StartPrev540541542543544545546547548NextEnd
(Hardback)
By: Jeffrey Stern
ISBN: 9781541702455
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
See more...
A thrilling and emotional story about the bonds forged in war and good intentions gone wrong.
(Paperback)
By: Peter Marshall
ISBN: 9781844135370
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2007
UK Publication Date: 2nd August 2007
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
See more...
In the late 16th century the greatest philosophers, alchemists, astronomers, painters, and mathematicians of the day flocked to Prague to work under the patronage of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, an emperor more interested in the great minds of his times than in the exercise of his immense power.
(Paperback)
By: Thorsten Opper
ISBN: 9780714150918
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
UK Publication Date: 16th February 2015
Publisher: British Museum Press
See more...
Made from Bronze with eyes inlaid with glass pupils set in metal rings, the 'Meroe Head' is a magnificent portrait of Julius Caesar's great nephew and adopted heir Augustus (63 BC-AD 14).
(Hardback)
By: Joshua Hammer
ISBN: 9781668015445
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
See more...
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu, a rollicking adventure following three eccentric Victorian archeologists and linguists on a twenty-year quest to decipher cuneiform, the oldest script in the world.
(Paperback)
By: Brian Lane Herder
ISBN: 9781472842770
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
UK Publication Date: 10th December 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...
This detailed study reveals the history of the Meuse-Argonne campaign, the US Army's first full-scale offensive against German forces in France.
(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
By: Philip Robins
ISBN: 9781780749419
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
See more...
A fully revised and updated edition of this popular Beginner's Guide, covering the complexities of the Arab Spring.
(Paperback)
By: Viscount John Julius Norwich
ISBN: 9781844133086
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2007
UK Publication Date: 5th July 2007
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
See more...
The Mediterranean has nurtured three of the most dazzling civilisations of antiquity, witnessed the birth or growth of three of our greatest religions and links three of the world's six continents. This book tells the story of the Middle Sea itself - a story that begins with the Phoenicians and the Pharaohs and ends with the Treaty of Versailles.
(Hardback)
By: Jared Yates Sexton
ISBN: 9780593185230
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
UK Publication Date: 19th January 2023
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
See more...
(Hardback)
By: Donald Nijboer
ISBN: 9781472854216
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...
The perfect companion to Masters of the Air on Apple TV+, this is a superbly illustrated examination of the aircraft, pilots, crews and operations of the US Eighth Air Force.
(Paperback)
By: Gerald Astor
ISBN: 9780425281574
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2015
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
See more...
(Hardback)
By: DK
ISBN: 9781409383444
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2012
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2012
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
See more...
Stand to attention for the definitive visual guide to 5,000 years of military history, this book chronicles the changing technology and tactics of war. It brings military history to life that find out all about the battles, leaders and weapons of war that have changed the course of history and shaped the world.
(Paperback)
By: Tom McBride
ISBN: 9781402293467
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc
See more...
(Paperback)
By: Damien Lewis
ISBN: 9781529432336
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2023
UK Publication Date: 31st August 2023
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
See more...
'One of the most extraordinary stories of World War II - a howitzer of a tale that more people should know about' Daily Mail
(Paperback)
By: Robert A. Gross
ISBN: 9781250822949
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
Publisher: St Martin's Press
See more...
(Paperback)
By: J. Kael Weston
ISBN: 9780345806949
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
See more...
A former State Department official draws on a wide range of voices and stories to explore the human costs of conflict, asking hard questions about the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
(Hardback)
By: Daisy Dunn
ISBN: 9781474615617
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 23rd May 2024
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
See more...
A vivid portrait of the ancient world that illuminates the stories of the women so often pushed to history's sidelines
(Paperback)
By: Madeleine Bunting
ISBN: 9781784707163
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
See more...
In piecing together the fragments left behind from the love affairs between island women and German soldiers, the betrayals and black marketeering, to the individual acts of resistance Madeleine Bunting has brought this uncomfortable episode of British history into full view with spellbinding clarity.
(Paperback)
By: Chris Lehmann
ISBN: 9781612195582
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
See more...
A grand and startling work of American history.
(Hardback)
By: Daniel Schulman
ISBN: 9780451493545
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2023
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
See more...
(Hardback)
By: Nicholas Morton
ISBN: 9781399803557
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 27th October 2022
Publisher: John Murray Press
See more...
An epic account tracing the rise of the Mongol Empire.
(Paperback)
By: Nicholas Morton
ISBN: 9781399803564
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: John Murray Press
See more...
An epic account tracing the rise of the Mongol Empire.
(Paperback)
By: Robert M. Edsel
ISBN: 9781848091030
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
UK Publication Date: 3rd June 2010
Publisher: Cornerstone
See more...
Now a major film starring GEORGE CLOONEY, MATT DAMON, CATE BLANCHETT, BILL MURRAY, JOHN GOODMAN, HUGH BONNEVILLE, BOB BALABAN, JEAN DUJARDIN and DIMITRI LEONIDAS.
What if I told you that there was an epic story about World War II that has not been told, involving the most unlikely group of heroes
(Paperback, Main)
By: Elizabeth Drayson
ISBN: 9781781256879
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2018
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
See more...
A thrilling account of the life of Spain's last Moorish king and the ending of seven centuries of Spanish Islam.
(Paperback)
By: Richard Overy
ISBN: 9780141003252
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2010
UK Publication Date: 27th May 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
See more...
British intellectual life between the wars stood at the heart of modernity; it was the golden age of the public intellectual and scientist: Arnold Toynbee, Aldous and Julian Huxley, H G Wells, Marie Stopes and a host of others. This title opens a window onto the creative but anxious period between the First and Second World Wars.
