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The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler

The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled...

Author: Robert Hutton
ISBN: 9781474626033
Format: Paperback
$34.99

The astonishing story of how in Egypt, 1942, Colonel Dudley Clarke's ingenious, eccentric A Force thwarted the Nazis...  Read More >>

Sky Warriors: British Airborne Forces in the Second World War

Sky Warriors: British Airborne Forces in the Second...

Author: Saul David
ISBN: 9780008522179
Format: Paperback
$34.99

From bestselling historian Saul David, a riveting new history of the British airborne experience across the Second...  Read More >>

The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens

The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who...

Author: Nicola Clark
ISBN: 9781474622219
Format: Paperback
$34.99

A thrilling narrative history of the oft-overlooked yet hugely influential figures of the Tudor court: the ladies-in-waiting...  Read More >>

Men at War: Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945

Men at War: Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945...

Author: Luke Turner
ISBN: 9781474618878
Format: Paperback
$26.99

A radical blend of history, memoir and biography that looks beyond jingoistic myths to reveal a nuanced portrait...  Read More >>

Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

Author: Natalie Haynes
ISBN: 9781529089516
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The scintillating follow-up to Pandora's Jar from bestselling author Natalie Haynes.  Read More >>

German Tanks in France 1940: Armor in the Wehrmacht's greatest Blitzkrieg victory

German Tanks in France 1940: Armor in the Wehrmacht's...

Author: Steven J. Zaloga ,  Mr Felipe Rodríguez
ISBN: 9781472859440
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A fully illustrated new assessment of the German tank force that won its greatest victory in France during 1940....  Read More >>

Hamburg 1940–45: The long war against Germany's great port city

Hamburg 1940–45: The long war against Germany's great...

Author: Richard Worrall ,  Mads Bangsø
ISBN: 9781472859280
Format: Paperback
$34.99

The first book to cover the full history of the RAF's air war against Hamburg, one of the most important target...  Read More >>

Second Punic War in Iberia 220–206 BC: From Hannibal at the Tagus to the Battle of Ilipa

Second Punic War in Iberia 220–206 BC: From Hannibal...

Author: Mir Bahmanyar ,  Marco Capparoni
ISBN: 9781472859754
Format: Paperback
$34.99

The first dedicated, illustrated study of the events of the Second Punic War in Iberia, which served as a launch...  Read More >>

The Right Kind of White: A Memoir

The Right Kind of White: A Memoir

Author: Garrett Bucks
ISBN: 9781982197209
Format: Hardback
$55.00

A groundbreaking memoir documenting the various attempts the author makes to define himself in relation to other...  Read More >>

The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler

The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled...

Author: Robert Hutton
ISBN: 9781474626026
Format: Hardback
$59.99

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The Making of the Scottish Dream Vision

The Making of the Scottish Dream Vision

Author: Kylie M. Murray (Fellow, Fellow, Christ's College, Cambridge)
ISBN: 9780197266809
Format: Hardback
$158.95

This book covers dreams and visions in prose, poetry, Scots, Latin, and English, plus works that do not explicitly...  Read More >>

The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens

The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who...

Author: Nicola Clark
ISBN: 9781474622202
Format: Hardback
$55.00

A thrilling narrative history of the oft-overlooked yet hugely influential figures of the Tudor court: the ladies-in-waiting...  Read More >>

Saving Michelangelo's Dome: How Three Mathematicians and a Pope Sparked an Architectural Revolution

Saving Michelangelo's Dome: How Three Mathematicians...

Author: Wayne Kalayjian
ISBN: 9781639365869
Format: Hardback
$49.99

In 1742, when the legendary dome atop St. Peter’s Basilica—designed by Michelangelo—cracks and threatens to collapse,...  Read More >>

George Herbert and the Business of Practical Piety: Nudging Towards God

George Herbert and the Business of Practical Piety:...

Author: Ceri Sullivan (Professor of English Literature, Professor of English Literature, Cardiff University)
ISBN: 9780198906810
Format: Hardback
$149.95

George Herbert and the Business of Practical Piety employs contemporary nudge theory to illuminate the religious...  Read More >>

Sky Warriors: British Airborne Forces in the Second World War

Sky Warriors: British Airborne Forces in the Second...

Author: Saul David
ISBN: 9780008522162
Format: Hardback
$55.00

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Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline

Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline...

Author: Paul Cooper
ISBN: 9780715655009
Format: Hardback
$55.00

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Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World

Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern...

Author: Kathryn Hughes
ISBN: 9780008365103
Format: Hardback
$52.99

'Remarkable' Literary Review 'Startlingly original' Amanda Foreman Some called...  Read More >>

Nordic Welfare Cities: Negotiating Urban Citizenship since 1850

Nordic Welfare Cities: Negotiating Urban Citizenship...

Author: Magnus Linnarsson ,  Mats Hallenberg
ISBN: 9781032459110
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book examines Nordic cities from 1850 and their transformation from traditional, oligarchic towns to modern,...  Read More >>

The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution

The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution...

Author: Marci Shore
ISBN: 9780300276831
Format: Paperback
$30.95

A vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became the existential...  Read More >>

Roundhouse: Joe Berke and the 1967 Congress on the Dialectics of Liberation

Roundhouse: Joe Berke and the 1967 Congress on the Dialectics...

Author: Martin Levy
ISBN: 9783838216591
Format: Paperback
$89.76

This book, which is in part a biography of Joe Berke, traces the Congress on the Dialetics of Liberation from its...  Read More >>

Visualizing Household Health: Medieval Women, Art, and Knowledge in the Régime du corps

Visualizing Household Health: Medieval Women, Art, and...

Author: Jennifer Borland (Oklahoma State University)
ISBN: 9780271093468
Format: Paperback
$109.00

Examines several illustrated copies of the late medieval health guide known as the Régime du corps, demonstrating...  Read More >>

Early English Queens, 850–1000: Potestas Reginae

Early English Queens, 850–1000: Potestas Reginae

Author: Matthew Firth
ISBN: 9780367760939
Format: Paperback
$75.99

This book offers a comprehensive, biography-led examination of queenship in England between 850 and 1000, tracing...  Read More >>

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