History & Historical Biography

Geoffrey Best / Mid-Victorian Britain, 1851-75

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Mark Kurlansky / 1968 : The Year that Rocked the World

   `A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock...

Robin Gardiner / The Riddle Of The Titanic

    Ten years after the first exploration of the Titanic wreck two and a half miles under the north Atlantic, and eighty-four years after she sank, Robin Gardiner and Dan van der Vat reappraised...

Simone Simmons / Diana - The Last Word (Hardback)

 

Maureen Waller / 1700 : Scenes from London Life

   More than a capital city, Londoners had witnessed the unthinkable - the public execution of a king at Whitehall. Thousands had died in the Plague of 1665, then the Great Fire of 1666. But from...

Terry Coleman - The Railway Navvies - A History of the Men who made the Railways - Vintage Pelican PB 1970

This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways - the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Many were...

Jack Huberman / Bush Hater's Handbook

    The Bush-Haters Handbook is a godsend to those looking for a concise, mordantly entertaining overview of the Bush record and for those seeking the perfect gift book for that certain, special...

Guido Knopp / The SS: A Warning from History

   The best known but least understood organ of the Nazi state, the SS grew from a minor politician's small, unpaid bodyguard into a force which dominated the racial, cultural and professional...

Tim Coates / Bloody Sunday, 1972

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Mick O'Farrell / 50 Things You Didn't Know About 1916

    Even those who know a great deal about the Easter Rising may not know that there were temporary ceasefires in the St Stephen's Green area, to allow the park attendants to feed the Green's...

Julia Lovell / The Great Wall : China Against the World 1000 BC - AD 2000

   Legendarily 2,200 years old and 4,300 miles long, China's Great Wall seems to be a confident physical statement made by an advanced civilization, anxious to draw a line between itself and the...

Carlos Eire / Waiting For Snow In Havana

    A childhood in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous and cruel, like any other-but with certain differences. The neighbour's monkey was liable to escape and run across your roof...

Willy Lindwer / The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank

    Everyone knows the story of Anne Frank - the extraordinary Diary that she wrote during her two years in hiding in the Secret Annexe. But few know how that story ended. Here six women whose...

Anthony Sadler / The 15:17 to Paris

   The 15:17 to Paris is an amazing true story of friendship and bravery, of near terrorist attack averted by three young men who found the heroic unity and strength inside themselves at the moment...

Nelson Mandela / Long Walk To Freedom Vol 2 : 1962-1994

   The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, LONG WALK TO FREEDOM brilliantly recreates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny...

Ryan Tubridy / JFK in Ireland : Four Days That Changed a President (Large Paperback)

 

Kathy McKeon / Jackie's Girl : My Life with the Kennedy Family (Large Paperback)

 

Max Hastings / Warriors

   An exhilarating and uplifting account of the lives of sixteen `warriors' from the last three centuries, hand-picked for their bravery or extraordinary military experience by the eminent military...

Mark Owen / No Easy Day : The Only First-hand Account of the Navy Seal Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden

   THE GRIPPING FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNT OF BIN LADEN'S EXECUTIONFor the first time, read the first-hand account of the planning and execution of the extraordinary mission to kill the terrorist...

Nathaniel Fick / One Bullet Away : The making of a Marine Officer

   The most eloquent and personal story of a young man at war since Geoffrey Wellum's FIRST LIGHTUntil a winter evening in 1998 Nathaniel was just another history student on a comfortable career...

Carol Drinkwater / Suffragette

    18th June, 1910 We marched from the Embankment to the Albert Hall. It was a glorious day. The sun shone warmly. Everyone was in good spirits. There were aristocrats, artists, even my mother...

Jim Eldridge / Pyramid of Secrets

   It's 2554BC, and Pharaoh Khafra is building a great pyramid at Giza to rival those built by his predecessors. He is also making plans for what will become one of the most famous and iconic...

Tacitus - The Histories - Vintage Penguin Classics Edition 1984 ( originally 1964 ( Translated by Kenneth Wellesley

In AD68 Nero's suicide marked the end of the first dynasty of imperial Rome. The following year was one of drama and danger, though not of chaos. In the surviving books of his Histories the...

Hugh Sebag-Montefiore / Enigma : The Battle For The Code

 Breaking the German Enigma codes was not only about brilliant mathematicians and professors at Bletchley Park. There is another aspect of the story which it is only now possible to tell. It takes in...

The Book of the Kings and Queens of Britain

 Dr G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville was the consultant for Burke's Royal Families of the World, and his major work was the Chronology of World History. This specially commissioned Book of the Kings & Queens...

Graham Robb / The Ancient Paths : Discovering the Lost Map of Celtic Europe

 Graham Robb's The Ancient Paths will change the way you see European civilization. Inspired by a chance discovery, Robb became fascinated with the world of the Celts: their gods, their art, and,...

Karen Armstrong / The Great Transformation : The World in the Time of Buddha Socrates Confucius and Jeremiah

 The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it...

Catherine Bailey / The Secret Rooms : A Castle Filled with Intrigue, a Plotting Duchess and a Mysterious Death

 A castle filled with intrigue, a plotting duchess and a mysterious death in Catherine Bailey's The Secret Rooms. At 6 am on 21 April 1940 John the 9th Duke of Rutland, and one of Britain's...

Douglas Hyde - I Believed : The Autobiography of a Former British Communist - Vintage HB Reprint Ed 1952

Douglas Arnold Hyde (1911- 1996, was an English political journalist and writer. A communist, he was the news editor of the Daily Worker until 1948, when he resigned and converted to Catholicism. He...

Tom Carew / Jihad! The Secret War in Afghanistan

Most assiume that the British have never fought directly against the Soviet army. However, In 1980, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher had taken over the leadership of the West and the Soviets had...

Anne Somerset / Elizabeth I

  An acclaimed biography of Elizabeth I and an examination of the politics and intrigues of her Tudor court. Elizabeth I ruled England in defiance of convention, exercising supreme authority in a...

Steven O'Riordan / Whispering Hope : The True Story of the Magdalene Women

   At the conclusion of my discussions with one group of the Magdalene Women one of those present sang 'Whispering Hope'. A line from that song stays in my mind - 'when the dark midnight is over,...

Bruce Marshall / The White Rabbit

 The harrowing, and inspiring, story of the capture of one of Britain's top SOE agents in World War Two, his refusal to crack under the most horrific torture, and his final imprisonment in a...

The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches

 For better, for worse, the great public speakers have always had the power to change the world. Brian MacArthur's anthology includes the most famous and notorious speeches delivered in English since...

Russell Shorto / The Island at the Centre of the World : The Untold Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Founding of New York

 It was situated on a perfect natural harbour at the mouth of a great river leading into a huge new land. Manhattan Island was to grow into the most powerful city in the most powerful country in the...

Thomas Harding / The House by the Lake

 SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK`A passionate memoir.' Neil MacGregor`A superb portrait of twentieth century Germany seen...

Dang Thuy Tram / Last Night I Dreamed of Peace : The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram

 Remarkable. . . . A gift from a heroine who was killed at twenty-seven but whose voice has survived to remind us of the humanity and decency that endure amid--and despite--the horror and chaos of...

Sinclair McKay / The Secret Life of Bletchley Park : The History of the Wartime Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Were There

   Bletchley Park was where one of the war's most famous - and crucial - achievements was made: the cracking of Germany's "Enigma" code in which its most important military communications were...

Raymond Seitz / Over Here

   OVER HERE does for Great Britain what Alistair Cooke has done for the States. Raymond Seitz was US Ambassador to Britain from 1990 to 1994. Unlike the majority of his predecessors he didn't...

Peter Blake / The Arcadian Cipher

 Uncover an ancient code and investigate this extraordinary undercurrent of history.Fascinated from an early age by the paintings of Poussin, Leonardo and other great master, Peter Blake has watched...

Reinhard Rurup - Berlin 1945 : A Documentation - WW2 - PB

Published by Arenhovel, Germany - this is the English language translation of the original documents, 5th Revised edition 2007.  A detailed examination of the conditions in Berlin in the fateful year...

Fletcher, H.L.V - Herefordshire : The County Book Series - Vintage HB with Map, Illustrated 1948

A hardcover first edition, Robert hale publishing, 1948 of a volume in their County books series covering Herefordshire, by H.L.V Fletcher.  Internally, in very good condition, illustrated...

Richard Church - Kent : The County Book - Vintage Hardcover 1948 WITH MAP

One of a set of books describing the traditional counties of the Britain as they existed before 1973. This volume covers Kent. The author gives a richly personal account of a pageant of two thousand...

Kitty Kelley / Nancy Reagan : The Unauthorized Biography (Hardback)

 The best-selling author turns her piercing eye to the former First Lady in an unauthorized account of Nancy Reagan's life      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the...

Desmond Ryan - Michael Collins and the Invisible Army - Vintage PB Anvil Press - War of Independence

Desmond Ryan, the literary executor of Padraig Pearse, was a pupil of his in St. Enda's College, Rathfarnham,  in the General Post Office, Dublin, in 1916, as did Michael Collins. He had the inside...

Ryan Tubridy / JFK in Ireland : Four Days That Changed a President (Hardback)

 In his first book, award-winning radio and TV presenter Ryan Tubridy tells the fascinating story of the iconic president John F Kennedy's visit to Ireland. The idolized, handsome and glamorous John...

Alan Bullock - Hitler and Stalin : Parallel Lives - HB Book Club Edition 1991 - Dual Biography

Alan Bullock's 1991 classic Hitler and Stalin was his crowning achievement, the magnum opus of one of the century's most admired historians--the distinguished Oxford scholar and author of the now...

Boris Johnson / The Churchill Factor : How One Man Made History

   A refreshingly original biography for fans of The Darkest Hour**'The must-read biography of the year.' Evening Standard'He writes with gusto... the result is a book that is never boring, genuinely...

Gerald Keegan / Famine Diary : Journey to a New World

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Jeremy Scahill / Blackwater : The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army

 Meet Blackwater USA, the private army that the US government has quietly hired to operate in international war zones and on American soil. Its contacts run from military and intelligence agencies to...

C. David Heymann / A Woman Named Jackie

 Based on interviews with over 600 people and access to CIA and FBI files, this biography of Jacqueline Onassis has been updated to include information about her illness and death. The author's...

Michael Asher / The Regiment : The Definitive Story of the SAS

 From the bestselling author of The Real Bravo Two Zero comes the definitive history of the world's most elite fighting force - the SAS'Breathtaking bravery, astonishing feats of endurance, raids and...