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(Hardback)
By: Jeremy Black
ISBN: 9780500027080
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2024
UK Publication Date: 21st March 2024
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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A concise history of Paris and the great events and personalities, from prehistory to the present, that have shaped its unique cultural legacy.
(Paperback)
By: Jeremy Black
ISBN: 9780500297438
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2025
UK Publication Date: 6th March 2025
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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By: Tom Chesshyre
ISBN: 9781800070097
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
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If the pandemic has taught us one thing, it's that people love parks
Wherever we are in the world, urban parks are places where we can find calm amid the chaos.
With fondness and humour, travel writer Tom Chesshyre recalls 50 of his favourite urban parks from across the world, in a love letter to the green escapes that bring us joy in our cities.
(Hardback)
By: Brian Deutsch
ISBN: 9781472842930
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A carefully selected collection of World War I images, showcasing a range of striking, rare and personal images of the conflict.
(, Anniversary edition)
By: Jon Cooksey
ISBN: 9781473892958
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
UK Publication Date: 31st March 2017
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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Daring SAS raid of the Falklands War.
By: David Gledhill
ISBN: 9781526704085
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 30th June 2017
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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Focusses on the McDonnell Douglas F4 Phantom's role as an air defence fighter.
(Paperback)
By: Margaret Maitland
ISBN: 9780714119984
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2012
Publisher: British Museum Press
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The powerful image that the kings of Egypt presented to their subjects was so awe-inspiring and captivating that people today are still impressed by the compelling stories and imposing statuary of the Pharaoh. But the reality of Egyptian kingship was often much more complex, as Pharaoh: King of Egypt seeks to reveal.
By: John Carr
ISBN: 9781526790828
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2021
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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This book examines Prince Philip's family background and his relatively little known Greek family as well as his early life as a Greek prince, much of the time in exile.
By: Kirstine Moffat
ISBN: 9781877372797
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
Publisher: Otago University Press
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"Piano forte ... draws on memoirs, diaries, letters, concert programmes, company records, fiction and visual images. The stories end in 1930 when the increasing popularity of the phonograph, the radio and the introduction of the talkie movies were beginning to have a profound impact on people's leisure activities"-- Back cover.
(Paperback)
By: Peter Stanford
ISBN: 9780500296639
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
UK Publication Date: 14th April 2022
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Peter Furtado
ISBN: 9780500296134
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
UK Publication Date: 3rd March 2022
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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An eye-opening anthology from the bestselling editor of Histories of Nations, exploring how people around the globe have suffered and survived during plague and pandemic, from the ancient world to the present.
(Paperback)
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Murray Books
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(Hardback)
By: Anthony Roberts
ISBN: 9781399068482
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 28th February 2023
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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Reveals the author's truly amazing medical career that spanned more than forty years, detailing how the author used his expertise to treat victims of wars and other disasters around the world, ranging from horrendous fires to earthquakes
By: Richard Knott
ISBN: 9781473833968
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2017
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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Highlights the human cost of being posted abroad in wartime: exile and its impact; the censorship of correspondence; the difference between 'good' and 'bad' wars; separation and communication.
(Paperback, Revised edition)
By: Philip Temple
ISBN: 9781869664664
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: New Holland Publishers (NZ) Ltd
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A magnificent profile charting New Zealand's geography, ecology, social and cultural history, economy and politics enriched throughout by historical artworks, maps and archive photography.
By: Esther Bilton
ISBN: 9781473867093
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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First-hand accounts written shortly after the event.
(Paperback, MMP)
By: Johan Norberg
ISBN: 9781786070654
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
UK Publication Date: 6th April 2017
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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In the time that it takes you to read the first chapter,over 2,000 people will have escaped from poverty
(Paperback)
By: Jeff Champion
ISBN: 9781473886643
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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The first biography of Pyrrhus in English for over half a century.
By: Julian Lewis
ISBN: 9781848842168
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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By: James Holland
ISBN: 9780233005263
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
Publisher: Welbeck Publishing Group
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RAF 100 celebrates and commemorates the 100-year anniversary of the Royal Air Force. Officially endorsed by the RAF, and with unique access to the their historic archives, the world-renowned broadcaster James Holland uses photographs and documents to bring the story of the people, planes and missions to life as never before.
By: Jon Sutherland
ISBN: 9781848843035
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2010
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Norman Franks
ISBN: 9781473861305
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2017
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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Acquaints the reader with the history of the ASR service during this conflict and the ways in which rescue techniques were developed in response to the increasingly perilous challenges of the war.
By: David Arscott
ISBN: 9781907184253
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2010
Publisher: Salariya Book Company Ltd
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When war broke out in 1939, few knew that they would soon be fighting to survive, let alone how or when it would end. This title looks at the measures the British government took to ensure the wellbeing of its people during wartime, and how the British public dealt with it.
By: David Pilling
ISBN: 9781526763204
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2020
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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The first full-length study of the Disinherited since 1959.
