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Genre: History

God's Wolf

Jeffrey Lee

RRP: £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 …

The ISIS Hostage

Puk Damsgård

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In May 2013, freelance photographer Daniel Rye was captured in Syria and held prisoner by Islamic State for thirteen months, along with eighteen other hostages. The ISIS Hostage tells the dramatic and …

The ISIS Hostage

Puk Damsgård

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The Number One International BestsellerThe dramatic story of freelance photographer Daniel Rye, who was held hostage for 13 months by ISIS, as told by an award-winning writer.In May 2013, freelance ph …

Dangerous Games

Larry Writer

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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 Ostrovsky

RRP: £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 …

Tamil Tigress

Niromi de Soyza

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How was it that this well-educated, mixed-race, middle-class girl from a respectable family came to be fighting with the Tamil Tigers? Two days before Christmas in 1987, at the age of seventeen, Nirom …

The Book of the People

A. N. Wilson

RRP: £21.00

In The Book of the People A. N. Wilson explores how readers and thinkers have approached the Bible, and how it might be read today. Charting his own relationship with the Bible over a lifetime of writ …

NeuroTribes

Steve Silberman

RRP: £16.99

Winner of the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-FictionShortlisted for the Wellcome Book PrizeA Sunday Times and New York Times bestsellerForeword by Oliver SacksWhat is autism: a devastating developm …

The Invitation-Only Zone

Robert S. Boynton

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During the 1970s and early 80s, dozens – perhaps hundreds – of Japanese civilians were kidnapped by North Korean commandos and forced to live in ‘Invitation Only Zones’, high-security detention-centre …

The Lost Airman

Seth Meyerowitz

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Arthur Meyerowitz was on his second air mission over France when he was shot down in 1943. He was one of only two men on the B-24 Liberator known as Harmful Lil’ Armful who escaped death or immediate …

Man of Iron

Jock Vennell

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As commander of the Wellington Infantry Battalion, Lieutenant-Colonel William Malone captured and held the heights of Chunuk Bair in August 1915. Along with his men, he succeeded in holding off fierce …

Tunnel Rats vs the Taliban

Jimmy Thomson

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The year 2015 is the 50th anniversary of the original Australian Tunnel Rats arrival in Vietnam, one year after Australian troops were withdrawn from active duty in Afghanistan. Although on the face o …

Devotion

Adam Makos

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***NOW A MAJOR FILM, STARRING JONATHAN MAJORS AND GLEN POWELL***’This is aerial drama at its best. Fast, powerful, and moving.’ Erik Larson’A must read.’ New York Post Devotion is the gripping story o …

The Struggle for Sea Power

Sam Willis

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LONGLISTED FOR THE HESSELL TILTMAN PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE MEDIA MARITIME AWARDSSHORTLISTED FOR THE MILITARY HISTORY MONTHLY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDWith a cast of swaggering swashbuckling characters, …

Concorde

Jonathan Glancey

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In Concorde, Jonathan Glancey tells the story of this magnificent and hugely popular aircraft anew, taking the reader from the moment Captain Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in 1947 through …

Lost Relations

Graeme Davison

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In 1839, Hampshire yeoman John Hewett died prematurely and left his wife and eight children to manage on their own. Times were tough, and after their landlord put their farm up for sale, Jane Hewett e …

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