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.
Crowley takes us on a journey through time and across oceans and continents. Giles Milton's latest and eminently readable book is full of a cast of sometimes larger-than-life characters. Peter Tonkin once again demonstrates why he stands head and shoulders above the crowd with a novel to be enjoyed by those who know the era well as well as newcomers. Oliver Webb-Carter Dominic Sandbrook’s latest entry to his Adventures in Time series, aimed at younger readers, is perhaps his best yet. The combination of Murray and Holland is a marriage made in heaven. A compelling examination of war and peace written with great skill and poignancy. The new book from Kohn reveals gems of living history that leap from the pages of this ever-fascinating tale. Mya Jheeta The Bratinsky Affair offers a gripping blend of espionage, history, and personal legacy. James Dunford Wood delves into the reasons for the ultimate British success and why, at the time, the achievements of these men was kept relatively quiet. Lily Lowe Along the Roads to Hell is a moving and haunting account.
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Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World, by Roger Crowley
The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War, by Giles Milton
Shadow of Poison, by Peter Tonkin
Nelson: Hero of the Seas, by Dominic Sandbrook
Victory ’45: The End of the War in Eight Surrenders, by James Holland & Al Murray
Lest We Forget, by Tessa Dunlop
The Stories Old Towns Tell: A Journey through the Cities at the Heart of Europe, by Marek Kohn
The Bratinsky Affair, by Jim Loughran
The Big Little War, by James Dunford Wood
Along the Roads to Hell, by Michael Admiraal
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