History & Historical Biography

Gillian Moore-Groarke / Watch Your Weight

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Joseph O'Neill / Blood-Dark Track : A Family History

    In this story of a family and its place in history, Joseph O'Neill reconstructs the fate of his Turkish and Irish grandfathers, both imprisoned - one in Palestine, the other in Ireland -...

Philippe Sands / East West Street

 THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERWhen he receives an invitation to deliver a lecture in the Ukrainian city of Lviv, international lawyer...

Victor Watson / The Deeping Secrets

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Alistair Cooke / Reporting America : The Life of the Nation 1946 - 2004

 Reporting America is a magnificent collection of Alistair Cooke's key dispatches on the key moments, movements, men and women of post-war America.Alistair Cooke was the greatest, and most humane, of...

Christian Wolmar / Fire and Steam

   The opening of the pioneering Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830 marked the beginning of the railways' vital role in changing the face of Britain. Fire and Steam celebrates the vision and...

Sarah Healy / A Compact History Of Ireland

    This book provides in succinct, accessible form, a thematic rather than strictly chronological account of Irish history. It begins with a comprehensive historical portrait which presents the...

Niall Ferguson / Civilization : The Six Killer Apps of Western Power

   In 1412, Europe was a miserable backwater ravaged by plague, bad sanitation and incessant war, while the Orient was home to dazzling civilizations. Yet, somehow, the West came to dominate the...

Keggie Carew / Dadland

   The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller, winner of the Costa Biography AwardKeggie Carew grew up under the spell of an unorthodox, enigmatic father. An undercover guerrilla agent during the Second...

Patricia C. McKissack / Slave Girl : The Diary of Clotee, Virginia, USA 1859

    Day or two later Freedom is one of the first words I teached myself to write. Down in the Quarters people pray for freedom - they sing 'bout freedom, but to keep Mas' Henley from knowing'...

Giles Whittell / Spitfire Women of World War II

   This is the incredible true story of a wartime sisterhood of women pilots: a group of courageous pioneers who took exceptional risks to fly Spitfires, Hurricanes and Lancasters to the frontlines...

Michael Ashcroft / Victoria Cross Heroes

 VICTORIA CROSS HEROES tells the stories of over 150 individuals whose bravery has earned them the Victoria Cross, Britain's most prestigious medal for courage in action.The book is introduced by...

Stella Tillyard / Citizen Lord

 The sequel to "Aristocrats", this tells the story of the headstrong and passionate 18th century Irish revolutionary, Lord Edward Fitzgerald. Son of a duke, heir to estates and influence, Lord Edward...

Giles MacDonogh / 1938: Hitler's Gamble

   In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles MacDonogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a...

Albert Jack / Red Herrings and White Elephants

    Have you ever wondered what phrases such as 'square meal', 'load of old codswallop', 'egg on your face' or 'in the limelight' mean? Where do they come from? Have you ever taken a moment to...

Norman Davies / Rising '44 : The Battle for Warsaw

   Rising '44 is a brilliant narrative account of one of the most dramatic episodes in 20th century history, drawing on Davies' unique understanding of the issues and characters involved. In August...

Paul Simpson / A Brief History of the Spy : Modern Spying from the Cold War to the War on Terror

 From the end of the Second World War to the present day, the world has changed immeasurably. The art of spying has changed too, as spies have reacted to changing threats. Here you will find the...

Alex M. Thompson - Towards Conscription : Jubilee Patriotism - Its meaning , Cause and Effects - 1898

Published by The Clarion Newspaper, London, 1898 ( as one of the intermittent Clarion Pamphlets , 1898, this is an anti Imperialist document, 16 pages , rebound professionally in hardcovers, with...

Richard M. Bennett / Elite Forces : The World's Most Formidable Secret Armies

 The invincible reputation of specialist military units such as the USA's Delta Force, Israel's IDP, and of course, Britian's SAS has grown steadily in recent years. Thanks to a number of successful...

William Slim / Defeat Into Victory

    Field Marshal William Slim stands alongside Montgomery as the outstanding British field commander of World War II. Defeat Into Victory is his classic account of the Burma campaign: a story of...

Dick Wilson / China, the Big Tiger

    It has been difficult to obtain a coherent and sensible picture of China and its development. There were many exaggeratedly gloomy or optimistic scenarios in the past, and now positive...

Eric Hobsbawn / The Age Of Extremes : 1914-1991

    THE AGE OF EXTREMES is eminent historian Eric Hobsbawm's personal vision of the twentieth century. Remarkable in its scope, and breathtaking in its depth of knowledge, this immensely...

Simon Schama / The American Future : A History From The Founding Fathers To Barack Obama

   The American Future traces the history of a country whose most enduring trait is its capacity for self-renewal, especially at times of disaster. Examining issues of power, race and immigration,...

Ian Knight / The National Army Museum Book of the Zulu War

    The Zulus were a fiercely independent and extremely brave warrior race. When the might of the British army was defeated by this indigenous foe at Isandlwana in 1879, it sent shock waves...

Fintan O'Toole / After the Ball

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Sheena Wilkinson / Star by Star

    Stella has always looked forward to changing the world. It's what she was brought up to do, by a suffragette mother who knew all about fighting and rebellion. But it's November 1918. The...

Geoffrey Best / Mid-Victorian Britain, 1851-75

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Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World

   `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock...

Roger Osborne / Civilization : A New History of the Western World

   Ever since the attacks of 11th September western leaders have described a world engaged in 'a fight for civilization.' But what do we mean by civilization? We believe in a western tradition of...

Simone Simmons / Diana - The Last Word (Hardback)

Maureen Waller / 1700 : Scenes from London Life

   More than a capital city, Londoners had witnessed the unthinkable - the public execution of a king at Whitehall. Thousands had died in the Plague of 1665, then the Great Fire of 1666. But from...

Terry Coleman - The Railway Navvies - A History of the Men who made the Railways - Vintage Pelican PB 1970

This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways - the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Many were...

Jack Huberman / Bush Hater's Handbook

    The Bush-Haters Handbook is a godsend to those looking for a concise, mordantly entertaining overview of the Bush record and for those seeking the perfect gift book for that certain, special...

Guido Knopp / The SS: A Warning from History

   The best known but least understood organ of the Nazi state, the SS grew from a minor politician's small, unpaid bodyguard into a force which dominated the racial, cultural and professional...

Tim Coates / Bloody Sunday, 1972

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Mick O'Farrell / 50 Things You Didn't Know About 1916

    Even those who know a great deal about the Easter Rising may not know that there were temporary ceasefires in the St Stephen's Green area, to allow the park attendants to feed the Green's...

Carlos Eire / Waiting For Snow In Havana

    A childhood in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous and cruel, like any other-but with certain differences. The neighbour's monkey was liable to escape and run across your roof...

Willy Lindwer / The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank

    Everyone knows the story of Anne Frank - the extraordinary Diary that she wrote during her two years in hiding in the Secret Annexe. But few know how that story ended. Here six women whose...

Anthony Sadler / The 15:17 to Paris

   The 15:17 to Paris is an amazing true story of friendship and bravery, of near terrorist attack averted by three young men who found the heroic unity and strength inside themselves at the moment...

Nelson Mandela / Long Walk To Freedom Vol 2 : 1962-1994

   The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, LONG WALK TO FREEDOM brilliantly recreates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny...

Kathy McKeon / Jackie's Girl : My Life with the Kennedy Family (Large Paperback)

Mark Owen / No Easy Day : The Only First-hand Account of the Navy Seal Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden

   THE GRIPPING FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNT OF BIN LADEN'S EXECUTIONFor the first time, read the first-hand account of the planning and execution of the extraordinary mission to kill the terrorist...

Nathaniel Fick / One Bullet Away : The making of a Marine Officer

   The most eloquent and personal story of a young man at war since Geoffrey Wellum's FIRST LIGHTUntil a winter evening in 1998 Nathaniel was just another history student on a comfortable career...

Carol Drinkwater / Suffragette

    18th June, 1910 We marched from the Embankment to the Albert Hall. It was a glorious day. The sun shone warmly. Everyone was in good spirits. There were aristocrats, artists, even my mother...

Carver Michael / The National Army Museum Book of the Turkish Front

   Most of the books that have been written about this pivotal campaign are only about Gallipoli, and no other has included Palestine, Mesopotamia and the Balkans, too. This is an historically...

Tacitus - The Histories - Vintage Penguin Classics Edition 1984 ( originally 1964 ( Translated by Kenneth Wellesley

In AD68 Nero's suicide marked the end of the first dynasty of imperial Rome. The following year was one of drama and danger, though not of chaos. In the surviving books of his Histories the...

Hugh Sebag-Montefiore / Enigma : The Battle For The Code

 Breaking the German Enigma codes was not only about brilliant mathematicians and professors at Bletchley Park. There is another aspect of the story which it is only now possible to tell. It takes in...

The Book of the Kings and Queens of Britain

 Dr G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville was the consultant for Burke's Royal Families of the World, and his major work was the Chronology of World History. This specially commissioned Book of the Kings & Queens...

Karen Armstrong / The Great Transformation : The World in the Time of Buddha Socrates Confucius and Jeremiah

 The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it...

Catherine Bailey / The Secret Rooms : A Castle Filled with Intrigue, a Plotting Duchess and a Mysterious Death

 A castle filled with intrigue, a plotting duchess and a mysterious death in Catherine Bailey's The Secret Rooms. At 6 am on 21 April 1940 John the 9th Duke of Rutland, and one of Britain's...

Douglas Hyde - I Believed : The Autobiography of a Former British Communist - Vintage HB Reprint Ed 1952

Douglas Arnold Hyde (1911- 1996, was an English political journalist and writer. A communist, he was the news editor of the Daily Worker until 1948, when he resigned and converted to Catholicism. He...

Tom Carew / Jihad! The Secret War in Afghanistan

Most assiume that the British have never fought directly against the Soviet army. However, In 1980, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher had taken over the leadership of the West and the Soviets had...