New Paperback Books

John Strawson / The Battle for Italy

One of the Second World War's most brutal and dramatic campaigns brought to life in this vivid and epic history It could have all been over much quicker. In this gripping account, bestseller John...

Ferdinand Mount / Full Circle

So much about the society that is now emerging in the twenty-first century bears an astonishing resemblance to the most prominent features of what we call the classical world - its institutions, its...

Richard Greene / Russian Roulette

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Paul Glendinning / Maths in Minutes

Both simple and accessible, Maths in Minutes is a visually led introduction to 200 key mathematical ideas. Each concept is quick and easy to remember, described by means of an easy-to-understand...

Peter Jones / Eureka!

The ancient Greeks gave us our alphabet and much of our scientific, medical and cultural language; they invented democracy, atomic theory, and the rules of logic and geometry; laid the foundations of...

Charles T Powers / In the Memory of the Forest

Set in a small Polish village, this novel revolves around the aftermath of a violent death in the hushed woods beyond the town. It tells of one town, one death and one man's tireless search for the...

Claude Simon / The Flanders Road

During the German advance through Belgium into France in 1940, Captain de Reixach is shot dead by a sniper. Three witnesses, involved with him during his lifetime in different capacities - a distant...

Noel Mostert / The Line Upon A Wind

In February 1793 France declared war on Britain and Holland and by 1815, established dynasties and kingdoms were overthrown, the United States had been established as a world power and a new age was...

Edgar Allan Poe / Murders in the Rue Morgue

The Modern Library prides itself as ''The modern Library of the world s Best Books''. Since 1917 its paperback series has featured treasured classics, major translations of great works, and...

Robert Endeacott / Dirty Leeds

1961. Dirty Leeds is a struggling industrialised city in the north of England. Dirty Leeds is the city's club, sometimes called a football team; its home ground Elland Road, rarely called a stadium...

Sebag Montefiore / Catherine the Great and Potemkin

'One of the great love stories of history, in a league with Napoleon and Josephine, and Antony and Cleopatra... Excellent, with dazzling mastery of detail and literary flair' Economist It was...

Hugh Sebag-Montefiore / Dunkirk

* * * S pecial 75th Anniversary Edition * * * Hugh Sebag-Montefiore's Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man tells the story of the rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat by the...

Emil Draitser / Agent Dmitri

A sailor, artist, lawyer and writer, fluent in many languages, Dmitri Bystrolyotov was one of a team of outstanding Soviet spies operating in Western countries between the World Wars. He was a...

Bram Stoker / Bram Stoker's Dracula

Step into the chilling world of Count Dracula, the legendary vampire who haunts the shadows of Victorian England. Dracula is a Gothic horror masterpiece that unfolds through a series of diary...

Sam Kean / The Bastard Brigade

New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean tells the incredible story of how a renegade group of spies kept Hitler from obtaining his ultimate prize: a nuclear bomb     This book is second hand, and...

Richard Collier / The Sands of Dunkirk

Part of the SECOND WORLD WAR VOICES series, with a new introduction by bestselling historian James Holland, and in partnership with the podcast We Have Ways of Making You Talk, presented by comedian...

W. B. Bartlett / The Dam Busters

It was not long before midnight on 17 May 1943 when the inhabitants of Gunne, the German village close to the Mohne Dam, heard the airraid warnings. It was widely regarded as a precautionary measure,...

Lyn Smith / Heroes of the Holocaust

In March 2010, twenty-seven Britons who took matters into their own hands to protect Jews from the Nazis during one of the darkest times in human history were formally recognised as 'Heroes of the...

Mitchell Zuckoff / Lost in Shangri-La

An utterly gripping nonfiction adventure narrative, Lost in Shangri-La is an untold true story of war, survival, discovery, heroism, and a near-impossible rescue mission. Three months before the end...

Barney White Spunner / Partition

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Chris Petit / Mister Wolf

The new novel from the author of the highly acclaimed The Butchers of Berlin, soon to be a TV series Berlin, July 1944, a world of illicit jazz clubs, sexually generous young women, suspect art...

Theodor Storm / Hans and Heinz Kirch

Three of Storm's novellas. The early love story Immensee, is grouped with first English translations of Journey to a Hallig, a complex, lyrical story of an outer and an inner journey, and the title...

John Parker / Royal Marines Commandos

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Donald Calloway / 10 Wonders of the Rosary

In this easy-to-read introduction to the wondrous power of the holy Rosary, internationally acclaimed Mariologist and speaker Fr. Donald Calloway, MIC, shares some of the greatest triumphs and...

Erich Von Daniken / Chariots of the Gods

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Alasdair Cross / The Spitfire Kids

A bestselling BBC World Service ten-part series and podcast that celebrates the men and women who built and flew the Second World War's most famous fighter plane - the Spitfire     This book is...

Peter Padfield / Maritime Dominion and the Triumph of the Free World

Freedom of expression and individual enterprise have distinguished the societies of powers dominant at sea; and since supreme maritime nations have prevailed over their territorial rivals in the...

Grigory Rodchenkov / The Rodchenkov Affair

***Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, 2020 - the inside story of the Russian doping programme by the man behind it all*** One of the Financial Times 's 'Fifty people who shaped the...

Akwaeke Emezi / The Death of Vivek Oji

The astonishing new novel from the author of Freshwater - Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Wellcome Book Prize     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Mark B. Smith / The Russia Anxiety

'This exciting and provocative book blows apart misconceptions about the Russian past' Lara Douds, Times Higher Education Russia is an exceptional country, the biggest in the world. It is both...

Michael Macrone / Brush Up Your Shakespeare!

Most people can quote from the works of William Shakespeare whether they know it or not, but how many people know that it was Othello who first assumed a "foregone conclusion", or Mercutio who went...

Sebastian Haffner / The Meaning Of Hitler

A remarkable historical and psychological study of the enigma of Adolf Hitler and his impact on the twentieth century - by the bestselling author of DEFYING HITLER. 'Dazzlingly brilliant' OBSERVER...

Heinz Knoke / I flew for the Fuhrer

Heinz Knoke won Germany's highest award for gallantry: the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Joining the German air force on the eve of the Second World War, he fought throughout the conflict in a...

Lucas Paul / Gestapo the Story Behind the Nazis Machine of Terror

The names Klaus Barbie, Adolf Eichmann, Hermann Goering, Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler and Ernst Kaltenbrunner struck terror into law-abiding citizens let alone those who resisted Adolf Hitler...

David Ross / The Irish Writers: W B Yeats

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is considered to be one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. A writer of verse since his teenage years, it was the publishing of The Wanderings of Oisin...

David Gardner / The Hitler Bloodline

Adolf Hitler was one of six children born to his mother, and one of eight born to his father from two of his three marriages. Alois Hitler, né Schicklgruber, was an official of the Austrian customs...

Philipp Von Boeselager / Valkyrie

The last member of Operation Valkyrie - the daring July 20 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler - tells his remarkable story. 'The last of its kind... celebrates a long-since vanished generation... as...

Christopher Hilton / After The Berlin Wall

THE BERLIN WALL, one of the most powerful and enduring symbols of the Cold War, fell on 9 November1989. It would be another year before East and West Germany were officially reunified, but on this...

Oliver Burkeman / Meditations for Mortals

Stop trying to sort your life out. Start living. 'Full of wisdom and comfort' CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN 'A practical path toward personal transformation... A must-read' CAL NEWPORT Our lives can feel...

Danny Orbach / The Plots Against Hitler

In 1933, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. A year later, all parties but the Nazis had been outlawed, freedom of the press was but a memory, and Hitler's dominance seemed complete. Yet over...

Benjamin Carter Hett / The Death of Democracy

*A TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR* WHAT CAUSED THE FALL OF THE MOST PROGRESSIVE GOVERNMENT IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY EUROPE, AND THE RISE OF THE MOST TERRIFYING? In the 1930s, Germany was at a...

David Lewis / Man Who Invented Hitler

Throughout the First World War, Hitler never rose above the rank of lance corporal, and beforehand had been an impoverished drifter. Yet within a few months of the end of the war, he had embarked on...

Tony Le Tissier / Death Was Our Companion

As Hitler's dreams of a Thousand Year Reich crumbled in the face of overwhelming assaults from both East and West in the first months of 1945the heavily out numbered German armed forces were still...

Limor Regev / The Boy from Block 66

January, 1945. 14-year-old Moshe Kessler steps off the train at Buchenwald concentration camp. Having endured the horrors of Auschwitz-Birkenau, lost touch with his entire family, and survived the...

Adrian Weale / The SS

The SS was one of the most important institutions of Third Reich Germany, yet it is also among the least well understood. From the end of 1935, the SS had control over all police and internal...

Tim Coates / War, 1939

The text of this book includes the official diplomatic papers passed between Great Britain and Germany in the months before the declaration of war in September 1939     This book is second hand, and...

Richard Holmes / The Little Field Marshal

The definitive biography of Sir John French, by the increasingly famous Richard Holmes     This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in...

Hooman Majd / The Ministry of Guidance Invites You to Not Stay

What happens when you move to Iran, heartland of the 'Axis of Evil', with your family in tow? - asks Hooman Majd, author of the acclaimed The Ayatollah Begs to Differ and The Ayatollah's Democracy...

Slavenka Drakulic / They Would Never Hurt A Fly

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a...

Tom Fort / Against the Flow

'You have to be on your guard when you go back to special places. You may be able to locate them easily enough on the map, but maps tell only one story. Times change and places and people with them...

Michael Lynch / Teach Yourself Nazi Germany

The Teach Yourself History series offers an alternative to academic historical books, its content being extensive yet extremely accessible and the approach refreshingly different. The books are...

David Evans / Teach Yourself Stalin's Russia

This book will give you a full understanding Russia from the beginning of the twentieth century through to the Cold War. Follow the life, policies, and ideology of Joseph Stalin learn the background...