* Uniquely complete account of the British Empire - Jan Morris' great Penguin trilogy PAX BRITANNICA only starts from 1837,…

The Fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942 is a military disaster of fascination. This book tells the story of the Malayan…

• Rok vydání 2024

* A brilliant biography of one of our greatest politicians, from the highly acclaimed Roy Hattersley, out now in paperback…

An epic page-turner about Waterloo, one of the greatest land battles in British history, rich in dramatic human detail and…

From Shaolin warrior monks to the movies of Bruce Lee, a new history of the evolution of East Asian styles of unarmed…

• Počet stran 512
• Rok vydání 2003

Fascinating and perceptive new biography of one of the most brilliant writers of his age: novelist, essayist and born-again…

A bumper anthology of interviews, accounts and recollections of the Beatles.…

* Explosively revelatory account of the true purpose of Rudolf Hess's doomed flight to Britain in 1941 and its consequences…

* First complete general history of the English Civil War from its outbreak in 1639 to the last battle in 1659.…

• Rok vydání 2023

The riveting story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower…

* Vivid, panoramic history of life in Palestine under the British Mandate (1917-1948) - when the seeds of today's conflicts…

* First volume of Rick Atkinson's monumental trilogy about the Liberation of Europe in the Second World War. Winner of the…

• Rok vydání 2023

\nNew York Times bestselling author William Alexander takes readers on the surprisingly twisty journey of the beloved tomato…

\nThis \"glorious\" revelatory biography from a Pulitzer Prize winner is about the most essential Founding Father (Ron…

One of the most highly regarded Tier One Delta Force operators in American military history shares his war stories and…

• Rok vydání 2023

''Both pioneering and fundamental. This is the essential history of Ukraine, from one of the greatest Ukrainian thinkers and…

• Počet stran 640
• Rok vydání 2012

Fully updated volume charting 2000 years of British history from best-selling author Christopher Lee…

• Počet stran 352
• Rok vydání 2022

This is the untold, intimate, and eye-witness account of the character, integrity, service, faith, and dignity of former…

A rousing and meticulously researched account of the most notorious battle in American history - and the first to…

• Rok vydání 2020

From the longest-serving Flight Director in NASA's history, comes a revealing first-person account of the high-stakes work…

\n\'The sun did not know how beautiful its light was until it was reflected off this building.\' Louis Kahn, US architect\n…

\nThis is a book for people who are interested in statues . . . and for people who aren\'t. It explores those immortalised…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nThe incredible story of Jewish female resistance fighters who fought the Nazis - a tale virtually unknown.\n…

How history's only five-star admirals triumphed in World War II and made the United States the world's dominant sea power.…

Bestselling Australian author Peter FitzSimons reveals the real James Cook in this new biography.…

\nA gripping new work of popular history about a critical year in world history, and Britain\'s bleakest hour, by the…

Drawing together the politics, personalities, battles and diplomacy of this tumultuous era, Robert Harvey brilliantly…

\nNew York Times bestselling author William Alexander takes readers on the surprisingly twisty journey of the beloved tomato…

\nNew York Times journalist and bestselling author Joe Drape takes us inside the modern-day process of the making of a saint…

\nA highly readable cultural history of queer women\'s lives in the second half of the twentieth century, told through six…

• Rok vydání 1995

This series of photographic instruction books by the great American photographer Ansel Adams is now available in paperback…

This is a study of the ancient tracks or leys that criss-cross the British Isles, a system which was old when the Romans…

• Počet stran 400
• Angličtina
• Rok vydání 2019

From the bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls, the untold, "richly detailed" story of the women of Walt Disney…

• Rok vydání 2020

The inspiring story of a US Special Forces soldier who was medically retired after stepping on an IED, and his incredible…

\nGuy de la Bedoyere\'s new book is a history of a key period in ancient Egypt\'s astonishing history that tears away the…

A brilliantly original history of the First World War, re-tracing the footsteps of the Indian Army's 1.5 million men who in…

\nA look inside the hidden world of London\'s private members\' clubs, from the late-eighteenth century to the present. If…

\nFrom the popular historian and author of Among the Bohemians and How Was It For You? comes a new offering, unbuttoning the…

\nThe story of the British Empire at its maximum territorial extent, including a wider range of voices of the colonised than…

\nA Time Travellers Guide to Ancient Rome - by one of the best historians of the ancient world\n…

\nHow four writers transformed the politics of the twentieth century, and changed for ever the relationship between…

\nUKRAINE The Forging of a Nation explores Ukraine\'s dramatic past and its place as a nation in our world today, including…

\nThe true story of 300 black nurses who changed the course of history\n…

\nCreator of the hit podcast series Tides of History and Fall of Rome explores the four explosive decades between 1490 and…

• Rok vydání 2013

The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, A LONG WALK TO FREEDOM brilliantly…

In this ground-breaking and fascinating book, Duncan White illuminates a period in history in which literature became one of…