(Paperback, Main)

The Rosetta Stone has been in the British Museum for 200 years and is the single most visited object in the entire collection.

(Paperback)

A new history of the development of the Dutch fleet in the early 20th century, and the role these warships played in World War II, from the defense of Rotterdam to the Battle of the Java Sea and beyond.

(Paperback)

This illustrated study explores, in detail, the RAF's first concentrated air campaign of World War II against one of the hardest and most important targets in Germany -- the industrial heartland of the Ruhr that kept Hitler's war machine running.

(Paperback)

In 1900 just over a thousand British civil servants ruled a population of nearly 300 million people spread over a territory now covered by India, Pakistan, Burma and Bangladesh.

(Hardback)

The story of the surviving Russian Imperial Family as they head into a life of exile aboard the HMS Marlborough.

(Hardback)

An illustrated account of one of the most pivotal events in modern history the Russian revolution of 1917.

(Paperback)

The renowned Pan-Africanist and socialist analyses the Russian Revolution

(Paperback)

This definitive account reveals how the political and social progress of Britain has been inextricably intertwined with the strength - and weakness - of its sea power, from the desperate early campaigns against the Vikings to the defeat of the great Spanish Armada.

(Paperback)

Ypres today is an international 'Town of Peace'. But in 1914 the town, and the Salient, the 35-mile bulge in the Western Front, of which it is part, saw a 1500 day military campaign of mud and blood at the heart of the First World War that turned it into the devil's nursery.

(Paperback)

With a wealth of photographs, many from the SAS Regimental Archives, this book captures the danger and excitement of the initial SAS raids against Axis airfields during the Desert War, the battles in Italy and those following the D-Day landings, the dramatic final push into Germany itself and the discovery of such Nazi horrors as Belsen.

(Hardback)

An extraordinarily gripping narrative of how Britain, seemingly on the ropes after losing control of America and growing internal dissent - built the military and naval might to defeat Napoleon -- and in doing so transformed her destiny

(Paperback)

The Special Boat Squadron was Britain's most exclusive Special Forces unit during World War II. Highly trained, and totally secretive, the SBS was established as an entity in its own right in early 1943. With the interviews of the surviving members of the unit, this title gathers the forgotten dramatic exploits of this fighting force.

(Hardback)

The extraordinary true story of progressive schoolteacher, Anna Essinger, the woman who defied Hitler, smuggling her school and its pupils from Nazi Germany to the safety of England

(Paperback)

Provides a key focus for the ongoing debate regarding Scotland's future. This book is drawn from research and exploring everything from the high politics of the devolved parliament to the everyday effects of huge and growing levels of social inequality. It features debates on the possibilities of Scottish independence.

(Paperback)

Nothing experienced in human history, before or since, eclipses the terror, tragedy and scale of the Black Death, the disease which killed millions of people in Medieval Europe. By the time it completed its pestilential journey through the British Isles in 1350, the Black Death had left half the population dead.

(Paperback)

In the early nineteenth century China remained almost untouched by British and European powers - but as new technology started to change this balance, foreigners gathered like wolves around the weakening Qing Empire. This book explains the roots of China's complex relationship with the West.

(Paperback)

In the last hours of the 1916 Easter Rising, 20-year old Charlie Saurin came face to face with his Commander-in-Chief, Patrick Pearse. In a final gamble, Pearse had a desperate plan to save the collapsing rebellion. It required the sacrifice of Saurin and his comrades.

(Hardback, 2nd edition)

This work considers the history and development of the sea chart and the related nautical map, in both scientific and aesthetic terms.

(Paperback)

'The biggest discovery since Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon unearthed Tutankhamun in 1922'
The Sunday Times

(Paperback)

This book pursues an enduring puzzle that has stumped historians for centuries and seduced novelists and filmmakers down to this day. Who was the man who wore an iron mask and was kept in prison for years during the reign of the Sun King, Louis XIV Paul Sonnino brilliantly traces his decade-long quest to solve the mystery.

(Hardback)

This book pursues an enduring puzzle that has stumped historians for centuries and seduced novelists and filmmakers down to this day. Who was the man who wore an iron mask and was kept in prison for years during the reign of the Sun King, Louis XIV Paul Sonnino brilliantly traces his decade-long quest to solve the mystery.

(Paperback)

(Paperback, Main)

A wonderful, and timely, celebration of the passing seasons and their significance, past, present and future.

(Hardback)

Parsons uses vivid detail to show how Africans, Asians, Arabs, and West Indians brought about the demise of the seemingly invincible British Empire by refusing to be treated as inferior imperial subjects. He traces the empires legacies the new cultures and norms that arose from its global networks of commerce, migration, and cultural exchange.