Following the success of Rees' bestselling Auschwitz, this substantially revised and updated edition of The Nazis - A…

6 June 1944: the day Allied forces crossed the Channel and began fighting their way into Nazi-occupied Northwest Europe.…

Johnny Johnson has been awarded an MBE for his remarkable services in World War II'I was anxious to fight. He recalls with…

Presents powerful lessons on life and leadership based on the life and work of Nelson Mandela (1918 - 2013), whose fight…

Neil Hegarty's bestselling history of Ireland is a story crowded with the drama of complex characters, shifting allegiances…

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*** Selected as a 2017 Book of the Year in the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Observer and The Economist *** `A gripping story…

Detailing the rediscovery in Moscow of the so-called jewels of Helen and the re-excavation of the site of Troy begun in…

Miles ahead of anyone you can name currently in office at Westminster. Brown thinks, and thinks profoundly. And by and…

\nThis is the biography of Nico, the cover girl of the fifties, siren of the sixties and the female face of punk in the…

In 1508, Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. For the next four years, he…

Was medieval England full of knights on horseback rescuing fainting damsels in distress? Terry Jones' Medieval Lives reveals…

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An eye-opening, well-written and very timely book, which can help us understand better the complex relationship between the…

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An explosive insider story of the biggest mistakes in history and how to put them right from the man who saw America s wrong…

Michael Wood retraces Alexander the Greats amazing journey from Greece to India, searching for the truth behind the legend…

A book that becomes more and more interesting as the pages turn. L'Equipe…

Paratrooper David Kenyon Webster jumped into the chaos of occupied Europe on D-Day, fighting his way through Holland and…

Drawing upon the vast resources of the Imperial War Museum's sound archive, which contains thousands of interviews with both…

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Nichiren Daishonin Buddhism encourages the belief that, through its faith and practices, spiritual and material blessings…

A searing indictment of the rationale behind the First World War and a shocking portrayal of what might have been.…

In 1086, Domesday Book, perhaps the most remarkable historical document in existence, was compiled. By skilful use of the…

The Spanish conquest of the Americas in the 16th century was one of the most important and cataclysmic events in history.…

The community of South Riding, like the rest of the country, lives in the long shadow of war. Blighted by recession and…

In When I Was a Nipper Alan Titchmarsh goes on a personal and nostalgic journey through post-War Britain in search of…

Based on over 120 hours of uncovered video and audio tape, this title tells the story of the birth of the SAS in the words…

Drawing material from the Imperial War Museum's extensive aural archive, Joshua Levine brings together voices from both…

Boudica has been immortalised throughout history as the woman who dared take on the Romans - an act of vengeance on behalf…

The result is a moving, intriguing, funny, at times heartbreaking book - unashamedly populist in the spirit of Forgotten…

Allen Ginsberg occupies a significant and enduring position in American literature. Following Ginsberg's death in 1997,…

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This is a smart, accessible, authoritative biography of one of the most dynamic figures in European history. Lyndal Roper…

[A] fantastically readable and endlessly fascinating book... Delicious, occasionally fantastical, revealing in ways that…

The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was a secret British organisation created early in the Second World War to encourage…

Soldiers were forbidden from keeping a diary so Harry wrote his in secret, recording the horrendous conditions and constant…

From the end of 1941 to 1945 a pivotal but often overlooked conflict was being fought in the South-East Asian Theatre of…

In 2008 Major Russell Lewis commanded a company of two hundred soldiers from the British Army's legendary Parachute Regiment…

Its first day, July 1st 1916 - on which the British suffered 57,470 casualties, including 19,240 dead - is the bloodiest day…

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Suitable for anyone with even a passing interest in one of the 20th century's defining conflicts, this title offers an…

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From the widely debated roots of punk in the late-Sixties through to the fallout of the post-punk period in 1984, and the…

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Reflecting both the interlocked web of politics, economics, and academics, as well as the evolving contours of Japan's…

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Philip Davies's first bestselling book Lost London, 1870–1945, published in 2009, mesmerised readers with the wealth of…

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The first critical examination of magical techniques and the practice of the magician in Ancient Egypt , revealing their…