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Heritage: A History of How We Conserve Our Past
Author: James Stourton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 What is heritage? When was it invented? What is its place in the world today? What is its place tomorrow? Heritage...
Marine Corps Tank Battles in Korea
Author: Oscar E. Gilbert Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 356 The outbreak of the Korean conflict caught America and the Marine Corps unprepared. The Corp's salvation was the existence of...
RAF AIRCRAFT OF THE THE COLD WAR: 1970-1990, Air-to-Air Images
Author: Tony Paxton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 A unique illustrated look at the Cold War planes of the RAF as seen from the cockpit. The Cold War saw...
Czechoslovak Arms Exports to the Middle East: Volume 1: Israel, Jordan and Syria, 1948-1994
Author: Martin Smisek Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 74 Eager to fully use its excessive arms manufacturing capacities and thus earn as much hard currency as possible, communist Czechoslovakia became...
Mustang: The Untold Story
Author: Matthew Willis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The North American Mustang is one of the most well-studied aircraft. However, much of what is commonly understood about it, particularly...
Deceptions of World War II: From camouflage techniques to deception tactics
Author: Peter Darman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Discover the inner workings of many incredible, ingenious and decisive acts of military cunning in this fascinating insight into the tactics...
The 19th Century Criminal Underworld
Author: Stephen Carver Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 209 Take a walk on the dark side of the street in this unique exploration of the fears and desires at the...
The English Electric Lightning
Author: Martin W. Bowman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 The early 1950s were a boom time for British aviation. The lessons of six years of war had been learned...
Big Caesars and Little Caesars: How They Rise and How They Fall - From Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson
Author: Ferdinand Mount Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR Who said that dictatorship was dead? The world today is full of Strong Men and...
USS Indianapolis (CA-35): From Presidential Cruiser, to Delivery of the Atomic Bombs, to Tragic Sinking in WWII
Author: David Doyle Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Despite the limitations of the Washington Naval Treaty, the USS Indianapolis was an imposing warship. It was widely used by US...
Notre Dame de Paris: A Celebration of the Cathedral
Author: Kathy Borrus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 On April 16, 2019, five days before the celebration of Easter, a blazing fire engulfed the world famous Notre-Dame de Paris....
Operation Market Garden: A Bridge too Far
Author: Ben Skipper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 Every General's aim is to end a war by Christmas, and Montgomery, perhaps, saw his opportunity in a bold strike across...
Alice's Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook
Author: Karina Urbach Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 What happened to the books that were too valuable to burn? The story of a Jewish chef whose bestselling cookbook was...
Team America: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, Eisenhower, and the World They Forged
Author: Robert L. O'Connell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 From national bestselling author and acclaimed military historian Robert L. O'Connell, a dynamic history of four military leaders whose extraordinary...
Little Book of Paris
Author: Dominique Foufelle Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Why was the Place de la Nation formerly called la Place du Trone? Has the Pantheon always been the resting place...
Black Butterflies: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2023
Author: Priscilla Morris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2023 This extraordinarily affecting debut novel captures life inside the Siege of Sarajevo. Sarajevo, spring 1992....
Citizen 865: The Hunt for Hitler's Hidden Soldiers in America
Author: Debbie Cenziper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 In 1990, in a drafty basement archive in Prague, two American historians made a startling discovery: a Nazi roster from 1945...
The Girls in Navy Blue: A Novel
Author: Alix Rickloff Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 A gripping and compelling dual timeline novel about three women who joined the Navy during WWI to become yeomanettes and the...
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Author: T.E. Lawrence Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 704 As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom' is one of the major statements about...
The Vanishing: The Twilight of Christianity in the Middle East
Author: Janine di Giovanni Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 **Longlisted Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing** 'A tragic portrait of a disappearing world, created with passion and literary grace'...
Afterlives: By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
Author: Abdulrazak Gurnah Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 BY THE WINNER OF THE 2021 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION LONGLISTED FOR...
Team America: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, Eisenhower, and the World They Forged
Author: Robert L. O'Connell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 From national bestselling author and acclaimed military historian Robert L. O'Connell, a dynamic history of four military leaders whose extraordinary...
Waffen-SS Camouflage Uniforms, Vol. 1: Helmet Covers * Smocks
Author: Lorenzo Silvestri Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 This is part one of a comprehensive two-volume reference that shows all the camouflage uniforms of the Waffen-SS. Using predominately modern...
Legion XXII: The Capsarius
Author: Simon Turney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Warrior and combat medic, Titus Cervianus, must lead a legion and quell the uprisings in Egypt in this thrilling Roman adventure...
Black and Field Gray Uniforms of Himmler's SS: Allgemeine-SS SS Verfugungstruppe SS Totenkopfverbande Waffen SS, Vol. 1: Black Service Uniforms, SS-VT/TV Drill Uniforms, SS-VT/TV M-36 Uniforms, SS-VT/TV M-37 Uniforms, SD Uniforms
Author: Lorenzo Silvestri Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Originally one of the paramilitary groups that arose in Germany's turbulent 1920s, the SS grew from its original protection activities into...
La Serenissima: The Story of Venice
Author: Jonathan Keates Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 A stunningly illustrated history of Venice, from its beginnings as 'La Serenissima' - 'the Most Serene Republic' - to the Italian...
Liberation of The Philippines
Author: Jon Diamond Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 General Douglas A MacArthur, Commander of the Southwest Pacific Area, saw the liberation of the Philippines Archipelago as the launching board...
Elizabeth I's Final Years: Her Favourites and Her Fighting Men
Author: Robert Stedall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 328 Elizabeth I's Final Years outlines the interwoven relationships and rivalries between politicians and courtiers surrounding England's omnipotent queen in the years...
The Second World War Illustrated: The Fourth Year
Author: Jack Holroyd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 THE FOURTH YEAR began with intensified fighting on Guadalcanal in the southern Solomon Islands in September 1942. The United States had...
Stalinism at War: The Soviet Union in World War II
Author: Mark Edele (University of Melbourne, Australia) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 "Masterfully told and compellingly reinterpreted." The Moscow Times Stalinism at War tells the epic story of the...
United States Navy Destroyers: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Author: Michael Green Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 This classic Images of War book traces the key role played by destroyers of the United States Navy since the first...
The Narrow Sea: Barrier, Bridge and Gateway to the World - The History of the English Channel
Author: Peter Unwin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The English Channel separates Britain from Europe, keeping invaders out of Britain and making the island and islanders different from the...
Crecy: Battle of Five Kings
Author: Dr Michael Livingston Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Like Crecy itself, this book is a triumph and the tale it tells gives an old story new life.'- Bernard...
Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes
Author: Tariq Ali Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The subject of numerous biographies and history books, Winston Churchill has been repeatedly voted as one of the greatest of Englishmen....
The U-Boat War: A Global History 1939-45
Author: Lawrence Paterson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A unique perspective of the global history of U-boats during the entirety of the Second World War by Lawrence Paterson, one...
Hitler's Death Trains: The Role of the Reichsbahn in the Final Solution: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Author: Ian Baxter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Literature highlighting the horrors of the Holocaust has concentrated on the incarceration of Jews and others deemed hostile to Hitler's Reich...
The Twins: The SOE's Brothers of Vengeance
Author: Peter Jacobs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 After having set up one of the first underground organisations in France, being captured and escaping over the Pyranees into Spain,...
Latin: or, the Empire of a Sign
Author: Francoise Waquet Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Though not without its rivals, Latin stood at the apex of Western culture from the Renaissance until relatively recently. Francoise Waquet...
Blitz Spirit: 'Fascinating' -Tom Hanks
Author: Becky Brown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Fascinating ' Elizabeth Day 'Finally, a book that is proving very therapeutic in these difficult times... Full of doubt, fear, anger...
A Long Petal of the Sea
Author: Isabel Allende Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 _______________ THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER _______________ 'A powerful love story spanning generations... Full of ambition and...
The Windsors at War: The Nazi Threat to the Crown
Author: Alexander Larman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 At the outbreak of WW2, the British monarchy was in a state of turmoil. The previous king, Edward VIII, had abdicated...
Uncommon Courage: The Yachtsmen Volunteers of World War II
Author: Julia Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'People ashore don't realise what a grim war we are waging at sea with the Germans. A cold-blooded war, in a...
The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 At once a heart-wrenching personal narrative and a unique historical document, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt is the ultimate example of...
D-Day: Before and After
Author: Mirrorpix Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 D-Day: 6 June 1944, the Normandy landings, and an incredible turning point in the war. Operation Overlord saw Allied forces land on...
Paris in Turmoil: A City between Past and Future
Author: Eric Hazan (Director) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 "Since the disastrous Pompidou years, working-class Paris has been steadily nibbled away, either by destruction or more insidiously by a...
The Romanovs: The Final Chapter
Author: Robert K. Massie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The compelling quest to solve a great mystery of the twentieth century: the ultimate fate of Russia's last tsar and...
Jason
Author: Mark Knowles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Packed with action, adventure, and intrigue, Jason is perfect for fans of Christian Cameron and Madeline Miller. They may have won...
The Lawless Land
Author: Boyd Morrison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 'A rollicking adventure [with] the inventive twists and turns of a satisfyingly bustling plot.' New York Times 'Fantastic... Gerard Fox could...