune...Paperback$3699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
The Hemingses of Monticello
The Hemingses of Monticello is an epic work that tells the story of the Hemingses, a slave family whose close blood ties to American president Thomas Jefferson had been systematically edited out from American history until very recently. This book sets the family's compelling saga against the backdrop of Revolutionary America, Paris on the eve of its own revolution, 1970s...Paperback$4599Elsewhere:$6499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army
The most important work on Alexander the Great to appear in a long time. Neither scholarship nor semi-fictional biography will ever be the same again. Engels at last uses all the archaeological work done in Asia in the past generation and makes it accessible. Careful analyses of terrain, climate, and supply requirements are throughout combined in a masterly fashion to...Paperback$5099Elsewhere:$6999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
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