StartPrev876877878879880881882883884NextEnd
(Hardback)
By: Paul Thomas Chamberlin
ISBN: 9781529333848
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 8th May 2025
Publisher: John Murray Press
See more...
A powerful, unsparing new history of World War II, recasting the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperial powers.
(Hardback)
By: Fred A Wilcox
ISBN: 9781609801380
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
See more...
"Scorched Earth is the first book to chronicle the effects of chemical warfare on the Vietnamese people and their environment, where, even today, more than 3 million people--including 500,000 children--are sick and dying from birth defects, cancer, and other illnesses that can be directly traced to Agent Orange/dioxin exposure."--Publisher's description.
(Paperback)
By: Gail Collins
ISBN: 9780061139628
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
See more...
From Thomas Jefferson to William Jefferson Clinton, this history of gossip in American politics includes anecdotes of major and minor politicians and entertainers over the past 200 years.
(Paperback)
By: Michael Lynch
ISBN: 9780712698931
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1992
UK Publication Date: 8th October 1992
Publisher: Vintage
See more...
From Bannockburn and Robert the Bruce to the union of the crowns and Mary, Queen of Scots; from the Reformation and John Knox, to the Enlightenment and the Highland Clearances, and right up to devolution, this book tells the history of a country that has experienced centuries of dramatic change.
(Paperback)
By: Rosemary Goring
ISBN: 9780241969168
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2014
UK Publication Date: 6th February 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
See more...
Offers an account of Scotland's history, composed of eye-witness accounts by those who experienced it first-hand. This title features key historic moments - ranging from Bannockburn and Flodden to the SNP parliamentary victory in 2007 - along with an array of readable insights into the everyday life of Scotland through the millennia.
(Paperback)
By: Magnus Magnusson
ISBN: 9780006531913
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2001
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2001
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
See more...
A look at Scotland's long and difficult road to nationhood, re-exploring some cherished myths.
(Paperback)
By: Dr David Allan
ISBN: 9781473608726
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: John Murray Press
See more...
The most student-focused to introduction Scottish History on the market.
(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
By: John Abernethy
ISBN: 9780008251109
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2017
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
See more...
The perfect stocking filler for lovers of Scottish History.
From prehistoric Scotland to the Brexit referendum, this pocket-sized book covers all of the main events in Scottish history.
(Hardback)
By: David Swift
ISBN: 9781408719701
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
UK Publication Date: 27th March 2025
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
See more...
The untold history of Liverpool.
(Paperback)
By: Robert K Wilcox
ISBN: 9781908059000
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2011
UK Publication Date: 15th September 2011
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
See more...
The real Top Gun - the dramatic account of the US Navy's fighter pilots and how they took back the skies over Vietnam
(Paperback)
By: Douglas C. Dildy
ISBN: 9781472818898
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
UK Publication Date: 21st September 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...
Publishing in the 35th anniversary of the Falklands War, this fully illustrated book examines the actions between Royal Navy Sea Harriers and the French-built Argentine Air Force Mirage III and Dagger aircraft.
(Paperback)
By: Commander Sharkey Ward
ISBN: 9780304355426
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2001
UK Publication Date: 7th December 2000
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
See more...
The controversial account of what really happened in the south Atlantic skies
(Hardback)
By: Karen Dolby
ISBN: 9781789293760
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2022
UK Publication Date: 16th September 2021
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
See more...
A rousing collection of the most memorable and feel-good shanties in maritime history.
(Paperback)
By: Tim Clayton
ISBN: 9780349122892
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2012
UK Publication Date: 5th July 2012
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
See more...
* A fascinating book about an otherwise neglected aspect of the Second World War
(Hardback)
By: John Harland
ISBN: 9781472982377
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
See more...
(Hardback)
By: Ben Cleary
ISBN: 9781455535804
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
See more...
Historian Ben Cleary takes readers beyond the legend of Stonewall Jackson and directly onto the Civil War battlefields on which he fought, and where a country once again finds itself at a crossroads.
(Paperback)
By: Dominic Sandbrook
ISBN: 9780141032160
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
UK Publication Date: 28th February 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
See more...
The late 1970s were Britain's years of strife and the good life. They saw inflation, riots, the peak of trade union power - and also the birth of home computers, the rise of the ready meal and the triumph of a Grantham grocer's daughter who would change everything. This title is an account of the late 1970s in Britain.
(Paperback)
By: Richard Vinen
ISBN: 9780141993171
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
See more...
(Hardback)
By: Richard Vinen
ISBN: 9780241454534
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
See more...
(Paperback)
By: Sinclair McKay
ISBN: 9781472284556
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 23rd June 2022
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
See more...
From the bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bletchley Park and Bletchley Park Brainteasers comes an exciting new book that journeys around the top secret and hidden WWII bases and battlegrounds in the UK, and tells the story of the brave men and women who fought and trained in them.
(Paperback)
By: Justin Pollard
ISBN: 9781848541993
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2010
Publisher: John Murray Press
See more...
Justin Pollard unveils Britain's secret history . . . shhh, don't tell anyone
(Paperback)
By: James Kirchick
ISBN: 9781250871466
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
Publisher: St Martin's Press
See more...
Washington, D.C., has always been a city of secrets. Few have been more dramatic than the ones revealed in James Kirchicks Secret City.
(Paperback)
By: Yossef Bodansky
ISBN: 9780060736804
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
See more...
The best-selling author of Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America draws on hard-won expertise to offer a groundbreaking study of the war that removed Saddam Hussein from power and offers a provocative analysis of the short-term and long-term repercussions of the war.
(Paperback)
By: Marcus Binney
ISBN: 9780340829103
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2006
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division
See more...
A fascinating look at the hidden deeds of the male agents of Britain's Special Operations Executive during World War II, from the author of the hugely popular THE WOMEN WHO LIVED FOR DANGER.
