Year Zero
Ian BurumaRRP: £14.99
Many books have been written, and continue to be written, about the Second World War: military histories, histories of the Holocaust, the war in Asia, or collaboration and resistance in Europe. Few bo …
Genre: History
A Great and Glorious Adventure
Gordon CorriganRRP: £20.00
The Hundred Years War was fought between 1337 and 1453 over English claims to both the throne of France by right of inheritance and large parts of the country that had been at one time Norman or, late …
A Strange Business
James HamiltonRRP: £14.99
Shortlisted for the Apollo Awards 2014Longlisted for the Art Book Prize 2014 Britain in the nineteenth century saw a series of technological and social changes which continue to influence and direct u …
Band of Angels
Kate CooperRRP: £12.99
In Band of Angels, Kate Cooper tells the surprising story of early Christianity from the woman’s point of view. Though they are often forgotten, women from all walks of life played an invaluable role …
Dante in Love
A. N. WilsonRRP: £9.99
With a biographer’s eye for detail and a novelist’s comprehension of the creative process, A. N. Wilson paints a masterful portrait of Dante Alighieri and unlocks one of the seminal works of literatur …
Sheila
Robert WainwrightRRP: £14.99
Vivacious, confident and striking, young Australian Sheila Chisholm met her first husband, Lord Loughborough, in Egypt during the First World War. Arriving in London as a young married woman, she quic …
Empty Mansions
Paul Clark Newell JrRRP: £20.00
Empty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of nineteenth-century America with a twenty-first-century battle over a $300 million inheritance. At its heart i …
Console Wars
Blake HarrisRRP: £18.99
In 1990 Nintendo had a virtual monopoly on the video game industry. Sega, on the other hand, was a faltering arcade company with big aspirations and even bigger personalities. But that would all chang …
Harrier
Jonathan GlanceyRRP: £14.99
The British designed and built the Harrier, the most successful vertical take-off-and-landing aircraft ever made. Combining state-of-the-art fighter plane technology with a helicopter’s ability to lan …
Jack's Journey
Kit CullenRRP: £12.99
Jack’s Journey is the moving and extraordinary story of an unknown ANZAC action at Gallipoli during the period of the Landing on 1 and 2 May, 1915. Kit Cullen began tracing Jack Collyer’s story using …
Knowing Mandela
John CarlinRRP: £14.99
As Nelson Mandela was released from prison and the ensuing years saw the collapse of South Africa’s apartheid regime, John Carlin (‘one of the great post-apartheid chroniclers’ Financial Times) was th …
Tales of Two Cities
Jonathan ConlinRRP: £9.99
Paris and London have long held a mutual fascination, and never more so than in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when they both vied to be the world’s greatest city. Each city has been the foc …
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 …
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 …
A Higher Call
Adam MakosRRP: £12.99
This instant Sunday Times bestseller tells the story of two fighter pilots whose remarkable encounter during the Second World War became the stuff of legend.Five days before Christmas 1943, a badly da …
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 …
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