History

FROM THE AUTHOR OF NOTHING IS TRUE AND EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE'Elegant, effortlessly readable . . . essential reading for the new dark age of disinformation.' JONATHAN FREEDLAND'Original . . . Pomerantsev digs deep into the past history of information...

Susanna Rustin's Sexed is a radical retelling of the story of British feminism. Starting in the revolutionary 1790s and ending in the present day, she introduces the 1830s radicals who demanded "LIBERTY FOR EVER!", Victorian petitioners who expected to...

Now available in paperback, Winters in the World is a beautifully observed journey through the cycle of the year in Anglo-Saxon England, exploring the festivals, customs and traditions linked to the different seasons. Drawing on a wide variety of source...

'A witty, gossipy, sparkling history, full of bright jewels of anecdote... Magnificent Rebels is a triumph' THE TIMES, Book of the Week'Extraordinary... A thrilling intellectual history that reads like a racy, intelligent novel, with a cast of...

'Masterful and entrancing - this is big history at its best.' Professor Alice Roberts, author of Ancestors'A real-life Indiana Jones takes readers on a dive through these underwater museums, revealing the sunken secrets of the past' The Times'Fascinating...

'I loved it' ELOISA JAMES'Smart, sexy, and always romantic' JULIA QUINN'For a smart, witty and passionate historical romance, I recommend anything by Sarah MacLean' LISA KLEYPAS New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean follows her highly acclaimed...

'There is no danger that Titanic will sink. The boat is unsinkable and nothing but inconvenience will be suffered by the passengers.' - Phillip Franklin, White Star Line Vice-PresidentOn April 15th, 1912, Titanic, the world's largest passenger ship, sank...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Samuel Eliot Morison Prize 2004.Book InformationISBN 9780553381481Author James D. HornfischerFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Random...

In 1944, at the age of fifteen, Marceline Loridan-Ivens was arrested in occupied France, along with her father. They were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and forcibly separated. Though he managed to smuggle one last note to her, Marceline never spoke to her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451475060Author John C. McmanusFormat HardbackPage Count 656Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Drawing on the voices of atomic bomb survivors and the new science of forensic archaeology, Charles Pellegrino describes the events and the aftermath of two days in August when nuclear devices, detonated over Japan, changed life on Earth forever. To...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803693033Author Tony GreensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 546Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams)...

Well-behaved women don't make history: difficult women do. 'This is the antidote to saccharine you-go-girl fluff. Effortlessly erudite and funny' Caroline Criado-Perez Strikers in saris. Bomb-throwing suffragettes. The pioneer of the refuge movement who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080445629Author Marie GodfrainFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 567g

'An incredible testament to one man's determination' - The Sunday Herald Calum MacLeod had lived on the northern point of Raasay since his birth in 1911. He tended the Rona lighthouse at the very tip of his little archipelago, until semi-automation in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947766044Author Derek PuaFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Pacific Atrocities EducationPublisher Pacific Atrocities EducationWeight(grams)...

‘Macintyre does true-life espionage better than anyone else’ John PrestonFrom the author of Sunday Times #1 bestsellers COLDITZ, SAS: ROGUE HEROES and THE SPY AND THE TRAITOR . . .On April 30, 1980, six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939438997Author Arthur KoestlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint One 70 PressPublisher One 70 PressWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

The Stuart light tanks were the first tanks taken into combat by US troops during WWII. Production of these vehicles can be broken into two categories: the early tanks powered by air-cooled radial engines, and late vehicles powered by twin V-8 engines...

From the bestselling author of The Templars. 'Voyages, battles, sieges and slaughter: Dan Jones's tumultuous and thrilling history of the crusades is one of the best' SUNDAY TIMES. 'A powerful story brilliantly told. Dan Jones writes with pace,...

The No1 Sunday Times Bestseller A Mail on Sunday 'Best Holiday Read 2024' 'A searing expose' Glamour 'A timely reminder of the dangers posed by...

Dinky Toys are a part of many people's childhood. They were one of the many famous brands produced as part of the Meccano empire set up by Frank Hornby at his Binns Road factory in Liverpool. Although they began before the Second World War, it was the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607967767Author Murray RothbardFormat HardbackPage Count 114Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.comWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061146664Author University Christopher ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 697Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 544g

A fascinating and colourful social history of the nighttime.'A wonderful revelation of a vanished age of darkness' SPECTATOR'Fascinating' SUNDAY TIMES'A splendid book ... great entertainment' Sir Patrick Moore'A triumph of social history. Almost every...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816614493Author Klaus TheweleitFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota Press

Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is his account of that atrocity: the ever-increasing horrors he endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984536139Author Adolf HitlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Elite Minds, IncorporatedPublisher Elite Minds, IncorporatedWeight(grams) 741g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375755064Author Gaston RebuffatFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 213mm...

A bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive story.'Warm, funny, biting and essential reading.' Adam Rutherford'An exhilarating journey through the myths, misconceptions and stereotypes of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941165515Author Vincent J SperanzaFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Vincent J. SperanzaPublisher Vincent J. SperanzaWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm)...

A ridiculously funny history of Britain for adults from the multimillion-copy bestselling author of the Horrible Histories, perfect for fans of Unruly by David Mitchell.'Ram-packed with mind-blowing facts, hilarious characters, and little-known tales'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780795300349Author William L. ShirerFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Rosetta BooksPublisher Rosetta BooksDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062397348Author Howard ZinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593330258Author Joseph PfeiferFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

In the decades before the First World War, the owners of the nation’s stately homes revelled in a golden age of glory and glamour. Nothing lay beyond their reach in a world where privilege and hedonism went hand-in-hand with duty and honour. This was a...

The indispensable account of the Ottoman Empire's Siege of Malta from the author of Hannibal and Gibraltar. In the first half of the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire was thought to be invincible. Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman sultan, had...

The sequel to bestseller Tokyo Vice, now a major HBO drama, with a second season coming in 2024. It's been a while since Jake Adelstein was the only gaijin crime reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun. The global economy is in shambles, Jake is off the police...

Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries is a celebration of unheard and under-heard women's history.'Excellent . . . bursting with extraordinary women' - Anita Anand'Brilliant' - Daisy Buchanan"My hope is that this book will inspire as I have been...

The definitive biography of John Knox, a leader of the Protestant Reformation in sixteenth-century Scotland"Never before has there been such a thoroughly and sympathetically critical treatment of the 16th-century Scottish reformer's thought and times. . ...