The Finish
Mark BowdenRRP: £14.99
In his most important and commercial book since Black Hawk Down, Mark Bowden draws on unprecedented access to the figures involved to produce the definitive account of the assassination of Osama bin L …
Genre: History
Fire and Song
Anna LanyonRRP: £12.99
It is 1596 and in Mexico the Inquisition is at its most efficient. A young man trembles in his cell as he prays for salvation, torn between the Christianity he was schooled in and his ancestral faith. …
History's Daybook
Peter FurtadoEvery day of the year carries the memory of great and terrible events…From the founding of Rome to the twenty-first century’s war on terror, History’s Daybook presents a vivid, day-by-day perspectiv …
Wings
Patrick BishopRRP: £12.99
The Royal Air Force is synonymous with its heroic achievements in the summer of 1940, when Winston Churchill’s ‘famous few’ – the Hurricane and Spitfire pilots of RAF Fighter Command – held Goering’s …
A Splendid Exchange
William L BernsteinRRP: £20.00
A Splendid Exchange tells the epic story of global commerce, from its prehistoric origins to the myriad crises confronting it today. It travels from the sugar rush that brought the British to Jamaica …
Infernal Triangle
Paul McGeoughRRP: £12.99
It’s been more than ten years since Al-Qaeda demolished the World Trade Center in New York on 11 September 2001. One of the most pivotal events in the last fifty years, it was a dramatic moment in whi …
Private Journal of a Voyage to Australia
James BellOn 19 November 1838 James Bell, then aged 21, set out in the sailing vessel the Planter from St Katharine Docks in London to travel to Adelaide, an infant colony half a world away and not yet two year …
Some Remarks
Neal StephensonRRP: £9.99
In this definitive collection of Stephenson’s writings, journalism and meditations, the great American polymath puts the 20th Century – mathematics, cryptography, philosophy, currency, and the history …
A Japanese Mirror
Ian BurumaRRP: £12.99
In this scintillating book, Ian Buruma peels away the myths that surround Japanese culture. With piercing analysis of cinema, theatre, television, art and legend, he shows the Japanese both ‘as they i …
Abandoned Women
Lucy FrostRRP: £12.99
In the early nineteenth century, crofters and villagers streamed into the burgeoning cities of Scotland, and families splintered. Orphan girls, single mothers and women on their own all struggled to f …
Above the Law
Ross Coulthart and Duncan McNabRRP: £8.99
One of the astonishing revelations in Dead Man Running was the difficulty faced by the Australian police in tackling the burgeoning crime empire that outlaw motorcycle gangs were developing. The news …
Chinese Whispers
Jan WongRRP: £20.00
In 1972, Jan Wong became one of only two Westerners admitted to Beijing University at the height of the Cultural Revolution. One day, a student, Yin Luoyi, sought Jan’s assistance in going to the Unit …
Invictus
John CarlinRRP: £6.99
This uplifting true story is now a major film, starring Oscar nominees Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon, directed by Clint Eastwood.Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2008As the day …
Not Me
Joachim FestFew other historians have shaped our understanding of the Third Reich as Joachim Fest. Fierce and intransigent, German-born Fest was a relentless interrogator of his nation’s modern history. His analy …
The Battle of Hastings
Harriet Harvey WoodRRP: £20.00
Harriet Harvey Wood’s original and fascinating book shows that, rather than bringing culture and enlightenment to England, the Normans’ aggressive and illegal invasion destroyed a long-established and …
Tom Wills
Greg de MooreRRP: £8.99
This is the story of Tom Wills – flawed genius, sporting libertine, fearless leader and agitator, and the man most often credited with creating the game we now know as Australian Rules football. Sent …
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