(Paperback)

Recounts the lives, deeds and misdeeds of the 265 Popes from St Peter to Pope Benedict XVI. This book shows how the role has come full circle from selfconsciously spiritual office, through embroilment in political power, and back to its spiritual roots.

(, Unabridged edition)

A gripping and revelatory account of Winston Churchill's first military campaign.

(, Main)

The first ever account of the tragic-comic story of Clara: an 18th century globe-trotting celebrity, who also happened to be a 3-tonne rhinoceros.

Takes on the reigning orthodoxy that the American Civil War was waged over high moral principles. This title shows that between 1820 and 1850, patterns of trade and production drew the North and South together and allowed sectional leaders to broker a series of compromises.

(Hardback)

(, Main)

This is the last untold story of BletchleyPark. Using recently declassified information, Paul Gannon has written a gripping account of the invention of the world's first true computer, Colossus.

(Paperback)

A unique analysis of the greatest commanders who helped the allies win the Second World War, written by one of the UK's best loved comedians and commentators. He also loves history.

September 1932. Gerasimovka, Western Siberia. Two children are found dead in the forest outside a remote village, both have been repeatedly stabbed - a crime that was never solved. Catriona Kelly asks how it was that Stalin's regime turned one of the victims into a hero of the Soviet Empire.

(Paperback)

Long recognised for its fine old buildings, the cosmopolitan port city of Fremantle held special significance as the first landfall for early settlers to the Swan River Colony. The author takes the reader on a fascinating journey through nineteenth century Fremantle, a journey centred on the grim complex of buildings set up to house the prisoners.

(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

Provides discussion and documentation for many transportation-era topics such as convict labour and skills, the diet of prisoners, the British military's role in the penal settlement, the activities of the so-called Female Factory System, the difficulties of forming a family under the convict system and much more.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

Level Zero Heroes, the bestselling account of Marine Special Operations Team 8222 in Bala Murghab, Afghanistan, was just the beginning for these now battle hardened special operations warriors.

A compelling and human portrait of modern war

(Paperback)

The Company of Scotland and its attempts to establish the colony of Caledonia on the inhospitable isthmus of Panama in the late seventeenth century is one of the most tragic moments of Scottish history. This is the first book to set out the full history of a key moment in Scottish history.

(Paperback)

In 1943, a small band of inexperienced Australian and British fighter pilots fought an ongoing air battle in defense of north-western Australia, flying against a formidably skilled and proficient opponent. Following the RAAFs Number 1 Fighter Wing, this title tells this story, recovering an important aspect of Australian history.

(Hardback)

The first full biography of the five remarkable daughters of Edward I.

(Paperback)

The extraordinary story of the women who took on the Islamic State and won.

The remarkable story of the enduring friendship between David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill, Britain's two greatest statesmen in peace and war

(, UK Airports)

WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE 2012. The inside story of one of the most notorious tours of duty of the current Afghan War.

How did prehistoric peoples those living before written records think Were their modes of thought fundamentally different from ours today This book deals with these questions.

From the Pan Military Classics Series comes the best general's book of World War II

(Paperback, Customer-Specific)

Offers an examination of American institutions and the fabric of American life. Doubting whether the American experiment in equality could work, the author conjectured that democracy would erect a society that would succumb to a different type of tyranny than that of a monarchy or aristocracy - that of the majority.