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  • The Crown in Vogue

    Vogue's "special royal salute" to Queen Elizabeth II and the House of Windsor."Vogue, like the royal family, has been through many evolutions of its own, and to view Her Majesty's life through the record of our pages is truly a document of history." —Edward Enninful, Editor-in-Chief of British Vogue and European Director of VogueThe Crown in Vogue is an extensively illustrated tribute to the 70-y. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • A History of the Irish Guards in the Afghan and Iraq Campaigns 2001–2014

    by Marcus Cowper ...
    The official history of the Irish Guards in the wake of 9/11, including their combat record in the battle for Basra, Iraq in 2003 and counter insurgency operations in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.Irish Guardsmen have been involved in all aspects of the campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq – from in Kabul in 2001, through the invasion of Iraq in 2003 to the eventual withdrawal in 2009, and the ... Read more

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  • Operation Steinbock 1944

    The Luftwaffe's disastrous last Blitz over England

    by Mr Chris Goss ...
    Series Book 52 - Air Campaign
    The story of Germany's disastrous last cross-Channel Blitz in early 1944, which left the Luftwaffe devastated and barely able to oppose the D-Day landings.Operation Steinbock was the Luftwaffe's last sustained bomber offensive against the United Kingdom. In this book, renowned World War II historian Simon Trew explains how and why the Luftwaffe's last cross-Channel campaign was such a contrast to ... Read more

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  • Oliver Cromwell

    The brave, bad man of British history

    Oliver Cromwell is one of the most significant figures in British history – and one of the most misinterpreted.In this major new biography, John Morrill argues that Cromwell has been seriously misinterpreted by historians, not least by left-wing thinkers such as Tony Benn, who claim Cromwell as their own and thus misunderstand the nature of Cromwell's political thought, which was in fact a product ... Read more

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  • Cromwell's Spy

    From the American Colonies to the English Civil War: The Life of George Downing

    by Dennis Sewell ...
    One of history's most remarkable ciphers is brought to life—from his wartime intrigue to his hand in shaping two world capitals.Downing Street is synonymous with political power, perhaps only second to Pennsylvania Avenue. But for the builder behind one of the world's most famous streets—George Downing—it was a mere retirement project.Throughout his storied life, Downing would be a soldier, a ... Read more

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  • The Fiery Spirits

    Popular protest, Parliament and the English Revolution

    by John Rees ...
    The thrilling history of Parliament's 'fiery spirits,' whose actions lead to the trial and execution of the king and the declaration of an English republicAt the very start of the English Civil Wars, very few could have imagined that the country would soon become a republic. Yet just a decade later, King Charles I stood trial for treason, and was executed, in one of the most radical and incendiary ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Battle of the Atlantic (1)

    The U-Boat Campaign against Britain 1939–41

    by Mark Stille ...
    Series Book 408 - Campaign
    The first in a series of illustrated books exploring the longest and best-known naval campaign of World War II, focusing on the struggle between Allied naval and air forces and Hitler's U-boats.When fighting broke out in September 1939, neither the British Royal Navy nor the German Kriegsmarine were prepared for another war in the North Atlantic. Having defeated the U-boats in World War I, the ... Read more

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  • Henry VII (Penguin Monarchs)

    Treason and Trust

    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    Part of the Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers in a collectible formatHenry VII was one of England's unlikeliest monarchs. An exile and outsider with barely a claim to the throne, his victory over Richard III at Bosworth Field seemed to many in 1485 only the latest in the sequence of violent convulsions among England's nobility that would come to be known as ... Read more

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  • Getting Carter

    Ted Lewis and the Birth of British Noir

    by Nick Triplow ...
    Nick Triplow’s soulful biography of enigmatic British crime fiction pioneer, Ted Lewis (author of Get Carter), is one of those rare works of literary investigation that relentlessly asserts its own status as art. Like Philip Hoare’s Melville in The Whale or James Sallis’ Chester Himes: A Life, Triplow more than uncovers the forgotten godfather of the modern British crime story; he also spins a ... Read more

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  • The Scapegoat

    The Brilliant, Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham

    The Scapegoat has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher. ... Read more

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  • Get Yer 'Air Cut

    The issue of male coiffure, pop and counterculture during the Swinging Sixties

    by Alan Clayson ...
    My hair is a statement and always will be, even when I no longer have any.The social revolution of the Swinging Sixties led to a renaissance of unchecked hair growth, and long hair, especially on men, was worn as a political or countercultural symbol of protest and as an expression of masculinity.No-one who was affected by one of a turbulent decade's loudest controversies - or anyone who ever ... Read more

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  • Second Arakan 1943–44

    Shattering the Myth of Japanese Invincibility in Burma

    by Tim Moreman ...
    Series Book 407 - Campaign
    A detailed examination of one of the crucial campaigns of World War II in Burma, in which British and Commonwealth forces achieved their first decisive victory over Japanese arms.The hard-fought Second Arakan campaign was a second attempt by Allied arms to advance in the coastal Arakan region in western Burma, following a failed first effort in early 1943. The battles fought shattered the myth of ... Read more

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  • RAF Fighters vs Ju 87 Stuka

    In the West 1940–41

    by Andy Saunders ...
    Series Book 138 - Duel
    An illustrated account of the clashes between RAF Fighter Command's Hurricane and Spitfire and the Luftwaffe's Ju 87 Stuka in the skies over France, the Channel and southern England.The story of the Luftwaffe's Ju 87 Stuka and its use against British targets in 1940 has been clouded by the aircraft's – somewhat unfair – reputation as 'fighter fodder' for the RAF's Hurricanes, Spitfires and turret ... Read more

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  • The Power and the Glory

    Life in the English Country House Before the Great War

    A spirited history of the English country house in its golden ageFor generations, the great palaces of Britain were home to living histories, noble families that had reigned for centuries. But by the end of the nineteenth century, members of elite society found themselves, for the first time, in the company of arrivistes. Their new neighbors—from chorus girls to millionaire greengrocers to guano ... Read more

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  • Thorns, Lust, and Glory

    The Betrayal of Anne Boleyn

    A groundbreaking and beautifully written biography of Queen Anne Boleyn, the ill-fated second wife of Renaissance England's Henry XVIII, focusing on her transformative years in France and how they shaped her into one of history’s most notoriously vilified and misunderstood queensAnne Boleyn has mesmerized the general public for centuries. Her tragic execution at the Tower of London on the 19th of ... Read more

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  • The Headscarf Revolutionaries

    Lillian Bilocca and the Hull Triple-Trawler Disaster

    The harsh seas of 1968.Three trawlers from Hulls fleet sink in just 3 weeks.58 Dead. 1 Survivor.Enough is enough.Lilian Bilocca put down her filleting knife, picked up some sheets of paper and stormed into action. She started with a petition and this journey takes her Headscarf Revolutionaries right to the doors of Parliament. Shipping Laws were changed for the better, and thousands of fishe... ... Read more

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  • Henry IV (Penguin Monarchs)

    The Afflicted King

    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    When Henry IV seized the throne from his cousin Richard II, people saw it as a hopeful new beginning for England. The first monarch to have English as his mother tongue since the Norman conquest, Henry seemed to embody the ideals of chivalric kingship: mercy, piety, military prowess and learning.Yet deposing a crowned monarch was not a stable foundation on which to build a reign. Henry IV found ... Read more

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  • A Short History of British Architecture

    From Stonehenge to the Shard

    by Simon Jenkins ...
    Architecture wields great power – a beautiful building inspires awe, an ugly building can oppress – and is an art form unique in being all around us, all the time. But despite its importance and its ubiquity, architecture is a mystery to all but the elite few. In this spectacular history, Simon Jenkins reveals why Britain looks the way it does.Starting with the earliest neolithic structures that ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers

    Class, Race, and Maritime Capitalism in the Early 20th Century

    by Ravi Ahuja ...
    This microhistory of a shipping accident reveals how racialized labor management fuelled maritime capitalism in the age of imperialist globalizationWhen eighty-seven passengers and crew died in the shipwreck of the Royal Mail Ship “Egypt” in 1922, the accident gave rise to a racist international press campaign against the employment of Indian seafarers who had been the majority of the ship’s crew ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Mers el-Kébir 1940

    Operation Catapult

    Series Book 405 - Campaign
    A fascinating analysis of the World War II battle between Great Britain and France to ensure French ships were kept out of German hands during World War II.Following France's armistice with the Axis powers, Great Britain realized that if Germany or Italy insisted upon the transfer of battleships, cruisers, and destroyers from the French Navy to the control of their own navies, the balance in the ... Read more

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  • Sumatra 1944–45

    The British Pacific Fleet's oil campaign in the Dutch East Indies

    by Angus Konstam ...
    Series Book 49 - Air Campaign
    The first history of how the aircraft of the British Pacific Fleet shattered Japanese oilfields in Sumatra, starving Japan of oil and proving how Anglo-American navies could fight together.With the war in Europe in its final stages, by 1944 the Royal Navy was able to put together a major force to join the campaign against Japan. The British Pacific Fleet was arguably the most powerful fleet the ... Read more

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  • Joan of Arc’s Army

    French armies under Charles VII, 1415–53

    Series Book 558 - Men-at-Arms
    A fully illustrated study of the French armies that were inspired by Saint Jeanne d'Arc, reformed under King Charles VII and eventually victorious over England in the Hundred Years' War.Saint Jeanne d'Arc remains a central figure in France's national legend, having ushered the country's flagging military forces into a period of extraordinary reform and revival that culminated – some 22 years after ... Read more

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  • Forged in Hell

    The Gripping True Story of the Special Forces Heroes Who Broke the Nazi Stranglehold

    by Damien Lewis ...
    Combining riveting combat writing with masterful research, award-winning historian and #1 internationally bestselling author Damien Lewis delivers the remarkable true story of Britain’s infamous, elite Special Air Service (SAS) forces, their legendary commander, and the impossibly daring, historic mission to liberate Europe via the largest invasion fleet ever assembled.July 1943: The largest ... Read more

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  • Victorian Christmas: Traditional Recipes, Decorations, Activities, and Carols

    Celebrate the holiday like a Victorian with authentic dishes and customs beloved by all, from the working classes to the royal family.Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, a descendant of Charles Dickens, reveals the fascinating tale of Christmas traditions during Queen Victoria’s reign. In 1843, while Dickens was inventing the Christmas ghost story, a London civil servant commissioned the first Christmas ... Read more

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