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Macarthur's Spies: The Soldier, the Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in World War II
Author: Peter Eisner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A thrilling story of espionage, daring and deception set in the exotic landscape of occupied Manila during World War...
The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War
Author: David Nasaw Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 672 From bestselling author David Nasaw, a sweeping new history of the one million refugees left behind in Germany after WWII In...
American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
Author: Douglas Brinkley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 Now in paperback, an award-winning historian and perennial New York Times bestselling author takes a fresh look at the space program,...
Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace
Author: Max Hastings Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 'A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle ... Compelling' Daily...
The Times Queen Elizabeth II: A portrait of her 70-year reign
Author: James Owen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The ideal gift for royal fans. This is the story of a life dedicated to public service, reported by The Times...
Barbarossa: And the Bloodiest War in History
Author: Stewart Binns Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Drawing on remarkable and never-before-seen material, the extraordinary story of one of the most horrific and devastating encounters of...
Out of the Box: The crazy true story of the Australian champion athlete who posted himself home, became a drug smuggler and found himself on death row in a Sri Lankan prison
Author: Julie McSorley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Reg Spiers arrived in England in 1964 as a world-class athlete. He returned to Australia in a box ... ALIVE! And...
Persepolis I & II
Author: Marjane Satrapi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Now in one volume, both parts of Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi's brilliant memoir-in-comic-strips about growing up in Iran during and...
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
Author: Simon Winchester Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it,...
Open: An Autobiography
Author: Andre Agassi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 He is one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to...
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Author: Yuval Noah Harari Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? This bestselling history of our species...
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
Author: Simon Winchester Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter' New York...
VD: The Australian Army's experience of sexually transmitted diseases during the twentieth century
Author: Ian Howie-Willis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 386 Sexually transmitted diseases, for centuries lumped together as 'Venereal Disease', or 'VD' for short, have always marched in lock-step with soldiers...
The Celts: A Sceptical History
Author: Simon Jenkins (Columnist) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The history of the Celts is the history of a misnomer. There has never been a distinct people, race or...
Francis I: The Maker of Modern France
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Author: Leonie Frieda Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The bestselling author of Catherine de Medici returns to sixteenth-century Europe in this evocative and entertaining biography that recreates a remarkable...
Maoism: A Global History
Author: Julia Lovell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 624 Winner of the 2019 Cundill History Prize "Revelatory and instructive . . . [a] beautifully written and accessible book" -The Times...
Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler
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Author: Lynne Olson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The little-known true story of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, the woman who headed the largest spy network in...
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Author: Yuval Noah Harari Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. **THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER**...
Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave
Author: Zora Neale Hurston Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Abducted from Africa, sold in America. "A deeply affecting record of an extraordinary life"- Daily Telegraph A major...
Things I Learned from Falling
Author: Claire Nelson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 An inspirational and gripping first-person account of determination, adversity and survival against the odds. Last year, Claire Nelson made...
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
Author: Eric Berger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'Just read it.' Elon Musk The dramatic inside story of the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX-and Elon...
Hitch 22: A Memoir
Author: Christopher Hitchens Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award In this long-awaited and candid memoir, Hitchens re-traces the footsteps of his life...
We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
Author: Simu Liu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The star of Marvel's first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own...
Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower's campaign for Peace
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Author: Alex Von Tunzelmann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 A lively, revelatory popular history that tells the story of both the Suez Crisis and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956--a...
Meshi: A personal history of Japanese food
Author: Katherine Tamiko Arguile Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 For Katherine Tamiko Arguile, the Japanese food her mother cooked was a portal to a part of her that sometimes...
The Details: Iconic Men's Accessories
Author: Josh Sims Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The Details identifies the authentic classics amongst men's accessories and explains how each item has developed. The book tells...
Salvador Dali at Home
Author: Jackie De Burca Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Salvador Dali at Home explores the influence of Catalan culture and tradition, Dali's home life and the places he lived,...
The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places that Inspired Middle-earth
Author: John Garth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 A lavishly illustrated exploration of the places that inspired and shaped the work of J.R.R. Tolkien, creator of Middle-earth. This new...
The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi-Occupied France
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Author: Seth Meyerowitz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The remarkable, untold story of World War II American Air Force turret-gunner Staff Sergeant Arthur Meyerowitz, who was shot down over...
The Secrets of Art: Uncovering the mysteries and messages of great works of art
Author: Debra N. Mancoff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Discover the secrets, mysteries, hidden meanings and stories behind famous works of art. A book full of surprises, discoveries, forgotten...
Operation Thunderbolt Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport
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Author: Saul David Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The definitive account of one of the greatest Special Forces missions ever, the Raid of Entebbe, by acclaimed military...
This is Rembrandt
Author: Jorella Andrews Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 Rembrandt van Rijn is the quintessential Old Master. His intimately observed, vivid and profoundly atmospheric works are what many museum-goers consider...
Slaughterhouse 5: The Children's Crusade A Duty-Dance With Death
Author: Kurt Vonnegut Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Kurt Vonnegut's masterpiece, one of the very best anti-war novels ever written, a book both beloved and banned -...
White Nights: A Colombian Odyssey
Author: Austin Galt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'God made Colombia the most beautiful country in the world so he had to balance it by inhabiting it...
The Bronze Horseman
Author: Paullina Simons Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 A magnificent epic of love, war and Russia from the international bestselling author of TULLY and ROAD TO PARADISE...
Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel
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Author: Matti Friedman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 "Wondrous . . . Compelling . . . Piercing." --The New York Times Book Review Award-winning writer Matti Friedman's tale of...
Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath - and Beyond
Author: Geezer Butler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 A Rough Trade Book of the Year The much-anticipated first book from Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler With over 70 million...
Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
Author: Norman Ohler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The sensational account of the overwhelming role of drug-taking in the Third Reich - from Hitler and his entourage...
The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984
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Author: Dorian Lynskey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "Rich and compelling. . .Lynskey's account of the reach of 1984 is revelatory." --George Packer, The Atlantic An authoritative, wide-ranging, and...
The Unnamable Present
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Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 A decisive key to help grasp some of the essential points of what is happening around us. The ninth part of...
The McCartney Legacy: Volume 1: 1969-73
Author: Allan Kozinn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 720 In this first of a groundbreaking multivolume set, THE MCCARTNEY LEGACY, VOL 1: 1969-73 captures the life of Paul McCartney in...
Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II
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Author: Roger Moorhouse Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 An "exemplary" (Timothy Snyder, New York Times) history of the onset of World War II For Americans, World War II began...
The Stories We Tell: Every Piece of Your Story Matters
Author: Joanna Gaines Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 In her first solo memoir, New York Times bestselling author Joanna Gaines invites us on an authentic and deeply...
The Tale of the Tailor and the Three Dead Kings: A medieval ghost story
Author: Dan Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 A chilling medieval ghost story, first written by a 15th-century monk and now retold by historian Dan Jones. A chilling medieval...
Natural Histories
Author: Tom Baione Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 For the first time, Natural Histories allows readers a privileged glimpse of seldom-seen, fully illustrated scientific tomes from the American Museum...
Brazil: A Biography
Author: Lilia M Schwarcz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 800 A sweeping and absorbing biography of Brazil, from the sixteenth century to the present For many Americans, Brazil is a...
The Don Bradman Albums
Author: Sir Donald Bradman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 424 Sport is such an important part of our national identity that is hardly possible that a sportsperson can come along...
Watching the English
Author: Kate Fox Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: In this completely revised and updated edition of international bestseller WATCHING THE ENGLISH, anthropologist Kate Fox takes a revealing look...