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.
TUDOR LATEST
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.
WW2 LATEST
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.
A long-overdue study in English, Kevin Passmore’s account examines the Maginot Line's strategic origins, construction, daily life within the forts and its contested legacy after 1940. A first-hand memoir of escape from communist Czechoslovakia that explores fear, courage, and the lasting personal impact of life under dictatorship and the pursuit of freedom. Jasmine Guama A close, character-based look at the Romanovs’ final years, balancing political context with the pressures of family life and Alexandra’s central role. An ambitious study of the Hundred Years War that is strongest on battles and military history. A history of Indian soldiers captured by Japan in 1942, centred on the Indian National Army and the choices men made to survive. A balanced, enduringly persuasive biography that cuts through myth and polemic to present a measured, evidence-based portrait of Richard III as a flawed ruler rather than a villainous caricature. Jane Thynne A gripping, meticulously researched account of the White Lady espionage networks that reveals their crucial intelligence work across two world wars, while restoring the long-overlooked contributions of women to wartime resistance. The second novel in the Daniel Nichols trilogy, Hunter Class by Alan Bardos, picks up eighteen months after the conclusion of the first in the series, Rising Tide. A thoughtful mix of history and travel writing that follows Eleanor of Castile’s funeral route, using a modern retracing of the journey to explore medieval grief, place and memory. A sweeping, vividly told history of the Arctic convoys, combining harrowing first-hand testimony and sharp political analysis to reveal the brutal cost and strategic importance of supplying Stalin’s USSR.
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The Maginot Line: A New History, by Kevin Passmore
Escaping the Grip of Eastern European Communism, by Peter Kasl
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The Romanovs Under House Arrest, by Mickey Mayhew
The Two Hundred Years War: The Bloody Crowns of England and France, 1292–1492, by Michael Livingston
The Forgotten Indian Prisoners of World War II: Surrender, Loyalty, Betrayal and Hell, by Gautam Hazarika
The Life and Death of Richard III, by Anthony Cheetham
The White Lady: The Story of British Secret Service Networks Behind German Lines, by Helen Fry
Hunter Class, by Alan Bardos
Eleanor: A 200-Mile Walk in Search of England’s Lost Queen, by Alice Loxton
Battle of the Arctic: The Maritime Epic of World War Two, by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
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