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(Paperback)
By: Steven J. Zaloga
ISBN: 9781472848543
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 23rd June 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A new illustrated history of one of the key air campaigns of late World War II - the American effort to cripple Germany's oil production, and grind its armed forces to a halt.
(Hardback)
By: W. Henry Sledge
ISBN: 9798888458488
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
Publisher: Post Hill Press
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By: Alexis De Tocqueville
ISBN: 9780385092609
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1999
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
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(Hardback, Main)
By: Terry Coleman
ISBN: 9780571311255
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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The brilliantly researched and thrillingly told history of one of the greatest theatres in the world.
(Hardback)
By: Amitav Acharya
ISBN: 9781399811743
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 10th April 2025
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The epic story of the past, present, and future of world order, revealing how the decline of the West may be a good thing for the world.
(Paperback)
By: Eric Blehm
ISBN: 9780061661235
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2011
UK Publication Date: 20th January 2011
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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"The Only Thing Worth Dying For" is not only brilliant, it's the one book you must read if you have any hope of understanding what our fine American soldiers are up against in Afghanistan.--former Congressman Charlie Wilson.
(Paperback)
By: Michael Hastings
ISBN: 9780753829387
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
UK Publication Date: 21st February 2013
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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Six rollercoaster weeks that brought down America's top general by the ROLLING STONE journalist who broke the story - now the inspiration for the major motion picture WAR MACHINE.
By: W Travis Hanes
ISBN: 9781402201493
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2004
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc
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By the early 19th century, 90 percent of the Emperor's court and the majority of the army were opium addicts. This book recounts the tragic story of the 2 Opium Wars of 1839-1842 and 1856-1860 between Britain and China through the eyes of the Chinese as well as the Imperial West.
(Paperback, Media Tie-In)
By: Kevin Flynn
ISBN: 9781668092132
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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(Paperback)
By: Tom Reiss
ISBN: 9780099483779
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2006
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2006
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The Orientalist unravels the mysterious life of a man born on the border between West and East, a Jewish man with a passion for the Arab world.
Tom Reiss first came across the man who called himself 'Kurban Said' when he went to the ex-USSR to research the oil business on the Caspian Sea, and discovered a novel instead.
(Paperback)
By: Christopher Browning
ISBN: 9780099454823
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2005
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2005
Publisher: Cornerstone
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Offers an analysis of the descent of the Nazi persecution of the Jews into mass murder. Arguing that genocide was not a preconceived plan, this book explains how the decision to murder the Jews en masse emerged in stages and by a process of elimination that gradually foreclosed plans for their expulsion from Europe.
(Paperback)
By: Maria Rosa Menocal
ISBN: 9780316168717
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2001
UK Publication Date: 3rd July 2003
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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How Muslims, Jews and Christians created a culture of tolerance in medieval Spain.
(Hardback)
By: Michael Waters
ISBN: 9781529910193
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2024
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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(Paperback, Main)
By: Luc Sante
ISBN: 9780571241293
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2017
UK Publication Date: 5th January 2017
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A tour of the lost Paris of the last two centuries - poor, unvarnished and truly bohemian.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Paul Strathern
ISBN: 9781838955182
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
UK Publication Date: 7th March 2024
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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An original and compelling history of the northern European medieval renaissance in art, science and philosophy, which rivalled its Italian counterpart, by the author of The Florentines and The Borgias.
(Paperback)
By: Halil Inalcik
ISBN: 9781842124420
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2001
UK Publication Date: 7th December 2000
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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Covering the greatest three centuries of Turkish history, this book tells the story of the Ottoman Empire's growth into a vast Middle Eastern Power.
(Paperback)
By: Jake Tapper
ISBN: 9780008359362
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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(Hardback)
By: James Holland
ISBN: 9780718186524
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Dale Dye
ISBN: 9781472810618
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2015
UK Publication Date: 20th July 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Reveals each of the major battles that America would fight in the ensuing struggle against Imperial Japan. In this title, each chapter discloses both the horrors of the battle and the Allies' grim yet heroic determination to wrest victory from what often seemed to be certain defeat, offering a guide to the long road to victory in the Pacific.
(Paperback)
By: Joseph Hone
ISBN: 9781529111408
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 14th April 2022
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The printer was not the only villain, though, and Harley had to find the unknown writers who wished to bring the government down.
Full of original research, The Paper Chase tears through the backstreets of London and its corridors of power as Edwardss allegiances waver and Harleys grasp on parliament threatens to slip.
(Paperback)
By: Gabriele Esposito
ISBN: 9781472834447
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
UK Publication Date: 31st October 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This highly illustrated study examines, in detail, the brutal Paraguayan War of 1864--70, one of the largest and bloodiest conflicts in South American history.
(Paperback)
By: Max Arthur
ISBN: 9781444787573
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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The soldiers of one of the world's most famous fighting forces, the Paras, tell the gripping story of the regiment in their own words.
(Paperback)
By: Max Arthur
ISBN: 9781444787566
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
UK Publication Date: 20th September 2018
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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The soldiers of one of the world's most famous fighting forces, the Paras, tell the gripping story of the regiment in their own words.
(Paperback)
By: Paul Kennedy
ISBN: 9780140285871
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2007
UK Publication Date: 26th July 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Can the world be governed by agreement rather than conflict In 1945 the world's powerful nation states came together to 'save succeeding generations from the scourge of war and reaffirm faith in the fundamental human rights'. This title tells the story of the UN - its creation, the threats it has faced, and possibilities it holds for the future.
