Start Digging, You Bastards!
'We were to go through and take on targets of opportunity, to shoot up anything we could. Never at any stage can I remember any plan of us coming back, none of that was ever talked about ... We felt it was a suicide mission.' July 1942: the North African campaign rages and the Allies have been forced to retreat...Paperback$3299Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
The Repair Shop: World War II
The latest book based on the BBC's BAFTA Award-winning show, The Repair Shop: World War II marks the 80th anniversary of the international ending of World War II by sharing objects from the era and the stories behind them. Chapters include Secrets and Spies; The Home Front; Children and the War; War in the Skies and Seas; The War Abroad;...Hardback$4999Elsewhere:$6000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Born Survivors
Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its infamous gates with a secret. Strangers to each other, they were newly pregnant, and facing an uncertain fate without their husbands. Alone, scared, and with so many loved ones already lost to the Nazis, these young women were privately determined to...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Always Remember Your Name
‘These two sisters might be some of our final living first-hand witnesses to the horrors of the Holocaust. With this book, they break the silence and give us the immeasurable gift of their story.’ - Gwen Strauss, author of The Nine On 28 March 1944, Italian sisters Tati (six) and Andra (four) were roused from their sleep and taken to...Paperback$2499Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
A Historian in Gaza
Nothing could prepare historian Jean-Pierre Filiu for what he encountered in Gaza. Noted historian of Gaza, Jean-Pierre Filiu, spent a month there between December and January 2025. This is his up-close, immersive documentary of reality inside the Palestinian enclave.Filiu is a historian who specialises in Gazan history, and has travelled there regularly since 1980. He also knows the Arabic...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$3700Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Milena and Margarete
From the moment they met in 1940 in Ravensbrück concentration camp, Milena Jesenská and Margarete Buber-Neumann were inseparable. Czech Milena was Kafka's first translator and epistolary lover, and a journalist opposed to fascism. A non-conformist, bisexual feminist, she was way ahead of her time. With the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, her home became a central meeting place for Jewish refugees....Paperback$3299Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Tank
An authoritative history of the tank and the remarkable individuals who designed them and fought in them, from a former soldier and best-selling historian. Tanks are the ultimate embodiment of industrial age warfare. In the popular imagination, they represent both a terrifying beast of destruction and a potent symbol of liberation. The technology behind these war machines has evolved relentlessly,...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
The Book of Dirt
They chose not to speak and now they are gone… What’s left to fill the silence is no longer theirs. This is my story, woven from the threads of rumour and legend. Jakub Rand flees his village for Prague, only to find himself trapped by the Nazi occupation. Deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, he is forced to sort through...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
The People’s War
The first book to be published from the BBC's archive of forgotten voices and untold stories from the six years of World War Two. There was a German bomber flying right towards us - a Dornier, one of their biggest. It was so low we could see the pilot flying it and the gunner in the nose of the bomber...Hardback$5400Elsewhere:$6000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Oathbreakers
The authors of The Bright Ages return with a real-life Game of Thrones—the story of the Carolingian Civil War, a bloody, protracted battle pitting brother against brother, father against son, that would end an empire, upend a continent, and redefine the future of Europe. By the early ninth century, the Carolingian empire was at the height of its power. The...Paperback$3600Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Images of War
In a major research project, Glyn Harper and the National Army Museum combined official war photographs with more informal images to provide a moving visual history. Originally published in 2008, Images of War has now been beautifully redesigned as a stunning large-format hardback. While primarily drawn from the Museum's collection, many photographs from private sources were included. From more than...Hardback$9000Elsewhere:$9999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Indignity
The acclaimed author of Free returns with an imaginative investigation into dignity and historical injustice through the story of a family. When Lea Ypi discovers a photo of her grandmother, Leman, honeymooning in the Alps in 1941 posted by a stranger on social media, she is faced with unsettling questions. Growing up, she was told records of her grandmother's youth...Paperback$2999Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
The Sisterhood of Ravensbruck
A tale of great enterprise and great fortitude, and of wonderful female solidarity and nobility of spirit, in the bleakest of circumstances. For decades after World War II, histories of the French Resistance were written almost exclusively by men and largely ignored the contributions of women. Many current overviews of the subject continue to underplay the extent and importance of...Paperback$4100Elsewhere:$4500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
SAS Nazi Hunters
'A humbling, inspiring account of some of the real founders of modern day Special Forces soldiering' - Bear Grylls SAS Nazi Hunters is the incredible, hitherto untold story of the most secret chapter in the SAS's history. Officially, the world's most elite special forces unit was dissolved at the end of the Second World War, and not reactivated until the...Paperback$2399Elsewhere:$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
The Book of Lost Hours
'Gelfuso seamlessly blends elements of romance and fantasy into the twisty quest narrative, and packs excitement into every page. It's a delight.' Publishers Weekly Nuremberg, 1938: Lisavet Levy's watchmaker father saves her from the Nazis by pushing her through a mysterious doorway. There, she discovers the time space—a vast, magical library where memories of the past are stored in books....Paperback$3000Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
A New Voyage Round the World
A magical, substantially true narrative of piracy, zoology, anthropology, danger and adventure in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, Pacific and East Indies The first great English-language travel book, A New Voyage Round the World (1697) is an incomparably vivid, chaotic and fascinating account by the pirate, explorer and naturalist William Dampier of his many adventures. The world he describes sprawls all the...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Back From The Dead
1973: The incredible true story of the Blythe Star disaster, which left ten men shipwrecked and alone on the wild Southern Ocean off Tasmania. Almost two weeks later they were found on a remote trail on a southern peninsula, and their story would stun the nation ... and leave a powerful legacy in its wake. When the coastal freighter MV...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
The Last Secrets of Anne Frank
‘DEVASTATING’ Daily Mail ‘FASCINATING’ Daily Telegraph ‘POIGNANT’ TLS The extraordinary story of Bep Voskuijl, Anne Frank’s closest friend during the 761 days she spent in the Secret Annex. Bep Voskuijl was just twenty-three when the Franks went into hiding and she risked her life to protect them, sourcing food and medicine under the noses of German soldiers and Dutch spies....Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$2899Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Nancy Wake
The gripping true story of the woman who became the Gestapo's most wanted spy In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War, she was the Gestapo's most wanted person. As a naïve, young journalist, Nancy Wake witnessed a horrific scene of Nazi violence in...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
Victory '45
Celebrating the 80th anniversary of VE Day, bestselling historians James Holland and Al Murray tell the unflinching story of the eight surrenders that brought victory to the Allies and ended the Second World War. Victory '45 tells the story of the extraordinary summer when the greatest conflagration the world had ever known finally came to an end after eight surrenders...Paperback$2999Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
The Making of Auschwitz
The Making of Auschwitz provides a chilling blueprint for genocide, uncovering the deadly architecture behind the largest mass murder factory in history. Commemorating 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, The Making of Auschwitz reveals the chilling construction of the largest mass murder factory in history. Drawing from hundreds of captured German documents, architectural plans, and key records from the...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
The Swimmer of Auschwitz
The extraordinary story of an Olympian who was imprisoned in Auschwitz and survived to tell his story. Alfred Nakache, a Jewish child from Constantine, never imagined that he would one day swim for France at the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936, nor that he would achieve a world record, as he did in 1941. As a child, he was...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Aircraft of World War 2
Aircraft of World War 2 by Kieran Whitworth and The Imperial War Museum is the definitive visual history of key World War Two aircraft. This visually stunning, accessible, and fascinating account covers 50 key aircraft from World War Two, illustrated by the outstanding photograph archive of the Imperial War Museum. Delve into the origins, development, and operations of the iconic...Hardback$7999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands
Written in 1857, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivalled Florence Nightingale's during the Crimean War. Seacole's offer to volunteer as a nurse in the war met with racism and refusal. Undaunted, Seacole set out independently to the Crimea, where she acted as doctor and 'mother' to wounded soldiers...Paperback$2599Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
The Story of a Life
An astonishing memoir of the Holocaust through the eyes of a child, and an exquisite meditation on memory and trauma. The Story of a Life by Aharon Appelfeld chronicles his experiences as the beloved only child of middle-class Jewish parents living in what is now Ukraine at the outbreak of World War Two. Their peaceful life is upended when soldiers...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
The Mascot
One summer's day in 1997, Mark Kurzem returned home to find his father on his doorstep. Alex Kurzem had travelled halfway round the world to reveal a long-kept secret, and now wanted his son's help to piece together his past and his identity. As a five-year-old during the Second World War, Alex Kurzem had watched from a tree as his...Paperback$2800Elsewhere:$3100Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton
A revelatory new biography of the sinister, powerful, and paranoid man at the heart of the CIA for more than three tumultuous decades. In The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton, Jefferson Morley delivers a gripping biography of CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton, one of the most important unelected officials in the US government during the...Paperback$3600Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
The Hiroshima Men
At 8:15 a.m. on August 6th, 1945, the Japanese port city of Hiroshima was struck by the world's first atomic bomb. Built in the US by the top-secret Manhattan Project and delivered by a B-29 Superfortress, a revolutionary long-range bomber, the weapon destroyed large swaths of the city, instantly killing tens of thousands. The world would never be the same...Paperback$3400Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
SNAFU: The Definitive Guide to History's Greatest Screwups
From actor, comedian, writer, and host of the hit history podcast SNAFU, Ed Helms brings you an absurdly entertaining look at history's greatest screwups, complete with lively illustrations. History contains a plethora of insane screwups—otherwise known as SNAFUs. Coined during World War I, SNAFU is an acronym that stands for Situation Normal: All F*cked Up. In other words, "things are...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Cold Crematorium
Cold Crematorium, a lost classic of Holocaust literature, has been translated into English for the first time, 70 years after its original publication. József Debreczeni, the author, was not only a journalist and poet but also a survivor of the Holocaust. His work stands as a crystal-clear eyewitness account, chronicling the horrors he endured. 'A literary diamond... A Holocaust memoir...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Battles Map by Map
Famous battles from throughout history, mapped out in detail and explored in depth. Experience the world's most significant battles through bold, easy-to-grasp maps. Includes a foreword by Peter Snow, broadcaster and historian. Covering everything from the battlefields of the ancient world to the bomb-scarred landscapes of World War II and beyond, this book is packed with engrossing maps telling the...Hardback$7000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
The Civil Wars
John Carter's modern translation conveys the compelling style of the original. His extensive introduction provides an in-depth assessment of Appian as a historian and places the work in context. Taken from Appian's Roman History, the five books collected here form the sole surviving continuous historical narrative of the era between 133-35 BC — a time of anarchy and instability for...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Hitler's American Gamble
A riveting account of Pearl Harbor and the five history-making days that followed. This gripping book dramatizes the extraordinarily compressed and terrifying period between the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Hitler's declaration of war on the United States. These five days transformed much of the world and have shaped our own experience ever since. Simms and Laderman's aim...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$3500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
The Dragons and the Snakes
The first work to put forward a unified theory of how state and non-state threats now overlap and intersect. In 1993, a newly appointed CIA director warned that Western powers might have "slain a large dragon" with the fall of the USSR, but now faced a "bewildering variety of poisonous snakes." Since then, the dragons (state enemies such as Russia...Paperback$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy
An action-packed Cold War thriller set in the deserts of North Africa. A Soviet space scientist defects to win academic freedom, but western intelligence has other plans for him and sends an unnamed spy—perhaps the same reluctant hero of The IPCRESS File—to look after him. But what follows is a blood-streaked trail across three continents... Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy reveals...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
The Ipcress File
Len Deighton's best-selling first spy novel, now adapted into a major new ITV series. A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped. A secret British intelligence agency must find out why. But as the quarry is pursued from grimy Soho to the other side of the world, what seemed a straightforward mission turns into something far more sinister. With its sardonic, cool,...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
Babi Yar
The gripping, tragic account of Kyiv during the Second World War, based on the author's diaries as a young boy. The powerful rediscovered masterpiece of Kyiv during the Second World War, told by a young boy who saw it all. Read it and weep... Nothing I have read about that barbaric time has been as affecting as this gripping, disturbing...Hardback$3600Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2024 'Masterful and entrancing - this is big history at its best.' Professor Alice Roberts, author of Ancestors 'A real-life Indiana Jones takes readers on a dive through these underwater museums, revealing the sunken secrets of the past' The Times From a Bronze Age ship built during the age of Queen Nefertiti and filled with...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
Sword
On 6 June 1944 when the allied armies landed on D-Day, the Second World War had already lasted almost five years. Yet many of the British and American troops who invaded Normandy were virgin soldiers, never before committed to battle. They quit summer England to face within hours a storm of machine-gun and mortar fire. They witnessed scenes, above all...Paperback$3500Elsewhere:$4500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Story of a Secret State: My Report to the World
The incredible eyewitness account of wartime resistance, now in paperback. Insistently asks the question—What would you do? Would you fight, or acquiesce, or collaborate? ... Karski was deeply patriotic and ludicrously brave ... an astonishing testament of survival - Ben Macintyre, author of Operation Mincemeat It is 1939. Jan Karski, a brilliant young Polish student, enjoys a life of parties...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Spy Story
A classic Cold War thriller featuring computer hacking, nuclear submarines, and violence on the Arctic ice. Computer games run in a classified war studies centre in London. Nuclear submarines prowl beneath Arctic ice. And war games go into real time. Patrick Armstrong—possibly the same reluctant hero of The IPCRESS File—is sent to investigate. Patrick Armstrong is a tough, dedicated agent...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War
The dramatic and entertaining account of the revolution in Cuba, from the architect of its success. We were an army of shadows, of ghosts, walking as if to the beat of some dark psychic mechanism The Cuban Revolution changed the course of the twentieth century. Following years of brutal tyranny and poverty, a band of idealistic young people fought against...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Mexico Set
The second novel in the Game, Set and Match trilogy is a gripping study in the art of spy enrolment. World-weary agent Bernard Samson is losing control of his personal and professional life. Sent to Mexico to aid the defection of a KGB agent to the West, he has a chance to prove his worth. Instead, he is torn between...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Fighter
A myth-busting, page-turning history of the Battle of Britain History is swamped by patriotic myths about the aerial combat fought between the RAF and the Luftwaffe over the summer of 1940. In his gripping history of the Battle of Britain, Len Deighton drew on a decade of research and his own wartime experiences to puncture these myths and point towards...Paperback$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Blood, Tears and Folly
A magisterial history of the Second World War by best-selling novelist and former RAF pilot Len Deighton. This unflinching history of the darkest days of the Second World War covers the entire world stage, from the Battle of the Atlantic to Pearl Harbor. Rooted in the personal accounts of the soldiers themselves, Blood, Tears and Folly is a sweeping, moving...Paperback$3400Elsewhere:$3700Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
Blitzkrieg
A riveting history of the Nazi conquest of Western Europe This is the story of the Nazi conquest of western Europe, from Hitler's rise to power and 'lightning-fast war', to his fatal mistake in halting the German advance on Dunkirk in 1940. Drawing on technical mastery and interviews with both Allied and German participants, Blitzkrieg sets out the technical thinking...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
An Expensive Place to Die
An unnamed spy is entangled in Paris's seedy underworld in a rollercoaster Cold War thriller. An Expensive Place to Die transports readers to Paris in the 1960s, a city that caters to every taste, especially at the private 'clinic' run by the enigmatic Monsieur Datt on Avenue Foch. This clinic supplies psychedelic drugs and sexual favours to the city's elite,...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
A History of the Crusades II
Runciman's great Crusades trilogy reissued in Penguin Modern Classics 'The whole tale is one of faith and folly, courage and greed, hope and delusion' The triumph of the First Crusade transformed the eastern Mediterranean, creating a series of European-ruled states along the coast and in Armenia. But the region's Muslim rulers were far from defeated, and the major cities of...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
The Golden Throne
An immersive reconstruction of the life of the most feared and powerful man of the sixteenth century, from the author of The Lion House. Istanbul, 1538. The greatest of the Ottoman Sultans is at the pinnacle of world power, while his family and future are at the mercy of their own dynastic law—whichever of his five sons succeeds him must...Paperback$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Berlin Game
The first novel in the Bernard Samson series is a dazzling return to Deighton’s world of Cold War espionage. Embattled agent Bernard Samson is used to being passed over for promotion as his younger, more ambitious colleagues—including his own wife Fiona—rise up the ranks of MI6. When a valued agent in East Berlin warns the British of a mole at...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
Man's Search For Meaning
A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped (or didn't) with the experience. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest—and who offered proof that everything can be taken...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
On a Sea of Glass
On the night of 14/15 April 1912, a brand-new, supposedly unsinkable ship, the largest and most luxurious vessel in the world at the time, collided with an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage. Of the 2,208 people on board, only 712 were saved. The rest either drowned or froze to death in the icy-cold waters of the North Atlantic....Paperback$7495Elsewhere:$9800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
ClearanceRoman Soldier Operations Manual
A fascinating examination of every aspect of the Roman soldier, at the height of Rome’s imperial might, this highly illustrated manual gets to grips with what we know about the men of the legions. Every detail of a legionary’s life is shown, from what they wore and carried and how ranks were signified to where they slept at night and...Hardback$4699Elsewhere:$4999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
Mussolini's War
A gripping, vivid account of Italy's disastrous experience of the Second World War. While staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940. Then, with the wholly unexpected and sudden collapse of the French and British armies, Mussolini declared war on the Allies. This decision proved a horrifying miscalculation, dooming Italy to its own prolonged...Paperback$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Soldiers
A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle … Compelling — Daily Mail An unmissable read — Sunday Times Soldiers is a very personal gathering of sparkling, gripping tales by many writers, about men and women who have borne arms, reflecting bestselling historian Max Hastings’s lifetime of studying war. It rings the...Paperback$2899Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
The Miracle of Dunkirk
In May 1940, the remnants of the French and British armies, broken by Hitler's blitzkrieg, retreated to Dunkirk. Hemmed in by overwhelming Nazi strength, the 338,000 men gathered on the beach were all that stood between Hitler and Western Europe. Crush them, and the path to Paris and London was clear. Unable to retreat any farther, the Allied soldiers set...Paperback$4500Elsewhere:$5000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
The Legend of Albert Jacka
Our heroes can come from the most ordinary of places. As a shy young lad growing up in country Victoria, no one in the district had any idea the man Albert Jacka would become. Albert 'Bert' Jacka was 21 when Britain declared war on Germany in August 1914. A month and a half later, Bert enlisted in the Australian Imperial...Paperback$3400Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
The Whalebone Theatre: A Read with Jenna Pick
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK • A transporting, irresistible debut novel that takes its heroine, Cristabel Seagrave, from the gargantuan cavity of a beached whale into undercover operations during World War II—a story of love, bravery, lost innocence, and self-transformation. “Absolute aces... Quinn’s imagination and adventuresome spirit are a pleasure to behold.”...Paperback$4499Elsewhere:$5500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Great-Uncle Harry
Michael Palin recreates the extraordinary life and tragic death of a First World War soldier - his great-uncle Harry. From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, Harry, who died in tragic circumstances, he was determined to find out more about him. The quest that followed involved hundreds of hours of...Paperback$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
Nazi Billionaires
Lucid and damning ... an absorbing – and infuriating – tale of complicity, coverup and denial – PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, author of EMPIRE OF PAIN A groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions from the horrors of the Third Reich and World War II – and how the world allowed them to get away with it....Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Luck of the Draw
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "In the pursuit of authenticity, of accurate history and undeniable courage, no words matter more than, 'I was there.' Read Luck of the Draw and the life of Frank Murphy and ponder this: how did those boys do such things?" --Tom Hanks The epic true story of an American hero who flew during WWII,...Paperback$4400Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
The War for the Seas
The War for the Seas by Evan Mawdsley provides a comprehensive exploration of maritime warfare during World War II from an international perspective, challenging conventional understandings of the conflict. This bold and authoritative history recounts the monumental struggle for control of the seas, which was pivotal to the outcome of the war. Through gripping narration and meticulous research, Mawdsley elucidates...Paperback$5800Elsewhere:$6700Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
The Secret War
The Secret War by Max Hastings immerses readers in the shadowy realm of espionage and intelligence operations during the Second World War. Amidst the backdrop of global conflict, Hastings offers an enthralling account of the pivotal role that covert activities played in shaping the outcome of the war. This book delves into the intricate maze of espionage, codebreaking, and counterintelligence...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Not a Good Day to Die
Not a Good Day to Die by Sean Naylor recounts the harrowing story of Operation Anaconda, the first major battle of the 21st century, fought in the treacherous terrain of Afghanistan's Shahikot Valley. At dawn on March 2, 2002, over 200 soldiers from the 101st Airborne and the 10th Mountain Divisions were airlifted into the valley, unaware that they were...Paperback$4300Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Nemesis
Nemesis by Max Hastings is a masterful narrative that delves into the climactic battles of the Second World War, focusing specifically on the monumental and harrowing campaign in the Far East. This critically acclaimed volume serves as a poignant companion to Hastings' bestselling work, Armageddon. With his unparalleled expertise and gripping storytelling, Hastings brings clarity and depth to the complex...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
Dresden
Dresden by Sinclair McKay is a powerful and evocative narrative that delves into one of World War II’s most controversial and tragic events – the Allied bombing of the German city of Dresden. This bestselling historian presents a gripping account that marks the 75th anniversary of this catastrophic episode. In February 1945, as the war in Europe neared its devastating...Paperback$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
We will not cease
We Will Not Cease is the harrowing, true memoir of Archibald Baxter, a stalwart New Zealander who stood firm in his convictions during the brutal times of World War I. Arrested in 1915 at the age of 33 for his steadfast refusal to bear arms, Baxter's journey is one of relentless suffering, resilience, and unyielding spirit. Transported under confinement from...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Overlord
A compelling and masterly account of the D-Day landings from the No. 1 bestselling historian Max Hastings, author of Vietnam and Operation Pedestal. 'Max Hastings stands in the first rank of writers on modern war' - Financial Times On 6 June 1944 - D-Day - British, Canadian and American troops staged the greatest amphibious landing in history. It was the...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
The Ratline
The Sunday Times Bestseller From the Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize The Ratline by Philippe Sands is an enthralling historical investigation into one of the most intriguing and enigmatic figures of the Nazi regime, Otto Freiherr von Wächter. This meticulously researched narrative delves into the hidden life of Wächter, who, with his wife Charlotte, navigated the treacherous waters of...Paperback$2399Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
The Drowned And The Saved
The Drowned and the Saved is a profound exploration of the harrowing experiences of Holocaust survivors through the eyes of Primo Levi, a survivor himself. Levi delves deeply into the moral and ethical complexities faced by those who endured the concentration camps during World War II. The book is divided into a series of essays that contemplate the psychological state...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
East West Street
THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE and THE JQ-WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER ‘A monumental achievement: profoundly personal, told with love, anger and great precision’ - John le Carré ‘One of the most gripping and powerful books imaginable’ - SUNDAY TIMES In East West Street, international...Paperback$2499Elsewhere:$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Auschwitz – A Mother's Story
Suddenly there is a blow to my face, I am hurled to one side. 'My child, I have to go with her!' I scream. But Dr Mengel is standing before me, whip raised. 'Maul halten, shut up!' His eyes gleam. Filled with fear I cower down. In 1943, as Nazi power swept across central Europe, Rosa, her husband Emanuel and...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
An Economist Best Book of 2024 'Masterful and entrancing - this is big history at its best.' Professor Alice Roberts, author of Ancestors 'A real-life Indiana Jones takes readers on a dive through these underwater museums, revealing the sunken secrets of the past' The Times 'Fascinating... wonderful material, well researched and placed in its wider context' Spectator From a Bronze...Paperback$3600Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
A Spy Among Friends
NOW A MAJOR SIX-PART SERIES ON ITVX, STARRING DAMIAN LEWIS AND GUY PEARCE A SUNDAY TIMES No. 1 BESTSELLER WITH AN AFTERWORD BY JOHN LE CARRÉ A Spy Among Friends by Ben Macintyre delves into the astonishing true story of Kim Philby, a high-ranking British intelligence officer who became one of history's most dangerous Soviet moles. Set against the richly...Paperback$2200Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
The Dressmaker and the Hidden Soldier
The Dressmaker and the Hidden Soldier unveils a fascinating and heart-wrenching tale set against the harrowing backdrop of World War II. Based on the extraordinary true stories of a daring New Zealand soldier, Peter Blunden; a resilient young Greek dressmaker, Thalia Christidou; and a brave resistance heroine, Tasoula Paschilidou, this historical account weaves together love, courage, and fortitude in a...Paperback$3299Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
Take My Grief Away
Shocking and raw first person accounts of the war in Ukraine, from a prize-winning independent journalist. LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WRITING 'Read this book. Don't put it off until you'll supposedly be strong enough and ready for the reading. If you put it off, you'll find yourself defenseless in the face of evil.' - Svetlana...Paperback$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Smiley's People
The third and final novel of John le Carré's acclaimed 'Karla Trilogy', Smiley's People, published in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time, transports readers into the intricate world of espionage and Cold War intrigue. When a former agent is found murdered, George Smiley, retired but ever-observant, finds himself pulled back into the shadowy operations of the Secret Service. Despite...Paperback$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Red Famine
Red Famine by Anne Applebaum is a masterful and haunting account of one of the most devastating and tragic episodes of the 20th century - the Holodomor, the man-made famine that struck Ukraine in 1932-33. This meticulously researched book delves into the dire consequences of policies driven by ideology, where nearly four million Ukrainians succumbed to starvation, not by natural...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today 
November 1942
November 1942 is an intimate history of the pivotal phase of World War Two. An intimate history of the most important month of the Second World War - perhaps the century - as experienced by those who lived through it, completely based on their diaries, letters and memoirs. At the beginning of November 1942, it looked as if the Axis...Paperback$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today-
Legacy of Violence
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a searing, landmark study of the British Empire that lays bare its pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century. A NEW YORK TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, HISTORY TODAY AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR Masterly... This book is dynamite - ROBERT GILDEA, author of Empires of the Mind Winner of the NYU/Axinn Foundation...Paperback$3600Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
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