History & Historical Biography

Mark Abley / Spoken Here

   Half the world's languages are threatened with extinction over the next century, as English and the rest of the world's top twenty languages drive all before them. What ways of looking at the...

Pax Salam / The Baghdad Blog

   In September 2002, a young Iraqi calling himself 'Salam Pax' began posting accounts of everyday life in Baghdad onto the internet. Written in English, these bulletins contained everything from...

Mary Morris / A Very Private Diary : A Nurse in Wartime

   The newly discovered diary of a wartime nurse - a fascinating, dramatic and unique insight into the experiences of a young nurse in the Second World War.'I always seem to be saying good-bye to...

Thomas Penn / Winter King : The Dawn of Tudor England

   Winner of THE HW FISHER BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZESPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2012SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, TLS, FINANCIAL TIMES, GUARDIAN, DAILY MAIL and SUNDAY TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR...

Frank McDonough / The Gestapo

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Lawrence James / Aristocrats : Power, grace and decadence

    For nine hundred years the British aristocracy has considered itself ideally qualified to rule others, make laws and guide the fortunes of the nation. Tracing the history of this remarkable...

Sam Kiley / Desperate Glory

    In the dust and blazing heat of Helmand, the young men of 16 Air Assault Brigade find themselves in the most relentless battles faced by British troops in recent history. As the only writer...

Elizabeth Lutzeier / The Coldest Winter

 It is 1846. In Ireland the potato harvest has failed. English soldiers are turning families out of their homes, and the roads are full of people with nowhere to go. Eamonn and his family must...

Ed Ratner / Debunking History : 152 Popular Myths Exploded

 Debunking History presents some of the popular myths from the American and French Revolutions to the two world wars and beyond.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the...

Max Hastings / Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy 1944

 The famous D-Day Landings of 6 June 1944 marked the beginning of Operation Overlord, the battle for the liberation of Europe. Max Hastings has overturned many traditional legends to write this...

Gillian Moore-Groarke / Watch Your Weight

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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...

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...

Laurence Rees / The Nazis : A Warning From History

   Following the success of Rees' bestselling Auschwitz, this substantially revised and updated edition of The Nazis - A Warning from History tells the powerfully gripping story of the rise and fall...

Michael Burleigh / The Third Reich : A New History

   In this riveting book, Michael Burleigh sets Nazi Germany in a European context, showing how the Third Reich's abandonment of liberal democracy, decency and tolerance was widespread in the Europe...

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...

John Pilger / The New Rulers of the World

   John Pilger is one of the world's most renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers. In this fully updated collection, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism...

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...

Peter Furtado / Histories of Nations : How Their Identities Were Forged

    National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usually from a single writer's point of view...

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...

Martin Meredith / The State of Africa : A History of Fifty Years of Independence

    Africa is forever on our TV screens, but the bad-news stories (famine, genocide, corruption) massively outweigh the good (South Africa). Ever since the process of decolonialisation began in...

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,...

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...

Robin Gardiner / The Riddle Of The Titanic

    Ten years after the first exploration of the Titanic wreck two and a half miles under the north Atlantic, and eighty-four years after she sank, Robin Gardiner and Dan van der Vat reappraised...

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...

Ryan Tubridy / JFK in Ireland : Four Days That Changed a President (Large Paperback)