Waterloo
Gordon CorriganRRP: £20.00
Fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, by some 220,000 men over rain-sodden ground in what is now Belgium, the Battle of Waterloo brought an end to twenty-three years of almost continual war between revoluti …
Genre: History
Absent Without Leave
Paul LivingstoneRRP: £10.99
Absent Without Leave is not a book about what Private Stanley Livingston had to say. Like many veterans, Stanley Livingston barely spoke about the war. Instead, it is an attempt by his son to discover …
The Quest for a Moral Compass
Kenan MalikRRP: £12.99
In this remarkable and groundbreaking book, Kenan Malik explores the history of moral thought as it has developed over three millennia, from Homer’s Greece to Mao’s China, from ancient India to modern …
Veni, Vidi, Vici
Peter JonesRRP: £10.99
The Romans left a long-lasting legacy and their influence can still be seen all around us – from our calendar and coins, to our language and laws – but how much do we really know about them? Help is a …
The Battles of Monte Cassino
Glyn HarperRRP: £12.99
The Allied forces’ actions in and around Monte Cassino in Italy remain some of the most controversial of the Second World War. Adolf Hitler described them as the battles that came closest to the bitte …
Countrymen
Bo LidegaardRRP: £12.99
The rescue of the Danish Jews from Nazi persecution in October 1943 is a unique exception to the tragic history of the Holocaust. Over fourteen harrowing days, as they were helped, hidden and protecte …
Lawrence in Arabia
Scott AndersonRRP: £16.99
The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller 2014New York Times top ten bestseller 2014Amazon.com’s Top Ten History Books of the Year 2014New York Times Book of the Year 2014The Arab Revolt against the Turks i …
Outlaws
Adam ShandRRP: £9.99
What’s it like to be an outlaw biker? ‘We’re dickhead magnets,’ one of them tells Adam Shand. ‘Drunks in bars like to test themselves against a so-called outlaw.’Once seen as a free-wheeling, brawling …
The Baby Farmers
Annie CossinsRRP: £12.99
‘The book’s power stems from its devastating details; Cossins establishes a tone so vivid it’s reminiscent of Dickens.’ Publishers Weekly starred reviewIn October 1892, a one-month-old baby boy was fo …
The Boy Who Wouldn't Die
David Nyuol VincentRRP: £9.99
David Nyuol Vincent was a little boy when he fled southern Sudan with his father, as war raged in their country. He left behind his distraught mother and sisters, his village and his childhood. For mo …
The Reporter and the Warlords
Craig CollieRRP: £14.99
Set against the turbulent background of China in the first half of the 20th Century, this reads like a romantic novel; but it’s a true story. The reporter is the intrepid Australian journalist Will Do …
The Sea and Civilization
Lincoln PaineRRP: £30.00
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARITIME MEDIA AWARDS 2014A monumental, wholly accessible work of scholarship that retells human history through the story of mankind’s relationship with the sea.An accomplishment …
Tunnel Rats
Jimmy ThomsonRRP: £9.99
‘All I could do was prod the earth with my bayonet and shine the light to see if I could find anything. It doesn’t matter how small the tunnel is you never know what’s around the bend … You don’t kn …
The Baby Boom
P. J. O'RourkeRRP: £9.99
A hilarious look at the aging baby boomer generation from the author the Spectator labelled ‘what happens when America does Grumpy Old Men’.The Baby Boom – over-sized, overwrought, overbearing, and al …
Colossus
Alexander ColeRRP: £14.99
Alexander the Great rests in Babylon as he decides which should be his next world to conquer. A war elephant, Colossus, disturbs the peace of the camp when he is provoked to a killing rampage. Only on …
The Bone Woman
Clea KoffRRP: £20.00
In the Spring of 1994, Rwanda was the scene of the first acts since the Second World War to be legally defined as genocide. Two years later, Clea Koff, a twenty-three-year-old forensic anthropologist, …
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