True stories: discovery, historical & scientific books

In the seventy years since the disappearance of Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan during a flight over...  Read More >>

The scandalous details of those who have made a name for themselves in New Zealand for all the wrong reasons - the...  Read More >>

Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books, Richard Holmes’s...  Read More >>

Strike from the Sea: U.S. Navy Attack Aircraft from Skyraider to Super Hornet 1948-Present celebrates carrier-based...  Read More >>

The perfect book for anyone wanting to understand the majesty of the British monarchy  Read More >>

Tells the story of brave Arctic explorers who died in their attempts to seek the North-West Passage and North Pole...  Read More >>

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MiG Killers: A Chronology of U.S. Air Victories in Vietnam 1965-1973 tells the dramatic story of U.S. Air Force...  Read More >>

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An in-depth look at the T-6 Texan, its contributions to Allied victory in World War II, and its subsequent uses...  Read More >>

Simultaneously connected and separated by television, millions of people around the world held their breath as a...  Read More >>

There is a great deal of interest in museums and what goes on behind the scenes. This title covers these overlooked...  Read More >>

Gunships: The Story of Spooky, Shadow, Stinger, and Spectre tells the dramatic story of transforming military cargo...  Read More >>

11 October 2009 marks the bicentennial of Meriwether Lewis' death. As the leader of the Lewis and Clark expedition,...  Read More >>

One day a woman of average means waltzes by a jewellery shop window and spots a £20,000 diamond necklace. She can't...  Read More >>

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Professor Tudor Parfitt, a real-life British Indiana Jones, has made the biggest discovery of the last 3,000 years...  Read More >>

Some expedition members questioned Robert Peary's decision to take a black man on the final leg of the Arctic journey....  Read More >>

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With the current renewed interest in nuclear energy, this candid account of an iradiated victims suffering is a...  Read More >>

Entertaining, profound, and marvelously readable, these two accounts of an 18th-century trip constitute both classics...  Read More >>

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"This thrilling memoir by the heroic African-American who was Peary's companion through two decades of Arctic exploration...  Read More >>

Black Mahler dramatically brings to life the true story of all but forgotten, English composer, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor...  Read More >>