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Family Britain, 1951-1957 by David Kynaston
RRP: $37.03$27.32As in Austerity Britain, an astonishing array of vivid, intimate and unselfconscious voices drive this narrative. The keen-eyed Nella Last shops assiduously at Barrow Market as austerity and rationing gradually give way to relative abundance; housewife... -
The House Party: A Short History of Leisure, Pleasure and the Country House Weekend by Adrian Tinniswood 9780571350964 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.50$4.47A delightful journey through the glamorous story of the English country house party by the bestselling historian.Croquet. Parlour games. Cocktails. Welcome to a glorious journey through the golden age of the country house party - and you are invited. Our... -
The House Party: A Short History of Leisure, Pleasure and the Country House Weekend by Adrian Tinniswood
RRP: $19.50$13.08A delightful journey through the glamorous story of the English country house party by the bestselling historian.Croquet. Parlour games. Cocktails. Welcome to a glorious journey through the golden age of the country house party - and you are invited. Our... -
Inside the World of Bridgerton: True Stories of Regency High Society by Catherine Curzon
RRP: $25.33$17.02Discover the true Regency history behind the TV phenomenon.In Inside the World of Bridgerton, author and Regency period expert Catherine Curzon explores the historical inspirations behind the hit series, and illuminates the fascinating details of real... -
Berlin: The Downfall: 1945 by Antony Beevor
RRP: $25.33$17.73THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER ON THE LAST DAYS OF THE THIRD REICH'Recounts, in harrowing detail and with formidable skill, the brutal death-throes of Hitler's Reich at the hands of the rampaging Red Army' Boyd Tonkin, Independent'An irresistibly compelling... -
The Western Front: A History of the First World War by Nick Lloyd
RRP: $29.23$22.13**Pre-order the latest volume in the World War One trilogy, The Eastern Front, today** A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR'A tour de force of scholarship, analysis and narration . . . Lloyd is well on the way to writing a... -
British Battleship vs German Battleship: 1941–43 by Angus Konstam
RRP: $27.28$19.01At the outbreak of World War II, the four key Capital German ships comprised the Bismarck, Tirpitz, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. Their primary threats where the Royal Navy's King George V class battleships, the most modern British battleships in commission... -
The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 by Alistair Horne
RRP: $21.43$15.15The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 is the second book of Alistair Horne's trilogy, which includes The Fall of Paris and To Lose a Battle and tells the story of the great crises of the rivalry between France and Germany. The battle of Verdun lasted ten... -
Arnhem: Ten Days in the Cauldron Iain Ballantyne 9781804363676
RRP: $25.33$23.30The account of the fateful bridge too far...'It was a bridge too far and perhaps the whole plan was doomed to failure from the start, but we had to try, didn't we?'17 September 1944: 30,000 airborne soldiers prepare to drop 64 miles behind enemy lines... -
Revolt in the Netherlands: The Eighty Years War, 1568-1648 by Anton van der Lem
RRP: $58.50$41.63In 1568, the Seventeen Provinces in the Netherlands rebelled against the absolutist rule of the king of Spain. A confederation of duchies, counties, and lordships, the Provinces demanded the right of self-determination, the freedom of conscience and... -
The Holy Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction by Joachim Whaley
RRP: $17.53$12.58Voltaire's description of the Holy Roman Empire as 'neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire' is often cited to underline its worthlessness. German historians traditionally despised it because it had allegedly impeded German unification. Since 1945... -
Chanel's Riviera: Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Cote d'Azur, 1930-1944 Anne de Courcy 9781474608213
RRP: $25.33$16.77Far from worrying about the onset of war, in the spring of 1938 the burning question on the French Riviera was whether one should curtsey to the Duchess of Windsor. Few of those who had settled there thought much about what was going on in the rest of... -
Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe by Rachel Chrastil
RRP: $58.50$41.63'Compassionate and thought-provoking history' Daily Telegraph'Superb on the human consequences of war, ravishing in its evocations of wartime life' The Times'Fresh and compelling ... a tour-de-force' David A. BellLess than a month after it marched into... -
The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found: The Costa Book of the Year 2018 by Bart van Es
RRP: $19.48$13.86WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018A SUNDAY TIMES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 2019'A masterpiece of history and memoir' Evening Standard'Superb. This is a necessary book - painful, harrowing,... -
The Story of Liverpool by Alexander Tulloch
RRP: $33.13$25.23There is something special about Liverpool. From its earliest beginnings it has always been associated with the ups and downs, the triumphs and tribulations of the rest of the country, acting like a mirror to the events that have shaped the country we... -
Checkmate in Berlin: The First Battle of the Cold War Giles Milton 9781529393170
RRP: $25.33$16.77'Brilliantly written and completely absorbing, this is Milton's masterpiece' ANTHONY HOROWITZBERLIN'S FATE WAS SEALED AT THE 1945 YALTA CONFERENCE.The city was to be carved up between the victorious powers - British, American, French and Soviet - with... -
Armies of the War of the Grand Alliance 1688-97 by Gabriele Esposito
RRP: $23.38$16.44This title explores and illustrates the armies of France, and six countries allied against Louis XIV, in a wide-ranging Continental conflict that ushered in more than a century of European warfare. Formed in 1689, the 'Grand Alliance' or League of... -
Battle of Britain The Movie: The Men and Machines of one of the Greatest War Films Ever Made by Dilip Sarkar MBE
RRP: $48.75$35.14Released in 1969, the film _Battle of Britain_ went on to become one of the most iconic war movies ever produced. The film drew many respected British actors to accept roles as key figures of the battle, including Sir Laurence Olivier as Hugh Dowding and... -
The Waffen-Ss in Normandy: July 1944, Operations Goodwood and Cobra by Yves Buffetaut 9781612006413
RRP: $38.98$27.85One of the greatest paradoxes of the Battle of Normandy is that the German divisions found it much harder to reach the front line than the Allies, who had to cross the sea and then deploy in a cramped bridgehead until the American breakthrough of late... -
Bismarck: 24 Hours to Doom Iain Ballantyne 9781804363409
RRP: $21.43$13.65Now a major television documentary (Channel 4, 2021)The epic mission to destroy Hitler's flagship.'Bismarck was now loose in the Atlantic ... we had to find and sink her.'May, 1941. The most powerful battleship the world has ever seen, the German Navy's... -
Empires of the Normans: Makers of Europe, Conquerors of Asia Levi Roach 9781529300321
RRP: $25.33$16.77'Powerful' The Economist'Fascinating, panoramic . . . Roach brings an expert eye and page-turning energy' Helen Castor, bestselling author of She Wolves'Narrated with pace, clarity, authority and style, Roach's book is a bracing tour of the world that... -
The Anglo-Saxon World by Nicholas Higham
RRP: $48.75$43.91The Anglo-Saxon period, stretching from the fifth to the late eleventh century, begins with the Roman retreat from the Western world and ends with the Norman takeover of England. Between these epochal events, many of the contours and patterns of English... -
Waterloo: The Aftermath by Paul O'Keeffe 9780099563792
RRP: $31.18$22.64After midnight, 19 June 1815...On the battlefield more than 50,000 men and 7,000 horses lie dead and wounded; the wreckage of a once proud French Grande Armee struggles in abject disorder to the Belgian frontier pursued by murderous Prussian lancers; and... -
Roman Britain: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Salway
RRP: $17.53$12.58For four centuries Britain was an integral part of the Roman Empire, a political system stretching from Turkey to Portugal and from the Red Sea to the Tyne and beyond. Its involvement with Rome started long before the Conquest launched by the Emperor... -
Five Love Affairs and a Friendship: The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age by Anne de Courcy
RRP: $21.43$12.62Dazzlingly beautiful, highly intelligent and an extraordinary force of energy, Nancy Cunard was an icon of the Jazz Age, said to have inspired half the poets and novelists of the twenties. Born into a life of wealth and privilege, yet one in which she... -
Hundred Days: The End of the Great War by Nick Lloyd
RRP: $25.33$17.73An unmissable book that explores the brutal, heroic and extraordinary final days of the First World WarOn the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in November 1918, the guns of the Western Front fell silent.The Armistice, which brought the Great War to an... -
Franci's War: The incredible true story of one woman's survival of the Holocaust by Franci Rabinek Epstein
RRP: $21.43$15.15Discover unrelenting spirit and strength in the extraordinary true story of Franci: a woman who survived the holocaust against all of the odds'Achingly moving, gives much-needed hope. Deserves the status both as a valuable historical source and as a... -
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
RRP: $17.53$12.15The Sunday Times bestseller and Richard & Judy Book Club Pick, from the acclaimed author of Room. The Pull of the Stars is set during three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. 'Moving, gripping and dazzlingly written' -... -
Ypres 1914 - The Menin Road by Jack Sheldon 9781781592007
RRP: $25.33$17.73These three Battleground Europe books on Ypres 1914 mark the centenary of the final major battle of the 1914 campaign on the Western Front. Although fought over a relatively small area and short time span, the fighting was even more than usually chaotic... -
The Other Renaissance: From Copernicus to Shakespeare by Paul Strathern
RRP: $48.75$34.36'Enlightening and fascinating' John Banville, Wall Street JournalThrough the lives of major figures from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, including Copernicus, Gutenberg, Luther, Catherine de Medici, Rabelais, van Eyck and Shakespeare, Paul... -
John Law: A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century James Buchan 9781848666085
RRP: $29.23$19.11At the summit of his power, John Law was the most famous man in Europe. Born in Scotland in 1671, he was convicted of murder in London and, after his escape from prison, fled Scotland for the mainland when Union with England brought with it a warrant for... -
Dutch Waffen-SS Legion & Brigade 1941-44 by Massimiliano Afiero
RRP: $23.38$16.44Goebbels' 1941 propaganda campaign to present Germany's invasion of the USSR as a battle for European civilization against Asian barbarism convinced many men in occupied 'Germanic' European countries, such as Scandinavia and the Low Countries, to... -
Connecting History: Higher Britain, 1851-1951 by Euan M. Duncan
RRP: $37.03$35.94Exam board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2018First exam: Summer 2019Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together lesser-told... -
Berlin: Life and Loss in the City That Shaped the Century by Sinclair McKay
RRP: $21.43$15.15The Sunday Times-bestselling author of Dresden returns with a monumental biography of the city that defined the twentieth century - BerlinThroughout the twentieth century, Berlin stood at the centre of a convulsing world. This history is often viewed as... -
Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe by Gordon Corera
RRP: $21.43$14.14Gordon Corera uses declassified documents and extensive original research to tell the story of MI14(d) and the Secret Pigeon Service for the first time. 'This is an amazing story' Simon Mayo, BBC Radio 2 ... -
The Zimmermann Telegram: The Astounding Espionage Operation That Propelled America into the First World War by Barbara W. Tuchman
RRP: $21.43$15.15ONE OF THE GREATEST SPY STORIES OF ALL TIME Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did. In England, Room 40 was born . . .In January 1917, with the First World War locked in terrible stalemate and... -
Fey's War: The True Story of a Mother, her Missing Sons and the Plot to Kill Hitler by Catherine Bailey
RRP: $17.53$12.58**Formerly published as The Lost Boys**'Remarkable. A powerful, engrossing story of a journey into the heart of darkness and final escape from it' Sunday TimesIn September, 1944, the SS march into a remote Italian castle, arrest a mother and seize her... -
Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self by Andrea Wulf
RRP: $48.75$28.59Chosen as a BOOK OF THE YEAR in The Times, The Spectator, Prospect, Sunday Times, Economist, New Statesman, Telegraph, Financial Times, TLS, New York Times, and Washington Post. 'This is ridiculous. No book about German philosophy has any right to be... -
Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914 by Sir Max Hastings
RRP: $25.33$16.54The Amazon History Book of the Year 2013 is a magisterial chronicle of the calamity that befell Europe in 1914 as the continent shifted from the glamour of the Edwardian era to the tragedy of total war. In 1914, Europe plunged into the 20th... -
The West: A New History in 14 Lives by Naoise Mac Sweeney
RRP: $42.90$31.24*A BBC RADIO 4 Book of the Week*'A fantastic achievement' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Bright, expansive, and iconoclastic, this deliciously witty book has the potential to upset the applecart of "Western Civilisation" itself... Magnificent'...