Desperate Victories

Unleashing Demons: The Inside Story of Brexit

As David Cameron's director of Politics and communications, Craig Oliver was in the room at every key moment during the EU referendum - the biggest

Brief History: The Dynasties of China

By focusing on the key colourful characters of the eight major dynasties, Bamber Gascoigne brings to life 3500 years of Chinese civilisation. His unique bird's-eye

Gibraltar : The Greatest Siege in British History

Located between the Mediterranean and Atlantic, on the very edge of Europe, Gibraltar was a place of varied nationalities, languages, religions and social classes. Durin...

Hannibal

Ordinary Heroes

In 1982, 8,000 miles from home, in a harsh environment and without the newest and most sophisticated equipment, the numerically inferior British Task Force defeated

Action Likely in Pacific

A story of espionage that could have changed the course of history and saved thousands of American and British lives - and millions of Asian

The Price of Freedom

By hiding the fugitives in the trunk of a diplomat's car, Volker G. Heinz helps more than sixty East German citizens flee to the West.

A Brief Fantasy History of a Himalayan

Personal reminiscences of an esteemed Tibetan Buddhist master, ranging from touching memoir to humorous storytelling, from sharp cultural commentary to deeply felt...

The Reckoning

From best-selling author of Fighter Boys, a gripping true detective story into a shooting that had momentous consequences for the modern world. What happened when

Went the Day Well?

Drawing from the diaries, letters, reports and stories from participants and witnesses, the author describes in detail an hour-by hour account of the Battle of

Modern Women

Modern Women este o celebrare a unora dintre femeile influente și impresionante care au schimbat lumea prin viața, prin munca și prin acțiunile lor. De

Pearls Before Poppies

'In February 1918, when the First World War was still being bitterly fought, prominent society member Lady Northcliffe conceived an idea to help raise funds

The Rise of Islamic State : ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution

Out of the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring and Syria, a new threat emerges. While Al Qaeda is weakened, new jihadi movements,

To War With Wellington: From The Peninsula To Waterloo

Using first-hand accounts written by generals, cavalrymen and foot-soldiers of the Duke of Wellington's army, Peter Snow conjures up the horror of the early 19th

Codename Suzette

How To Think Like Obama

Be inspired by Barack Obama and learn how to think big with this unique insight into the mind of one of the world's great influencers.

Monstrous Bodies/political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe

Multi-disciplinary in approach & cross-European in scope, this volume explores links between the political & the monstrous in Europe from the Renaissance to the 19th

The History of The Channel Tunnel

The Channel Tunnel, has been one of histories most protracted and at times acrimonious, construction projects. From the paranoia of the late 18th and early

Hero on the Western Front

The US effort in 1918, in what became known as the Hundred Days Offensive, was focused on the Argonne Forest. It was there that 1,200,000

Combat Over the Trenches

Already an experienced combat pilot, he rose quickly through the ranks of the Australian Flying Corps, becoming a squadron leader and leading his unit at

Operation Epsom

Before EPSOM in late June 1944 there remained the chance that a German counterstroke might seriously threaten the bridgehead. After EPSOM, the Allies retained the

Lincoln

This interactive biography of one of America's greatest presidents covers the entire life of Abraham Lincoln and includes a host of family photographs, official portrait...

Mi9

Many of the most famous escapes in history took place during the Second World War. These daring flights from Nazi-occupied Europe would never have been

Aircraft and Aviation Stamps

In his quest he has covered many unusual places that have only become more accessible with the advent of cheap air travel but has still

Renegade Hero

Cold war helicopter ace Terry Peet lived for flying. He was a 'go anywhere, do anything,' Royal Air Force pilot with a reputation for 'sheer

A Brief History of Britain 1851-2021

From the Great Exhibition's showcasing of British national achievement in 1851 to the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Stratford in 2012 and on to

A Pictorial History of World War II

A mere 20 years after the Treaty of Versailles had, supposedly, drawn a line under 'the war to end all wars', the world was consumed

Evil Families

Throughout history, you see examples where criminality seems to run in the family. From the Ptolemaic dynasty that terrorized Greek Egypt to the modern mafia,

The Making of a Justice

A masterful and personal account of life on the Supreme Court that offers a unique understanding of American history from one of the most prominent

It Came from Something Awful

An insider's history of the website at the end of the world, which burst into politics and memed Donald Trump into the White House. The

LENIN: A BIOGRAPHY

The critically acclaimed biography of Lenin by one of the greatest Russian history experts and bestselling author of Trotsky, Stalin and Comrades. Lenin is a

The Great Pyramid Operations Manual

This Manual will look at the construction, meaning and conservation of the Great Pyramid of Giza. The focus is on an engineering perspective, analysing how

1963: That Was the Year That Was

A compendium of the year's milestone stories and watershed events in popular culture and politics. This year alone saw The Beatles' first No 1, Martin

Environmental Debt : The Hidden Costs of a Changing Global Economy

Timp de zeci de ani, politicienii și liderii de afaceri au spus publicului american că provocarea de astăzi este creșterea economică și că protecția mediului

The History of the World in Bite-Sized Chunks

Istoria este un subiect bogat, variat și fascinant, astfel încât este rar să găsești totul într-o carte ... până acum. The History of the World

On Intelligence: The History of Espionage and the Secret World

In this ground-breaking volume, Colonel John Hughes-Wilson charts the history of intelligence- from its biblical origins to the onset of the surveillance state in the

The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick-Maker

Hutchinson explores the controversial creation of the British census. He follows its development from a head-count of the population conducted by clerks with quill pe...

The War We Never Fought

Again and again British politicians, commentators and celebrities intone that 'The War on Drugs has failed'. They then say that this is an argument for

European Women and Preindustrial Craft

Essays examine key 18th- and 19th-century industries, including spinning, weaving, calico painting, and the lingerie trade. Focusing on links between women's preindustria...

Look with Your Eyes and Tell the World

'North Korea faded to black in the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, her creakily inefficient economy collapsed. Power stations rusted into

Miners' Battalion

'The true nature and functions of a pioneer battalion were never fully understood during the war either by military or laymen. 'Pioneers ... pioneers,' mused

Being Arab

In the years before his assassination in 2005, Samir Kassir became one of Lebanon's foremost public intellectuals, a fearless critic of tyranny and an inspiring

Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City

Beginning with an atmospheric account of Tyburn, we are set up for a grisly excursion through London as a city of ne'er do wells, taking

His Finest Hour: A Brief Life of Winston Churchill

Who was Winston Churchill? Even fifity years after his death he is one of the most iconic figures in British history: as a young man

D-Day The Soldiers' Story

'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 grea...

American Reckoning: The Vietnam War

How did the Vietnam War change the way we think of ourselves as a people and a nation? In American Reckoning, Christian G. Appy—author of

Samurai Warriors

A fascinating description of the fearless samurai warriors - a unique class of Japanese fighting men who for centuries followed a strict code of etiquette

Riots, Pogroms, Jihad

In October 2002 a bomb blast in a Balinese nightclub killed more than two hundred people, many of them young Australian tourists. This event and

Imagining Postcommunism

Although the 1956 Hungarian uprising failed to liberate the country from Soviet domination, it became a symbol of freedom for people throughout Eastern Europe and

Irishmen in the Great War

In a quest to to discover the forgotten Irishmen in twenty-seven Irish newspapers, many of which are now obsolete, the author uncovered unbelievable and forgotten

It All Adds Up

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A brief history of the mathematical ideas that have forever changed the world and the everyday people and pioneers behind them. Full

Medieval Manuscripts from the Collection of T. R. Buchanan in the Bodleian Library, Oxford

This catalog describes 24 manuscripts from the Collection of Thomas Ryburn Buchanan presented to the Bodleian in 1939 and 1941. The collection consists primarily of

In the Peninsula with a French Hussar

Albert Jean Michel de Rocca gives a riveting account of the Peninsular War from an entirely different perspective. Albert Rocca was a junior officer in

Rory Steward - Occupational Hazards

By September 2003, six months after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the anarchy had begun. Rory Stewart, a young Biritish diplomat, was appointed as the

Enemies of The State

On 1 May 1820, outside Newgate Prison, in front of a dense crowd, five of the Cato Street conspirators - Arthur Thistlewood, William Davidson, James

The King Who Had To Go

The relationship between Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson created a constitutional crisis that has fascinated the public for decades. Unwilling to accept the idea of

Waterloo Archive. Volume 3

'[In this] new series, acclaimed Napoleonic scholar Gareth Glover brings together previously unpublished material relating to the Battle of Waterloo. The hitherto unseen ...

The Journey to the Mayflower

‘A rattling good read’ – The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu 2020 sees the 400th anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower – the

Hitler's War Beneath the Waves

Never Surrender

While there have been many fine books covering escapes from German POW camps (The Wooden Horse, Great Escape, Colditz etc), the exploits of those POWs