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The Running Book
John Connell
Read more ▸ Pre-order ▸A Journey through Memory, Landscape and History
From the award-winning, No.1 bestselling author of The Cow Book
In The...
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Lawrence in Arabia
Scott Anderson
Read more ▸ Order ▸War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
The Arab Revolt against...
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Geniuses at War
David A. Price
Read more ▸ Pre-order ▸Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age
The dramatic, untold story of the...
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Passchendaele
Paul Ham (author)
Read more ▸ Order ▸One hundred years on…
On 18 July 1917, a heavy artillery barrage was unleashed by the...
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Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955
Harald Jahner
Read more ▸ Order ▸Germany, 1945: a country in ruins. Cities have been reduced to rubble and more than...
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The Shortest History of England
James Hawes
Read more ▸ Order ▸As Hawes journeys from Caesar to Brexit via Conquest, Empire and War, he tells a...
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The Five
Hallie Rubenhold
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A stunning book that sparks life back into women who are famous only as...
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A Man on the Moon
Andrew Chaikin
Read more ▸ Order ▸This is the definitive account of the heroic Apollo programme.
When astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz...
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The Mathematics of the Gods and the Algorithms of Men
Paolo Zellini
Read more ▸ Order ▸Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Do numbers truly exist? What sort of reality...
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Palace of Palms:
Kate Teltscher
Read more ▸ Order ▸Daringly innovative when it opened in 1848, the Palm House in Kew Gardens remains one...
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The Secret Life of the Savoy
Olivia Williams
Read more ▸ Order ▸“For The Gondoliers-themed birthday dinner, the hotel obligingly flooded the courtyard to conjure the Grand...
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Sicily ’43
James Holland
Read more ▸ Order ▸This is the story of the biggest seaborne landing in history.
Codenamed Operation HUSKY, the assault...