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US Naval Aviation in the 1980s: Atlantic and Pacific Fleet Air Stations by Adrian Symonds
RRP: £15.99£10.85The final decade of the Cold War saw unprecedented peacetime expansion of the US Navy, including Naval Aviation. President Reagan's plan for a 600-ship Navy resulted in stepped-up construction of Nimitz class supercarriers and the aircraft to operate... -
A Moment of War by Laurie Lee
RRP: £8.99£7.07A Moment of War is the powerful and harrowing final book in Laurie Lee's acclaimed trilogy that began with Cider with RosieLaurie Lee was still a young man when he decided to fight for the Republican cause in Spain's civil war. But though he braved icy,... -
The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War by Archie Brown
RRP: £31.49£22.34In this penetrating analysis of the role of political leadership in the Cold War's ending, Archie Brown shows why the popular view that Western economic and military strength left the Soviet Union with no alternative but to admit defeat is wrong. To... -
Barbarossa Through German Eyes: The Biggest Invasion in History by Jonathan Trigg
RRP: £20.00£13.74Spring 1941 - the Third Reich triumphant! Having taken over Germany in 1933, Hitler launched a series of lightning campaigns across Europe that crushed Poland, Denmark, Norway, France, the Low Countries and then the Balkans. Only Great Britain had... -
Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime by Alex Espinoza 9781944700829
RRP: £17.00£11.68"Espinoza's book stands out as a beacon for future queer writers, thinkers, and activists. Reading these accounts, I felt myself drawn into a past both wonderful and strange, a world I hope we will continue to celebrate and preserve." -Garrard Conley ... -
The Russian Revolution: A Beginner's Guide by Abraham Ascher
RRP: £9.99£7.771917: the year a series of rebellions toppled three centuries of autocratic rule and placed a group of political radicals in charge of a world power. Here, suddenly, was the first modern socialist state, "a kingdom more bright that any heaven had to... -
Birmingham We Lived Back to Back - The Real Story by Ted Rudge 9781781552674
RRP: £14.99£11.55Numerous back-to-back houses, two or three stories high, were built in Birmingham during the 19th century, the majority of them were still in quite good condition in the early 20th century. Most of these houses were concentrated in inner-city areas such... -
Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess Andrew Lownie 9781473627383
RRP: £10.99£7.50Winner of the St Ermin's Intelligence Book of the Year Award. 'One of the great biographies of 2015.' The TimesFully updated edition including recently released information. A Guardian Book of the Year. The Times Best Biography of the Year. Mail on... -
An Historical Map of Cambridge: University and County Town by Tony Kirby 9781838071950
RRP: £10.99£7.81A full colour map, based on a digitised OS map of Cambridge published in 1927, with its medieval, Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian past overlain and important buildings picked out. Cambridge is one of England's two ancient university towns. It was an... -
My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass 9780300190595
£13.03"David Blight has produced a fine edition of Douglass' second autobiography. This is an essential work in African-American and American history, and displays Douglass' developing strength as a writer and political leader."-Richard Slotkin, Wesleyan... -
Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff
RRP: £12.99£8.83SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERWith extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside story of the most controversial presidency of our time.The first nine months of Donald Trump's term... -
Narrow Gauge and Industrial Railways: The Late 1940s to Late 1960s by Brian Reading
RRP: £15.99£10.85With images and vivid recollections, we journey away from the main line to valleys, quarries and factories. Industries as diverse as slate, iron, paper, glass, food and tourism relied on dozens of small railways to keep people and goods moving. At... -
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World Professor Peter Frankopan 9781408839973
RRP: £35.00£25.29The No. 1 Sunday Times and international bestseller - a major reassessment of world history in light of the economic and political renaissance in the re-emerging east For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west - in the New World of... -
Night by Elie Wiesel 9780140189896
RRP: £8.99£6.65Elie Wiesel's harrowing first-hand account of the atrocities committed during the Holocaust, Night is translated by Marion Wiesel with a preface by Elie Wiesel in Penguin Modern Classics. Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was... -
Not Far From Brideshead: Oxford Between the Wars Daisy Dunn 9781474615570
RRP: £20.00£13.35Oxford thought it was at war. And then it was. After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like an Arcadia - a dreamworld - from which pain could be shut out. Soldiers arrived with pictures of the university fully formed in their heads, and... -
In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures Behind the Holocaust by Bullets by Father Patrick Desbois
RRP: £12.99£9.19How the Murder of More Than Two Million Jews Was Carried Out-In Broad DaylightBased on a decade of work on the Holocaust by Bullets by Father Patrick Desbois and his Yahad-In Unum team, which has culminated in interviews with more than 5,700 neighbors to... -
By Tank into Normandy by Stuart Hills
RRP: £9.99£7.00'One of the best half-dozen personal accounts of the Normandy campaign' - Richard HolmesStuart Hills embarked his Sherman DD tank on to an LCT at 6.45 a.m., Sunday 4 June 1944. He was 20 years old, unblooded, fresh from a public-school background and... -
At Home with the Queen: Life Through the Keyhole of the Royal Household by Brian Hoey
RRP: £10.99£7.46Behind the scenes of the private world at the heart of royalty, as revealed by a distinguished royal commentator. This is the real story of what goes on inside the royal palaces, as witnessed by members of the royal staff and household past... -
Flight to Arras by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
RRP: £9.99£7.32The French Writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944), was born in Lyon. His first two books, SOUTHERN MAIL and NIGHT FLIGHT, are distinguished by a poetic evocation of the romance and discipline of flying. Later works, including WIND, SAND... -
Eleni Nicholas Gage 9781860463464
RRP: £12.99£9.19A son's quest to avenge his mother's murder.In 1948, in a Greek mountain village, Eleni Gatzoyiannis was arrested, tortured and shot. She was one of the 158,000 victims of the Greek Civil War. Her crime had been to help her children escape from the... -
The Mughal Throne: The Saga of India's Great Emperors Abraham Eraly 9780753817582
RRP: £16.99£11.71A history of the great Mughal rulers of India, one of the world's greatest empires.In December 1525 Babur, the great grandson of the Mongol conqueror Tamberlaine, crossed the Indus river into the Punjab with a modest army and some cannon. At the battle... -
The Blitz: The British Under Attack by Juliet Gardiner
RRP: £12.99£8.71From the author of 'Wartime' comes an outstanding history of the most sustained onslaught ever endured by Britain's civilian population - the Blitz. September 1940 marked the beginning of Nazi Germany's aerial attack on civilian Britain... -
The Creation of Patriarchy: The Origins of Women's Subordination. Women and History, Volume 1 by Gerda Lerner
RRP: £18.49£13.34When precisely did the ideas, symbols and metaphors of patriarchy take hold of Western civilization? When were women, so central to the creation of society, moved on to the sidelines? Where is the evidence to support the notion that male dominance over... -
Into the Void: Special Operations Forces after the War on Terror by James D. Kiras 9781911723158
RRP: £45.00£40.13The moment in the sun for special operations sometimes appears to have passed, seemingly eclipsed by preparations for potential conflict under the guise of ‘great power’ competition, combined with failure in Afghanistan. Yet the war in Ukraine serves as... -
Sunderland vs U-boat: Bay of Biscay 1943–44 by Mark Lardas 9781472854810
RRP: £15.99£11.61An illustrated examination of the role played by the Sunderland as an antisubmarine aircraft during the Battle of the Atlantic, focusing on the key battles of the Biscay campaign in 1943-44. The Sunderland is an iconic British aircraft of World War... -
Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
RRP: £14.99£10.95* * * Special 75th Anniversary Edition * * * Hugh Sebag-Montefiore's Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man tells the story of the rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat by the Nazis at Dunkirk.Dunkirk was not just about what happened... -
The Haunting Of Sylvia Plath by Jacqueline Rose
RRP: £10.99£7.50Since her suicide in 1963 at the age of 30, Sylvia Plath has become a strange icon. This book addresses why this is the case and what this tells us about the way culture picks out important writers. The author argues that without a concept of fantasy... -
The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity by Peter Brown
RRP: £30.00£23.69First published in 1988, Peter Brown's The Body and Society was a groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Brown focuses on the practice of permanent sexual... -
The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling by David Gilmour
RRP: £14.99£10.95'Superb, beautifully written, touching and occasionally very funny' Andrew RobertsDavid Gilmour's superb biography of Rudyard Kipling is the first to show how the life and work of the great writer mirrored the trajectory of the British Empire, from its... -
It's Our Turn to Eat by Michela Wrong
RRP: £12.99£8.71A gripping account of both an individual caught on the horns of an excruciating moral dilemma and a continent at a turning point. When Michela Wrong's Kenyan friend John Githongo appeared one cold February morning on the doorstep of her London... -
Abandoned Castles by Kieron Connolly
RRP: £19.99£14.65An ancient hilltop fortress. A crusader citadel in the West Bank. A fairytale medieval castle fallen into ruin. From ancient times to the end of the nineteenth century, Abandoned Castles explores more than 100 forts, castles and defensive strongholds... -
The Double-Cross System: The Classic Account of World War Two Spy-Masters by J. C. Masterman
RRP: £10.99£7.87J.C. Masterman was chairman of the Double-Cross Committee at the height of World War Two. This is his account of the double agents, deception and counter-espionage which were key to the victory of D-Day. Written as an official report for MI5 in 1945,... -
The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World by Avi Shlaim
RRP: £20.00£14.69Avi Shlaim's The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World is the outstanding book on Israeli foreign policy, now thoroughly updated with a new preface and chapters on Israel's most recent leadersIn the 1920s, hard-line Zionists developed the doctrine of the... -
From Punt to Plough: A History of the Fens by Rex Sly
RRP: £15.99£12.43A superb examination of the history of the Fens, containing a great deal of stunning photographs.About the AuthorRex Sly's family has been living in the Fens since 1545 and as Huntingdon the name Sly can be traced back to 1273. He is a farmer at... -
The Crusader Armies: 1099-1187 by Steve Tibble
RRP: £12.99£11.46A major new history of the Crusades that illuminates the strength and sophistication of the Western and Muslim armies During the Crusades, the Western and Muslim armies developed various highly sophisticated strategies of both attack and defense, which... -
What A Bloody Awful Country: Northern Ireland's century of division by Kevin Meagher 9781785906664
RRP: £20.00£14.48'For God's sake, bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country!' HOME SECRETARY REGINALD MAUDLING, RETURNING FROM HIS FIRST VISIT TO NORTHERN IRELAND IN 1970 In the early years of the twentieth century, simmering discontent began to boil over... -
A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History by Edward Wilson-Lee 9780008358259
RRP: £10.99£7.33A Times History Book of the Year 2022 A TLS Book of the Year 2022 'Exhilarating and whip-smart' THE SUNDAY TIMES From award-winning writer Edward Wilson-Lee, this is a thrilling true historical detective... -
The Rise of Rome: From the Iron Age to the Punic Wars (1000 BC - 264 BC) by Kathryn Lomas
RRP: £14.99£10.95In the late Iron Age, Rome was a small collection of huts arranged over a few hills. By the third century BC, it had become a large and powerful city, with monumental temples, public buildings and grand houses. It had conquered the whole of Italy and was... -
The Ones Who Got Away: Mighty Eighth Airmen on the Run in Occupied Europe by Bill Yenne 9781472858719
RRP: £25.00£17.62A remarkable collection of accounts of intrepid American aircrew shot down over enemy lines during World War II and how they got away. To be an airman in the Eighth Air Force flying over the war-torn skies of Europe required skill, tenacity, and ... -
OCR GCSE History SHP: The People's Health c.1250 to present Michael Riley 9781471860089
£21.93Exam board: OCR (Specification B, SHP)Level: GCSE (9-1)Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018An OCR endorsed textbookLet SHP successfully steer you through the OCR B specification with an exciting, enquiry-based series,...