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Product Description Prize-winning historian Lawrence Freedman takes an exceptionally clear-eyed look at America's strategic predicament in the Mi...

Product Description How the age of the great WWI aces came to an end in the skies over the Western FrontAt the beginning of 1918 the great ac...

The encyclopaedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, adults cleared ...

Review This rewarding romp through the highways and byways of the past... is an immensely enjoyable book, written in a lively, engaging style ...

Review Written with brio, the novel races along with all the page-turning suspense of a thriller . . . a clever, involving read that brilliant...

The story of the splendidly unpredictable Russian dancer who ruffled the feathers of the Bloomsbury set and became the wife of John Maynard Keynes

Enchanting memoir of a struggling writer living and working in the eccentric Parisian bookshop, 'Shakespeare and Company' 'Shakespeare and Company...

The dramatic story of Budapest, a city on the fault line between East and West in the heart of Europe.

Product Description Buddhism is a faith that commands over 100 million followers throughout the world. Buddha stands with Christ, Confucius and M...

Review A staggering piece of writing: I had to start it again the minute I finished reading it, and it was just as shocking, absorbing and beautif...

Product Description Byron, more than any other poet, has come to personify the poet as rebel; imaginative and lawless, reaching beyond race, cree...

Review One of the great love stories of history in a league with Napoleon and Josephine and Antony and Cleopatra ... Excellent, with dazzling ...

Review Matt Rendell's passion for Colombia is evident in this wonderful sequel to Kings of the Mountains - another of his cycling books about ...

Review A biography as rich with colourful characters as any novel . . . As a biographer, Hamilton is a patient, perceptive portraitist, attuned to...

Review The inventor of the Rubik's Cube on what life and his beloved puzzle have taught him . . . An idiosyncratic and gripping memoir about h...

Review [An] entertaining chronicle...Foulkes's description of combat is as deliciously British as his vignette of teacakes and cream--Observer...

Book Description From the author of Horrible Histories comes the fourth volume in Terry Deary's gritty and humorous history series for adults. Pr...

Product Description The classic novel of the London Blitz, DARKNESS FALLS FROM THE AIR captures the chaos, absurdity and ultimately the tragedy o...

Product Description 'Fizzes with clever vignettes and juicy tidbits... [a] joyous romp of a book.' Guardian'A fascinating, rollicking book in...

Review A wonderful slice of social history, and Anne de Courcy is a skilled interviewer with a sure eye for the telling quotation or the stand...

Product Description Dolores is a glowing, beating heart of a book; Curtis' sentences manage to be both mysterious and precise, creating a potent ...

Review Rekindles some of the remarkable energy that drove the early Rawlins novels. . . . Mosley writes with great power here about themes tha...

Review A very readable tale of scientific investigation ― DAILY EXPRESS Product Description A radical, yet accessible, new theory of the origins...

Review A very beautiful novel, full of delicate people and filigree observation -- Nick HornbyA masterpiece from the very first image ... incl...