A wide-ranging account of how innovation, economic conditions and ambition transformed early railways into a global revolution that reshaped the modern world.
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Stealing Hitler’s Rocket: The Incredible Mission to Smuggle a V-2 Rocket Out of Nazi-Occupied Europe to Britain, by Guy Walters
In 1943 Allied reconnaissance identified a major military development site on the Baltic coast, and so began a complex and hazardous smuggling mission of supersonic weaponry.
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Empire’s Witness: A Soldier’s Secret War Diary 1942-5, by Philip James Day
A moving and beautifully crafted blend of wartime memoir, transforming one soldier’s forgotten journal into an extraordinary journey across the British Empire and back home again.
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Watching the Detectives: An Aspects of Crime Short Story Collection
Watching the Detectives is an exciting and engaging anthology that combines crime writing, psychological suspense and science fiction.
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The Coming of the Railway: A New Global History, 1750-1850, by David Gwyn
A wide-ranging account of how innovation, economic conditions and ambition transformed early railways into a global revolution that reshaped the modern world.
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Shadow of a Queen, by Peter Tonkin
Robert Poley returns amid the intrigue surrounding Mary, Queen of Scots’s captivity in another of Peter Tonkin's depiction of plots and political tension in Elizabethan England.
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Berlin: Endgame 1945, by Prit Buttar
A study of the fall of Berlin revealing how rivalries, ideology, and personal testimonies defined the chaotic end of the Nazi regime.
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Building Britannia: A History of Britain in 25 Buildings, by Steven Parissien
British history is traced through 25 iconic buildings – from Maiden Castle to 30 St Mary Axe – in this blend of architectural perusal and cultural insight.
Ella Beales The Fires of Gallipoli is more than just a wartime history, it is a tale of epic friendship and its trials and joys. The book is full of the rich detail you would expect from an author with personal experience of his subject matter. This is definitely a book for Shakespearian Scholars. This is an immaculately researched book, written in a fluent and engaging style. This book is a fascinating insight into the mind of a far thinking officer with, in many respects, a brilliant mind. The relentless pace, the breath-taking action and the engaging characters all combine to produce a tale that keeps you hooked from the first page to the last. This is a book about much more than a house. It’s a book about the headquarters of a resistance movement. Michael Ward A Leap in the Dark is a fast-moving crime adventure based in Edinburgh in 1798. A comprehensive guide that makes the subject more accessible to readers. An important and fascinating story written in considerable detail.
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The Fires of Gallipoli, by Barney Campbell
Found, by Will Erikson
A Serpent in the Garden, by Howard Linskey
The Last Days of Budapest, by Adam LeBor
Military Maverick – Selected Letters and War Diary Of ‘Chink’ Dorman Smith, by Lavinia Greacen
Oath Breaker, by Adam Staten
Churchill’s Citadel, by Katherine Carter
A Leap in the Dark, by Justin Kerr-Smiley
The Holocaust: A Guide to Europe’s Sites, Memorials & Museums, by Rosie Whitehouse
I Am André, by Diana Mara Henry
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