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 …
Genre: History
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 …
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom
Stephen R. PlattRRP: £17.99
In the early 1850s, during the waning years of the Qing dynasty, word spread of a major revolution brewing in the provinces. The leader of the this movement – who called themselves the Taiping – was H …
The Honoured Society
Petra ReskiRRP: £9.99
In the early hours of an August morning a gunfight broke out in an Italian restaurant in Duisburg; in less than five minutes over seventy shots were fired into the bodies of six men. Both victims and …
What It Is Like To Go To War
Karl MarlantesRRP: £12.99
In 1968, at the age of 22, Karl Marlantes abandoned his Oxford University scholarship to sign up for active service with the US Marine Corps in Vietnam. Pitched into a war that had no defined military …
Facts are Subversive
Timothy Garton AshRRP: £25.00
‘Timothy Garton Ash holds a mirror that magnifies… He writes masterfully and with compassion’ – Neal Ascherson, ObserverFor more than thirty years, Timothy Garton Ash has traveled among truth teller …
Following Fish
Samanth SubramanianRRP: £10.99
Shortlisted for the André Simon Food and Drink book awardsIn a coastline as long and diverse as India’s, fish inhabit the heart of many worlds – food of course, but also culture, commerce, sport, hist …
From Fatwa to Jihad
Kenan MalikRRP: £12.99
Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Books 2010The Number 1 international bestseller updated and reissued.Almost thirty years ago, the image of burning copies of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses hel …
The Best Game Ever
Mark BowdenThe remarkable story of the 1958 NFL Championship game between the Colts and the Giants – considered by many to be the greatest American football game ever played – from Mark Bowden, bestselling autho …
The Limit
Michael CannellRRP: £12.99
10 September 1961: at the boomerang-shaped racetrack at Monza half a dozen teams are preparing for the Italian Grand Prix. It is the biggest race anyone can remember. Phil Hill – the firstAmerican to …
The Union Jack
Nick GroomRRP: £11.99
Known the world over as a symbol of the United Kingdom, the Union Jack is an intricate construction based on the crosses of St George, St Andrew and St Patrick. Nick Groom traces its long and fascinat …
The Great Railway Revolution
Christian WolmarRRP: £25.00
Quite simply, the greatest transport story ever told and the first new and comprehensive narrative history of the American railroads in a generation.
The Second World War
Gordon CorriganRRP: £30.00
In this major new history, Gordon Corrigan argues that what we call the Second World War was in fact two separate conflicts: one against Germany (and, for a while, Italy) in Western Europe, Soviet Rus …
Babylon
Paul KriwaczekRRP: £12.99
In Babylon, Paul Kriwaczek tells the story of ancient Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements around 5400 BC, to the eclipse of Babylon by the Persians in the sixth century BC. He chronicles the ris …
The Patagonian Hare
Claude LanzmannRRP: £20.00
The international bestseller: a cry of witness to the 20th century – the unforgettable memoir of 70 years of contemporary and personal history from the great French filmmaker, journalist and intellect …
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