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Natural Causes, by Stephen Mills

Natural Causes, by Stephen Mills

An advocate for wildlife welfare, Mills has written a moving love letter to our planet.

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The King’s Painter: The Life and Times of Hans Holbein, by Franny Moyle.

The King’s Painter: The Life and Times of Hans Holbein, by Franny Moyle.

A new bioraphy of the great Tudor artist.

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The Newspaper Axis, by Kathryn A. Olmsted

A new history on the press barons that enabled Adolf Hitler.

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Victory To Defeat, by Richard Dannatt and Robert Lyman

Victory To Defeat, by Richard Dannatt and Robert Lyman

Should be read by every student at the Staff College.

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SAS: The Great Train Raid, by Damien Lewis

Alan Bardos 

An account of the SAS’s daring WWII raids in Italy, centred on a bold train-hijack mission to free concentration camp prisoners.

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The Queen and the Countess, by Anne O’Brien

Ella Beales 

A richly immersive dual-narrative that humanises the Wars of the Roses through the resilience, sacrifice, and inner lives of two rival women fighting to protect their families and themselves.

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Wolfpack: Inside Hitler’s U-Boat War, by Roger Moorhouse

Phil Craig 

Wolfpack examines the Battle of the Atlantic from the perspective of German U-boat crews and places their experiences within the wider strategic and technological context of the war.

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Seven Rivers: A Journey Through the Currents of Human History, by Vanessa Taylor

Zeb Baker-Smith

A dive beneath the surface of the world's great waterways to show how myth, power and environmental change have always flowed together and why their pasts matter in the present.

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Witches: A King’s Obsession, by Steven Veerapen

Rosemary Hayes 

A fascinating exploration of the political, religious and social forces behind the mass witch trials of early modern Europe.

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The Aspects of History Book of the Year 2025 – Tunisgrad: Victory in Africa, by Saul David

Saul David

Tunisgrad shows how the Allied campaign after Alamein pushed the Axis out of Africa, draining Germany of men and materiel at a critical moment. David skilfully blends grand strategy with the human stories of the soldiers who fought it.

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Sword: D-Day – Trial by Battle, by Max Hastings

Justin Doherty

The veteran chronicler delves into the landings at Sword Beach, for many troops their first taste of war

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Second Front, by Marc Milner

Gordon Corrigan

A fascinating treatise with much truth that Canada’s economic and military contribution has not received the recognition that it deserves.

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Echoing Greens: How Cricket Shaped the English Imagination, by Brendan Cooper

Zeb Baker-Smith

A rich quarry for artists and writers alike, the psychology and morals of an era can be unearthed from cricket's plotlines and characters.

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Korea: War Without End - Robert Lyman

Korea: War Without End, by Richard Dannatt and Robert Lyman

Trevor James

A ‘forgotten’ conflict, but one with brutal and present-day consequences, is probed 75 years after it began.

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