Imperial Twilight
Stephen R. PlattRRP: £14.99
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZEA Financial Times Book of the YearA Sunday Times Book of the Year ________________________________________’Entertaining and well-paced… Platt’s compelli …
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The Road to Sparta
Dean KarnazesRRP: £10.99
In 490 BCE Pheidippides ran for 36 hours straight from Athens to Sparta to seek help in defending Athens from a Persian invasion. He was hailed as a hero and his run stands enduringly as one of greate …
Rome: A History in Seven Sackings
Matthew KnealeRRP: £12.99
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWaterstone’s Book of the Month, 2018Nominated for the 2017 Pen Hessell-TiltmanDaily Telegraph’s Best History Books of 2017Sunday Times’ Best History Books of 2017A sweeping hi …
Africa: A Modern History
Guy ArnoldRRP: £22.00
A magisterial and sweeping history of modern Africa.The end of the Second World War signalled the rapid end of the European African empires. In 1945, only four African countries were independent; by 1 …
Fracture
Philipp BlomRRP: £15.99
When the Great War ended in 1918, the West was broken. Religious faith, patriotism and the belief in human progress had all been called into question by the mass carnage experienced by both sides. She …
Quid Pro Quo
Peter JonesRRP: £10.99
Did you know that the word ‘prestige’ derives from the Latin word for ‘illusion’? Or that ‘infantry’ stems from a Latin word meaning one who could not speak? In this original and highly entertaining b …
1941
Marc WortmanRRP: £10.99
In 1941: Fighting the Shadow War, Marc Wortman thrillingly explores the little-known history of America’s clandestine involvement in World War II before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Prior to that infam …
The Memory Code
Lynne KellyRRP: £20.00
In ancient, pre-literate cultures across the globe, tribal elders had encyclopedic memories. They could name all the animals and plants across a landscape, identify the stars in the sky and recite the …
The Earth is Weeping
Peter CozzensRRP: £14.99
Sunday Times’ Best History Books of 2017Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military HistoryWinner of the 2017 Caroline Bancroft History PrizeShortlisted for the Military History Magazine Book of t …
God's Wolf
Jeffrey LeeRRP: £9.99
In 2010, a parcel bomb was sent from Yemen by an al-Qaeda operative with the intention of blowing up a plane over America. The device was intercepted before the plan could be put into action, but what …
Dangerous Games
Larry WriterRRP: £14.99
Shortlisted for the 2015 William Hill Australian Sports Book of the Year AwardThis is a tale of innocents abroad. Thirty-three athletes left Australia in May 1936 to compete in the Hitler Olympics in …
The Invention of Russia
Arkady OstrovskyRRP: £12.99
The definitive and award-winning history of Vladimir Putin’s rise to power following the collapse of the Soviet Union, by The Economist’s Russia editor.’Fast-paced and excellently written’ New York Ti …
Charlie Wilson's War
George CrileRRP: £8.99
Two recent events have transformed the world: the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of militant Islam. This is the first book to explain the link between these two occurrences. George Crile sp …
Finest and Darkest Hours
Kevin JefferysRRP: £20.00
‘This survey of British political crises is invaluable for anyone concerned with politics today, and it reinforces George Santayana’s dictum that those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.. …
Eureka!
Peter JonesRRP: £10.99
The ancient Greeks gave us our alphabet and much of our scientific, medical and cultural language; they invented democracy, atomic theory, and the rules of logic and geometry; laid the foundations of …
The Magic Lantern
Timothy Garton AshRRP: £12.99
The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that capture history in the making, written by an author who was witness to some of the most remarkable moments that marked the collapse of Communism in Ea …
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